An immense display of mana in front of the Knight’s Order has earned Myne the attention of nobles. The result? Yet more people appear hoping to exploit the young apprentice shrine maiden’s value. Anime Name: Ascendance of a Bookworm S3
@@59master60 like stuff about child exploitation, and why and how the royal family of the larger kingdom erhenfest was killed and it’s implications on the future. Let’s just say it’s at least twice as dark as anything so far.
@@59master60 The fight in Episode 9 is heavily sensored compared to the source material. This series is pretty dark. - Gunther killed Turi and Myne's kidnapper by stabbing the man in the face with his spear - Gunther kicked the guts of that shrine maiden (the pink haired one) to the point that she vomited in Bindewalds robes. -Myne's dad received a very lethal wound during the fight (his arms were heavily burned) - All of Ferdinand's enemies were literally erased into existence when he launched that mana against Bindewald.
Not gonna lie you’re the only the only recap channel I respect, only because you sound like you actually like what you’re doing and having some fun, keep it up man
I knew in the end she would be adopted by someone but seriously I'm tearing up I know how much her father loves her, but it's for the best and still a tear jerker
We're all craving more seasons of this series. From what I heard, it was the 4th most popular LN series of 2022; it would be a travesty not to pick it up again. It would easily take another 24 episodes to do part 3 of the LN series; and part 4 is nearly as big as the first 3 parts combined, and part 5 is still ongoing. We offer prayers to the gods for someone to pick up part 3.
@shamis7054 Yeah, still geeking out over that news. I really hope WIT takes the initiative and releases a few OVAs prior to committing to the season is earnest. This way they can maybe cover some of the material skipped over (of which their is a ton), maybe fix some of the discrepancies between the anime and LN material, and gauge how the audience responds to their style of animation. Also wish they take their time, and do part 3 in like 36 episodes or more; the LN material really starts to get beefier starting in part 3, with a ton of world building and new characters.
So, the novel is already finished (somewhat). That means they _could_ make another season out of this. But you gotta remember, the novel itself goes heavy on politics and intrigue afterward. So it depends on which parts they are going to use in the next season.
@@alfianalamsyahjayakelana8482 the subreddit. There is also currently a spin off from the pov of a character who hasn't been introduced to the anime yet.
@@Diogenes323 Unless that spin-off was able to be finished, we won't be able to see another season of AotB for the time being. I still don't know why they are taking very long.
Season 3 was such an improvement over season 2,which apparently they had to go back and reanimate a few scenes for after its initial release, like when Ferdinand peered into Mynes memories. It also had to cut allot of content just to go back and cover crucial plot points and characters that season 2 skipped over, but at the cost of character and world development events such as Myne and Gunther having a heart to heart about how Tuuli is Gunthers third child, Myne is his fourth and Kamil is his seventh but all the others died either as they were born or shortly after leaving only Tuuli, Myne, and Kamil. Because of that he holds nothing but love for all of his children showering those who are alive with affection every chance he gets and putting time with them and Effa above everything wise and how he never stopped grieving for the ones he lost. Also Ehrenfest is a Dutchy not a Kingdom.
