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? -
And so we have the redo of the Ruelle gathering which was successfull.
We had the included statement that Georgine found the key to the foundation so to speak and the FVF starting to formulate a plan...
We also had the Volk marriage (without Myne's comment on how she would not lower the price considering her education with Benno). We also had the continual of Operation Grimm in Hasse and the cute story Gunther says to Myne about the 3 siblings. Finally we have the RMCM being essentially introduced and Damuel's growth.
And, of course we have the setup (and from the trailer, the actual side story) for Wilfried's marring of reputation. Next week: Charlotte is getting introduced and Wilfried is going to pull something stupid again.
We may or may not get in the Jureve making.
No post story shenanigansSpeaking of which I wonder if Damuel kept that high quality feystone and if he will give it to a certain blond haired and green eye'd scholar in the future...
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@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Comparing my plot-beat list with this episode:- Visit Hasse, educate Richt about what it means to offer Rozemyne sweet fruits and beautiful flowers, and acquire new orphans.
Unfortunately they didn't explain Richt's terrible mistakes, just that he'd made them, nor did they acquire new orphans.
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Leaving some grey priests to educate Hasse.
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Travelling for harvest festivals.
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Ruelle gathering.
All done.
- Damuel's performance during the gathering alerts people to the power of R's mana compression. Conditions for teaching it are negotiated.
The conditions for teaching aren't covered, but it may well be that this will be done later. The anime has a history of moving set-up closer to the payoff.
- Illgner's harvest festival, the Carya/Volk relationship, and Volk's price.
Done. But it seemed to me that the marriage request came out of nowhere in the anime. It was treated as if it was something we already knew about, but I don't think we did.
Still to come:
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Introduction to Charlotte
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Wilfried attacks
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Response to Wilfried's attack
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Brewing the jureve
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Teaching mana compression
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Charlotte's baptism
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Kidnapping, rescue, poisoning.
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Jureve dream and awakening.
and all the side stories.
I've seen a short preview on youtube. I'd expect such a thing would be for next week's episode (ep 22 of probably 24). But we get an ingredient-gathering-flashback-montage, and events up to Lessy getting lassoed during the attack. That seems insanely much to fit into one episode when I look at how many plot beats have to happen before the attack even starts. Also, this short preview is very heavy on spoilers. If I was anime only, I'd be furiously avoiding these previews.
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There was sadly no end of episode chibi.
Somehow the lower city dream was portrayed as something just Rozemyne was happy about. I didn't see any poignancy to it.
They already reveal that they want to use Wilfried unlike the LN where their scheme was a surprise. I'm any case nice that they included that Gloria PoV SS.
