When Myne learns that the Holy Church is in need of mana for their relics, she sees it as her chance to be cured of her life-threatening mana disorder. After seeing their bountiful library, she throws herself headfirst into the Church's grasp and begs to join their order. In exchange for her service and her unusually bountiful supply of mana, Myne is given the blue robes of a noble-born apprentice priestess, despite being a commoner. To Myne, all this talk of mana and nobility is trivial, as she now has access to an unlimited supply of books! As Myne transitions into the next phase of her life in this new world, she soon learns that achieving her dream has come at a heavy cost. Noble society is severe, unforgiving, and fueled by politics and neglect. She must now deal with the class conflict between the noble-born blue robes and the common-born grey robes, the High Priest's attempts to oust her, and constant behavioral issues from her new retainers. With the help of her family, friends, and the enigmatic Head Priest whose loyalties and motives remain unknown, Myne seeks to overcome these obstacles and continue on the path to becoming her ideal self—the ultimate librarian! [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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If you’re watching this, you surely know the gist of the story and enjoy it, so I will save you the details of Bookworm’s plot. Bookworm II picks up right where the first season left off and does everything the first season did even better. We’ve got a wider range of characters who bring a diverse set of personalities and backgrounds to the stories as well as the continued development of Main as a priestess. Whereas the first season revolves around Main’s relationship with her family and local friends, the second season mainly focuses on Main’s relationship with the church and her retainers. I enjoyedthat quite a bit as it was an opportunity to learn more lore about the church and its role in society. The show continues to be very character driven and self contained. It’s not overly ambitious in its story and instead crafts a narrative about how the little things we do can affect others around us. I really enjoy the laid back approach that this series takes and found every episode to be enjoyable. The world is so lush and beautiful thanks to Aijia-Do’s great art and the direction continues to be top notch. If you enjoyed Bookworm I, you will love Bookworm II. If you’re new to this series and are thinking of giving it a shot, I highly recommend it. This is certainly one of the best isekai currently being written. Bookworm II gets 9 printing presses out of 10.
Ascendance of a Bookworm has a special place in my heart since it is a story that I never knew I wanted. A certified bookworm myself, I've always loved fantasy, but seeing a great fantasy story combined with the deep love of books that this series brings to the fore is absolutely magical. Now, to the business of the review. If you loved the first season of Bookworm, you will love this season as well. First, the world-building in this series continues to be on point. The medieval period is a popular stomping ground for fantasy, but this series does a muchbetter job of portraying the nitty-gritty aspects of every day life in that culture. For the vast majority of people, life was dominated by the concern "how am I going to keep myself fed and clothed." Bookworm hits this nail directly on the head. Considering the otherworldly nature of our protagonist, it would also be easy for the series to fall into the trap of people in the past are stupid, while modern people are smart. Bookworm does not do that in the least. People in the past are respected as intelligent, even superior to our protagonist in many ways. To wrap up the topic of world-building, I must mention that Bookworm also dodges the bullet of "all nobles are bad, all commoners are good," quite an accomplishment considering that a major driver of the plot is class conflict. Second, Bookworm has amazingly authentic characters. While each character has a primary drive, Bookworm keeps that from completely defining them as a person. Characters are unique individuals, and the size of the cast given this respectful treatment elevates this accomplishment to the next level. If you love seeing well-realized characters each with their own personalities and motivations, then Bookworm is an anime for you. Third, the second season has a great mix of slice-of-life style plot with portent of greater events to come. For those of you who love slice-of-life, you will love bookworm. While some slice-of-life anime tend to be episodic, with marginal character or plot advancement from episode to episode, Bookworm has the full slice-of-life feel while actually feeling like real life. Things change from day to day, week to week, month to month, and when you look back you see that life results in progress. Myne matures as a person, she makes progress in her goal of making books, Lutz become a better merchant, etc. To me, this shows true mastery of what the slice-of-life genre can be. For those coming for the fantasy, believe me, you will not be disappointed. Bookworm is not without its flaws. Though I wouldn't call the soundtrack bad, neither is it at the level of Made in Abyss (though the OP and ED are simply excellent.) The art style is well suited to the work, and the backgrounds are clean, but the animation quality can be a little lacking. For a work that isn't high action, the level of animation is definitely excusable, but still nothing to write home about. One thing the animation did succeed at is in Myne's facial expression repertoire, which has impressive diversity and is often quite unique. All in all, Bookworm was the anime I looked forward to most every week this season. It was an excellent continuation of the prior season, and I'm not ashamed to say that it is a masterpiece (at least in my book.)