Myne's funeral is one of my favorite scene in the novels. Too bad it was cut off due to time constraints because it only had 10 eps. Here's the scene. They left the store together and started on their way home. Myne was, for all intents and purposes, dead to the world; they would have to hold a funeral for her as soon as they got back. “Lutz, Myne was killed by the noble that broke into town. Tell that to your family. We’ve got our own preparations to take care of,” Gunther said, his brow tightly furrowed as he looked up at the sky. In a way, that explanation wasn’t dishonest. After all, it was because of the noble who had broken into town that Myne had become a noble herself. “Alright.” After getting home, Lutz told his parents about Myne’s funeral, and they all hurried to finish their dinner. His parents were the first to rush outside, each wearing black cloth around one arm. Lutz and his brother Ralph followed suit, each wrapping black cloth around one arm to signify that they were involved with the funeral. “...Hey, Lutz. Why did Myne die? She was doing better lately, wasn’t she?” “Mr. Gunther said a noble killed her. I don’t know anything else since I wasn’t there.” Neighbors wearing black cloth wrapped around their arms gathered by the well in the plaza. Normally the corpse would be rested on a board to be carried to the graveyard, but without a corpse they couldn’t do that for Myne. Instead, there was just a tiny box. Inside were Myne’s clothes and the hair stick she usually wore. Nothing else. “What’s going on here? Where’s the body?” one of the neighbors asked. Everyone was surprised by the unusual funeral. Gunther, who was leading the funeral, grimaced and looked at the ground. There was clear pain in his eyes. “Myne was attacked by a noble from another duchy. They killed her and stole her body.” “...That’s, uh... That’s real tragic. I’m sorry for your loss.” Anything that was stolen by nobles would never come back. Everyone in the neighborhood knew how deep Gunther’s love was for his kids, and how much he doted on Myne despite her sickly nature. They knew without even asking how much it hurt him to not even get her body back, and since nobles were involved, nobody asked him about anything else. “It’s a real shame, too. She was finally getting healthy again.” The neighbors looked at the wooden box and thought back to how Myne had been during her baptism and Kamil’s birth, and began sharing stories and the like. It was said that the door to the land of the dead opened only at dawn, when the God of Darkness and the Goddess of Light met, and that the husband and wife gods would guide the recently deceased there when the morning sun had risen. Those who knew the deceased would share memories and talk all night until the departed had safely moved on, but Myne had barely spent any time with her neighbors, so there wasn’t much for them to say. “...Hey, Lutz. You were close with Myne, weren’t you? Say something about her.” Lutz thought back over the two and a half years he had spent with Myne. At first, she couldn’t even walk to the gate. She had wanted to make books but didn’t have paper or ink; she had tried weaving grass fibers together, then making clay tablets... Even when she eventually did manage to make paper, there was a lot more she needed to do before she could make a book. “Myne would always collapse as soon as she decided to do something, but she always worked hard to get what she wanted. When we first started, she’d get out of breath just walking to the well, but in the end she could walk all the way to the forest on her own.” “Oh yeah, that reminds me... She sure did a lot of weird things, like shave wood and mess around with clay.” “Didn’t you two boil wood in a pot, Lutz?” Fey and his friends who had gone to the woods with Myne started talking about what they remembered her doing there. That must have encouraged Lutz’s family to start talking too. “All the recipes Myne thought up tasted great.” “Myne learned letters and math while helping Gunther at the gate, and she taught all that to Lutz, too. She was smart.” “Oh yeah? I didn’t know about that.” After their baptism, Lutz had become an apprentice merchant and Myne an apprentice shrine maiden in the temple, but he didn’t talk about that in public since temple shrine maidens didn’t have a very good reputation. As far as everyone here was concerned, she was just helping out at the gate and doing the paperwork that Lutz brought back from the Gilberta Company. Barely anyone knew what Myne had really been doing since her baptism. Myne had founded a workshop in an orphanage, made ink, and then finally made books; became Johann’s patron and had him make metal letter types for her; funded Heidi’s research into colored ink; and after some trial and error with Ingo, finished a printing press. She was amazing. And Lutz wanted to tell everyone that, but he couldn’t. He had no idea how much about book-making was safe to talk about. “Myne was weak and slow to grow,” Effa began, holding Kamil in her arms. “We were always scared that she might not live to see the next day. Tuuli started getting more independent when she was two or three, but it took Myne until she was five. Before then, she would always cry about how unfair it was that only Tuuli was healthy, or how unfair it was that we all got to go outside.” It seemed to hurt her as a mother that Myne hadn’t been born a healthy child. That was probably the old Myne, Lutz thought. The Myne he knew would never cry about things being unfair. She worked hard to get stronger on her own terms, and while she often ran in circles, she was always dedicating her all to getting books to read. “But once she did stop crying about things being unfair, she started getting mad about things. She’d say ‘I hate this body!’ and start cleaning the house until she broke out in a fever. She’d do weird dances until she fell over, and say eating certain things was good for her body before ending up getting stomach aches,” Effa