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There definitely seems to be a retro style to it. I think some people are put off by the designs and visuals because they don't have a certain "feel" that we normally associate with late-night anime geared toward otaku (what most isekai LN adapted to anime are).
In fact, this looks more like the sort of anime that might air on primetime to appeal to the general public... which might be what the producers are going for.
At the very least, it seems they want to distance Bookworm from the usual otaku-oriented isekai fare, presenting it as the sort of fantasy story anyone could enjoy. The story definitely is free of the usual otaku trappings, and the producers may be trying to leverage that in the visual design.
The only real issue I see is that comparatively, this anime looks relatively low-budget (though not enough to look outright bad). Then again, that might be because they are planning a lot of episodes for this show? It doesn't seem like the kind of story that could be satisfied with just a 1-cour or even a 2-cour adaptation, and if there really are plans to get it aired in primetime, perhaps even as a long-running fixture, I think it's somewhat understandable that the animation quality would be held back a little to support a longer run. (Whether one would prefer one cour of higher-quality animation versus a longer run with lower-but-still-acceptable quality is definitely a tough question.)
Anyway, I'm definitely excited for this, and I personally dig the visual style here. This neo-retro style definitely fits the sort of story Bookworm seems to be.
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@korppi said in Ascendance of a BookWorm gets TV anime:
Have you seen the designs?
The more I look at it, the more it feels like her face is screaming "please kill me" lol
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@korppi said in Ascendance of a BookWorm gets TV anime:
Have you seen the designs?
Wow that's look weird to me... feels like doraemon from the ninety...
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Have to agree that the promo feels like it clashes a bit too much. With some of the colouring it feels like the team doing the foregrounds didn't even talk with the people doing the backgrounds. The characters seem ok, but at some points in that video they just look strange.
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@hiroto That's assuming we get that far in a single cour. I've got a feeling we won't. These volumes are very long. I'd hate to see another Ragnarok.
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@paul-nebeling This first(?) cour will adapt part 1, the DVD/BD listings clued us in to that.
I think three volumes in one cour can be done well, and in any case we'll see the rainbow eyes as soon as Myne's clay tablets get stepped on.
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@nosgoroth I'm more concerned about the length of those three volumes. I wouldn't consider three volumes a bridge too far unless they start leaving out huge chunks of story to make it fit, like was done with Smartphone's anime, or more currently, Arifureta's.
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Is the anime going to be 12 episodes or more? If it's only 12, the content of the first 3 volumes is plenty enough to stop there imo.
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@terabyte 14 episodes in total, from Dvd preorders.
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@legitpancake Then yeah, I hope it won't go beyond volume 3. Bookworm's volumes are pretty long, and just the first 3 volumes alone are worth 4-5 "normal volumes". If they try to cram any more than that it's gonna end up a mess just like Arifureta or Ragnarok.
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14 episodes for volumes 1-3 might not be a huge disaster. There certainly is a lot of exposition and things in Bookworm that make the volumes longer but would fly past quickly in the visuals in animated form.
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Even with 3 volumes they'll have to cut out quite a bit I feel. I also wonder how they'll deal with inner monologues here since they're a big part of this series, in terms of giving us some insight as to what Myne is attempting to do
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This was posted a couple weeks ago on the youtube channel of "Crunchyroll Collection" - Ascendance of a Bookworm | OFFICIAL TRAILER.
It doesn't say so explicitly, but is this pretty much their announcement that they will be streaming it?
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@hiroto They already announced it back in August.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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Cool! Thanks. Somehow I missed it.
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Lovely picture of Myne, Lutz and Tuule from the back cover of CD album containing OP song of the anime.
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I'm really looking forward to this anime next season. This truly is a great story and definitely one that deserves an anime. I only hope that they do as good a job with the anime as they have with the light novel and especially the manga. The art work in the manga is outstanding given the fact that most chapters are pretty big as far as page count goes. So, yeah, really looking forward to this one!😃
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New promotional video posted.
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@hiroto The animation looks good. Looking forward to seeing it.
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@hiroto said in Ascendance of a BookWorm gets TV anime:
New promotional video posted.
So, again, the PV finished with the scene from end of Part 2 Vol 2 which seems to confirm that cour 1 is likely to go as far as middle of Part 2 (hopefully not any further). Hopefully publishing of Vol 2 in November is ahead of the anime to reach that part of the story.
I wonder about next year (assuming they keep up annually). Would they go all the way to end of Part 3 Vol 5? We'll be at Part 3 Vol 2 in 9/2020, and get taken over by anime...