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season (2020) What a season, for me the first season and its OVA were very good but not so amazing. I found Maine hard to like at the beginning and the story was a bit slow in my opinion. But here we have a superb second season that blew my expectation away. For a continuation they really pulled out the stops which shows the author did a great job with their content to allow such an adaptation. This season has twists and turns, the evil and good of noble society and some realstory progression that is satisfying. You get so much out of this it was superb. The art is much the same as the first season and its OVA set due to being so close. I would say in some ways it is much more refined in its finer details. The OP is good but I prefered the first seasons. The ED is better and flows nicely. The general world is superb but I would have liked more depth in the magical sounds. Characters ie Maine develops heavily and she gets some tough characters to deal with and the consequences are legitimate. You get some really great storytelling with this one. Seeing Maine take on retainers proved a first real push and then the second ones were handled great. In the end, we have a great cast of characters. Overall, I would absolutely ask people to watch this. Be warned like me you may have some crying moments, especially in the last episode. In the end, we get a and so the story continues style frame but I am unsure if that is a season 3 or read the rest. I would go by the ratings thus far in the hope this will continue through animation.
The continuation of Ascendance of a Bookworm felt like a straight line that barely shifts up and down. It felt like an additional to the first season, which of course is totally obvious as this is the second season with the differences being the fact that this season had more society-class discrimination. There's nothing so great about this season yet the story still captivates my heart despite being gone for about nearly half a year. The only bad thing about Ascendance of a Bookworm is the fact that its main protagonist, Myne is kid. And as I hate kids due to their voice and howthey act, I often find Myne and other kids retarded at times as I watched the show. However, despite all this Ascendance of a Bookworm is probably one of the anime where I accept the fact that kids are just kids and I shouldn't judge them strictly. This is because the story of Ascendance of a Bookworm is so magnificent, it carries about 1/2 of what the show lacks. Another fun season. I am hoping for more. Should one watch the second season of Ascendance of a Bookworm? I'd say yes 100%.
Ascendance of a Bookworm was hailed as one of the best isekai ever made. Something which the fanboys say for every isekai there is, therefore this statement means nothing. What matters is the execution, which for this show was supposed to be how it’s not a power fantasy about a male loser getting reincarnated into a videogame where he is overpowered and forms a harem while fighting the demon lord with his broken superpowers. This show is better because the protagonist is a girl, there are no videogames, no harem, no demon lord, and no superpowers. It’s a simple coming of age, about a simplegirl, in a simple medieval setting. Or so it was at first, because that is no longer true by the end of the second season. But first things first. Every story needs to give the viewer reasons for keeping up with it, and this one offered a down to earth isekai. It had a heroine who was struggling to achieve small victories in an almost mundane setting with not much to struggle towards. On top of that she is not exceptionally powerful just because she got isekaied, since she has a very frail body that can kill her if she works hard or if an incurable disease kicks in. Plus she can’t even openly say she is from a different world, because the church is going to execute her as a witch. Plus, because the setting is medieval it lacks even the most basic luxuries and services we take for granted in our contemporary society. They still have slavery and public executions and women wish to be sex toys for men. Everything she does is harder in that world compared to ours and thus every little victory she achieves comes off as rewarding despite being mundane as hell for the rest of us. Or so it was at first, because that is no longer true by the end of the second season. Anyways, since we need a plot so that the show won’t be a slice of nothing happens, the heroine sets forth to read books. Something a bookworm like her finds to be super important, although it isn’t, but we need her to have an otaku-level obsession over something, so we can also have an objective. Otherwise there will be no plot. It’s why everyone is obsessed with one particular thing in most anime. In Yugioh everyone has nothing better to do than obsess over a children’s card game, in Bookworm Isekai the heroine has nothing better to do than obsess over reading books. Thus we spend the first few episodes in her trying to find books to read only to find out books are very expensive and very rare and there are no public libraries because the setting is medieval. Thus she sets