That involves knocking things over doesn't it?

Tyrant-Den just a lot of taking with your hands, or to accentuate what you say. It's real good, y'all should try it

Same but Spanish

* flails hands emphatically in agreement*

I remember when I was a kid I went to my friends house for dinner and made a "neener neener" gesture by placing my thumb on my nose and waving my fingers. His mom about passed out and I still don't fully know what was so offensive about that gesture.

*cries in spice and wolf as well* I hope to the holy anime studios that be that this doesn't become another spice in wolf in terms of its run. They're very similar in terms of both of them being based off of a long running book, I believe ascendance of a bookworm is 20 vol in and They both have medieval economics. I just hope it doesn't follow in spice and wolfs footsteps and dies after 3 seasons.

lol Indeed

:'(

I just watched bookworm after seeing it recommended here, absolutely loved it, and am starting to think I should check this "Spice and Wolf" everyone keeps comparing it to. If spice and wolf is half as good as ascendance of a bookworm was it should be well worth it

@@olegfisakov8470 dude. Just...do it. Like, holy fuck it's good. And I'm a dubs pleb...the dub is very well written, and performed quite well too. You need Spice and Wolf in your life.

All Isekai do this. Cause we are really advanced. We know such fundamentals when some people(in another world) may not already be thete

Anime in general tends to have a "caring matters", contrary to usual mainstream media showing "caring just ruins you."

@@runakovacs4759 uh no. It takes a lot of digging to find good japanese animation these days. anime as an industry has been ruined by fanboys. they just give us the same crap i.e. annoying fanservice , harems, screaming little boys as main characters, boring story and total lack of plot and character development Etc. This is one of the rare gems in anime right now . No fanservice . A female MC who is competent but clearly flawed. Serious topics like being poor , struggling with an incurable illness, dealing with classism, corrupt religious leaders and nobility, even touches on issues like pedophilia and rape (though the more innocent viewers might not notice it, which is good cause kids might be watching)

Ironic considering urano’s complete apathy to most of japan other than books

@@User-LS-n5m lol yeah. but in a way Myne is a mary sue done right (so of course not realy) but she has all the trops down: evverone loves or stronly hates her, bends the world laws to her will, is pefect in every way exept one flaw ;D but unlike a mary sue thers really great inworld reason for all of the points; and im also joking. but i will say shes close to the line sometimes, luckly she never crosse it

the former is reacquiring the tech in that world while the latter is as you stated

its sounds like the plot of civilization end game

Wrong. Bookworm is about the selfish desire of a bitch that posessed a little girl's body and has no regards for the world she was thrown in. Dr Stone wants to be just the big name in human reconstruction.

@@darbisd You want to read????? Books???!?? You bitch!

Is Ascendance of a bookworm about advancing anything though? Most of the time Myne goes in circles with different methods like clay tablets. When she finally does make paper the plot shifts to the Cathedral and it's like the whole thing never happened

3. But then it makes me smile again.

4. and then creepy pedophilie strike

@@Sora-dragneel Explain.

@@davidashton3671 R 34. i hope not but hell the more popular the title the more possible R 34 is.

@@Sora-dragneel Oh, I'm pretty sure there are already some out there, those guys work quick. But whew, I thought you meant there's an actual pedophile in the series, that would be a weird tone shift.

I GET IT! BECAUSE IT'S NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH!

@@mothersbasement ... yes sure let's go with that

True man of culture here

@@mothersbasement yeah I like "writing novels".

EEEEEYYYY!!!!

Yeah, it's an isekai game changer.

Try Angel Beats.

Honestly, I thought I was gonna watch something a school would recommend for homework, but it surprised me on how good this show actually is. I'm sorry for sleeping on Ascendance of a Bookworm, I love this series a lot.

it's a nice change of pace. ;) ;) ;)

@@Cecilia-ky3uw closest you'll get to that is the spider isekai but that isn't too close to what you said, but it has strategic aspects

Lol

Louise, is that you?

