Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion
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I'm not sure why, but this episode gave me much more warm fuzzies than previous ones. (Maybe it is all the cute kiddies?) I feel they did a good job here.
They didn't pronounce Philine's name they way I would (both i's are long, the e is silent.)
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.
Previously they'd translated 'archduke candidate' as 'succession candidate', and I was OK with that. But now they are using 'archduke candidate'. How about some consistency? If there were good reason to prefer 'archduke candidate', the translator should have considered those reasons before using 'succession candidate'.
Architecture review of the castle: First, it isn't a castle, it is a palace. However, we misname things as castles so often over here in our world that I'll give them a pass on that. So often in anime/manga I see flat roofs where they make no sense, but here all the roofs are sloped. I'd have liked to see them more sloped, given this is a snowy climate. There aren't remotely enough chimneys compared to what we'd have had in our world, but maybe they have some magical workaround. I don't fully remember what all the side buildings are for, but I'm not sure they're all big enough. Is one of them the residence of Sylvester and Florencia? This should be pretty grand.
Summing up: This architecture is well above the (rather poor) average of anime/manga.
