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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.
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There's also the matter of what it means by "fountain". The anime director may have overdid it thinking of what a modern fountain looks like, and it may have just been a spring-fed well that bubbles in the middle or something.
Or... it could be a static amount of water with a magic tool being used as a pump.
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@SomeOldGuy said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Edit: A fountain IS mentioned in P1V1:
It's all over the places. She does care about this fountain being there.
P1V2:
When we arrived at the
fountainin the plaza, Otto was already there waiting.Upon reaching
the central plaza’s fountain, I sat down to take a break.P2V2:
The three of us walked around
the plaza’s fountain, holding hands and paying attention to everyone’s clothes.“Tuuli, why’ve you been walking around
the fountainlike that?”There was
a large fountainin the middle of a paved stone plaza.P2V3:
“What's your business?" asked Benno from behind me.Johann,who was now gasping for air,knelt down in front of me andthe fountainamid the large crowd of passersby going through the central plaza.P3V2:
I see that the lower city is similar in how the further south you go, the lower in status the people get,” I mused upon reaching the central plaza and itsfountain.@pcj said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
There's also the matter of what it means by "fountain". The anime director may have overdid it thinking of what a modern fountain looks like, and it may have just been a spring-fed well that bubbles in the middle or something.
Or... it could be a static amount of water with a magic tool being used as a pump.
The Japanese word used here is https://jisho.org/word/噴水, which is "erupting water" and has much more specific connotation than English "fountain" and you can only refer to those water fountain which shoots water up, and not those small thing for drinking water.
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Considering how mana in the earth just affects things. It's not far fetched to believe that the water mana in that area is somehow richer and causes the water fountain to flow.
Then again, wasn't there something mentioned about the hot bath Myne and Freda taking having hot water gushing?
I doubt mana is being used to power it, so that'd suggest they have some technology in that area already.
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Season 3 will be airing in the Spring 2022 anime season!
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Hurray. I think that's a good choice of a key visual as well, actiony without being too much of a spoiler for the events around it.
cries at usage of Main once more
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@lurkingmclurk I'd consider it a blessing if it's only that bad.
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@georgemto said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
cries at usage of Main once more
Part of me hurts every time I see it...
What's scary is how many ways they can screw up some of the potential names in S3 or a potential S4.
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@xdrfiredogx He was in an OVA, his name should already be known right? I can't remember
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In this comment for the anime, Kazuki sensei is stating that season 3 anime is 2nd half of Part 2.
https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1423479189089439745/photo/3
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That makes sense. I don't think there's really anyway they could start p3 and end in the first or second volume for a reasonable break point plot wise, especially compared to all the consequences of part 2
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@hiroto said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
@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.
I realize I am pretty late to the conversation, but you don't need aqueducts for a fountain, there are various clever designs of fountain that operated on some combination of siphon and gravity to keep a static supply of water flowing that date back far before the invention you are referencing. These designs would typically not go indefinitely and would require someone to move water from one chamber to another regularly, but it would be possible to make one that can run most of the day so someone would just need to move the supply from the lower chamber to the upper chamber using a water screw or other earlier water moving device every morning.
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Even if the production quality does not improve I will still adore the gremlin being animated to complete Part 2 of the overall story. Somehow I think since it should be up to final pages of P2V4 that it might be all we get, and I’d be fine with that if they also produce some figurines to go with it.
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I thought they'd have waited a bit longer for the manga to advance some more - I was expecting it for the summer season.
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@lurkingmclurk You are correct of course. I think I blocked that from my memory...
