What hurts more is the last call of original Myne is, "It hurts! It hurts!". Myne's gone not in peace.

@askshadowboltmoon1476

4 жыл бұрын

Well crap you just had to remind me of that, also the original mentioned heat in her last words

@72Worker

4 жыл бұрын

That simply means the original Myne gave up. However if the original was dead than Motosu would not have Myne's memories. My guess is the original Myne is simply being overshadowed by Motosu's stronger will. But the original will still die with Motosu if Motosu dies.

@jideoyetunde8609

4 жыл бұрын

@@72Worker I think the original Myne is dead but Motosu's was anle to recover some of maines memories such as language when they fused

@72Worker

4 жыл бұрын

@@jideoyetunde8609 Well you are free yo believe anything you want but that is not how reincarnation works. Myne and Motosu are the same soul. Myne might not have been able recall Motosu's memories when she was born but Myne was still Motosu. That is how reincarnation works.

@tsuyuasui7297

4 жыл бұрын

72Worker however motosu is years older than the original myne...

I'm a simple man I see asendance of a bookworm I press like.

@TheDasFaust

4 жыл бұрын

Is this a Reddit reference? :)

@ScaryMason

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking for the show for 10 years. By which I mean, any show where cute characters who like each other hold hands.

@TheAussief1

4 жыл бұрын

Just noticed, the head priest has been using SAO shampoo in the opening scene,

@kasaionyt3

4 жыл бұрын

I’m waiting for ep 24

@frimi8593

4 жыл бұрын

TheAussief1 Oh shid u rite

I still think the 'cure' for the Devouring will be not siphoning off the mana or stuffing it figuratively into a box... But actually using it with a purpose. I would assume this is something the nobles in this world would REALLY be unhappy to see happen with the common classes.

@tesso.6193

4 жыл бұрын

magic peasant revolt now

@masterofthelyokianmonsters2886

4 жыл бұрын

David Ouillette *having read a The manga.* your might be onto something.

@askshadowboltmoon1476

4 жыл бұрын

It's a simple thing called spells

@uwu--owo

4 жыл бұрын

@@masterofthelyokianmonsters2886 where to read the manga ?

@masterofthelyokianmonsters2886

4 жыл бұрын

Sleepy Ash manga rock.

I agree completely, but also think that the narrative importance of Myne is emblematic of what makes the series great as a whole. Robust world building, and solid characterization. Most isekai is power fantasy, and I think Bookworm is as well, but the side characters seem to have autonomy, and don't appear to exist to highlight how awesome the main character is as well. Bookworm's character is superficially as much as a Mary Sue as you'd expect from any isekai MC, but the way character's react to her is so realistic that it isn't annoying at all.

@AecherJace

4 жыл бұрын

Her parents are cool with her rainbow eyes and glowing aura? For peasants that's mighty progressive of them.

@Gizmomaster

4 жыл бұрын

Myne OP?!?! She is constantly berated for how useless she is throughout the entire anime(and especially the light novel), constantly reminded how she is as weak as a lame duck, and requires help from everyone around her just to keep herself from feinting. She is anything but OP. What she is, is a character that through the course of the anime grows to become someone who has learned how to gain the trust and most importantly the assistance of others. Myne even mentions it in the first book, that if she is ever going to accomplish anything in this new world her most important objective is learning and utilizing how to gain the cooperation of others(all of whom are far more capable than her) in order to get her books. Do you remember how hard it was for her to get a few nails? I do! That crap took several chapters and A LOT of convincing of the people she needed. Her whole path to making paper is meticulously thought out and there are multiple points where she flat out fails and has to come up with some other way. She even gives up! And if not for Lutz and his obvious love for Myne she would have been dead long before she could make it to the Head Priest.

@kitsinu1

4 жыл бұрын

@@AecherJace Myne's parents have lost other children before and are virtually sure they will lose Myne. Additionally, city commoners despise the church and fear nobles, so they are simply ignoring anything that would cause them to think less of their child. That isn't that uncommon. How many parents claim to have seen no sign of their child being a monster?

@ghostpurr9570

3 жыл бұрын

she is in no way a mary sue she makes mistakes she has a huge handicap she only got this far because she used to have access to things and has a loving family

@Bartoc1988

2 жыл бұрын

Careful with that title. Especially when the perception of the topic is one-sided. The light novel, similar to the anime, is heavily focused on Myne and told from her perspective. There she is by no means a Mary Sue. But when you read the short stories, you can start to rethink that statement.

2:19 - Slight mistake, Lutz states that he never knew Myne which is part of the reason why he accepts the new Myne and decides it's non of his business to tell anyone, especially her family.

@SecretIdentityStudio

4 жыл бұрын

Barely knew her, but you're right that it comes to the same thing when he realizes that this Myne was "his" Myne.

@CharDhue

4 жыл бұрын

He just knew but never interact with her. The one lutz interact for the 1st time is the "now" mine

@ScyelGale

4 жыл бұрын

Lutz: you were *MYNE* Badum tss!

@maddyterrell0

4 жыл бұрын

He really only knew the original Myne as a sickly child that barely went out and spent most of the time with a fever. Lutz's first memories of actually getting to know Myne was of the new Myne. The new Myne ended up helping him with things and even allowed him to try parucakes when he was hungry. Which is when he said that he would help her make anything she thought of. When Lutz got suspicious, he still helped her make paper, but he said he wanted to talk with her after they made paper. They got to have their talk and Lutz learned that Myne wasn't who he thought she was. He quickly realized that if the new Myne were to let the "fever" kill her, it wouldn't bring back the old Myne. But, he did realize most of his memories with her were of the new Myne, making her "Lutz's Myne". He also decided that he shouldn't be the one to say that Myne should die because that should be her family's decision. Lutz came to accept it and their bond grew stronger. Lutz would make what Myne knew about from her old world, and Myne would help him make money and let him try some pretty good food. They spent most of their time together and it added a whole new aspect of the story. Just that one little scene really ties thing together. I love Ascendance of a Bookworm, but I have to wait for new chapters of the manga and for new episodes of the anime, so I'm just stuck here wanting more. I probably won't be able to read the novel (if there is one, but I have a feeling there is just based on the fact that the first scene in the anime hasn't yet happened in the manga) because I've started way too many other novels that I should probably finish

@Odd_Taxi_epi04

4 жыл бұрын

@@CharDhue ​ Lutz interacted with the original Myne about 5 times, IIRC. Remember that the first time the new main interacted with he and his brothers, they offered to carry her like they already had done this before.

So far, what we know is that Devouring isn't picky. From a lady who has enough money to halt it, or even from poor family like Myne. But the accessible to cure the Devouring is VERY limited. That's the main problem for the world itself, not limited to Myne. That's how cruel the Myne's world state is.

@openlink9958

4 жыл бұрын

I will take it a step further: they live in a sociaty which kids can (with the adult's help) decide what their are going to work as for the rest of their lives, no second choice, just that, which from a point of view only capitalistic (without taking moral implications into consideration) is REALLY BAD because since everyone is tied with a certain job things like the concept of "entrepreneur" doesnt exist unless you are a noble essentially suffocating any chance of innovation of products (unless is something you are working on)

@michaelmiller7465

4 жыл бұрын

You have to put 'cure' in quotes, because it's only a temporary fix. Later you find that pretty much all commoners that have the devouring die before their baptism, and the church is able to prevent this 'cure' and keep kids from dying of the devouring, but really only orphans that live in the church could benefit from this. Oh, and those orphans pretty much live a wretched existence of starvation and slavery to the nobles. Even with her constant illness, Myne has lived a much better life than the orphans. Looking forward to season 2 so these characters and the priest from the first episode can shine!