forth to… print her own books (wut?). Because the most logical thing you can do when you can’t read books, is to print your own books, so you can read… your own books (wut?). If this sounds like a really stupid leap in logic, get used to it because it’s going to keep happening every few episodes. By the end of the second season the objective will have moved and changed so many times to a point where the initial premise will not matter in the least. In fact it won’t even make any sense. Why did the heroine spend all those episodes in trying to print books when she could simply join the church? They have mountains of books in their temples. Oh, that’s right, it’s because we wouldn’t have a show if she did that. It’s also a plot hole that renders most of the first season completely pointless. It wouldn’t be an issue if the objective wasn’t constantly changing every few episodes, but that was not the case. Each changing wasn’t only moving the goalpost; it was also changing the world and its limitations. Basically, the internal consistency of the story was changing for the sake of plot, thus becoming more and more distant from what it was in the beginning. I mean, it is expected to have changes happening in a coming of age story, but it becomes bad writing when the changes betray the premise and gradually change the show into a more mundane fantasy adventure. The sickly typical girl that makes you so happy to see her achieve small victories becomes a super awesome teacher and a super awesome inventor and a super awesome merchant and a super awesome cleric, while everyone around her are constantly amazed with all the stuff she can do. And boy does she enjoy the attention by constantly smiling smugly. How is this not an empowerment fantasy, and just another isekai, like the ones it was supposed to be different from? And it doesn’t stop there. Her sickly body that could kill her with simple daily activities ends up having a dark superpower hiding inside her, which makes her far stronger than most people. There goes that appeal, she’s another shonen protagonist with a demonic power inside her. Oh, and that part about not being able to reveal she is from another world because she will be executed? It got revealed eventually, a priest tried to punish her, she used her awesome superpowers for force-chocking the guy ala Darth Vader and then she got forgiven because her super important knowledge of our world will make her kingdom very powerful. What happened to the whole fear of dark magic they all had all this time and how is this not yet another empowerment fantasy isekai, just like the ones it was supposed to be different from? You think it stops there? In the first episodes the setting was almost magic-free. There weren’t many things you could do with spells for making life easier. By the end of the second season there are huge magical trees and flying lions and knights that use magic to protect the world from evil entities. Which means there is a demon lord out there and they want to use the heroine to help them in defeating him. The show became another isekai, just like the ones it was supposed to be different from. Therefore Ascendance of a Bookworm is another generic empowerment fantasy that took its time before revealing its true colors as another light novel isekai and betraying any good thoughts you initially had about it.
With the end of the current season, I didn't think I would find myself actually sad to see an anime ending. Most of the shows either had a horrible conclusion or a satisfying one but I never wanted to see more of them and was content with just reading how it ended. Now, I'm really sad to see an anime as good as this one ending specially as this may be the last time I ever hear about the characters' lives with no season 3 announcement at the time this review was written. Honzuki no Gekokujou is, in my opinion, the best isekai anime outthere. It may not have the most intriguing story but it has the most important aspect of every anime or show in general, it has amazing characters. The characters in Honzuki are the best well-written characters I have seen in anime in a long while. The depth of every character and how they showed their emotions was just stunning to see. With the great development of Mine in season 1, I never even thought she could get as much development yet here we are at the end of the season, watching her develop into an even greater character. We are also introduced to lots of side characters and their problems. Stories of losing loved ones, assault, starvation and just leading a horrible life yet still trying to maintain their sanity and change when meeting Mine. A well-written cast that you see get enough development throughout the anime and yet it never felt rushed or half-assed. The characters really were amazing. 10/10. The art of the anime is as great as ever, the sound, the animation and the overall directing of the anime was astonishing as season 1 was. Overall I would give this season of Honzuki a 10/10. I know I wrote this at the start but I really am sad this ended but I'm glad I got to watch it. Would recommend it to anyone wanting to have a good time and watch one of the best characters ever made.
