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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".
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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).
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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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@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!
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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. -
I spy with my little eye something begin with "E"
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It's nice to finally have a face for the non-entities that are Shizuka and Ahno
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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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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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@LIbri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
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?
I would give up on immediate third season (this fall) if P5V2 comes out on 6/10 this week without any associated announcement.
But I found it interesting that there was a very specific foreshadowing added in this episode which was not in LN and refer to something deep into Part 3. I hope that is an indication that script writers were working with assumption of continuting the anime.
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Next episode will definitely be interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing the battle and the rolling fallout that come soon there after.
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@hiroto said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
But I found it interesting that there was a very specific foreshadowing added in this episode which was not in LN and refer to something deep into Part 3. I hope that is an indication that script writers were working with assumption of continuting the anime.
I don't know specifically what you are referring to, but I do notice little details that aren't specified in the LN. For example, Ferdinand gently tapping the head of the messenger bird and it responding, and also him stroking the mane of his highbeast. The LN gives zero indication of these beasts of burden being sentient. I'm guessing that is the sort of detail only someone familiar with the future of the story could include.
I'm curious how the next part will go and how it will be parsed out. I'm the LN Myne says very little externally, but a lot internally. Getting mad just thinking about it.
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The author posted some pictures of the BD box-set on twitter: https://twitter.com/miyakazuki01/status/1270920480489271296
It was kinda obvious at this point but the title of the final episode is「夢の世界」which was the title of the Part 2 Volume 2 Epilogue in the WN (well in the WN it was a two parter). -
Okay, hearing Karstedt say Shikza's name in Japanese out loud made me curious since it sounds quite different to how it was translated in the LN.
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@Vorthod
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2687/bookworm-part-2-vol-2-discussion/394Shikza's name is actually a joke in Japanese: It's Shikikoza and backwards it means "Small-Fry Knight" (zako kishi). I thought up some localizations of this (variations of "rando" mostly), but Miya Kazuki asked me to try and make a name that resembles the Japanese pronunciation (due to the anime adaptation). However, I thought that Shikikoza exactly would stick out like a sore thumb in English and be a mouthful to pronounce, so I went with Shikza.
Also with regard to all the mentions of Germanic influence/sounding "foreign" in the Bookworm world/etc... How many times am I gonna have to bring up Shikikooza? That was a character name that Miya Kazuki elected to give a Bookworm character. Zako Kishi (Small-Fry Knight) backwards. It was the best I could do to alter the spelling into Shikza (with her permission of course) to not make it so blatantly Japanese. Honestly sometimes I wonder if my smoothing over of these kinds of things (which would stick out more in English otherwise) isn't giving people a misguided understanding of how strict Miya Kazuki is with her worldbuilding terminology.
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2687/bookworm-part-2-vol-2-discussion/1037
Yeah, the name is just an actual meme/pun in Japanese, and spelling it like Shikikoza / Shicicoza /whatever would have made his name stick out enormously. Like you've got a ton of German and Swedish names then suddenly there's this Japanese as fuck name out of nowhere. Totally not worth preserving, especially when the intended joke (Shikikoza being Zakokishi backwards) is completely incomprehensible to English readers. There's a few more names that are just Japanese with their letters mixed around for memes, and I imagine that I will give all of them a similar treatment. Because, it's like, in Japanese each consonant is attached to a vowel (except "n"). When all the names are written like this (Damueru, Ferudinando, etc) it doesn't stick out, all the names are like it. But in English when you go from "Gunther" to like "Korasereru" the feel is completely off. Bookworm;s world is made in the style of ye olde European world and I have to really work double time to preserve this feel in English even when the author is able to use quirks of the Japanese language to fit in jokes and stuff that would really hurt the atmosphere if preserved literally in English.
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@LurkingMcLurk Thanks. Just what I wanted to confirm. It had sounded like there might have been a long O in his name so I couldn't be sure.
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@Vorthod said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
@LurkingMcLurk Thanks. Just what I wanted to confirm. It had sounded like there might have been a long O in his name so I couldn't be sure.
nope, as @Quof said (multiple times in multiple posts, it was important to keep the context, as well as respect the naming convention Kazuki-Sama told him to keep, so Shizka (Or the artist formerly known as Shikikoza) was his new name... for all of the 10 minutes he appeared)
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@Vorthod said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
@LurkingMcLurk Thanks. Just what I wanted to confirm. It had sounded like there might have been a long O in his name so I couldn't be sure.
Good ear. It is "za-ko-ki-shi", reversed, "shi-ki-ko-za", and then extra long O was added to make it sound more like a name (well, at least to Japanese ears): shi-ki-koo-za.