@Cuddlesthemighty

4 жыл бұрын

It kind of reminds me of the people who die because they can't afford insulin in the USA.

@dra6o0n

4 жыл бұрын

And yet Myne is important because she's about to flip the world on its head.

@Ivellios23

4 жыл бұрын

@@openlink9958 I find it funny how you use a non-capitalist society to bash capitalism. Medieval society was not capitalist. Did you know in Socialist countries such as in the USSR, you took a test while attending school, and what ever "job" you tested as was your only choice, then they changed your curriculum to cultivate you for that particular field, only. If you didn't do what you were ordered to, you were sent to the gulags for "reeducation." Sometimes people would just "disappear," because when the government owns everything, they also own you, and if you will not fulfill your role as dictated, "For the Good of the People," you're thrown away just like any other broken or otherwise useless tool. It is Capitalism which enables someone that if they don't like a job, or like the pay, they *can leave it,* and find a job more enjoyable, or pays more... but it takes initiative, and determination... it isn't going to be handed to you, but something you must earn.

my life as a vilainess is also a light novel and she didn't hit her head and become someone else but remembered her previous life...

@singoflovesongs

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, katarina remembers both her former life and her current life as the "villainess" character, so for all intents and purposes - nobody died, they're both the same person.

@CeruleanRogue

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah and there's even a spin off that imagines what would happen if Katarina remembered as a teenager as opposed to a child, so it's not like one person being transposed onto someone else here like with what happened with Myne and in a lot of other transposition Isekai's. You can't really compare them. I've noticed the 'replacing an existing person' thing seems to happen more in Chinese Reincarnated Isekai works. Japanese ones tend to go down the 'remember their previous life at some point during childhood/adulthood' route, and usually avoid the problem outright. Though even with the Chinese works they often gloss over the problem by saying that the reincarnated soul is there to fix their problems and then the old soul they replaced tends to be quickly forgotten. It's really refreshing to have a series like Bookworm that cares enough to think how the family and friends would react to someone suddenly inhabiting their loved one's body and life.

@singoflovesongs

4 жыл бұрын

@@CeruleanRogue oooh, what's the spin-off called? that'd be interesting to check out 👀 and true!! i remember reading SVSSS thinking "... does the protag not miss his old life or at least his family from his original world at all it's not like he ever said he had a bad relationship with them... is he just not gonna tell the truth to even his love interest even after becoming a couple? there were grave misunderstandings between that occurred literally because of this reason... the person he replaced has at least someone that cares about him and deserves to know the truth, at least tell them..." I like the novel but it drove me nuts to reach the end going 'That's it?!' These are all questions that I loved seeing addressed in Bookworm in such a short period of time that I'm so thankful for it! ;;

@DaughterOfHelios

3 жыл бұрын

@@singoflovesongs I wannan know too!

In one of the novel's, Effa recalls Myne saying that she had wonderful dreams about a place where she could eat all sorts of strange food and move about freely. She really didn't understand these dreams, but she wished she was there. She stopped talking about those dreams after she put on her hair stick. In other words, the original Myne was already deeply connected to Urano.

@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx

2 жыл бұрын

Motosu Urano only resurfaced whenever Myne gets angry. Her voice changes into a mature woman who is outraged. Meaning, there are some noticeable instances that Myne has a Dissociative Identity Disorder. These mental disorders only happens if a person is close to the verge of death and they have no choice but to cling to life.

@color3615

Жыл бұрын

What part and volume this was mention?

@Shadx27

Жыл бұрын

@@color3615 Part 1 Volume 2 Effa's side story by the well. 'It seemed that Myne had pleasant dreams whenever she fell asleep with a fever, and she was never as happy as she was when talking about the world of her dreams. She could run around in her dreams without ever getting tired, do anything she wanted, and eat her fill of delicious food. She always spoke of strange things I couldn’t understand with her stunted childish words. It got so bad that when she said “My dreams are so much more fun, I want to stay asleep forever,” I interpreted it as “I want to die” and ended up yelling at her. ... Speaking of which, she no longer talked about her dreams. Myne had stopped talking about her dreams when she grew out of her toddler crybaby phase and entered her rebellious childhood phase. Instead, she started behaving oddly in real life. Though her behavior had settled down bit by bit after she started making paper with Lutz. Myne was growing up, just like any other girl. Kazuki, Miya. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 2 (p. 274). J-Novel Club. Kindle Edition.

@valdris86

Жыл бұрын

there was also an author Q&A in the first fanbook where she mentions that Myne was Matosu all along, her memories were just dormant until the fever pulled her forward and when she assimilated all of those memories, the one with the more dominant personality was the one in control. Since Matosu had 24 years of memories and experience while the constantly sick and nearly bedridden Myne barely had 5, Matosu became the dominant mind. Unfortunately, she never seems to realize any of this and all the way to current translated volumes, she still thinks she's some sort of body snatcher... though it doesn't come up at all anymore

Her biggest contribution to society will be Magic Care for all. The artifacts to defeat the Devouring shouldn't be accessible only to those who are in the 1%. The 99% deserve it too.

@codename1176

4 жыл бұрын

Adonis Fernández also it’s implied that magic items are expensive no matter what your status is. I hope they explore magic items more

@adonisfernandez3425

4 жыл бұрын

@@codename1176 Since the beginning we knew that information about anything was scarce and expensive because books are considered a luxury. In a later chapter, we found out that the reason is not only a lack of resources but because the higher classes are hoarding it. I think that we would find out that magic items are not expensive to build, but the nobles want to hold the information about them to keep the society under their control.

@akrillic7398

4 жыл бұрын

yah, kinda like healthcare

@rlwunder16

4 жыл бұрын

Spoiler? In the manga, you find out that the church has access to most of the more durable magic items and their religion is centered around them to a degree. There's one small problem, the only people that have to access them are, nobles or the orphans if they move high enough up. They touch quite heavily on this topic when deciding if she wants to try and live one more year or give up her family to live... They come up with a plan to get around this and find a way to help the orphans/the church.

@discatv6695

4 жыл бұрын

In the webnovel, Maine and Ferdinand started experimenting the box technique (image creation using will power) in the orphanage the sample was Dirk (infant with a devouring) and some knights and blue robe priest becoz they fired the corrupted ones...

Spoilers from the book: They don’t push on the reincarnated part very much for quite a while, but in it’s place they tackle other things like how the nobles can be thrown into chaos with all the weird stuff she’s doing despite being just a commoner. They also talk about the dangers of her having power without status, and how she’ll get kidnapped by some noble one day if she doesn’t learn how to act like a noble quick. Some say this takes away from the story and derails it a bit, but I like the realistic implications of a lowly commoner child that no noble will care if went missing suddenly had dangerous amounts of power that would piss off some bad people.

