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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).
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Bookworm is getting released by Sentai in January. The set contains both seasons and the ova.
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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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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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@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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@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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@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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@SomeOldGuy Yeah I don't do that daily but once a month I go through that and build my pre-orders of things due in the same upcoming month. One thing I wish they had was something that showed you've already ordered when you look at an item. Once in a thankfully rare while - I pre-order something that I actually already pre-ordered because they date changed drastically. (now I do the double check of my pre-order e-mails.)
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@mwbworld If you've ordered it, you will get a bar at the top that says, "you have already purchased this item on order NNNNNNNNNN", but that doesn't come up for things in a wishlist.
If I really paid attention to it, I wouldn't have two copies of Bunny Drop 6 or Wolf and Parchment 4...
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Europe/UK is getting a region B bluray release of Bookworm anime in 2021 :) https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-21/anime-limited-acquires-black-lagoon-and-penguindrum/.166586
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Big announcement from TO Books this week to promote with P5V4 publication was start of Part 4 comicalization. Since they usually announce new anime season schedule about 4 months ahead, this was also a perfect window for season 3 announcement for spring 2021 anime season, just like season 2 for spring 2020 was announced at the same time 2019.
But since now we missed it, it is likely to be no earlier than summer 2021.
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So if it airs Summer 2021 then by the time the it ends (assuming one cour) the English eBooks should be at Part 4 Volume 2 and the English physicals should be at least at Part 3 Volume 2they might even been able to get a volume of the Part 3 manga on sale if they licensed it next month and do it side-by-side the Part 2 manga. -
@LurkingMcLurk I may want more Bookworm as much as the next guy, but I'd also like Quof to not die of overwork...
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Finally got my copy of the anime on Saturday. I see/hear some of the "interesting" translation choices, like "cathedral" for temple, and "studio" for workshop.
Probably going to be similar to fingernails on chalk boards.
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After watching the whole thing, I have one continuity question... Based on one of Myne's "future" inventions to fulfill a great need, why is a fast-flowing fountain in the central plaza featured in so many shots?
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@SomeOldGuy said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
After watching the whole thing, I have one continuity question... Based on one of Myne's "future" inventions to fulfill a great need, why is a fast-flowing fountain in the central plaza featured in so many shots?
Good point! There are many explicit text suggesting that there is no aqueduct technology exist in the city of Ehrenfest, except for the fountain in the central plaza. Every other supply of water comes from wells, even in the castle. You definitely need gravity fed aqueduct to realize water fountain. It doesn't add up. I'll add that to my questions to ask for Fanbook 6.
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@hiroto I suspect the fountain is an anime director wanting something moving in relatively static scenes that would not take a lot to animate. Reviewing P1V1, there are multiple plazas with wells mentioned, but the central plaza isn't one of them.
The map in the volume also has an empty plaza.
It is a significant continuity error, but I don't think it's the author's fault. We're dealing with "moving pictures", so static isn't a favorite thing for directors. "Plazas have fountains, give me a fountain!"
Edit: A fountain IS mentioned in P1V1:
The group stopped after reaching thefountainwhere the main roads connected. The kids from the other roads joined together, swelling our numbers enormously all at once. This was as far as Dad and I could go.So, maybe it's not entirely a director's fault. Although I have seen a number of times in other stories where a "fountain" was simply a pool of water around some statue, without moving water.