TYSM

Yeah

the main character didnt even know there was magic in the world until i read volume 2

@@tryggvi1239 It's not that big a presence in a peasant's life. Sort of like how magic isn't a big presence in _A Song of Ice & Fire_ until the return of dragons and people start being brought back from the dead.

the book sucked so I've been wondering if the anime is better?

The manga is amazing as well. Much more detail and background info

@@chickenballs-balls i thought the novel is good it has so much detail while anime condensed/skipped a lot of scene from the novel. Then again it was written as a web novel.

the manga is so fucking bittersweet i love it and hate it at the same time. every scrap of good you get comes with an equal amount of bad. myne finds a chance to make books but she cant do it alone. she finds the best resource to make paper with but it destroys the natural resources around it in order to make it. she gets a job that will help her but her disease is growing and shes forced to make a choice that could result in her both never achieving her dream or ever even seeing her new family shes come to love again. its so good and every single chapter im just praying that this girl doesnt succumb to the devouring or whatever its actually called i just want her to succeed and get that book and live her life. god this manga is so good.

Apparently it's an Avatar the last airbender and Card Captor Sakura type of reincarnation. Your soul is the same but your personality is completely different.

SPOILER if you're interested- Maine is the reincarnation of Urano, that fever half-killed Maine and in desperation and some Gods involved Maine survived her near death by manifesting memory of her previous life. Giving her the 'strong will' to live Urano has. So she IS Maine but with memory and personality of Urano on top of it.

That's what I figured.

Well, she still has her memories, sort-of

while I like the story, I think I could nitpick a good while about things that could be more immersive or consistent, but it's such a relaxing and heartwarming watch overall! However, for the sake of my nerdiness: Wooden buildings that high seem pretty much impossible. Rome had basically concrete building 5/6 levels high, but most medieval cities had mostly individual homes of stone, dirt and brick. If there were particularly tall and robust trees in the nearby forest though, that could have been a clever wrinkle. mostly I lament the lack of visual variety and color, materials and shapes in the downtown area. but the amount of detail that goes in background art is also an issue of budget. Overall the show has an 17th century aesthetic (architecture and clothing), a time when printing presses were around. one can imagine a world evolving tech differently, especially is there's magic around, so more of a remark than anything else. You can be damn sure that working class people in a scarce society aren't going to throw anything away if they can help it. reusing cooking water isn't going to be revolutionary to them, unless there is a cultural taboo around it... or if local vegetables can leave toxic elements in said water. Or if the water itelf is prone to being contaminated-pretty likely in a town without proper sewage and no running water. If people don't have access to washing water and shampoo, they're gonna protect their hair with hats and clothes. The mother does it, you'd expect pretty much everyone else to do the same. Personal hygiene products wee relatively simple to make and were available in almost all cultures, so it's unlikely that Myne would have come up with shampoo first. However she might have a better framework to create different flavors and find substitute ingredients. And most hygiene issues would come from lack of access to clean water and/or cultural stigma - for instance, during the renaissance and for centuries after, people in europe thought that bathing brought illnesses and vermin, but Gauls and other antique European cultures had a pretty good sense of hygiene.

@@maximeteppe7627 there are a lot of fantastical elements, but you can make a wood structure up to about five stories, in fact the limit of structures was 10 stories until the use of steel. the reason for 2-3 story buildings was ease of use. and the ability to expand, but they did get taller and more concentrated as time went on. a lot of your complaints are actually explained via the use of magical plants and magical taboo. you also seem to have a warped perspective of how medieval people operated. but basically the answer to the question is yes they do and so did medieval societies.

No trash

Lmao

I found it funny that when he was saying that he showed Stain. One of, if not the most morally grey characters in My Hero Academia. lol

Only a sith deals in absolutes.

@@RainCloud123 Absolutely.

@Satella I will do what I must.

@@RainCloud123 you will try

Next-tier shillmastery.

The irony is that a lot of anime adaptations of manga/LNs serve mainly to drive interest in said manga/LNs (effectively being extended advertisements), so new seasons get released when sales of the print works are flagging.

@@ghostbirdofprey This makes me sad.

@@ghostbirdofprey Well that explains berserks lack of an anime

I think they did

Yeah they did and they did it well!