@kerryjong7268

4 жыл бұрын

You sir are an absolute genius

@plantinapot9169

4 жыл бұрын

@Kerry Jong Thankyou!

@exca3144

4 жыл бұрын

Haven't watched this anime yet, but that bit kind of reminds me of Red Queen...

@leonardofarias8843

4 жыл бұрын

Cowardly nobles that is

@thinh7993

4 жыл бұрын

From what I have seen so far, the story look like only revolved around a country and not international since we do not have full knowledge about that world. Like how many countries are there, the level of educational, technological, cultural, language, diplomacy/racial relations, or religious world wide. Based on that big picture, we could predict the cause and effect of some of the inventions or social revolution that Myan created will affect her or the world around her. However, this is still a weird Japanese (we are a peaceful and no violence society or the supreme magic of friendship and super plot armor...) story so who knows.

I didn't know about that author's interview. Two people, same soul... so to take another pop culture example of the same concept, the two Mynes are essentially like Aang and Korra from Avatar: the Last Airbender and its sequel, The Legend Of Korra, only in the same body. Those series also dealt with some of the ramifications of reincarnation, like the implicit weirdness of having Aang's son Tenzin teach the reincarnation of his father in Korra.

@SecretIdentityStudio

4 жыл бұрын

Basically the same idea as Avatar, yes! The Devouring wore away at Myne 1.0, which basically awakened Motosu, her past life.

@YT_JJE

4 жыл бұрын

Myne 1.0's death is a lot more tragic when provided with context and the events that predated it. When I first learned it after (intentionally) reading a spoiler from the LN, I had to lie down and try not to cry.

@lilchristuten7568

4 жыл бұрын

No it's not like avatar for 2 reasons. 1 the soul deals with the heart, mind, will, and emotions, so the author doesn't state the concept correctly what they meant to say was that they are the same spirit. 2 even with the 2 different mynes being the same spirit it still isn't like avatar because avatars clearly have different spirits that are linked together otherwise it would be impossible for different versions of them to exist/manifest at the same time and space. They clearly can't be the same soul because as I said the soul deals with the mind, heart, will, and emotions and none of the avatars have the same mind, heart, will, or emotions as one another.

@HighmageDerin

4 жыл бұрын

@@lilchristuten7568 ever hear of a little mental disorder called Multiple personality's..............................

@72Worker

4 жыл бұрын

@@lilchristuten7568 Myne has given up on life but Motosu still has stronger love of life since Motosu was older than Myne when she died. Motosu's memories simply resurfaced to give Myne the WILL to live again. Motosu didn't steal anyone's life. To be more blunt this would be like Avatar Kyoshi waking up in Avatar Korra's body after Korra was traumatized. This never happened in the Avatar series though. Unless you count Roku destroying a certain island controlled by Fire Sages or Kyoshi confessing to killing Chin the Conqueror but that was only temporary and Aang took back control fairly easily unlike Myne from Mottosu.

There a very very important chapter in the light novel that didn't make it into anime, it a told from Myne's mother's perspective it takes place in the latter half of season 1 and it framed around her doing the laundry by the well, meeting with the other women of the neighborhood. as she talking about her family one thing that made the original mine was jealous of Tuuni's health tantrums over it all be unfair, the "bight point" was she actually dreamed of her life as Uruon and wished she could escape into her dreams, so the line about "a world from her dreams" the main character Myne gives the high priest is actually true from original Myne point of view and her family aren't suspicious of the change isn't just because they're glad that she getting healthier. but it turns out Myne's Dad was the son of a woodcarver who as a boy dreamed of being a knight, but like other boys his age when he found out he couldn't become one vecuase he wasn't a noble wen and got himself, apprentice, to the commander of the guard to become a soldier "so he could protect his city and family" and si see as somewhat of a wild dreamer himself. So the see the main character Myne as her father's taught, who was just maturing from a prolonged toddlerhood into a rebellious child stage. What more though the light novel she references her memories of "the original Myne" mostly lament how limited they were because she made no effort to experience what limited life her fragility availed he. And there are subtle between the line's references it not just in looks that she reacts like a child (a child with lots of knowledge but still a child) more so than her slightly immaturity as Uronu. It not just that they shared a sole, they share memories, it just the Adult persona dominates, and as the high priest points a child's will power in ability to resest the Devouring is why though with strong mana have never been known to live to their baptism before Myne. so it closer to blended person rather then replacement it just the original is just that much weak and WANTED to surrender to her dream self

I still try to understand what makes a good, slow-paced story, like this anime (it reminds me a bit of Spice and Wolf BTW). However, there´s one thing I´ve learned from horror: I find modern horror boring with all the gore and jumpscares. The reason is that I´m not very empathic and I simply don´t care how many die in a movie, or how horrible their death is. I need to care about the characters first, else I can´t enjoy their happy moments, or care what happens next. That´s something that Higurashi did really well. It first sets up the persons and the world and then horrible things happen and then everything goes back to normal and you know that bad things will happen again and that those that are friendly now, will be your enemy. This really sets up a scary atmosphere. If you grew up with one abusive parent that afterwards was nice again, then it will hit you probably twice as hard. With this anime, I still wonder what immediately drew me into it. They could have set the stakes much higher with her being something that might be burnt as a witch, or her parents becoming estranged and weirded out etc. Instead, they mostly ignored the stories potential for suspense and made it lighthearted (it would have been all too easy to make it a depressing story) and for some reason, it worked. I really enjoyed her childish moments of triumph and defeat and I really like to see her succeed.

@ANTSEMUT1

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call it slow paced there's many sub plots happening in between the main arcs plot, so it doesn't feel ponderous about the themes it wants to espouse.

@DanielSilva-gc4xz

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing that reminded me of Spice and Wolf in this anime was the negotiations scenes XD, tho Spice and Wolf went way deeper into it.

@edi9892

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielSilva-gc4xz I still struggle to comprehend some plot lines LOL. School level economy was certainly not enough... I meant that trade, economy, social structures and travel are recurring themes and obviously, Myne does have a few whitty and sharp-tongued moments too, though she's obviously not Holo...

@DanielSilva-gc4xz

3 жыл бұрын

@@edi9892 I think I comprehended everything, ask me anything you didn't understood. "I meant that trade, economy, social structures and travel are recurring themes and obviously" - yep, Spice and Wolf is so accurate in these topics because it was inspired on a book called "Gold and Spices" (very similar name right? XD) "Eminent medievalist Jean Favier introduces and analyzes the political, social, moral, and economic milieux of the late Middle Ages that engendered Europe's transformation from feudalism to capitalism."

@edi9892

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielSilva-gc4xz Thank you! I think that I got the gist of it, but I'm not ashamed of admitting that I struggled with the currency manipulation and pyrite speculation arcs... I had to re-watch them and think about all the possibilities.