I loved the world-building of this show so much. I wouldn't mind a timeskip, but the pacing was fantastic. Every new episode is a new opportunity to see the characters' grow at their own tempo, organically through the story. The world of "Honzuki no Gekokujou..." itself is a fascinating one to discover and explore slowly and gradually, with each subsequent episode. Although the animation budget clearly wasn't very high for this production, the quality shows where it's important. The magic system is solid, and isn't just a bunch of explosions but rather complex, focused enchantments and spells to make miraculous things happen. That is exactlywhat this show was: a miraculous thing.
This is bullcrap. The girl, Main, is just ridiculously obsessed with shoujo manga books, and DIY stuffs from youtube. *If you are expecting a REALISTIC MATURE AND SMART FEMALE CHARACTER WHO GENUINELY LOVES BOOKS, you are in the wrong place. Temple got scripture about so-called GODs and their soap opera. So-called booklover adapted it into a shoujo manga (she claimed it a picture book) I guess, she wasn't satisfied with her share of shoujo mangas of her past life. In a goddam Magical isekai, she is making a Shoujo manga to groundlessly build her book lover character. HER INVENTOR cosplayer character? bullcrap. Make paper?? NOOB.. Get a magicallyenchanted tree that gives papers Magically. Diving head first into a bountiful library?? So. What did she learn? A way to cure her Devouring? A way to conquer the world? A way to go back to her past-life Mom? A way to release a child from the mistress contract? A way to guide a misbehaved grey robe child? A way to defeat so-called gods? *More shoujo manga????? *She is a goddam mindless mascot character with no Genuine Booklover appeal. Here comes a bullcrap Knight, A knight Priest who will protect her from evil and *Make every single Decision for her Life. From this point, Main is literally turned into a mindless puppet. Plus, dark elements, yet to get a cross-over with Disney fairy tales. Overall, Full of crap.
Let me ruin the show for you: Every time Myne opens her mouth, consider that she is actually a well-read 20+ isekaiee. Do you expect the bookworm who has gotten access to a library to actually read the books within and learn about the world she is living in? She does not. The titular bookworm _does not read_. This is my biggest gripe with the show: Myne is portrayed as a huge book nerd, she is shown reading books, but she never gains any kind of knowledge about anything. The show betrays the premise and never even attempts to course-correct. Do you expect a 20+ woman to notact like a 5 year old? She does not know manners. In fact she remains oblivious to basic etiquette by choice. She does no critical thinking. She doesn't try to improve herself in any way. What was she reading for her past 20+ years? Reddit posts? Anime reviews? DUNE? Oh wait, that one has intricate politics, so she surely didn't read that. Do you expect the _actual_ children to act like children? The 3 child sidekicks are running businesses, reading/writing, doing calculus, and think everything through rationally. You could add 20 to all their ages and nothing would change except them being more believable. Do you expect a cozy story about making books? Ignoring the fact that being a bookworm and making books are two completely unrelated things, mass-producing books is fairly easy once you have the knowledge. The author probably figured this out too, so the plot bends over backwards to present as many challenges towards Myne as possible early on, then solve all of them, then, since the end goal is in our grasp, veer off to random directions with no intentionality to drag it out as far as possible I guess. The story is not about reading books; Neither about making books. It's about Myne doing random stuff that can be vaguely connected to books and reading. I was legitimately furious with this anime by the end. It's mundane, boring, cliché, dialog-heavy, railroaded, and Myne's infantilism is infuriating. She has zero character development. The plot points are more like random events. The world revolves around Myne and time might as well be frozen for everyone else. Worldbuilding is also nonexistent. If you are satisfied with watching an idiotic 5 year old girl do random "cute" things in a fantasy setting, or you yourself are 5 years old, this anime is for you. Otherwise go watch anything else, or do what Myne will never: Read a book and learn something from it.
