[Episode] Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke • Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo - Episode 24 discussion

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• I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have just finished watching this season and I am split between @NineSwords@ani.social and @BillyClark@piefed.social views.

  I felt this was the worst adaption out of the 3 parts animated. But it is also the first part where I read the LN before watching the Anime.

  There is defiantly lots of world building and important details missing, but the main plot points are covered.

  Overall I am glad it’s been animated and like NineSwords said it has tainted the memory I had of the story, I might have to reread it to correct that.

  I hope that we can get Parts 4, 5 and Hannelores 5th year animated with the full budget and respect it deserves. The story is only just getting started, it gets so much better!

  If anyone is in doubt I highly recommend reading the LNs. Everyone who has mentioned it at !lightnovels@ani.social has said it’s an amazing series, it’s really Gutenberg!

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  Also, someone teach the English dub cast how to say Georgine. It is not Ge-Or-Ge-Ean

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• NineSwords@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think I’ve never hated a anime season more than this one. There were absolutely worse, but you just drop and forget them. But this did destroy something that I loved. It was so bad that it taints the source in my memory. Similar to how the Star Wars prequels taints the original trilogy. I would like to have the people responsible removed from the industry.

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a shame. I’ve only seen one of the CMs where Iguchi Yuka made 20 dialectical dubs. She seemed to have worked really hard to do her best here.

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• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I enjoyed this episode, and overall, I liked this season, with a few somewhat major complaints about the animation mostly. Others will be upset that they rushed the story so much, and especially that they skipped so much important character development.

  Like in this episode, they skipped directly to her teleporting to the Royal Academy. There is a ton of important character development that needed to happen, even just after her waking up until her going to the academy. They showed her limp on the bench, but they didn’t show her reaction to essentially becoming a quadriplegic, or her reaction to everybody growing up for two years while she stayed the same. She lost two entire years and went from a girl who basically needed a wheelchair to get around to becoming a quadriplegic. I’m guessing their plan is to recap it in the beginning of the next season.

  They didn’t show Rozemyne’s struggles to finish getting ready for school despite missing two years.

  However, I completely understand their need to move the story along and not end on a huge cliffhanger.

  As for the animation in this episode, I will say that there was one very simple thing that they never got correct. I don’t even understand how they can mess it up, but I think every single filled feystone showed in this episode was the wrong color, except Rozemyne’s highbeast feystone. The feystones coming out of the jureve should be yellow, not black, because they’re full of Rozemyne’s mana, which is yellow. The feystones that Wilfried and Charlotte were using in the religious ceremonies should also have been yellow, but they were green for no apparent reason.

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  • NineSwords@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    However, I completely understand their need to move the story along and not end on a huge cliffhanger.

    Ending on her entering the jureve would have been the perfect stopping point. they could have let 2 real world years pass by before continuing in the story with her waking up 2 in-universe years later.

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• vole@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I enjoyed watching this season. The world is filled with interesting things and plot developments advance at a decent pace, it has been comfortable to tune in each week. I’m sure the royal academy will spark all sorts of fun events. I’m tempted to rush forward and read the LN’s.

  For this episode… why did grandpa become comically dumb for that scene? That was a strange choice. It was nice to see Ferdinand and others caring for Myne. We got to see a rare sighting of an emotional outburst from Ferdinand. They did let the evil noble weasel away, but knowing this show he’s eventually going to perpetrate another evil scheme, get foiled, and get his entire bloodline extinguished. And I look forward to it. If I’m following correctly, I think the use of the secret passage is the first piece of evidence that specifically indicts Georgine as assisting in the immoral schemes of the pro-Georgine nobles. I think the previous schemes could be explained as the pro-Georgine nobles working independently from Georgine. I could be wrong, forgetting something, it’s not a detail that I’ve been tracking closely.

  Also, I don’t think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there’s a good explanation? I don’t know what they were planning to do by poisoning, but not killing, and kidnapping Myne. To be honest, I don’t care about these points too much; the mechanisms of nobles in this world are strange, so I can imagine that there are many possible explanations. I enjoy the show nonetheless. The issue is that I don’t know if I’m missing something that the show has already explained, or if these are intentional points of interest placed by the author, or if these are details that the show/story/author don’t really care about.

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  • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For this episode… why did grandpa become comically dumb for that scene? A strange bit of slapstick comedy, I suppose.

    That’s a bit of wtf from the anime’s perspective, but Bonifatius is supposed to have always been like that. He’s a musclehead who doesn’t completely realize his own strength, especially when he’s emotional. But unlike, say Angelica, he’s not really even normally that much of an idiot. It’s just like he has this big blind spot, and that’s why you heard in this episode that he was warned off of touching Rozemyne, who would be easy for him to accidentally kill, just randomly.

    In this episode, it wasn’t animated for obvious reasons, but when Bonifatius punched the attacker in the hallway, it actually bashed his head completely in, and IIRC, that guy’s body struck and killed another attacker. He basically just killed them because he was upset and there were enough of them that killing some wouldn’t make a difference. And again unanimated for obvious reasons, when he unmasked Joisontak, he is supposed to have accidentally ripped off part of his face.

    If I’m following correctly, I think the use of the secret passage is the first piece of evidence that specifically indicts Georgine as assisting in the immoral schemes of the pro-Georgine nobles.

    That’s not absolutely proven to the Archduke’s family, so they don’t really have that evidence. If they did have the evidence, they’d have executed two nobles instead of one. So, really, the use of that passage is only a supposition that has been animated just for the audience. And from the audience’s perspective, we already have seen some of the immoral schemes of pro-Georgine nobles, like their plotting against Wilfried.

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know what they were planning to do by poisoning, but not killing, and kidnapping Myne.

    I got the impression that they weren’t trying to poison her, just drugging her unconscious to make the kidnapping easier, but the drug they used reacted badly with her existing congealed mana issues.

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  • NineSwords@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, I don’t think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there’s a good explanation?

    I did not reread that passage, but I believe to remember that there had to be a noble to knock out an arch noble. Even though she was a kid, Charlotte could have just crushed the fall guy. And if I remember the poison wasn’t poison but a drug that would keep someone’s magic in locked, it just so happens to be poison for the unique health condition that Myne was in. Grausam (name means “cruel” in German, btw.) really did try to kidnap and not kill.

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    • vole@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Joisontak…

      Well that tracks with Joisontak’s short testimony. Magic, politics, and esoteric nobility rules must use up too much of the brain, leaving room for little else. Well, it’s maybe par for the course for political fantasy stories.

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