Nothing is more terrifying than a pissef off 5 year old girl.

Yes, yes they did

Hell yeah

I had no idea that this was a light novel I've been reading the manga

@@forrest248 it was originally a free web novel and I heard it ended in part 3. The published light novel now has over 22 volumes and 5 parts.

Polar Nick Holy crap same, Ive been following the manga, and the anime has since caught up soo... I gotta watch the anime now

@@kevinvu5432 Yes, but only 4 volumes have been translated so far. With the 5th coming out later this month. Fortunately they seem to be translating this series fairly quickly about 5 volumes a year.

@@justinfarischon7868 well translating is usually faster than creating the content from the ground upm

Try Hero and Demon Lord (it's on Crunchyroll) if you're looking for more Spice and Wolf-esc stuff. It's been out for a couple of years.

Nothing will truly be a substitute for Spice and Wolf, but there is a high overlap between Spice and Wolf fans and those who like Mushi-shi, dispite the significant differences between the shows.

Agreeds. I always watch it as soon as I can. Other stuff can wait a week or two.

I have already read everything Bookwalker has and know what's going to happen and still i come back every week to watch this as one of 3 shows i am watching weekly this season.

@@TerraRose21 I'm waiting til the end of the season to read the manga

My favourite day of the week. :)

Pesantry wasn't so hard as the misconceptions make us believe. And people knew how to read and write... That is one of the few beefs I have with this anime.

@@darbisd yea. They knew how to read and write their local language. But at the same the same time most books weren't written in local languages in Europe. They were written in Latin and many places called people illiterate if they couldn't read the bible

Why? they have basic knowledge of writings/reading (Main mother showed some sights and what they mean while shopping) they know basic economy etc. they aren't stupid they just have "minimal knowledge" passed down through the generations and learned by themself/experience.

@@natanoj16 well if you don't consider cooking, building, butchering, and even sword fighting as local yes indeed most books were written in French and the bible in Latin (the right language for the holy book). Everyone ignores that bakery and other professions existed and had their respective teachings and methods and all of that needed to be documented (and well documented) and passed forward. :)

@@nieznajomy4398 yup. How the hell illiterate people would make commerce amiright 😂

Agree, also the conflicts don't really do much.

Yeah, what a misstep from someone whose channel is literally called "Mother's Basement" to make!

rule34 artists : so they are not totally related

They are her family but she doesn't completely view them as family at first "They are Mine's family but this family is not mine" kind of mentality Course as time goes on she gets closer to them though I don't think that thought process will leave the back of her mind until she comes clean about how she feels and the whole reincarnation thing

I saw the thumbnail and immediately watched all the way up to the most recent episode and now I don't know how I'm going to survive waiting for the show to finish. I usually binge watch anime all at once. This and Dr. Stone are making me perpetually excited for the next episodes.

@@LucidPoseidon Read the novel, it's licensed by J-Novel Club. 4 volumes are done and 5th is on the way.

@@alexusman I almost never read the novels/manga of a show because I don't want to spoil the future episodes for me.

@@LucidPoseidon The book for this one really is good. The adaption is faithful, but the original is a lot darker and deeper and the world building far more nuanced. Watch the show first, but I highly recommend the novels afterwards. Most light novels honestly are not well written. That's not the case with Bookworm.

I gave the anime a chance immediately and I could legit not hold my feels. I was smilling the whole way, and managed to watch all the nine episodes in a span of 2 hours. I WANT MORE!

It's ascen-

Personally I just watch it and decide for myself

I watch and then come here. I watch it so I have my own opinion and then come here so the things that I don't see because I couldn't past the first level and or I just missed

In defense, this is a very good season for isekai, must less anime. But I agree Ascendence of a Bookworm is the best anime of the season.

@@justinfarischon7868 Last couple of seasons have been pretty good

@αωσσ Yeah, fell in love instantly with it as well!