This review is for both season 1 and season 2, which as of the time of this writing is the entirety of the series. A third season has been announced, but it's not a thing yet. As a whole, I wanted to like this series more than I actually did. It has modern visuals, an original story, respectable world-building and character development and a few wholesome moments that'll make you feel warm and all that good stuff. However, there are two major, major issues with this series that each colossally detract from my ability to enjoy it and there is just no way around either ofthem. They are as follows- 1. Pacing This anime is very slow and it never picks up. The beginning, middle and end are all slow, all dialogue heavy and all repetitive. There's more or less zero combat in this anime, zero subplots, zero deep development of side characters... The whole anime focuses solely on the main character and every single episode is just her talking to people. It's simply monotonous. If this anime opts to exclude content to break up the monotony it needed to trim the fat somewhere (fewer episodes, faster pacing, more conflict, etc). 2. Believability I'm okay with the base premise- Adult woman dies and gets reincarnated into the body/mind of a child in the distant, less technologically-advanced past. Totally fine. What does not work is how nobody questions the behavior and capabilities of the main character in a remotely meaningful way. Her vocabulary, manner of speaking, knowledge, skillsets, conceptual understanding... really everything about her is far, far, far beyond the capabilities of the smartest 5, 6 or 7 year old in the world and she would stick out like a sore thumb immediately to absolutely any adult she interacts with. This is downplayed or outright ignored throughout the entire anime. The few characters that do notice these things quickly write her off as "a weird kid" or "unusual" and don't ever think anything more of it. It is completely, utterly, even with the utmost stretching of plausibility, entirely non-believable. In this regard, the plot simply fails, as the things the main character does/says/knows are wildly beyond the scope of a child and the anime wants you to outright ignore that and roll with it. I could not. Personally, my favorite moments in this anime were the wholesome scenes between the main character and her family. They're poor, they're ordinary and they're largely underdeveloped and underutilized but if nothing else they really, really love Myne. There was an especially heartwarming scene about half way through the anime that for me was the apex of the show, but the program never quite approached that level of emotional depth any time after. I would have really, really liked more scenes like this, but by and large her day to day conversations simply aren't all that exciting or important. At the end of the day this isn't a bad show, but if I'm being honest it's slow and it's boring and its plot isn't believable and I just can't see past those things. I'll watch season three sometime down the road, but I won't be foaming at the mouth for it by any means. This, for me, is a wonderful anime example of "mediocre". OBJECTIVE RATING- 6.75-7 PERSONAL ENJOYMENT RATING- 6.5
And we are back with Mayne! The first season was a great discovery, and this second season remains in its lineage and goes even further Story: 8/10 The second season makes a fairly radical change from the first, because now the story focuses on the Church and Mayne's new position as a blue robe We thus discover the mode of operation of the Church, as well as the whole system of caste and nobility (where the first season revolved more around trading, merchants and peasants) The story is cut out in the form of challenges and obstacles that Mayne continues to encounter. After having finally obtained what she wanted(access to the library), her preoccupations will move away (only partially of course!) from books in order to take an interest in the people around her. Art: 5/10 It's the only flaw of the anime in my opinion The level of animation is low and this is particularly felt in certain scenes (such as the last arc with the Knights and the gorgeous non-animation of their mounts) The artstyle is sometimes shaky but I don't mind at all. It is really the lack of animation during certain scenes which gives a certain ridiculity to this anime However, note the effort not to use CGI in anything It is however a shame to see that Ajia-Do apparently sacrificed the animation of Bookworm and preferred to focus on Kakushigoto, another anime from the studio having been released at the same period. The lack of animation is visible but personally it does not lower my general appreciation of the anime Sound: 8/10 It is generally the weakest point of my reviews because I do not pay much attention to music except when it is impressive If most of Bookworm's OST are...normal, I noticed some remarkable and surprising pieces at several times The anime also uses a good number of traditional instruments (or at least, it gives the air of it), which strongly strengthens the integration into the universe of Mayne Character: 9/10 The cast of Bookworm has grown significantly with the arrival of Mayne at the Church The introduction of her servants (not to be confused with those of Fate) allowed several key characters to intrude It was very nice to see the evolution of these characters (my favorite being Fran), even if I find that the mini-arc of Delia resolved a little too quickly The development of the character of Mayne is more discreet but is present enough to be noticed, without it making a 180 ° so far My favorite character of this season will however be a new one: Ferdinand He is understanding, affectionate towards Mayne (and even becomes his confidant) but that does not prevent him from berating her when necessary, and guiding her in normal times. Mayne owes him all the good things that has happened to her in the Church. He is a very well written and highly sympathetic character Enjoyment: 9/10 Following Mayne's adventures is always a pleasure I never thought I would appreciate an isekai like this, a slice of life moreover, and that it could distract me as much Overall: 9/10 This second is in line with the first If we can blame it for its weak animation, we can forgive it because this anime is really a hidden gem !