continued with a small smile. ...Now that’s the Myne I know. It was easy for Lutz to remember and visualize all the weird things Myne had done. “It was around when she stopped crying and getting mad about things all the time that she started going to the forest with Lutz. She never expected to be the same as normal kids, but she still got strong enough to go outside and join festivals. To think that, after all that, she would be taken away from us like this...” Having said their piece, Myne’s family shed tears and offered no more words. But everyone understood: their daughter had finally gotten healthy, only to be killed by an outsider noble who had then stolen her body. It would be a quiet funeral. Under the glow of the dancing fire that lit the plaza, Gunther silently carved a grave marker for Myne out of wood, tears running down his cheeks all the while. They waited out the night, taking turns to nap. When second bell rang, the wives began distributing bread and tea; it was forbidden to eat meat before the funeral was over. After finishing their simple breakfast, they shouldered the light board and headed to the temple. They needed to report the death, and then collect a medal permitting the burial. When they arrived, the temple gate’s guard let them into the chapel. It was standard for gray priests to handle the deaths of city-goers, but for some reason the High Priest was there this time. “A seven-year-old born in the summer named Myne? Very well.” After leaving them to wait in the chapel for a bit, the High Priest returned with a flat white medal, which he handed to Gunther. It was the medal Myne had stamped with blood during her baptism. These served as a show of government approval for the burial, and as substitute gravestones for poor commoners who couldn’t afford their own. With the medal in hand, they went to the graveyard outside of the city. As there was only a light box on the board, the men shouldering it were able to walk quicker than they usually would. They were also quieter than usual, since none of them knew Myne very well. They buried the box in the corner furthest from the graveyard’s entrance. It didn’t take long to dig the grave since the wooden box was so small. Gunther pressed the medal against the grave marker he had carved. It stuck tightly to the board, which he then stabbed deep into the ground so that it would stand upright, just like those marking the surrounding graves. Graves for the rich had words carved into the marker, but since few poor people could read, the nearby graves didn’t have any words on them-people would instead identify them based on the shape of the wood or where the medal had been stuck onto it. Myne’s grave, however, had the words “Our Beloved Daughter” beneath where the medal had been stuck.
I unfortunately don’t have access to the novels, and even if I did I usually don’t read them because I am very visual. I tend to rely on the anime and manga, but I know they cut a lot of stuff out especially the anime, so thank you so much for spending all that time to read it. I hope they manage to add it maybe as a flashback in the next season.
Wow you have incredible timing, I just finished watching part 1 and 2! Great recap as always ^^ I look forward to your videos! And happy new year to you 🎉🎉🎉
ok, so i have not seen anyone bring this up in the comments yet, but for those who are here for a summary of the story, the reason why Karstat and Sylvester's attacks went crazy was because of myne's prayers. she had also protected the carriage with her own mana, which was COMPLETELY unharmed from the magic explosion from karstat's attack (let's face it he was TOTALLY trying to show off to his future daughter).
There's no indication of another season for this show. I suggest anyone interested in this story read the light novels. Up to part 5 has been translated and is available for purchase. The story just keeps getting better and better, and as much as I like this anime, the novels are even better. There's just so much that doesn't make it into the anime.
I don't thnk it'll happen, at least no time soon. If we do get a season 04 I want to see Brigette & Lessy. I agree on the LNs, so much was left on the "cutting room floor" in the anime version that it's not even funny.
@@Harrison11106 Welp,it ended in that way so they ended it properly so they dont really HAVE to make another season but they still can do that if they gonna want to
such a good anime and if it gets more seasons its only gonna get better. i mean theres only so much you can really condense for the parts after this so we probably good for atleast another 2 seasons with the books that are currently out
YES!!! YEEEEESS!!! I wanted this video SO MUCH I just watched the series instead the VERY MOMENT I finished the last videos!! I can't wait to get another season. This is single handedly the MOST underrated esikie EVER!
OK, this is my favorite hands down! I'm so excited for the next season! Also j just love watching your videos for this series! I mean your commentary is literally so fun! I just really enjoy you doing these videos, especially for this anime!
If you want the next part you have to read the novels, the season 4 of this anime isn't out and won't be for a while. If you want to read the novels from where the vid ends search for part 3 volume 1 adopted daughter of an arch duke
I want another season of this anime. Or at the very least the anime, the complete series, to available to purchase on iTunes, Prime Video, or even a DVD/Blu-ray set.
I hope another season will come. I can't wait for next. The story is just getting better and will be very epic! I hope they won't need to wait the English translation to the completed novel though because it would need at least 3 years!
I have never seen such a wholesome yet realistic anime in my life... i cried after that Mine is now Sylvester's daughter and her family is not to recognize or meet her and it is sad but its for Mines safety so its ok... fuck midevil people.
