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    • LurkingMcLurkL
      LurkingMcLurk Member
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      Third Cour
      https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1282271086294388741

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

        Third Cour
        https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1282271086294388741

        Only thing it is confirming is that production will happen. No date or anything. I don't think it is happening this fall.

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        • OpalO
          Opal Member @hiroto
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          @hiroto said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

          Only thing it is confirming is that production will happen. No date or anything. I don't think it is happening this fall.

          At least it is happening \o/
          I'm super happy as long as it's happening, even if I have to wait till spring or winter.
          Edit: there are a few scenes I'd like to see animated. 😊

          ... For PONY!

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          • Paul NebelingP
            Paul Nebeling Premium Member @Opal
            last edited by Rahul Balaggan

            @Opal

            spoiler
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            • OpalO
              Opal Member @Paul Nebeling
              last edited by Opal

              @Paul-Nebeling exactly! - and a few more 😊

              ... For PONY!

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              • LurkingMcLurkL
                LurkingMcLurk Member
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                I can't wait for Crunchyroll to give us

                spoiler

                Sadistically I want them to begin this season with a fast forward to the Epilogue of the concluding volume again.
                Now that we know Part 2 will be fully animated I hope Sam sees this as good enough justification to licensed the Part 3 manga before finishing the Part 2 manga plus we need to make sure to crush Quof under his workload.

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                • db0ssmanD
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                  https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/07/12-1/3rd-season-of-ascendance-of-a-bookworm-tv-anime-announced

                  I think I might be too much of a dork because I read this little excerpt on Crunchyroll's website and noticed the author must also read the light novels like an alpha chad. He wrote 'Myne' like a true man of culture and not 'Main' like a filthy heathen.

                  Shift World Web Novel

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                  • crowdcontrolC
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                    I wish they gave another studio to do season 3. Like the studio doing Wandering Witch anime. Now that had great art and atmosphere

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                    • xdrfiredogxX
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                      Queue up the M-Bison yes gif please!

                      @crowdcontrol I could wish for better, it's true. But I get the impression that they are doing their best and the reality is that a larger, "better" studio would also cost much more than there is budget for.

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                      • LegitPancakeL
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                        I'm perfectly satisfied with the studio working on it so far. Yes it's not the highest budget and they skip some things, but you can really tell the people working on it truly care about the series and are doing their best. Also it allows them to do this many seasons even without moving a whole lot of sales. Usually a series would have to have SAO, Overlord, or Re:Zero sort of popularity to get more than two cour, but with a series like Bookworm the show is easy enough to animate cheaply multiple seasons even with it not breaking into the top 10 bestselling lists.

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                        • TheGrimLichT
                          TheGrimLich Member @LegitPancake
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                          @LegitPancake Yeah, the fact that the production staff legitimately like the series instead of just thinking of it as "Oh we'll make an anime to piggyback off the success of this popular light novel series" is pretty evident to me. No matter what changes I saw, I never went "The people making this anime don't understand the series"; it was always "Interesting choice" and "When I think about it, if you've only got about 265 minutes to tell these two volumes, you're going to have to leave a fair amount on the cutting room floor." I mean... the LN volumes aren't exactly short, and Kazuki-sensei puts a lot of effort into her worldbuilding (I'm kind of jealous at how much of it she manages to work into the story, if I'm being honest, and I wouldn't be surprised if she's got two or three whole notebooks filled with setting details that didn't make it in).

                          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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                          • jcochranJ
                            jcochran Premium Member @TheGrimLich
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                            @TheGrimLich said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

                            @LegitPancake Yeah, the fact that the production staff legitimately like the series instead of just thinking of it as "Oh we'll make an anime to piggyback off the success of this popular light novel series" is pretty evident to me. No matter what changes I saw, I never went "The people making this anime don't understand the series";

                            For the most part, I agree. I just wish they would stop making simple careless mistakes. Two that stand out for me are:

                            1. After Myne talks to Frieda about the commissioned hairpin and what color it should be, they have a cut scene "one month later" for when Myne finishes and delivers it. Excuse me? The LN has that time period as a few days. And that detail is important. At the time the hairpin is commissioned, Frieda's baptism is a month away. And between the delivery of the hairpin and the baptism, multiple events happen on and off camera. In the LN, there's about three weeks or so for Benno to request Myne make more hairpins. For the trombe to appear and Myne & Lutz to process the bark. For Myne and Lutz to make the requested hairpins, etc. In the anime, those same events occur, but logically, the time in which to perform the events does not exist. All because some script writer said "One month later", instead of more reasonable "One week later", or "A few days later." A stupid careless mistake on their part.

                            2. When Myne was reorganizing the temple library after it was vandalized, she does a quick summary of the broad categories for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. After that, the description summarizes that the "Myne Decimal System" easily divided all the books into nine broad categories. Once again, excuse me? There are ten categories, not nine. Another simple, careless mistake.

                            Morning and Mourning sound alike for good and sufficient reasons.

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                            • Libri LiberorumL
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                              Given that there is an upcoming 3rd season, what can we expect in future? Are we now likely to have 4th, 5th etc seasons? Will we be able to pay excessive prices for PVC Myne figurines?

                              I understand the LN goes into low 30s volumes, and we've seen 2-3 volumes of LN per anime season, so in principle the anime could last about 14 seasons, and if they air every second season, that would be about 7 years.

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                              • LegitPancakeL
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                                It was just announced today that Bookworm is getting an NA bluray release via Sentai Filmworks! Likely to release in 2021, can't wait till I get my hands on it. No preorders just yet. https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/05/crunchyroll-and-sentai-filmworks-announce-home-video-distribution-partnership

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                                  sniper_samurai Premium Member
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                                  Bookworm is getting released by Sentai in January. The set contains both seasons and the ova.

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                                  • LegitPancakeL
                                    LegitPancake Premium Member
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                                    Here's the publisher link https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/products/ascendance-of-a-bookworm-complete-collection-blu-ray

                                    No Collector's Edition unfortunately, so probably no art book. But it will still likely be a day-one purchase for me :)

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                                    • mwbworldM
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                                      They announced the bluray release date and I went to pre-order it right away. Very much looking forward to owning it.

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                                      • SomeOldGuyS
                                        SomeOldGuy Premium Member @mwbworld
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                                        @mwbworld Just showed up on rightstufanime.com's new items. I haven't pre-ordered yet, since I placed an order for a lot of stuff earlier today, but it's on my wish list for the NEXT batch order.

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                                          mwbworld Premium Member @SomeOldGuy
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                                          @SomeOldGuy Yup that's where I pre-ordered as well. It wasn't my usual monthly big-order since I already did that earlier so I threw in some back print LNs that I'm catching up on the print version of to round off for free shipping. (I keep a stock of series in the wishlist I'm catching up on the print version of just for that purpose.)

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                                          • SomeOldGuyS
                                            SomeOldGuy Premium Member @mwbworld
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                                            @mwbworld My daily ritual is to hit the "new-items" page, and add things to the wishlist. I'm back under 70 items in the wishlist, so actually placing the order for AoaB will be next month.

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