This anime is one of the few that's hit me *extremely* close to home. The only other time I've been practically targetted was at the end of SAO II, with Yuuki, and Ascendance of a Bookworm has hit almost every key and struck every chord. I... don't usually elaborate on my issues, I prefer to keep them tucked away out of my public life because people naturally doubt things on the internet, and I can't provide any conventional "proof" because of my life situation. And I also don't want to seem like someone who uses their condition for attention. I've always struggled with a conflict of what I really want, to be acknowledged as who I am, but also the fear that if things ever change, or if people over-analyze and get misinformation, I'll seem like a fraud. But Myne's conflict and people's positive response to it has made me realize that... well, maybe it isn't such an unrealistic idea that people would brush away immediately. ... or, well, maybe it is, and people suspend their disbelief for an anime with magic. I don't know. But... it makes me want to voice it. Maybe this is a bad place to do so. It probably is. But... well, I'll do it anyway, for the tiny number of people that'll see and maybe care. My genetic code is a total mess, I'm extremely lucky I'm somehow still genetically stable and not being torn apart by cancer. On the surface, this manifests as pigments in the wrong places, little splotches on my snow-pale skin, (which I prefer to leave out of artistic depictions...) silvery hair that would have been brown, one brown eye alongside the other, natural green, and... My size. Parallel #1: I never developed much at all, I'm still 3' and basically look like a small child despite my age. My home accommodates for this, (apparently extreme shortness runs in my family in general) but if I could ever leave my home, I'd easily be mistaken for an actual child. ...which brings me to parallel #2. I have a rather severe variety of auto-immune disease, my body will basically try to kill itself from the inside unless it's suppressed, and reacts *extremely* violently towards other people and things like animals. I was born in this house, and I will die here. I think one of my parents must have been a doctor, but... well, I never knew them. They died in a crash when I was young and my sister, an actual prodigy, raised me instead, even though she's only around 5 years older than me. Somehow, our parents were both only children and our grandparents were both only children, so there's no one at all left who's close enough in genetic code to not basically make my body just melt. We lived off inheritance for many years and she got some indirect help from remaining family friends, which is why it was even possible for me to survive... My name is Maritisa Sivalin Vistia, and you won't find me on any records because I... basically don't exist. I don't know the full details about all that because I know very little about all these things required to exist in the outside world, but I think it was the only way I could stay with sis and she could stay with me. I doubt a 7 year-old or so living on her own and raising a small child is exactly "legal". She's as much my mother as she is my sister. I guess you could make a parallel case for the very strong family bonds here, too, maybe, even without it all intact... ...but it goes deeper than that and I'm struggling to keep writing right now, but, I feel like I should keep going at this point, for some reason... I think it was about a decade ago, now... I obviously don't remember the details of what caused it, but something must have happened that made the self-decay target my brain, because I... suffered total amnesia. and... let me tell you something about amnesia. It's not some convenient thing where you remember the fundamentals of existing or even have fragmented understanding of the world around you, and media that uses it as a plot device still infuriates me. Because, well, either way, it wasn't for me, anyway. It's like you just... die. Like another person is born into your still-living body. For me, that person was named Terra, and my sister Voitia, god bless her soul, just... never skipped a beat. She raised Terra too. (Probably easy considering I'm still the same size I was at like, age 3...) She never tried to pull out memories that weren't there, fishing for someone long-gone... She just let her be her own person. But... sadly this was around the time our money started running out, too... So sis stopped being around as often, because she had to go out to actually work and do big things to bring in the money that it took to keep me alive.. So, to cope with that loneliness, that's when I- she, was introduced to the internet. ...and, well, that would go about as well as you'd think for a painfully naive and innocent young girl. Terra got roped into a manipulative and abusive friendship with a certain individual who she ended up close to only because they were very frequently around, and she started tearing Terra's delicate virtual life apart to suit her own agenda. Attempts to fight back would be met with ghosting or outright deletion until they'd come waltzing back and pretending to be sorry and like a dumb puppy she'd eagerly welcome back her "friend". But it was also during this time that fragments of memories past started coming back. Though... Terra somehow knew they weren't hers, and pushed them away. It takes a lot of self-awareness to realize something like that, given how easily we can fabricate false memories for ourselves even normally. So... when all the troubles she was facing reached a breaking point, when sis would start being gone for days at a time, Terra just broke down and... cried for help, quietly, internally, like an unspoken plea. And, so... parallel #3, (or 4) here I am. The result of those shoved-away memories coalescing into a person again, a person who could be strong enough to cope with the world that's required to be coped with in order to not be eternally lonely... I'm not the same person I was before I lost those memories, I couldn't be, because now I shared hers too, and... how much I've had to change to adapt to the world we're forced to "live" in now that sis will be away for weeks or months at a time... Terra is still here, she off-loaded her troubles to me so she can be happy in the back of our mind, but we still speak to each other, we still share memories and thoughts, and if she's brave enough she can come forward, too, but after that trauma she rarely does except for our sister. Given the knowledge that the original Myne is still alive and sharing that soul, just in the back, the main difference is their lack of direct contact with each other. So... I guess you could argue that as parallel #5 ...and... the thing I like to bring up the least, is parallel #6. The one that caught my attention to begin with ...the death clock. I'm... not predicted to live beyond 2020. It's something I've tried to deal with that the best I can, but... but I'm... I don't have that same driving passion that Myne does. I'm a passionate person, but... I lack skills I truly enjoy doing, lack the time to learn new ones, and lack the direction to try to push for any path in life. I've... basically spent the past few years basically just floundering about, killing time till it returns the favor. Mostly alone with hollow virtual company. I'm fairly stable right now, so... I might beat that death clock if nothing sudden happens, but... I don't know what I'll do if I do. I don't know what I'll do if I don't. I told myself that, if it comes to it, I'd use my death to accomplish what I couldn't in life, but... I'm nobody important and I'll just be forgotten anyway. And I struggle to even just enjoy what time I have left because of how lonely it is... People are only getting busier and busier as time goes on, the world keeps moving faster and faster, forcing them to run till they die of exhaustion or dragging them face down across the earth if they can't keep up... and yet I feel like I exist in this little vacuum, a tiny bubble where all my time is front-loaded but all I can do is watch as everything seems to just fall apart around me. My bleeding heart wants to help people, to make the world better so people like my sis don't have to be torn from what they love just to live, but... I mean, someone like me... ...I think Myne's life makes me think of what I could have had if the world hadn't ripped my sister away from me, maybe a world where I could make a difference with her support and help people... It doesn't make me break down in tears like Yuuki's struggle and demise did, but it fills me with a profound sadness all the same. Like an infinite longing for things that cannot be. but life isn't a fantasy, much as I belong in one. so I guess all someone like me can do is live vicariously through people that don't exist. I may regret typing this all out and throwing it into this public space, and spilling my thoughts like this has only resulted in me being painfully reminded of things I try not to think about. but it's easy to see why this is the first time any anime- no, any story at all, has ever resonated with me in this way. I'm incredibly thankful for its existence, even given the dark thoughts it reminds me of. I wonder if the author knew someone like me at some point, or if it's all just a coincidence...

@NightPGR

4 жыл бұрын

TAmari hope you’re still going 2020 and beyond uwu

@Starfloofle

4 жыл бұрын

@@NightPGR thank you friend, it means a lot

@indoorsandout3022

4 жыл бұрын

My family has done a lot of inbreeding, I have thankfully avoided Hemophilia, but have some relatives with it. I ended up with Schizophrenia, Autism, a bent back, an anxiety disorder, a faulty liver, and blood pressure that is high no matter what I do among other problems, such as having weird teeth. So, I sort of get where you're coming from. It has at times threatened my life. I don't have a ticking clock or anything, but I have mental health episodes that result in a speedy admission to a mental hospital and if that wasn't available, I would have been successful in killing myself years ago. Mental illness is a feature of my family, along with bad backs, high bp, and weird teeth. Without the support of my Grandma, and my team of doctors, and state health insurance, I never would have made it to 31. I'm descended from European Nobility, which are genetically all one family and are among the most inbred people on Earth. It wrecked us genetically. My family tree is more like a tangle of vines than a tree.

