Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion
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At the beginning of Ep 20, when everyone is lined up waiting for Georgine, the front row is the ducal family. Then behind them they each have a guard knight --- except for Rozemyne, who has four guard knights. What is with that?
Georgine's departure takes us to the end of P3V4, so the remaining episodes (four?) need to cover all of volume 5. The major plot beats:
40% of the volume is the side stories (although Bonifatius's part in the fight will be merged into the main timeline in the anime). The volume gets four episodes, so this should be almost two episodes of stuff-which-happens-while-Rozemyne-is-asleep. I'm boldly predicting that some of this will get an OAV or two instead. Whether in the main series or an OAV, I particularly don't want to miss out on Myne's family reacting to the news, and Charlotte trying to fill in for Rozemyne.
Episode 22 will probably end with the start of the attack. Episode 23 will be the big action episode, ending at an appropriate cliffhanger point. (There are many options: Rozemyne starts to pursue Charlotte's kidnappers, Charlotte falls, Rozemyne gets webbed, R gets poisoned, Bonifatius extracts R from a bag, R gets diagnosed, R put into Jureve, R starts to wake from jureve dream.) Then episode 24 will cover anything in that list that episode 23 didn't, some of the while-she-was-asleep events, plus her awakening. The interrogation of Joisontak and Gerlach and the conclusion to Daumel/Brigitte in particular I think need to be covered in the main series. I think I'd put everything else into two OAVs, given the chance.
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According to this video, AoaB ranks quite highly for anime this season for all female demographics in Japan, but doesn't make the top 12 for any male demographic. (Complicated by the fact that for some reason teens are not split by sex in the data reporting.) I don't get the impression that for the English speaking audience there is much imbalance either way.
I don't have any useful insights to draw from this.
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@Libri-Liberorum i kind of get it. The emotional, family scenes are all done well. But the scenes with magic or adventure (gathering, high beast training) are really underwhelming and fall short. Don't know if it matches the demographic who read the LNs.
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@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Then behind them they each have a guard knight --- except for Rozemyne, who has four guard knights. What is with that?
Probably because Rozemyne's guard knights are known designs but not the others' guard knights.
I also found it odd that Georgine has no retainers behind her. Was it explicitly mentioned in the LN?