Apart from magic eating Mine from the inside.

i started the manga after watching some episodes and the level of detail the world and people are discribed is even higher. can recommend it very much

@@BNuts dude????? spoiler bro

JC not a spoiler if you’re current with the anime, which if you’re not you should really do yourself a favor and not go into comment sections of videos about that anime. Not saying that to be pedantic at all I’ve just been spoiled way too many goddam times for the same thing and it’s an avoidable mistake I’ve kicked myself for quite a bit

@@JC-jz6rx It's not a spoiler since it's how Urano reincarnated into Myne. Part of the story is how they have to help her find a solution. Or fail to. I don't know yet, since the anime hasn't gotten that far.

bear in mind that she becomes a concubine after the coming of age ceremony, so it's after she turns 15-16. It's an arranged marriage, sure, which wasn't rare for children in the medieval period, but the age at which they're allowed to marry/ considered adult is actually fairly higher than what it was in our own medieval period, so it's not that bad. Furthermore, a year over there has more days (a bit above 400 IIRC), which means that the marriable age is actually very, very close of 18 in term of how many days the peoples have lived already.

@@zefyrisd69 It's bad Concubines gets kill usually in these kind of stories

@@leahjackiepeah4130 read better stories I guess :D

If you actually did read more, you would find out that the noble family in question treats her very well.

damn those lucky nobles

A man who likes S&W is a man of culture

@@katarinavidakovic1373 A true man of culture doesn't even need to watch it to like it I mean Holo

@@Psychomaniac14 S&W is my favorite anime and light novel i want season 3!!!!!!........plz God make it happen.......

The VR experience on Quest looks really cool.

That Worshipping Pose is so funny 🤣😂🤣

I take it you're a LN reader? As an anime only so far, I wait with anticipation xD

But some things really creep me out. (cof cof Temple Master cof cof)

assuming that the religion is not some huge spoiler what makes it so different?

@@edward-jamesryan5796 its polytheistic, but with weird customs. The praying pose became a plot point that lead to maine meeting head priest.

LOL I was thinking the same thing. "Shit, did I leave the game open? ... Wait. I'm at work."

Me: waiting for the ear raping noise of the /tell from a gil seller

I know right? I was confused why the music seemed so nostalgic, and then I realized where it was from! Those hours of crafting are getting to me...

I was wondering if I was hearing things!

Same here i was like? But im in Tamamizu... and the game is muted! WTF?!

I miscalculated. Now that I have Book Walker I only have to wait until January 20th for my next volume to read!! The anticipation will surely kill me and I’ll be reincarnated into another world where Ascendance of a Bookworm does not exist. A horrifying thought......I should stay away from tall stacks of books for a while.

It's a shame the fan translations of the novel drop in quality significantly towards the later translated chapters (like Google translate level quality). And the official translation takes too damn long!

I've read the translated webnovel to chapter 120-ish, might you know around what volume that would be? (Maine was thinking about making ink lastly for me)

If you go to J-novel club and get a membership you can read each section as they translate it, before proofreading and publication.

On the upside it really helps you identify with her character. She is even more frustrated than you are.

tfw it's over 2 months after this video and I'm still in that same boat. Better late than never, I suppose. It's at least a solid dub.

it may cut a lot, but it's still good

@@deathsythe238 absolutely yes

They have to cut those things.For example , in epologe when Benno , Otto and Corrina talks about Myne its was my favorite part in LN but in anime its not that important to spent time.

My big problem with the LN is its first person perspective Not only it really narrows the experience the reader has but it paints everything abd everyone in a meaner light

@@lookatthepicture4107 depends , i love that thing for example.I dont want to read just MC's persfective.There are so many people in that world and MC touch to them changed them.Also people are growing in everyway , especially kids. So reading ''the day without Myne'' or Tulli with Myne but Tulli's eyes , its more realistic for me and fun to read.

It goes even further than that. The Light Novel starts with Urano talking with a someone about how she'll die alone if she doesn't get out more, and she says she wants to die surrounded by books.

Thats why she was killed by books not hit by a car or stabbed tho ;)

@@nicklol8269 They actually make you think she will die by Truck-kun right in the first couple sentences, but nope crushed by books due to a earthquake.