@dawnfallon6812

Жыл бұрын

If you're still here, you should write down your story. If you need help, reach out to me.

The desire to Umm Actually is strong. Must resist. People making off base conjectures based on the unfinished anime is killing me having read the light novel to current translation.

Reasons why Myne's fate matters: 1. Myne is the protagonist of Ascendance of a Bookworm 2. Myne is hella cute

@Gizmomaster

4 жыл бұрын

Myne would definitely approve of #2.

@Psychomaniac14

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gizmomaster I'm pretty sure everyone working on season 2 would agree with me on #2

@WadcaWymiaru

4 жыл бұрын

Reasons: 3. Myne is a Japanese XD

@Psychomaniac14

4 жыл бұрын

@@WadcaWymiaru that's a part of 1

@WadcaWymiaru

4 жыл бұрын

@@Psychomaniac14 Personally i like *Urano* more than Mein...BTW bookworm anthem: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gnaq2cWBZLu-Zrg.html XD

i've made paper like that before once, when i was little my dad took us to an old paper making factory which is now kinda like an interactive museum, but i remember the water being really cold XD (you only put the thing in the water, you didn't have to steam wood or something (at least i didn't))

@kirknay

4 жыл бұрын

it seems to depend on the kind of paper you need, and how fine the wood is pulped to. Steaming the wood softens it, making the pulp easier to work into paper, and finer pulp, like sawdust, could get away with no heat at all.

Definitely one of the most original and deep shows I've seen in a while. And I've been watching anime since the eighties. Hard to say how great it is since it's still got more to go. But it could easily become a cult classic or minor milestone.

@Szystedt

Жыл бұрын

If it got a proper adaptation, there is no doubt in my mind that it would have. I STRONGLY suggest reading the light novels if the anime was your cup of tea! :D

Something else to take into account is the fact that her best friend in the previous World wish that she was reincarnated she was reincarnated in the world without books because of how her lover books was causing headache as well so basically she's got to split the difference and overcome the whole books are not for commoners thing

I love this series. It was fantastic. As far as most Isekai go, this is the most family friendly of them in my opinion (no harems and what have you). Also as an artist you should most definitely try making paper, it’s super simple. U can try it the method she tries in the series (she skips a few steps) or by tearing up paper into tiny pieces, bleaching it, dying it, letting it dry, then soaking it, running through screen, then drying again on a press. Ur own paper is def worth the fun.

Best thing to me in this show is how smart and so much a person the support casts are. Ppl notice her being weird and doesn’t always agree with her. Like I was so glad the shop keeper out right refused to let a strange girl to touch the precious book in the glass case. Ppl maybe less strict to her but doesn’t let her have her way if it stands in their goal and interest.

Honestly if i was only given the title i wouldnt have bothered to watch this anime but you did such an amazing job on this video that i cant do anything other than watch it. Thanks for the great content im looking forward to anything else you make in the future

Good vid and I love this show. The subtle clash of her knowledge of our world against that isekai world is very well thought out. I'm exited to see what new innovations she'll introduce. I think canned food would be fairly easy to produce with massive world-changing effect. Food for people in the winter, on long sea journeys for merchants and as militairy rations.

This show is right next to Dr Stone or even above it as my favorite anime this season, I also feel that the author did a great job using some of the points you said as the story rather than glossing over them, It’s made it more deeper and made me more emotionally attached to this show than other shows I’m watching.

abd the voice actor playin main helps a lot cause yu can relate to her one can feel the sadness in her actions at start when she cant find anything to read at all the emotions r there its not some1 just standing and reading the script straight up n down the voice shows the emotions she feels. its an excellent isekai that shows it doesnt need to be about a hero saving the world or fighting against a demon lord whilst bein over powered. this one truly shows how she changes the world little by little whilst getting used to bein this new girl in a world she never heard of before.

Your video is so beautiful you did a great job i really appreciate it and i am glad you took time to make it

I love the series, its the best LN I know of! At first I thought the Myne we knew, was an amalgamation of Urano and former Mynes memories and brain synapses(?). While we now know the soul is the same, its still an amalgamation imo.

I love this anime, it is one of my favorites isekai.

This channel needs more subs. It's criminal.

Myne's mom in a chapter of the Light Novel (2nd volume) about Myne (kind of no spoilers if you've seen the anime cause it should've already been covered, but it's not): "Myne had been weak since birth and caught fevers constantly. She always used to cry out of jealousy for Tuuli, asking me why she wasn’t healthy like her sister. I could only apologize. It seemed that Myne had pleasant dreams whenever she fell asleep with a fever, and she was never as happy as she was when talking about the world of her dreams. She could run around in her dreams without ever getting tired, do anything she wanted, and eat her fill of delicious food. She always spoke of strange things I couldn’t understand with her stunted childish words. It got so bad that when she said “My dreams are so much more fun, I want to stay asleep forever,” I interpreted it as “I want to die” and ended up yelling at her." I found this so sad and heartbreaking that it made me. Although, this might explain the thing about Myne and Urano having the same soul. I believe she might've been dreaming of being Urano on Earth and that's why she talked about things her mom couldn't understand because it might've been Japanese. That can be backed up by how Myne usually talks about her old world as "a dream world" like when she explained Freida's chef that that's where she could eat many sweet things as much as she wanted which is very similar to what the original Myne said.

As a series with alot of world building, alot of smaller details is lost in the adaptation. In a side story not adapted, myne's mother mentioned that in the past, before myne became weird, myne used to complain alot of her life, often comparing to her dreams of a fantastical land. This hints that past myne is indeed a reincarnation of urano, only at that time, she could only see her past life in dreams. Likely myne re-experienced her past life as she was dying like a revolving lantern, remembered her desire for books and overcame the devouring.

When I first started watching this, I thought it was so slow. I know now that is was simply world-building, and I have to say it's my favorite anime now. I do find it strange how smart the children are, and was confused why Myne was so childish (considering her past life) but she just has the physical brain of a kid! I can't wait for the next episode and I hope it gets a season 3!

Like Myne tells Lutz, she didn't choose Myne's body. She can't be completely blamed for the original Myne's death and, as she suggested to Lutz in the same episode, if her spirit did leave Myne's body all that would be left behind is a corpse. Maybe whatever Deity did the reincarnation did so to end the Devouring? Haven't read the Manga, yet, but maybe we'll get an answer.

This quickly became one of my favorite anime! Story and character driven.

This is exactly what brought me to love Ascendance of a Bookworm. I loved how the story unfolds, the story line, the world building, the people, the characters. Its all just splendid. Maine literally ascended in her life in the isekai forging unbreakable bond and helping society. From the light novel it is obvious that her thoughts is always portrayed as being selfish which made me dislike her in the beginning but after slowly adapting she eventually learns that living in the moment with the people she loves and loves her is just as important as her love for books

From the side stories of Myne family, we know that rather then replacement, Urano was actually did got re incarcerated. It's just that her past memory has not resurface yet. The original Myne was said to always dreams of a nother her in a nother world, living happily and wish she could live forever

I got hooked on this Anime pretty quickly, I also find it hard to wait for another episode to come out each week.

