Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion
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Opening music included a frame that was a nod to Attack on Titan? Wait a minute am I watching the right anime? 😆
Just loved the adaptation for this series. Wit definitely did an amazing job!
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@Drenok said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Rihyarda (Behind Sylvester) and Leberecht (The red haired Scholar behind Florentia, if I am not mistaken): around 16:38
Oh, yeah. I wonder if Green Hair next to him is Angelica and Lieseletta's mom?
Leonore (if I am correct): Purple haired girl, 3rd row (at around 18:42)
Could be, but she looks old to be one year younger than Cornelius.
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@Almond-Magnum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Oh, yeah. I wonder if Green Hair next to him is Angelica and Lieseletta's mom?
That is what I am suspecting.
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Summary of episode 1:
0:00 R in carriage on the way to her new home
0:22 Summary of backstory.
1:05 back to carriage, but basically still filling in backstory.
2:00 OP
3:40 Arrival at Karstedt's estate.
3:48 Flashback to Cornelius and Elvira discussing the coming of R.
4:34 First meeting with Elvira. The greeting blessing gets over 10 seconds of screen time.
5:48 Coprophagic slime beasts!
5:54 Bathing
5:58 Bad hair day.
6:02 Benno sells rinsham.
6:11 Results of rinsham. Ella serves cookies.
7:20 Ferdinand and Karstedt arrive. R bribed to memorize names.
8:37 Etiquette lessons.
8:50 Cornelius takes R most of way to house bookroom.
9:48 Post collapse aftermath.
9:50 Ferdinand lectures Cornelius on R's health.
10:04 ad break.
10:30 Day before baptism, introduce Eckhart and Lamprecht, who lifts her high up.
(10:41-10:48) flashback to trombe hunt
11:10 Household preparing for baptism. Talking with Eckhard about Ferdinand.
12:09 R dressed for baptism. Ferdinand gives hairstick, R cries.
14:50 Healing R's face.
15:03 Back with Elvira et al.
15:27 The great hall full of people.
15:41 Hartmut gets labelled.
15:53 Rosina gets labelled.
16:00 grand entrance.
16:54 baptism
18:??-18:46 Mass blessing
18:42 Brunhilda seen in crowd
18:57 Syl announces adoption
19:59 Adoption magic
20:20 Food and introductions. Syl's family.
20:49 Damuel and Brigitte.
21:02 Wilfried abducts R.
21:23 R collapses
21:36 "to be continued ... "
21:39 ED. Images recap the backstory with lower city family.
23:09 "next episode"
23:12 end of episode chibis.
23:21 first law of noble etiquette. Karstedt buys two dresses to keep Elvira happy.
23:45 end illustration.OP: What's with the coastal scene? The pop-up-book temple has the orphanage reasonably correct (but with much too little front yard) but the Greek temple with columns in the center is not at all correct. Covers from P1V2 and P2V3 get replicated. Not only has Lessy been in most or all of the trailers, he's in the OP. So that is one would-be-surprise they've chosen to spoil. I'm not sure how commoner-Myne gets to run with Tuuli and Lutz without collapsing. Lutz is really skinny.
I feel that Karstedt's house should have balconies suitable for landing and launching highbeasts. I don't think the manga or LN show these either.
They really like making people climb lots of steps to get to the front door, don't they? The temple does the same. Maybe it is a quirk of Ehrenfest architecture.
The coprophagic slime beast pit is wide with no seat or anything? How is one supposed to use it?
The rinsham sales scene was very short and didn't include the flower patterned paper. And somehow R managed to get her hair shiny again beforehand.
There's no way Ella would be serving cookies to Elvira, but I see the point in taking this opportunity to reintroduce her.
Why does R look sad when Ferdinand has just offered the cathedral library keys as a bribe?
The background at 11:07 is not consistent with the first exterior view we get of Karstedt's house, given that they are meeting at the top of those front steps.
When Lamprecht lifts and shakes R, he's warned about her health, but pays no attention...Meanwhile, Eckhard kneels to be at eye level with her to converse.
R crying over the hairstick gets a good amount of screen time, as it should, for emotional impact.
Ferdinand has the multi-coloured bracelet for doing the crying-face-healing. I don't think he'd be wearing this, nor need it.
The hall they use for the baptism is huge! The crowd looks about the right size (300ish). Nobody gets a seat!
Only three of the god statues seem to have their holy tools.
Hartmut gets introduced with a written label. I didn't expect this, as he isn't relevant until next part. I thought we'd just see him in passing. Brunhilda gets the "see her in passing" treatment, however.
We don't know that R was specifically told to bless everyone.
Sylvester mentions that R was unaware of her noble heritage, but otherwise does not address that she had been "known" to be a commoner.
Wilfried spends 3-4 seconds dragging an unconscious R before he notices.
"to be continued ..." has its ellipsis dots at mid-lowercase-letter height rather than on the baseline. (Undoubtedly there is a typesetting term for this which I don't know.)
Anime (subtitles) uses "upper class noble" instead of "archnoble". Like the LN, "Aub" and "Archduke" are both used. Karstedt's third wife is called "Rosemary" rather than "Rozemary". The temple is called "cathedral".
(Don't expect this much detail from me next week, as I'll be busy visiting family.)
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@Drenok said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Oswald (I could have done without his presence really)
About the only valid reason for his presence is to be used as a doorstop.
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I like how this episode had so many small things for book readers. They snuck in book covers at OP and important characters as karuta. At ED they have put many scenes from previous book. Things that were left behind. Quite appropreate for ED. First episode fills me with lots of confidence that anime will be really good. You can see lots of love put into this anime.
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@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Hartmut gets introduced with a written label. I didn't expect this, as he isn't relevant until next part. I thought we'd just see him in passing. Brunhilda gets the "see her in passing" treatment, however.
I'm expecting that this is because they used a small part of his short story here but yea I also thought we would only see him in passing. Not labbeling some of the other characters that will be more important sooner is strange though.
I am unsurprised Crunchyroll messed up the translation as they did so in the prior seasons as well. But it looks like they fixed Myne's original name as well as Ferdinand's title.