@@jardex2275 Wow, that's pretty funny. At least she got her wish in the end. The deity who reincarnated her into a world where books were out of her reach was a dick. I just started watching it and watched the first 2 episodes, I am really liking it a lot so far. Myne is so frickin cute. :D

@@Rem694u2 book-kun strike again

:O did the "innocent" part change when you read the ln or still an anime only?

After you catch up this series you may want to check out, So I'm a Spider So What?. The main character is reborn as three foot high spider, which is the weakest monster race in the giantic labyrinth that is her home. She has to figure out how to survive and grow stronger as a weak spider.

Heh, yeah. She's basically a changeling and I'm both assuming and _very_ glad that those don't seem to be a Thing/common folklore in the series' universe. Her life could've been a hell of a lot harder otherwise

Fae changeling???

@@kevinvu5432 changelings are human-like creatures from European folklore. Basically, faes would exchange human babies for changelings (which depending on the belief where either fae babies or old fae brought to the human world to die in comfort) with the human parents none the wiser. Changelings were known to Know Too Much, know things they shouldn't/normal human kids wouldn't, and being wise beyond their age. (As a fun and depressing tidbit, "changelings" were usually the explanation for strange illnesses, disorders and developmental disabilities.......and most ways to "deal" with changelings was to, uh, basically kill them. Which. Yeah.) But yeah she's pretty much the definition of a changeling in a l o t of ways and boy howdy is it good news that this european-inspired pre-industrial fantasy world doesn't seem to Have Legends About Those 8)

That's what I thought too, I was getting huge changeling vives and was hopeing it won't end with her being thrown into a fire place 😭😭😭

Main. Not myne. Never speak that name.

I bought the first three books. I can't wait to read them.

it's currently no.2 best light novel on Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2020

Do yourself a favor and go for the light novels. They're well past the manga. Summary information: Web Novel - Japanese - 677 chapters - Finished Fan translation of web novel - 103 chapters done well. Chapters 104 through 112 - Poorly edited machine translation trash. Will not be completed due to... Light Novels - Japanese - 20 volumes published, 21st available mid December. Expect a final count of 32 volumes to be finished late 2022. Light Novels translation - 4 volumes translated, 5th expected January 20, 2020. At current translation rate, expect all 32 volumes mid to late 2024. As for the anime, I expect it to cover the 1st arc, or first 3 volumes of the light novel. Unfortunately, I don't expect the anime to get enough seasons to actually cover the entire series. Would absolutely love to be wrong, but have doubt it.

@@johncochran8497 You can also read the 5th volume's chapters as they are translated by getting a membership to J-Novel Club, the official English translator, you can also preview earlier volumes for free there.

if by "they" you mean Main, that's because she isn't a 5-7 year old, mentally speaking. Also, Lutz clearly talked in ways appropriate for his age range until he met Otto. Also, since their society has you entering into an apprenticeship at the age of 7, I'm not that surprised that a majority of these 5 year old kids are pretty set in what they think they want to do

Mainly Myne has the problem for obvious reasons,but the reason Lutz and the other kids act like 9-10 year olds is because of their environment:)

@@frimi8593 yeah, the way people (including kids) speak is pretty malleable to environment. Stick a kid into a situation where they're normally holding up their end of significant conversations with adults, and they will start to talk different. Hell, if I start reading/listening to more period books for a while, my phrasing can become slightly archaic and put people in a new city/region and they'll start to pick up accents automatically most of the time.

In the Novel, we can see everyone around her doubt her behaviour, some question it and some let it go. And Luts is considered a Genius by Main. You can even compare him with other children

I keep thinking Myne is like, 9 or 10 because it just takes me out of it to believe 6 year olds are having these complex conversations and lives.

Yea. I think your right. There have been a few comments (including mine) posting that correction.

That is my take on it too Dezo.

Nah, it gets covered in a extra book or something, and has also been confirmed trough the authors twitter that the soul is the same, but the memories, perhaps ego is different... Or gets resurfaced

What no shout out to Engels? Fucking weak.