The author explanation in full is that the original Myne isn't dead, Urano is reincarnated into Myne and the memory of Urano should not have come out if Myne had many experiences in her own life and will likely just randomly shown in dreams and slowly fading. But since she is so sickly, she has a lot of time dreaming, longing for all of the good things in Urano's world, with many holes in her own memory, the memory of Urano surfaced and Myne thought she is Urano as an escape to her poor life. This is reflected completely in plot when she told Lutz about Myne, but it is because she didn't know the truth. Author explained about this in both the fanbook and her own twitter, why Myne is such a brat in the beginning even though she should be 22+5 years old. It is because her mind is still Myne's, a 5 year old(1 year in that world is 420 days though). So no worries, she is still Myne, Urano never "took over" her body. It is just that Myne, after seeing all the good memory Urano had, has taken over Urano's identity as her own, and with all the strong influence and experience, she did become more mature in handling things, but her base character hasn't changed. That is why she can adapt and love her family as quick as she did, she didn't change, she just thought she did, deep inside her subconscious, she is still Myne. The anime did a great addition into the plot, having her cross out Urano's name and saying she is no longer Urano, and later in the plot, she always uses "All of this are in my dream" as an explanation to all the strange things she created is a reflection of what the author's intention of this. The books also had Myne saying Urano's memories didn't pop up as much as before when her life has become more fulfilling, she can still access them when she wanted, but since she no longer really need to escape to them anymore, they don't pop up on their own anymore.

I love this anime. I started watching it 6 days ago and have probably watched it 7 times by now. You managed to put into words somethings that I've been thinking about for a while. How it's likely that Mian will look for a way to help others who have The Devouring, however I get the feeling that since mana is needed for the harvest she will act as a advocate in the church to allow children with the disease to come, fill the grail with their mana since the nobles are leaving and then go back home since they would die if they lived at the church.

I found it painful listening to the first Myne as she was crying and actually gave up. While the author might claim that they are one and the same, that would mean that the real Myne might be stuck in a body she is incapable of controlling due to Urano's far superior willpower by mere default (given that she is an adult). Though at least she doesn't have to watch a show of someone ruining her family or harming others using her own body. Luckily Urano is a person that is just as sweet as her current appearance is cute - even more so once she seems to realize there's more to life than books. I saw a recap by the channel AniRecap and was smitten for this show by just one minute into the video. I found the visuals charming and knew I just had to check it out. Closed the video as to avoid spoilers and went right onto watching the anime. The show managed to bring me to happy tears several times and the first season just had so many heartfelt, feel-good moments in it. Myne is such a pleasant surprise of a main character and I am happy about the small scene of the show where it focuses on her, her family and for most part the smaller picture where she can actually do something.. and she does it well. Her failures just add to her character and even for an adult in a child's body she shows sign of maturing just like a child would. Of course with vastly better knowledge of how to behave and win over adults, but still obviously affected by the circumstance of her young body where emotions might be difficult to contain at times. Mere biology of being in a little girls body affecting her mind as well. Tearing up, crying, laughing at the same things a child would, but she probably would not if she was an adult. As shown where she does need the same affections and hugs of her family as a child craves. This means she's an actual child as well as an adult and it makes her all the more interesting and funny at the same time. I absolutely adore Myne. She is pleasantly smart, with a pleasant demeanor that makes one quickly grow to both admire and adore her. She is a fantastic protagonist.

I still do not get it. What happened to Myne/Motosu is how reincarnation works. Motosu was reborn as Myne and than something caused Motosu's memories to come back to the surface. The original Myne didn't die, yet. The original Myne will not die until Motosu gives up. Usually past life regression only happens with hypnosis in real life but can resurface through other forms of trauma.

@Okoratu

4 жыл бұрын

The devouring ate so much of Myne's being that the memories of her past life came back. so technically they're the same person

@annafreyya7393

4 жыл бұрын

I think, they swap their soul, not reincarnated. So Myne died when Motosu supposed to died, and Motosu being the stronger one mentally of the two survived the fever.

@72Worker

4 жыл бұрын

@@annafreyya7393 Well that is your right to believe if you do not like the idea of reincarnation. However I personally believe that since Motosu has access to the original Myne's memories than original Myne can not be dead, yet. The original Myne is simply being overshadowed by Motosu.

I’ve started reading the LN cause I couldn’t wait to find out what happens! Read two volumes in 3 days, LOVE THE STORY SO FAR! but now I gotta wait till the next volume comes out in English T^T

@thonker

4 жыл бұрын

Raju my respects, I took a week to read the first 2 books.

@archwayglow

4 жыл бұрын

I did the same thing. My only regret is the next book comes out in late Jan. I also went back and started reading from the beginning. There are a lot of small details left out of the anime and things don't all happen in the same order.

@codename1176

4 жыл бұрын

Malign I understand why they left out the living and bleeding vegetables though.

@archwayglow

4 жыл бұрын

@@codename1176 All i see is missed opportunity with those lol.

@RajuSnow

4 жыл бұрын

Codename1 1 Ohmygawd did they have living and bleeding vegetables in the first books?! Now I have the urge to read those as well :0

Ascendance and Zombieland Saga are my favorite shows, with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime following close behind. Interesting trivia. Word of God says that Main was always Urano, but nearly dying at 5 broke open the memories. Being only 5 and being sickly, rarely leaving the apartment, means that Main has very few strong memories, so the Urano personality quickly became dominant, and even she thinks that she replaced the original Main. But in fact, she is also the original Main, and had the child actually died on Urano's first day awake, she would have died with her.

Honestly one of the best anime I have had the pleasure of watching. It's complex and imaginative. It doesn't focus on combat such as defeating "the Demon Lord" as many of the transported to another world stories tend to go with. The only issue for me is that as an avid reader, it was a pretty common trope in fantasy settings that magic must be used and control gained if you were going to live any semblance of a normal life. As the magic, if left to its own devices will eventually escape and cause unexpected and unwanted things to happen; you know like causing a fever that leaves you bedridden for weeks at a time.

Damn, this was a great video. Thanks!

Is a good anime and a good isekai. Is so fresh combine isekai with slice of life and i love it. P.d. sorry for my bad english.

The real myne did not die, both their memories simply merged. But the memory ratio mixture of (myne) 3 : 24 (urano). The new myne can speak the native language, knew her parents and sister, and has the memory of an 24 years old adult. The old myne simply was "Diluted" or fused.

Mine, the original Mine always talked about the world in her dreams where she could be health and have fun. Mine's mother said she had once told her that "I want to sleep forever." Because her dream world was so much better. It is possible that even before her death, Mine had been linked to Urano by the gods. That's speculation on my part. In any case, if you read the Novels you will get the side stories that give background details. This info comes from a side story in which Mine's mother is chatting with the other woman while washing clothing at the well. She goes on to say that she accepts Mine's odd behavior simply because she was no-longer stuck in bed sick all the time. Mine's family are so blind to the strangeness of Mine that they never thought twice about how when she got mad her eyes start glowing rainbow colored. Heck when she gets mad at Lutz's brother and his friends for stomping on her clay tablets she inadvertently uses her mana on them putting the fear of Mine into them. What ever the case, I am glad they have already green lit the second season.

