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@LIbri-Liberorum That's actually what I mean. This scene being more intense and frantic would maybe even scare kids.
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@pcj said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
@Justaidan said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 1 Discussion!:
@Shiny said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 1 Discussion!:
Good list. She also seems to have the power to communicate great distances (when she called out to Lutz during the Trimble extermination) which might or might not be an unprecedented ability.
Notably she also did this without using a magic chant or calling on the gods' assistance.
[hehe, "Trimble" :D]
The anime just got to this episode, and the anime portrayed it as being enacted by the ring she was wearing, and visualized it as a kind of mana beam that went into town to find him. But indeed, she cast it without a prayer or chant.
I think the anime got that part right, actually. Even when I read it in the LN I figured the beam went out from the ring since (1) the beam was blue, just like the feystone in her ring, and (2) it has been stated multiple times that magic tools are needed to work magic.
Magic without invoking the gods is pretty common for minor things (like “rott”, “ordonnanz”, and changing a wand it into a weapon), and in some cases without any incantation at all (like when summoning a wand or a highbeast, or for some activities in P2V4 that only required gestures but which I can’t describe without spoilering anime-only fans). But magic without magic tools just isn’t a thing.
Myne has done some things that most people consider impossible in practice, but not anything impossible in principle. Not so far, at least. She hasn’t broken her world’s laws of “physics.” So I think the anime was right to have the blue beam shoot out of her ring.
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It all happened right after I cried for help as loud as I could with my hands in the air to try to stop the bleeding. A beam of blue light shot high into the sky, and then immediately black somethings rained down around me as I heard the sound of flapping wings.
No mention, but coming from the ring would mke the most sense.
There is only one form of magic we have seen done without tools: crushing.
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@LIbri-Liberorum I think this is a problem that is in all anime that themes and events tend to get streamlined and compressed. Given that the entirety of the web novel was out before the anime ever started production, I think they will have at least an idea of how they want the arcs to go for each season so that even if the mood changes somewhat from the LN, the major plot points could be mostly the same.
A good comparison to the amount of content that is converted to the number of anime episodes (these are ones I'm actually aware of):
Rising of the Shield Hero - ~ 5 episodes per 70,000 word book
Goblin Slayer - ~7 episodes per 60,000 word book
If it's for my daughter... - ~4 episodes per 50k book
Ascendance of a Bookworm - ~4 episodes per 100k bookGranted these are just rough estimates and not THAT useful because a couple of episodes back there was basically a 5 min montage that covered 1.5 books worth of material and there is going to be a 3 episode stretch that only covers a couple of chapters. There is just way too much stuff to not have to stream-line and cut out. That means they have to be hyper-focused on preventing redundancy even if it accidentally changes parts of the world.
An example of that I noticed the last episode was when Myne gives her combat prayer. I remember in the book a lot of the knights were super happy, but in the episode no one said anything. Damuel a few moments later thanks her and says that it will be a big help. A small change to cut out a few seconds of dialogue, but then the anime is presenting that all nobles hate commoners where the LN are more nuanced, some like them and some don't.
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I just had the horrible realization that the anime is probably not going to cover
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@LIbri-Liberorum I don't think they could hold off until the end of the season to do that because from what I understand season 2 is supposed to run until the end of part 2 and event in question is a pretty big catalyst for all the events that come after it. Moving it earlier makes sense to speed up ratcheting up the stakes, but moving it to the end would kind of make some of the things that happen make less sense. They might do something like a shorter version in an episode and then have an extended version in one of the between-season filler episodes like they had with season 1.
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There's only one episode left in season 2 (according to the various anime databases). I don't think they're going beyond P2V2.
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@pcj Oh, I thought that it was supposed to be longer than S1, not shorter. I guess then that is why it feels like they couldn't possibly get everything in, because they aren't.
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@db0ssman It's all 1 season of 27 episodes (if you count the ova) split into two parts. It was commissioned and animated all at once.
And we would have seen character art for Sylvester by now if it were getting into P2V3. We have no idea yet if there are any plans to continue after next week's final episode. -
The preview pictures for the finale episode are out
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Oh, dear. These make me think that we're not going to get anything from Ferdinand's foray into Myne's mind. And that would be a tragedy. It was easily one of my favorite parts of Part 2.
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@OSRizzo that was my fear, too. :-(
That is the one scene I was most looking forward to seeing animated, too.
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My favourite chapter in the book too. After seeing these pictures I am actually hopeful that we will see nothing of that at all. Instead I hope it will be its own whole OVA episode. The chapter sure would deserve a whole episode dedicated to it.
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@Tube I wholly support this idea.
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TBH the scene I've been looking forward to most is the ritual scene.
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Regarding how the this episode was a lot less action packed than I'd have expected from the book - probably the weirdest thing to me was how little Myne tried to struggle.
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Apparently the second BD box set (ep 15-26) just released in Japan. https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1273057773887127553
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The last episode went about how I thought it would, but knowing all the stuff that happens next makes it a lot more bitter-sweet than I think it was meant to be.
