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    • LegitPancakeL
      LegitPancake Premium Member @BookManiaReader
      last edited by LegitPancake

      @BookManiaReader We've known for a long time the anime would only adapt to the end of Part 2 Volume 2. It connects perfectly with the scene at the beginning of episode 1, and we would have seen Sylvester in the OP and season poster. Adapting 5 volumes into 26 episodes (plus the OVA combined would be 27) is a pretty decent pace. I honestly have no problem with the slideshow animation, it's likely a factor for why we even got 2 whole cours so fast in the first place, and the story doesn't have a lot of action anyways.

      That being said, today's episode made me a bit teary-eyed when Myne finally finished the book. Probably my favorite episode so far.

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      • xdrfiredogxX
        xdrfiredogx Premium Member
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        So, maybe my ears were playing tricks on me but when she meets with HP to discuss why they were gathering soot and what her book plan is their voices sounded a bit hollow and echoed, and only that part. Makes me wonder if they had to record new lines there for some reason and had to do it again Japan went into lockdown.

        Anyone else notice that?

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        • eliaE
          elia Member @xdrfiredogx
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          @xdrfiredogx they were using sound-blocking magic items. You can see both Ferdi and Myne holding onto a green stone in that scene. The anime sound director had been using a filter or something on their voices to have a sorta echo/reverb-y(?) effect whenever they use that item.

          I really like this episode! So much progress was made but it didn't feel as much of a mad rush like some of the previous ones. They finally made an honest to goodness book and seeing them all happy about it nearly made me tear up too. It took two years... I'm so proud of them. ;___;

          Also, we FINALLY got to see a bit of Johann(and Ingo) and Gutenberg was name-dropped at the very end.

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          • LurkingMcLurkL
            LurkingMcLurk Member @hiroto
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            @hiroto said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

            Here is an interesting challenge. What scene could this be within the context of P2V1 - P2V2? This is from a teaser video for S2.

            EDIT: Only time I can think of Myne getting this mad is when the book room was messed up. But in this scene, Myne is definitely sitting, and doesn't fit that situation. Seems to be more like being mad at somebody she is talking with, but honestly I cannot recollect such occurrence in P2V1/P2V2.

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            It’s in the preview pictures for episode 23:
            https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1264753054382829568?s=21

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              Philip-h5 Premium Member
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              Episode 23, this one felt like it was at warp speed and packed full of plotlines, along with over the top expressions. I wonder how many episodes are left.

              Edit add: Is it just me or did her face go full froggy a few times?

              When alternate realities collapse into one, beware the moving train tracks.

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              • LurkingMcLurkL
                LurkingMcLurk Member @Philip-h5
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                @Philip-h5
                Second BD boxset contains 15-26, so 3 more.
                https://tobooks.shop-pro.jp/?pid=148545500

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                • xdrfiredogxX
                  xdrfiredogx Premium Member
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                  God her expressions in this one were just perfect. It's a good reminder that even though the anime is working on a very limited budget, it isn't a lack of skills or care that's at fault.

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                  • renofuryR
                    renofury @xdrfiredogx
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                    @xdrfiredogx yes they were extra cute, this episode might had different animators working on it

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                    • lighthawk96L
                      lighthawk96 Premium Member
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                      I thought that this weeks episode was quite funny. A lot more hilarious that any of the previous ones. And the fact that she baited the High Priest into going along with her whimsy was also quite the treat. I am really looking forward to the next episode. That one should be very interesting.

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                      • TheGrimLichT
                        TheGrimLich Member
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                        I'm not sure I'd call "getting the magic expert to weigh in on the placement of magic in the Ehrenfest Decimal System" whimsy. It's more along the lines of "solid collections organization planning".

                        My grasp on sanity remains absolute.

                        Oh, right, the poison, the poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. ...That poison?

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                        • alfonso_rd_36A
                          alfonso_rd_36 Member @lighthawk96
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                          @lighthawk96
                          She was baited through the whole episode, not the otter way around... It was obvious Ferds had no intention of letting Myne near the Magical Bewks!!!

                          This said the sole advantage the anime has over the Light Novel is the images, those faces... so punchable (And let's not talk about the Mynetron 2000 Calculator device).

                          I wanted to have a witty signature once I saw some of the ones some guys on the Bookworm forums had but None of the ones I thought felt witty enough...
                          The solution: Fuck it, I'll go Commando!

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                          • b.scot.morganB
                            b.scot.morgan Premium Member @alfonso_rd_36
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                            @alfonso_rd_36 said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

                            the sole advantage the anime has over the Light Novel is the images

                            I agree (but not about the face punching).

                            In the LN when reading Myne’s perspective I didn’t get the same sense of her absolute freak out over wanting to read the magic books that the anime gives, but I have no doubt that the anime’s depiction is more “true to life” than what we hear from Myne herself. :-)

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                            • alfonso_rd_36A
                              alfonso_rd_36 Member @b.scot.morgan
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                              @b-scot-morgan I know right, I, for a Download Mizkate, had to see the episode with Lord Lutzanor's issues (the one with the Mynetron 2000) without sound...

                              afterwards I saw it with sound and the robot voice made it extra adorable!

                              I wanted to have a witty signature once I saw some of the ones some guys on the Bookworm forums had but None of the ones I thought felt witty enough...
                              The solution: Fuck it, I'll go Commando!

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                              • LurkingMcLurkL
                                LurkingMcLurk Member
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                                I wonder if

                                spoiler
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                                  Philip-h5 Premium Member
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                                  Episode 24. Definitely has a different feel than the LN. Myne seemed stuck in an Abbott & Costello schtick from the noble gate onward which IMO took away from its full on fantasy value.
                                  Seeing the knights order was cool. Funny how the wolf was behind the rabbit. Shic-cosa sounds like "sh-t causer" in a very Charles Dickens fashion.

                                  When alternate realities collapse into one, beware the moving train tracks.

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                                  • LurkingMcLurkL
                                    LurkingMcLurk Member
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                                    I spy with my little eye something begin with "E"
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                                    • alfonso_rd_36A
                                      alfonso_rd_36 Member
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                                      It's nice to finally have a face for the non-entities that are Shizuka and Ahno

                                      I wanted to have a witty signature once I saw some of the ones some guys on the Bookworm forums had but None of the ones I thought felt witty enough...
                                      The solution: Fuck it, I'll go Commando!

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                                      • xdrfiredogxX
                                        xdrfiredogx Premium Member
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                                        So next episode to deal with the fight and what happens during the fight and then presumably the last episode to catch up to where the anime started with him reading her...

                                        Shout out to the music in this episode for being really on point. The choral part when she got to the noble gate felt like it should have been from Yuki Kajiura and the music when the knights all took off was fittingly sweeping.

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                                        • Libri LiberorumL
                                          Libri Liberorum Premium Member
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                                          At what time do we give up hope of there being a third season? To put it another way, if there was to be a third season, what is the latest time they'd announce it?

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                                          • jcochranJ
                                            jcochran Premium Member @Libri Liberorum
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                                            @LIbri-Liberorum
                                            Rather difficult question to answer. See this thread for why.

                                            Morning and Mourning sound alike for good and sufficient reasons.

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