Ascendance of a Bookworm is now a well-known anime with a relative unanimity around its quality. I review the S1+S2 here. (english is not my primary language) I have been quite disappointed by these two seasons... The anime is the story of a 20-year-old librarian who is reincarnated in a 5-year-old girl body after her death, in a new fantasy/medieval world. All the anime spin around the fact that this new world has not yet invented the printing and so books are rare and expensive. The anime have a lot of problems in its writing and I will discuss about them, but before, let's talk about theart and the OST. The art of Ascendance of a Bookworm is a bit "cheap", with a bad animation on certain scenes and a drawing a bit strange, particularly on faces. The OST of this anime is not good at all. We have not a single one recognisable theme and OP/ED are not good. This last point is a very bad point for me : in this type of anime I like to be transported by a strong OST. The story and the universe of the anime is, from my point of view, not well written. The loop of the anime is simple : the girl knows technologies and things that don't exist in this new world, she recreates it and this is a success which permits the girl to progress in the social structure of this world in order to achieve her final goal : creating a lot of books. The main problem with this loop is that the universe is constructed to permit this, and this is not done delicately ... All the world of this anime is improbable and not well executed. The absence of some tech is not credible for the level of civilisation of the world, and the success of the girl invention is too quick to be credible. The writing has also a lot of inconstancies : one scene the heroine, after having created a book with soot ink, smell the book and say « huuuummm, the good odour of the ink », referring to the nostalgia of books smell in our world. But hey, you just print a book with soot remember, it should smell soot, not modern ink ... It's a small detail, but all the anime is written like that, and after 27 episodes it is very visible. Another problem is the reactions of adults to the heroin experimentations and inventions : everybody give her full trust, way too easily. She is a five-year-old girl, her inventions should, sometimes, bring some suspicion. It is never the case in the anime. The last bad point of the anime is the nature of relations between the heroin and the other characters, specifically in the season 2. In the season 2, the anime takes a strange turn : it becomes an anime on commercial relation between people and on servant/master relationship. And this is strangely executed. The heroin will always construct her relationship with her acquaintance in a mercantile like way : contracts, or material rewards/punishments . For example, at some point in the anime it happens that the heroine picked up the management of an orphanage with a lot of starving children, and to remotivate orphans she will cancel the charity organisation (everybody had the same meal in the orphanage) to go to a commercial organisation : those who work better will have a better meal. It's a bit choking, for me, to see that. It's like, in kindergarten or middle school you change the meal relatively to the notes of the student in class. It's a bit revulsing. And the fact that here it's starving children didn't help with my feeling about that. Another part of the anime is about the relation master/servant. The heroine has some servant and will act in the same way : material rewards and punishment to construct her relation with them. It's very cold and the feeling of the « superior noble enlightened heroines » who manage her herd of servants with a good little candy and pat on the back to motivate them to be good servant is a bit too much for me in this anime. All the S2 is like that : cold relationship based only on mercantile considerations. So well, I didn't like the direction of the anime in the S2. The combo of inconstancies, strange orientation of scenarios and relationship between characters in the S2 and poor art and inexistent OST make, for me, the anime not very good. It's still watchable, so for me it's a 6/10 for the S2 and a little 7/10 for the S1.