Love the series! And while I have never made paper I have made books! Bookbinding is so fun! I am also a Bookworm and can understand her desperation to read🤣

This anime is amazing I've already looked up the entire light novel series and manga as soon as I discovered last week it is one of the best stories I've come across in a while I knew within the first min of episode k was gonna obsessively love it

Perfect analysis of one of my favorite anime!

I think it's now been fully confirmed in the books that Myne was a reincarnation, but she only gained access to her old memories when being supper close to death she managed to used her mana and/or pray to the gods to get her pervious memories

So Wholesome, I think there is some of the original Myne still in Urano/Myne. my normal Anime fair falls in to the M & MA15+ (AU rating system) territory, but I can't stop watching Ascendance of a Bookworm.

@Opferklopper

4 жыл бұрын

The original myne is not really in myne anymore, but she has left an impact on urano. i dont know how much it is spoken about in the anime yet, but after reading a large part of the webnovel and all released light novel volumes i can say, that myne changed urano. in the webnovel there was no big reveal about myne still being alive or something, but in the lightnovel urano sometimes thinks about how she has changed since coming to the new world. i was a bit disappointed by the animes beginning, since it didnt adapt the 2 page long prologue, which just showed, how different urano was, to how she is now.

I love this series. I originally discovered Mine in the web novel version reading volunteer English translations. When I reached the end of the translation so far completed, I found the web novel online where it was published for free reading in Japan, and used Google translate to finish the series. A bit of a slog trying to understand a few odd Japanese phrases, but worth the mental effort!

Huh. I hadn't quite looked that deep into it. That's a very astute observation. Thanks. 🙂

Great anime. Waiting for second season in April 2020. Hope more seasons come too. I like it based on the fact it's not like others. They have some similarities but overall the story line leads a very interesting path. Surviving in a world where Mana can kill you at such a young age and not knowing what the future brings is an interesting story.As long as they do a good job as they did in the first season the second season should be a great hit too. Feeling guilty that you took over another's body would be a natural feeling for people with good hearts. Accepting the family she has in that world as hers is both painful and great at the same time. I just hope they don't move to fast and gloss over important details when making the anime.

I have always felt like the original Mine fused with the Urano to make new mine, as New mine can access old mines memory, and seems to have inherited some child like behavior and possibly feelings as well. Also thinking on it if a small child suddenly gained a mass of knowledge and memories, without any new "soul" or "mind" or "will" I think it would still massively effect them, and their personality would change to reflect that. Though I think Mine and Urano murged compleatly in mind and soul, and Urano simply appears dominate as she was older and had many more experiences and knowledge then mine, so Urano dominates old Mine 22 : 5 , she spent over 4 times more of her life as Urano then old mine, being new mine for only around 3 or 4 years.

When i read that this is a non battle isekai it caught my attention immediately and i am not disappointed. Even with the overcrowding of the isekai genre in recent years, non battle isekai animes are so few and far in between. It is also a fact that in order for animes like Ascendance of a bookworm to be good and not bore its audience the writing has to be on a higher level. Good writing is essential in everything but much more so in one like this.

Recently found this show. Very sweet story of family.

What we have seen so far still feels like a some kind of prologue (after looking at the 677 chapters of the web novel)... but the good news is that there will be a season 2 come spring 2020.

@onioncheeks7640

3 жыл бұрын

What's worse or better is that season 2 is only until chapter 133 (if I remember correctly)

@onepiecegotmeinlove691

3 жыл бұрын

Do you know where can I read all of the light novel?

@alpharesearch3

3 жыл бұрын

@@onepiecegotmeinlove691 no, I did read the Japanese web novel via Google translate 😅 only.

@juliusferdinand1315

2 жыл бұрын

Season 3 realesed at 2022 :D

I'm not sure the old myne is totally gone. remember that other voice went quiet But i think some level of myne merged with urano. That's when she could understand the language had memories and sometimes acts her age. i think the consumption ate away at mines soul and Urano filled in like 80% of what was lost But even Urano admitted to feeling a stronger bond with her new family than to her old mother of 22ish years. I can't imagine that without some of the original myne's influence

This is even more pronounced when “Myne” dies and becomes “Rozemyne”. The whole thing about someone being replaced by someone else and how all parties are involved have to deal with it. “Rozemyne” is one of the most pivotal moments that changes what type of story that is being told. Everything changes as the story shifts to a different perspective and personally I prefer “Rozemyne” as a protagonist over “Myne”.

Personal head cannon: After dying Myne wakes up in Urano's body as the medical team resuscitates her. Gets some or all of Urano's memories. Misses her family, but channels that into becoming a better daughter than the old Urano was.

@gmoore1786

3 жыл бұрын

Light Spoiler from the novel to go along with this: . . . . . . . Myne's mom comments on how she's changed saying all she used to do was whine and complain about how unfair it was that she was sick and could never go outside. So just like how current Myne is using her new life to make books, I bet original Myne would change Urano's attitude completely. Like wanting to be active with her mother and be obsessed with something like traveling the world instead of being cooped up inside reading. Urano also had a male childhood friend that's briefly mentioned in the first couple chapters. I could totally image him catching on that Urano isn't Urano but still accepting her somehow, then traveling the world together.

@Harrison11106

3 жыл бұрын

That's kinda what I hope happened, a switch; Urano getting Mynes life, Myne getting Uranos.

In the light novels she SORT OF saves a few individuals from the devouring. But her priorities, social pressures and some outright manipulation by the nobles focus Myne's efforts elsewhere from delivering Ehrenfest's poor from the devouring (even though by the end of first season she knows that just handling one of those fruits can drain off some mana, at the cost of creating a trombe, which can be handled with dedicated effort by a group of kids!) That's why, while there are a few noble characters I kind of like, I over-all see that class as villainous. Of course, it helps that I like history. At no point are nobles good for any society, they just happen. Like the crust around a gour full of bat guano.

Great video!

Also I can't help but think that Urano herself is like a trombe, where her knowledge makes the world advance way too rapidly to nature's demise.

Sounds promising enough I'm gonna check it out soon.

@williamturner6192

4 жыл бұрын

Do so.

@Dmitrisnikioff

4 жыл бұрын

In a genre absolutely rife with deeply pathetic wish fulfillment, it's a gem of a show

It really is such a wonderful show

I am still awaiting this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lutz didn't know the prev myne. He looked deeper into it cuz myne showed alot of knowledge that wasn't typical for poor families. Especially it confirmed it more when myne was making paper and said something like she had done this once before, even though its impossible cuz of her body condition.

Also I can't wait for the emotional scene where she tells the family that the real Mian is dead. I'll probably cry.

I found this series recently. Hooked. It really offers a rich story with plenty of twists to keep it lively. I recommend two series for you to look at. The Witch from Mercury is my first taste of Gundam, and I'm entranced. Just who is Suletta, and how was the Aerial created? The parallels with The Tempest cannot be ignored. The other is Last Exile. It's such a rich story with amazing visuals, especially for a 20 year old series. It is a world governed by Apathy and Greed that would crush the naive like Claus and Lavie. It's only by taking in a little girl named Alvis that things can really change.