Shows how litle you know... They only cared about workers... peasants was despised by the commie gang... Do you tards even know the diffrence

They can’t struggle if they are dead

@@insiainutorrt259 peasants *are* workers and you never read a word of Marx

@@tesso.6193 communism is a failed project, sincerely, a Romanian

I was surprised too I didn't think this was among the many manga that guy in anime. I know the hero is overly cautious oh, I'm a spider so what, and mother multiattack because that title is too f****** long got Anime especially the first two I mention. But it wasn't until Mother's basement put this video of that Bookworm got in the anime I honestly passed it by when I saw Inn on the manga sites I go to when I first started going to them months ago which was during the summer. I think I only read one chapter and thought it would be boring but after seeing this I'm going to check it out right now who knows I might actually like it! I mean Spice and Wolf is something I really want to check add eventually buds I've honestly been saying it back at the Heyday of spice and wolves popularity. So maybe I like it maybe I won't but seeing what I'm hearing I'm likely going to be in the like department.

@@paulman34340 So I'm a Spider still hasn't been released yet.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves

I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right

Okay bridgeboy.

Probably just showing my lack of knowledge on references, but one of those is not like the other. People tend to start out weak before getting strong.

@@skycastrum5803, it is from Brandon Sanderson's the stormlight archives series. If you wanna know what it's about you can check there.

I'm hoping for a fruit baskets kind of reboot.

If only if only my friend, i pray to god that we get a season 3

@@macroy5149 as long as we keep the og voice cast I'm down

Half-Life 3 is almost here with Alyx so maybe Spice and Wolf will happen too? Nothing is impossible. We are living in strange times, so maybe?

@@mackenzycooper98 my man you can't get rid of the orginal VA. It be super weird to hear another English va doing her lines.

You're correct, I have a feeling that he was thinking of another isekai where that happened

@@vaullus6074 What's the name of that one?

@@cgoose500 I think "Make My Abilities Average" would be my guess.

@@cgoose500 I think it's likely 'Tensei Kizoku no Isekai' (not full name) but it could be 'Tensei Ouji wa Daraketai'. The second one was at 3 years old though. Both of them are more of the lighthearted variety of isekai with slightly overpowered main characters

Officially, according to the author. That's how the Devouring works: it eats away at the person, and the original Myne basically lost enough of herself to awaken her past life. Myne has no way of knowing this, though, and thinks she's basically bodyjacked a dying child.

Senku's dad from Dr. Stone will come down from space and restart civilization to fight you on that.

MapleRhubarb and senku’s dad made memes. Also important to add that he’s his adoptive dad so even doubly cool for how much he loves a son that’s not his

@@McSnezzly And double *that* for the lengths he goes to that haven't been revealed yet in the anime and I won't mention any further, but will say it made me cry like a bitch. :')

Lutz is best boy.

And my axe...

SAME

Same

I never watched jojo

ゆうらい。 I’m scared to watch Jojo cause, apparently that’s almost ALL you see afterwards.

Man I must be old school, because I hear Zechs and Mu.

Dude that's pretty high to be honest.

@@alifhazmi7341 I know MAL rates a little low, but not that low. Another half of a point wouldn't even bring it to 8.0.

I'll note that MAL now has the first season as an 8.02 and the second as an 8.15. That places it rightly with the greats !

Glad that all of its season get more than 8 now

The anime is great but The light novel is wayyyy better. One of the best light novel I have read in a long time. The anime is moving at a neck breaking pace. I think it will go past the 130+ chapter in the ln. it skip many fun and touching moments in the LN. Give it a try, you might like it too

When the show first started I was thinking that someone needs to make a meme of: "Don't judge a book by it's cover and don't judge a person by their name." Then have a pic of Myne from Shield Hero next to a of Myne from Bookworm. (With name tags)

Also in 10:54

@@Morbisus Didn't get to that because i wanted to watch Ascendance of a Bookworm after around 6-7 minutes. So I stopped the vid for a while. My bad ;-P

@@puffrice3428 No problem. I'm just glad to see the franchise getting some love.

THE BUCK TEETH. They kill me every time.

That phone is made out of twigs.

Main* )

@@danielantony1882 Not in the book, it's Myne there.

@@Paintchipsrocks Really now? You're gonna ignore the fact that her name is also written as "Main" in her language?

@@danielantony1882 Yup.