Isekai Bookworm is back for Part 2, the continuation of the 2nd half of the remaining 12 episodes, and I'd have to say that while the content for the 2nd half was another solid effort, it was kinda downplayed after the strong foundations of the 1st half. Don't get me wrong, it is a good watch, but as a whole when it's compared to the source material, it lacks finesse and proper story progression. The story with Part 2 (the Apprentice Shrine Maiden arc) continues our blue-haired childish girl's dreams of wanting to read and make books, now descending onto the Church, whose noble state isone of disrepair, and attaching with it, the politics and power play that comes with tormented abuse. Myne is only there as a means to cure her growing mana (which she had from the Devouring back in Part 1), and of course, the library, because books come first than others. The measure of being a commoner in royal clothing is something that Myne constantly has to bear her position in the Church, to whomever resides in there as means to oppress people where and when they like it. All these is wrong, but Myne has no power to stop it, and besides, getting yourself in trouble only builds a bad rap to your name, and Myne doesn't want that, so it's really testing her nerves. Together with High Priest Ferdinand, Myne goes through her adding number of responsibilities and work, one day at a time. One good thing is her own personal growth, compared to the beginning of Part 1, Myne has fully grown and outdone herself in ways that I could say it's just character "development", but it's development truly different, yet fascinating. New to Part 2 is, of course the side characters, plus some new oddities of Myne's growing responsibility: the grey-robed assistants (or rather the untouchables). As a noble, every noble has to attach themselves to a grey-robed servant, and Myne has 3 in toll: the aggressive Gil, the annoying devil Delia and right-hand man Fran. It's easy to see why there is a lot of disdain between the nobles and commoners, but for Myne, the biggest challenge is to persuade them to her side and be fellow good people, regardless of their ulterior motives. Most certainly, flexing her position as a noble gives her the identity to do as she pleases, but with the rotten Church system, it's clear that something must be done, and she will take up any case, so as long as the dream of reading books isn't negated. All things otherwise, it's about what you'd expect from Part 1, with the same artwork and visuals. I certainly don't ever think that Ajia-Do would have perfected this even much given the seasonal gap to improve some aesthetics, but what is given to us the audience, it's passable enough. Same goes with the sound, the VAs still doing a good job at the character roles given and such, adding that blend onto the anime. And of course, new OP/ED which is good, but I'd take Part 1's set anyday as it expressed the emotions better. Overall, Isekai Bookworm was a good watch, and for the uninitiated, having to binge through all 26 episodes really spoke volumes about how this series really eventually came into all on its own and carving its sense of identity. If you can, I'd suggest binging from the beginning to get the full experience about this overlooked hidden gem that's an Isekai, but a vastly different type of Isekai out there. Fun times indeed.
You could say "Oh! Finally a sequel. Yay!", but you will be pretty disappointed. Creators continue to speed the main storyline as fast as they can. The 12th episode is absolute garbage. Even I would make up better ending episode then them. Now without further ado let's rate it. Character design 4/10: All characters seem like they are dead. As a viewer, you can't feel with them. It is like watching a fish. And on top of that, some don't have any development. If you want good characters then this is not for you.Soundtrack & OP,ED 6/10: The opening is pretty fine It reminds me opening from Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai. Art style 3/10: Like really It's 2020 and it looks worse than Clannad. Enjoyment 7/10: I Am glad that I had taken those drugs before watching this sequel. Now for real, I liked the first season of this show I was even so generous and forget some nonsenses that they had made and gave it 8/10, but this for real? From creators that made some amazing shows to make a show like this. Meh! I maybe tolerate it the first season, but now I Am very upset. Story 4/10 --without any comment-- An overall score from me is 6/10 Yea, deal with it.
