Pretty cromulent adaptation. My only real gripe is that the Earth Dragon CGI was weaksauce, but that's extremely minor.

Hell Mode Season 2 Anime just premiered today (Jul 3, 2026) on Hidive via simulcast. It looked as good as season 1.

Update:

The anime is scheduled to premier on Jul 6, 2026 on C-R (according to it's latest update)

Yeah I heard about this on Reddit. Apparently it's premiering in Japan on Dec 11, 2026 in between cour 1 (Oct 2026) and cour 2 (Apr 2027) of the new season (3) of the anime.

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@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

They didn't specify that the song Rozemyne sung was from an anime. Does anyone recognize the tune as coming from any anime? I suspect it does not, which would be disappointing.

I suppose it would have been cheaper if they had gone meta and used Bookworm's own music. 8-)

@Almond-Magnum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

They also had Wilfried sing the same song, which makes no sense for several reasons:

They did do a decent job of having the earlier kids playing a simpler version of the song. Not sure if that's how they did it but the earlier kids sounded like they were plucking single notes while Myne was doing arpeggiated chords (plus singing. Actually, Myne sounded like she got extra background instruments for a fuller sound). Sadly, Myne was not depicted as "in the moment" when the blessing came out. She was just business as usual and then surprised.

Sweet! Can't wait too see it.

That's going to be fun.

It’s to be expected since it’s anime, but wow is that art simplified.

I love the manga that JNC’s put out so far. I’ll likely give the anime a try.

Probably better as an anime than a LN at this point.

i was too in the manga, but i do wish they had held out until the day-of instead
though, i realize that early tease was to retain reader engagement -_-

manga-only still, but i'll probably try the anime eventually. just don't wanna mess up my perception of the characters by overriding it with the anime voices

I am really enjoying s2 so much. I love the chill story.

An original movie plot? Set (presumably) after book 6? Interesting...

CC season 2 of the animae has gone the path of rot. Most of each episode is now just characters squealing "Sugoy!" to each other as the camera pulls back and pivots to stretch out one animation cell for twelve.

The cooking "animation" is just a hands video of someone cooking a meal for two with an animation filter applied afterwards. Then it pulls back and magically the human sized portion is now 40 portions stacked in front of the characters.

And instead of the snap delivery of the light novel as it steps through the dialog of each of the quartet, it has to Full Stop. After. Each. Sentence.

Particularly grating is Sui. It already has a slow and halting delivery to indicate its a child, but then a repeating musical scale has to be inserted after each sentence delivery to indicate its a slime. And Dora-Chan has to have wing sounds inserted after each sentence to show he's a dragon.

What a decline.

I just saw the first episode of this anime. I think it did a pretty good job of following the LN. I thought Mei looked a bit like Hestia.

Willing to bet the series will be on catch-up by tomorrow night.

@Coelodonta said in Apothecary Diaries anime - airing 2023:

NHK World

The Apothecary Diaries Special

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2099022/

Watchable and with English subtitles! Thx for the tip!!

@Ekun thanks for the update. Maybe I will give this anime another try.