I really recommend everyone to read the Light Novel since it's really unlikely that we will get more of the anime. Ascendance of a Bookworm is the best fantasy Light Novel out there
@@cyberiansailor9741 aye, ive been so obsessed with the series that I watched all of the anime, read all the light novels, read all the web novels and im currently stalking archive of our own for all the fanfics that have been made on the series
Man, this series is one of those where I KNOW it would be impossible to make the whole story into an anime but damn of I don't want it! Just wait until we start getting into part 5 and the "Saint of Erenfest" nonsense... my oh my
I can't wait for the next series of this I don't actually want to watch it anyway because it just seems boring to me but like when people explain it after you seems really good I don't actually watch most anime series since I just listen to them explain to me
The ending was so sad tho like why can't she act like she doesn't know her family and if he is a lord he should have given her family perhaps a job in the castle so they can still be together 😢
Being archduke doesn't actually mean shit in the grand scheme of the story... Spoilers don't read further if you don't want to be spoiled Final warning ⚠️ Erenfest is only a middle dutchy on the low end of power in the country if word comes out that he adopted a commoner all the other more powerful arch dukes will mostlikely get offended by his actions causing mayhem onto erenfest. For context most nobles don't see commoners as human so seeing someone who would be seen as less than human to be elevated to a role of arch duke candidate would likely cause a revolution within erenfest itself. Also even if syl is the arch duke he doesn't actually have the support of his people, most want to either puppet him or throw him off the throne so if the fact that he adopts a commoner child comes out he would be labeled as insane at the very least Hence why he has to take almost every precaution to prevent the truth from coming out, remember myne's family are basically strangers to syl so it's no wonder he cant trust them from revealing such a valuable secret without being bound by contract. This may seem like a tragic end but I recommend you read the novels and see for yourself that actually this is where the fun truely begins, and everything will turn out for the best for our bookworm gremlin (...eventually 😅)
Read the novels, the anime only covered part 1 and part 2 of the series (both of which are the shortest parts in the series) part 3 to part 5 each have more and more volumes per part and it explores myne's magic powers aswell as so much more about the world in plenty of detail
14:00 he isn't the king but the duke of erenfest which is a mid ranked duchy in a kingdom of Yoghurt land (not real name but i cant remember the exact spelling and its close enough)
Ngl looking back I think the story was written in such a way to make this our first assumption on purpose, only to shatter our perspective later on when both the viewers and myne start learning about the scope of the world
It is clear to me that Ferdinand orchestrated the all thing, he wanted to force Mine hand. I won't be surprised if he is revealed to be the big bad guy of face 4.
15:30 A great blessing- healing all those in the cathedral Oh no... nooooo... this is a myne blessing... this reached out to the noble quarter where her guard was healed... and out int the merchent district where beno and lutz were... this was far far more then just "cathedral wide" this one went out for miles.
Well, it had a very big area of effect but with specific targets. As per her wording of the prayer, it only affected those she cares about. Which is quite a bit smaller than everyone she knows, and that is relatively limited anyways at that point.
@@karlthorkildson4650 Yep, affected benno and lutz but not mark who was in the same room. now manga wise, the blessing does affect a slightly larger group with people like freida and even freida's cook getting a blessing as well as the "gutenburges. "
@@jenniferstewarts4851 Pretty sure it also effected Mark just not another adult employee at the store she didn't like. But its been awhile since I read the LN.
It's not, there are novels ! If you want the next part you have to read the novels, the season 4 of this anime isn't out and won't be for a while. If you want to read the novels from where the vid ends search for part 3 volume 1 adopted daughter of an arch duke
If you want the next part you have to read the novels, the season 4 of this anime isn't out and won't be for a while. If you want to read the novels from where the vid ends search for part 3 volume 1 adopted daughter of an arch duke
If you want the next part you have to read the novels, the season 4 of this anime isn't out and won't be for a while. If you want to read the novels from where the vid ends search for part 3 volume 1 adopted daughter of an arch duke
I'd recommend you read the Light Novel from the beginning since IT goes a lot deeper than the anime but if you want to start of where the Anime finished then Read Part 3 Volume 1 of Ascendance of a bookworm.
If you want the next part you have to read the novels, the season 4 of this anime isn't out and won't be for a while. If you want to read the novels from where the vid ends search for part 3 volume 1 adopted daughter of an arch duke