Story 7/10 This season is based mostly on Myne’s interactions as an Apprentice Priestess in the church while I enjoyed this season and its story I didn’t think it was as strong as the first season as there wasn’t enough happening outside the church. This was still good though as we learned more about the church and the world and how backwards their attitudes are outside of the Head Priest Myne is able to make some changes though and these changes further Myne as a character and allow her to follow her dreams. Art 7/10 I do like the art style here with good artwork on the worldand the characters. Sound 7/10 Reasonable sound and music with decent voice acting. Characters 7/10 I still like Myne as a character and Ferdinand the head priest is a good character however I thought the support cast was not as strong as the first season. Enjoyment 7/10 An enjoyable 2nd season although as mentioned above this was not as good as the 1st season it did have some good moments particular when Myne was able to make important changes in the church which improved the lives of the other children although some of the episodes towards the end were a little weak. Overall 7/10
This show is another isekai that I first thought will be a junk. But as the story progress, i come to love it. I haven't read the source of this anime, so this review is based only from the anime. Beware this review may contain Spoiler. The MC is little girl & fragile, easy to get tired & sick. Usually MC start from little kid and there is time skip as story progress, transform them to their adult form. But this one isn't, the MC remain as kid from season 1 to season 2. The pacing is quite slow at first, made me boredand nearly stopped watching it. But there is an event that nearly never happen in the all other isekai show. Someone inside the isekai find out the MC is from another world, not from there. From that point on, I 'm become more interested. Honzuki take another route of isekai, instead of action packed fighting monster, they choose a slice-of-life genre with a little bit magic as flavor. We nearly don't see anyone using magic at season 1. We get the MC using her knowledge & helping hand from people around her to solve any issue arise in the show. And clearly it become one good point of this show. Also Honzuki remind me of another isekai, Gate, that pretty much the same. Although gate have more action than honzuki. They have the same vibe of slice-of-life and otaku MC. I don't know if its become a thing in Japan, there are quite a list of show that plot otaku as the MC. Together with Gate, this show give us a pleasant feeling and show us that otaku can become a good leader & make a miracle when it's needed. The visual are so good and sometime the background buliding get better visual than the character itself. Not a popular studio like A-1, madhouse, JC staff, etc. They provide a good visual for this show. The sound is good to. But since this one is more a drama than action, we won't find an upbeat full of spirit BGM. But the melodic slow BGM is really fit with the drama in this show. Overall, this show is must see if you like Gate or slice-of-life show. I enjoy it more than i thought it to be.
If you had told me a year or so ago that one of my favourite animes ever would be about a little girl reading books i'd have called you insane. but yet, here we are. There are very few stories that i know of that begin so comfy, a simple premise about a girl getting isekai'd and ending up as a feverish sickly girl in a medieval Europe setting. she is a daughter of a poor family but still retains her memories. The story slowly develops into a merchant story but then also develops into a story with genuine world changing political intrigue. I could writereams about the characters but i believe what i can say has been said by many others in a far better way. All in all Myne has become one of my favourite little characters and i cannot wait for season 3. If you are on the fence about this series, please pleas please watch it
Real score: 7.5 I suddenly got inspiration to write this review after waiting since last winter. I'll be brief and tell you that this 2nd season it's duller than the first one (I gave it a higher score for the 1st one). I got slightly dissappointed because I was waiting anxiously for the second season. Fortunately, it became more interesting in the second half but it seems that I'm missing on many information about this new world, and Main is doing way less work as the "engineer of books" as I think she is. It's more related to how to act among nobility but they don'treally show a lot, those awful noble people just appear from time to time to let us know that they exist but I felt no pressure from them at all. It shows that life goes on, that the characters have grown a little, as little as its plot development. I couldn't expect more from a short second season.
Truly masterpiece of anime, however if you're just now looking this up i'd suggest 2 things if you watch this read the manga as well, what is not in the anime is in the manga and the 2 complement each other filling in the plot holes of the other. If you don't have access to the manga, read the light novel, it's available on Amazon or other less scrupulous sources. I did all 3 and without the novelization I'd miss so much that's going on in the background. Ok to the review season 2 covers the events of the second half of Part 1book 3, part 2 book 1 and the first part of book 2. Myne becomes a priestess but there is evil within the church and Myne will do anything to become a Librarian. The teaser trailer sets an excellent mood for the season however the event everyone wants to see from it does not occur until episode 10-13. So there ya go. In the interem there is a lot of other stuff that happens unfortunately if you aren't reading the book or doing the anime/manga overlap reading you're gonna be lost for a lot of it. Things are moving very fast and this is an anime that demands that you read, it's kinda Myne's thing. This anime does not have a lot lost in the dub i believe so subbed or dubbed will not matter, many historical references and church terms are english, or german anyway and even mentioning the idea of marriage makes Myne and Tuuli blush. So if you can watch it dubbed there is no shame.