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There seems to be a mistranslation. In the replenishment chamber, Syl gives a stone to Wilfried and tells him "pour mana into here", but he should be pulling mana out of the stone.
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I loved the illustration at the end this time.
The replenishment hall was nice. But somehow I felt it was lacking. Maybe I am too influenced by witch hat atelier anime which was airing and wanted to see something more fantastic. -
This (ep 16) is the first episode of volume 4. So we have 8ish episodes left to finish volumes 4 and 5. This is way too rushed.
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Well this episode was interesting...
Bonifatius appears,
The sequence of events was changed (the Platin company was named before presenting Brigitte's new dress).
The introduction of Stenluke.
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The lower city part was weird and abrupt. I don't think plantin company spinning off from gilberta upset Tuuli so much in the LN.
They also didn't focus on the difference in Lehenge and Leherl (of course the subtitles looked like it was MTL'd).The mana leaking out of rozemyne and Wilfried while replenishing seems like they are on fire. Again, a weird choice. Stenluke creation was funny and nicely done.
The end illustration of sparkly Ferdinand was so beautiful. I wonder if it is his rejuvenation potion in the spoon.
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@wanderer_1204 said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
The end illustration of sparkly Ferdinand was so beautiful. I wonder if it is his rejuvenation potion in the spoon.
Probably his one true love.
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@wanderer_1204 said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
The end illustration of sparkly Ferdinand was so beautiful. I wonder if it is his rejuvenation potion in the spoon.
It's definitely consommé.
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@Drenok said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Bonifatius appears,
Anime Boni seemed much more ... craggy (?) and less broad than LN illos of Boni.
If Damuel is proposing next episode then they're going to ignore all the mana growth work he put in and the Illgner trip?
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@rsog412 @Almond-Magnum Kazuki-sensei has confirmed in her activity report that it is indeed consomme.
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@rsog412 said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
@wanderer_1204 said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
The end illustration of sparkly Ferdinand was so beautiful. I wonder if it is his rejuvenation potion in the spoon.
It's definitely consommé.
How could it be anything BUT consommé?
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Today in Erhenfest Love Stories, we see the story of how Damuel saved Brigitte from an idiot arogant morron.
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Illgner was really beautiful and reminded me of rural Japan. The sky was magical when Damuel and Brigitte spoke in the night.
Looks like the mana compression lesson and effective use of Mana was compressed into one session.
It is nice that they touched upon operation Grimm even in this bullet points pace.Lohenberg gathering was too short and rushed IMO. Though they captured all the essential details, it seemed like there was something missing.
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In Illgner, there is a young woman with orange hair who normally stands near gramps. If the grey-priest-romance sub-sub-plot doesn't get cut, I'm picking that she's the one, just because she is being subtly often present in not-quite-foreground.
My town planning and architecture criticism:
Illgner's noble estate has the classic faults of flat roofs and not enough chimneys (in fact, none). The town has huge open areas, but chooses to build multistory where they do build, and there are no paved streets. There is no apparent reason why the town is built where it is: I'd expect a river in this geography. (Does the LN mention a river?)
On the flight home they pass a town on a river with a bridge. There is no sign of a road leading to or from the bridge. There is a river town, but it has no docks. Less significantly, I wouldn't expect such a town to be split so evenly by the river --- one side should be much more built up than the other.
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@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
There is no apparent reason why the town is built where it is: I'd expect a river in this geography. (Does the LN mention a river?)
Yes:
A short climb down a hill beside the giebe’s mansion led us to a smallish river, (P3V4 Staying in Illgner)
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@Libri-Liberorum this universe has an excuse for flat roofs though, at least for noble residences. There are two reasons for avoiding flat roofs. The biggest reason by far is avoiding accumulation of snow, as the weight of snow can collapse a roof. If you are far enough south not to be concerned about excessive snow accumulation, or the building is so structurally sturdy that it can sustain any amount of snow that could occur in the area, or you are willing and able to send people up on the roof to clear the snow the roof doesn't need to be sloped. White Stone buildings meet condition 2, commoner servants or magic work for condition 3 in this setting.
The second reason for avoiding flat roofs is drainage and sealing. It is difficult to keep a roof watertight enough that it can hold up to water accumulating on the roof and staying there, it has a tendency to find any tiny gap and create new ones if it doesn't, so flat roofs require more maintenance and drainage considerations. Again, white Stone buildings solve this problem, and even if they didn't, commoner servants can do the extra maintenance.
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@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
In Illgner, there is a young woman with orange hair who normally stands near gramps. If the grey-priest-romance sub-sub-plot doesn't get cut, I'm picking that she's the one, just because she is being subtly often present in not-quite-foreground.
That is what I am thinking also.
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And so we got Gerogine's Visit which includes:
The naming of 2 of Myne's future retainers, the presentation of the Villainess of the story and her learning Myne's role in the death of the former high bishop.
We also had the first view of Veronica...We did skip the devouring submission contract issue with Dirk (but not the fact that he needed to get his mana removed) but we did not skip the Harissen part of which I am glad.
Next week: Ruelle Gathering Attempt 2 and the return to Hasse (with the contunal of Operation Grim).
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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.
