Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion
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https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/1103244823903952896
Director: Mitsuru Hongo
Series Composition: Mariko Kunisawa
Chara Design: Yoshiaki Yanagida
Studio: Ajia-do Animation Works
Cast:
Maine: Yuka Iguchi
Ferdinando: Sho Hayami -
Oohh nice..
now, when is the LN licensed!! -
@sam-pinansky said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol. 1 Discussion:
Anyone who says "LN license when?!" gets banned for -1 years.
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Oh hey Sam.
I'm not saying anything.
But.
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Have you seen the designs?
I was gladly surprised by the announcement, but after seeing those... Did they travel back in time and hire the World Masterpiece Theater staff to make it?
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I don't mind the designs, I think it is more the colour palette is simpler to look retro but with more modern cleaner moeshit lines, sort of? I dunno, I'm no artist or nothin. It is different but I think it's in a good way.
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Could someone please explain why some people would have issues with the character design? Myne looks fine to me... much as ANN users would like to disagree.
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@doublemangekyo I can't articulate it properly, but it does look weird to me.
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Could someone please explain why some people would have issues with the character design? Myne looks fine to me... much as ANN users would like to disagree.
Youjo Senki, I can understand.
Arifureta's first promo art, (though I didn't mind it) I can understand.
The new designs for Boogiepop, I can understand.But this? I just don't get it...
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@doublemangekyo Boogiepop new design are great, that on the other hand... the character design are ok, but the color are strange the prople of the other world are suppose are have colorfull hair but here it's too clear. Plus the character and background don't merge very well both aren't bad (especialy the background) but the 2 art style clash. Also it's all way too clean.
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There definitely seems to be a retro style to it. I think some people are put off by the designs and visuals because they don't have a certain "feel" that we normally associate with late-night anime geared toward otaku (what most isekai LN adapted to anime are).
In fact, this looks more like the sort of anime that might air on primetime to appeal to the general public... which might be what the producers are going for.
At the very least, it seems they want to distance Bookworm from the usual otaku-oriented isekai fare, presenting it as the sort of fantasy story anyone could enjoy. The story definitely is free of the usual otaku trappings, and the producers may be trying to leverage that in the visual design.
The only real issue I see is that comparatively, this anime looks relatively low-budget (though not enough to look outright bad). Then again, that might be because they are planning a lot of episodes for this show? It doesn't seem like the kind of story that could be satisfied with just a 1-cour or even a 2-cour adaptation, and if there really are plans to get it aired in primetime, perhaps even as a long-running fixture, I think it's somewhat understandable that the animation quality would be held back a little to support a longer run. (Whether one would prefer one cour of higher-quality animation versus a longer run with lower-but-still-acceptable quality is definitely a tough question.)
Anyway, I'm definitely excited for this, and I personally dig the visual style here. This neo-retro style definitely fits the sort of story Bookworm seems to be.
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@korppi said in Ascendance of a BookWorm gets TV anime:
Have you seen the designs?
The more I look at it, the more it feels like her face is screaming "please kill me" lol
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@korppi said in Ascendance of a BookWorm gets TV anime:
Have you seen the designs?
Wow that's look weird to me... feels like doraemon from the ninety...
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Have to agree that the promo feels like it clashes a bit too much. With some of the colouring it feels like the team doing the foregrounds didn't even talk with the people doing the backgrounds. The characters seem ok, but at some points in that video they just look strange.
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@hiroto That's assuming we get that far in a single cour. I've got a feeling we won't. These volumes are very long. I'd hate to see another Ragnarok.
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@paul-nebeling This first(?) cour will adapt part 1, the DVD/BD listings clued us in to that.
I think three volumes in one cour can be done well, and in any case we'll see the rainbow eyes as soon as Myne's clay tablets get stepped on.
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@nosgoroth I'm more concerned about the length of those three volumes. I wouldn't consider three volumes a bridge too far unless they start leaving out huge chunks of story to make it fit, like was done with Smartphone's anime, or more currently, Arifureta's.
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Is the anime going to be 12 episodes or more? If it's only 12, the content of the first 3 volumes is plenty enough to stop there imo.
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@terabyte 14 episodes in total, from Dvd preorders.
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@legitpancake Then yeah, I hope it won't go beyond volume 3. Bookworm's volumes are pretty long, and just the first 3 volumes alone are worth 4-5 "normal volumes". If they try to cram any more than that it's gonna end up a mess just like Arifureta or Ragnarok.