I am in love with this amine and I can't stop looking at it I need it to never ever end

Depending on how this series wraps up, I may have to crown this the new best isekai of the year. I really wouldn’t mind a few more series simple and well written like this has been. Sorry Shield Hero you’ve been deranked.

In the “Make my life average” anime, she goes by Mile because it was a private nickname given to her by her father, who was an aerospace engineer. And Mile is the standard unit of distance in both the maritime and aerospace industries. Nautical mile, that is. It’s explained in the light novel. Why do they use Nautical Miles? It’s the easiest to calculate with. A nautical mile is the distance covered by one (1) minute of angle on the surface of the Earth. It’s so much easier to deal with degrees and minutes than it is to use radians and millirads. Especially since there are π radians around the equator. π. As in 3.1415927…. In the early days of flight, it was too cumbersome to calculate a course with such a system. So, they stuck with what worked very easily: degrees, and minutes. 360 degrees around the equator, and each degree is divided into 60 minutes. And each of those minutes is approximately one (1) nautical mile. So, there’s the reasoning behind Mile’s name. It was already her secret nickname from her father. It was supposed to inspire her to always go the extra mile.

From the internal monologue in the light novel it seems clear that the original Maine is gone. Not wanting to go too deep into the matter of souls it could be that in her new body and situation she realizes how dependent of everyone around her she truly is compared to her previous life in Japan with its institutions that all but replaced the necessity for familiar support. Technological innovation increases the welfare of everyone, but obviously some people benefit more. If reading books is what she wants then I would argue that reading a book whose history you yourself came up with simply isn't that interesting compared to reading a book that someone else authored. Having paper widely spread and the people's literacy increased would enable other people to put their stories into paper. Spoilers: *********Later on she takes on the role of the Temple Orphanage Director in a bid to lessen their burden by putting them to meaningful work. Her argumentation was that back in Japan she could assuage the images of starving African children by donating a couple hundred yen and more importantly, by reading books which is not quite as easy in this world. Particularly when she and said starving children are only separated by a couple of walls.That's her argumentation anyway, might be that she truly cares beyond that.

@millavas

4 жыл бұрын

Based on web novel it seem that urano memories just continue after original maine disappeared but base on novel side stories maine mother Effa/eva stated the original maine was already having dreams of another world when she is sick.

@discatv6695

4 жыл бұрын

I read the webnovel until the end and as far as I remember during the Goddess of wisdom possession part, it was explained that Urano and Myne soul is the same... Myne as she was sickly dreamed about Uranos memories and she wished to be her in the process Uranos memory rewritten Myne... Myne the child was never gone, she just go with the flow...

I binged the series in a night.......it was very much rewarding in the end...

another story that also deals with this subject is The Beginning After the End has a manga or webnovel adaptation but only the lightnovel has covered it but its a good read. its well written in the way that each person is "alive".

@dipanutella2621

4 жыл бұрын

It really does. I remember seeing the panel where *SPOILERS her mom realizes he might be dead and tries to commit suicide. That one felt R E AL

Actually, the author explained that Myne and Urano is the same soul. Urano died and reincarnated as Myne (as in given birth by her mother). However, Myne's body is so weak she can't have a stimulating life. In her depressed state, her previous life's memories/experience (as Urano) begins to surface in her dreams and she loves it. Eventually embracing that wonderful life experience (as Urano) over her current one when she is overwhelmed by the devouring. The audience's impression that Urano's soul takes over Mayne's body when she died is wrong. It's is just a swap of personality. Because personality is made of one's life experience. Something like what happened to a person with a split personality.

thank you, I originally skip the show because I found the undertone creeping and believe it would not be addressed as other isekai do.

I remember as part of Elementary Science classes growing up, that in the earlier years we made paper a few times the old fashioned way. I am 36 now so I am guessing they no longer teach / experiment with this anymore in the earlier science classes? We did a lot of really fun and neat experiments in science and I even used a few of those old experiments sooner or later in my real life applications.

Wow! Someone is discussing Rise of the book loli Great vid! Best isekai of fall BTW

she wanted to be surrounded by books, she got her wish she is now a manga

one thing that I didn't though the first time I saw the anime is that the original Myne died due to the devouring and the implications it has. Urano hasn't suffered through those six years and her knowledge and maturity help her control more her mana. this allows her to survive long enough to find a way to remove the excesive mana and survive. while it's true that Urano is using the body of the deceased Myne, and she feels wrong for it, it's also true that having her gives hope to her family and friends. Myne's parents were able to raise their two daughters and Tuuri was able to live with, what she believes to be, her sister. what would be better? to know that your daughter, or younger sister, is dead because you are poor or believing that your six years old girl survived and got free from her illness even if it's another soul that occupies that body? being able to be a parent or an older sibling is a blessing. it doesn't matter who that child or younger sibling is. having Urano, in the body of Myne, is a bless for everybody.

By far, my favorite anime and even regular tv series of all time.

Can't wait for season 4

I love isekai series and this one one of the best writen for now i read. I cant say that for anime but her inside talks/memes :) and father’s acting much better in anime.

Just found this, and I can tell you have a future. If you dont give up like others

I love it. The manga is great too.

Oh my God it came out!!!!

That's something I didn't think about!

Hope for the next season 🙏

@daedalron

2 жыл бұрын

No need to hope, it's already announced for april 2022. ;)

dudeeee, something that i learn today about this story its that, apparently Urano was alway myne but she shouldn't have her past memories, its because myne never went out of her house that she started remember her life as urano, but uranos "soul" was always the same as myne (acoording to some Q&A that the writter did, human's souls that died in our world are transported to that other world and reborn as childs, and when they grow up they forget their previous life to have only memories of their new life, for this they have different experiences since they were little, something that did not happen with myne)

2:43 ngl I was really worried about this when I first started watching this anime. I'm glad they didn't just forget about the fact that the REAL Mayn is dead.

I've read the light novel until the latest translated volume and boy, it's really good. Worth the read.

BTW Myne has made her first book! You gotta made a video about her 1st success :D

Honestly, i don't understand why none of the nobles have started watching for kids with the devouring, and having them trained in magic, commoner or not. They can bind them with a magical contract and create a mage unit that can be used in battle when a noble might be in danger

Devouring is similar to the Obscurus in Fantastic beasts. What if Myne just needs to let it out? It's like how bottling up ones emotions is no good, because you'll one day explode.

Not to mention that she is adorable as heck with lutz

The issue is more complex though. It is implied in all three cases that the soul is actually the same. It’s a same person, they’re just regaining memories lost by reincarnation induced amnesia. Through various stimuli, they are regaining their past lives memories. That makes the issue far more complicated. Is a person who lost their memories and made a new life for themselves a different person? Are they killing themselves by remembering the memories they lost? I don’t think so. Especially when the memories they made are still existing inside their no longer amnesiac self. Granted the perspective of reincarnation makes it confusing, but in reality no one has truly died. It’s simply a person regaining the memories they once had, and while that changes their perspective and who they are, feeling guilt over it would feel silly.