The third season has been announced and the trailer for the newest season is officially out. It also covers the theme of family and what it means to be by being family to someone other than yourself. The show covers a lot of serious heavy discussions that are being solved now in the real world regarding economic policies or social politics.
The show is a slow grind and not for the ordinary fan but the fans who seek worldbuilding and real-life questions about how would a person be able to be reincarnated or the language barrier that every protagonist in isekai anime struggles through or the inconsistencies that the protagonist provides to the people around them, as it is quite apparent when a person you know well starts behaving differently than before, that us watchers always wonder about. It is a story that takes into account the ascent that young Myne grows through while becoming a librarian in this magical and fantastical world. It tells a story about a woman being reborn as a 5-year old girl who lives in a village with no printing press. A Page From Ascendance of a BookwormĪscendance of a Bookworm is an isekai with a slice of life elements into it to make it feel more homely and friendly.
It was a fun affair to keep up with the weekly simulcast of Ascendance of a Bookworm and relax into a life pleasantly filled with nature and medical England and the slow life of peasantry and family love. In this jungle of mediocrity there came Ascendance of a Bookworm, a show about the love of books and literature, and people adored it.
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It's like walking barefoot on a carpet, but you know some pins have been dropped in it and you don't know where they are.When it dropped in 2019, the anime industry was full of high-fantasy action-adventure isekais which might or might not include fan service and lastly run the same old trope of dead and reborn as a powerful mage, demon king, sword fighter. Looking at other people talk about this it seems like I should be expecting something heartwarming, but watching it myself it just feels like there's these underlying themes that have been lying around and I'm not sure if there's going to any payoff. Every thoughtful expression at Main's antics just winds that spring tighter. I also don't know what to think about the characters as I keep expecting them to figure out something is weird with Main and I don't know how they will react. I think this along with the tension I mentioned before makes it more jarring with the chibi Main shows up to start giving exposition or explain what she's thinking in an upbeat way. We see hints at magic in the beginning but beyond weird plants we don't really see anything magical for a while.
The world itself also lends itself to a more subdued tone- her new family is fairly poor and the world seems to be trying to go for a realistic medieval setting. Between her character constantly doing things to raise suspicion, the fact that she took over this kid's body, and the new body's mysterious illness there's a thread of tension that just clashes with the attempts at being cute or silly. Honestly, I found the obsession angle more compelling in the LN about being reincarnated as a vending machine. This is exacerbated by the fact that she has the super-obsession with books that drives her to behave in a way that really should tip people off. This show at least tries to address the fact that she just wakes up in another person's body, but acknowleding it just adds to the clashing tones. The college girl stuffed into a kid body variety of isekai is just a really weird take on the genre for me. Maybe that's because I'm not familiar with the source material but I'll try to explain. When I watch it I feel a tension in the background that keeps it from feeling chill or relaxing as others have described it. I'm writing this after watching 8 episodes.
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