https://www.tobooks.jp/booklove/news.html

source: https://x.com/miyakazuki01/status/1852255031879438668

Here is the fifth official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after finishing Part 5 Volume 3. Includes end cards from the anime, coverage of another drama CD, and the longest translated Q & A with author Miya Kazuki to date.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19369297

I laughed when I read "What Would Myne Do?" on the rule sidebar of [email protected], mostly because it brought to mind profiteering and gleeful worker exploitation. (you taught her well, Benno)

More than that though, it also reminded me of a random idea I had never gotten around to sharing. I present to you the Myne is Secretly the Antagonist Challenge. When the mood strikes you, start reading the Bookworm series again from the beginning, but from the perspective that Myne is the antagonist of the story setting. Pay attention to the following themes, whether they are enacted by Myne personally or under her direction:

• Suppressed yandere inclinations
• Selfish demands on others
• Indifference to costs others pay to fulfill her ambitions
• Workforce exploitation
• Child labor
• Corrupt use of political influence
• Cult of personality indoctrination tactics (edit: okay, not really Myne, _but has

Finally downloaded and processed the last Volume of Bookworm from J-Novel. What a way to end the series.

Rozemyne fell unconscious upon completing her large-scale spell. Now it falls to Ferdinand to bring her back from the brink of death. If she succumbs to her lack of mana, her death will mean the worst for her loved ones and the country at large.

Ascendance of a Bookworm Illustration from the JNC Nina booth at Animagic.

Trivia for anyone interested: they announced German licensing for Spice and Wolf as well as my Quiet Life as a Blacksmith (1st Parts alrewdy available)

Here is the fourth official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after Part 4 Volume 8. Includes notes about the development of the anime, design sheets for the gods, coverage of another drama CD, and a Q & A with author Miya Kazuki.

Ferdinand starts a revolution that will abolish the distorted royal family and put a true Zent on the throne. Meanwhile, Rozemyne continues to wrestle with divine interference.

I wonder how many will get the reference

(In true Myne fashion I needed to DIY the scale)

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonzukiNoGekokujou/comments/1d0uapq/part_4_nyanda_car/

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Rozemyne, Ferdinand, and their Dunkelfelger allies set out to subjugate the Adalgisa villa. But when Gervasio’s absence and a betrayal within the Sovereign Knight’s Order come to light, the party must switch its focus to the Royal Academy’s library.

In my continuing adventures of finding quotes in every Bookworm volume for a new web forum, I'm finally over the hump and have started Volume 2... AKA the volume where it gets good.

On a side note, I read this on the new Clara BW, while it's a marginal improvement over the Clara 2e, there's a weird bug which prevented me from highlighting lines near the sides and top. This also impact the Clara Color, which is fun. Oh well.

---- Review ----

While Volume 2 is leagues better than Volume 1, it still took me a couple of days to get through it. Better than the multiple weeks that Vol 1 takes me, but not as gripping as future Volumes. I am looking forward to re-reading the swap day.

What's good about this volume is that Myne becomes likeable, as her attention moves away from Books to making paper... to make books. Look she's getting there, and she's evolving into a budding Chaos Gremlin. This is also the start of the Merchant chapters, and the beginning of the battles of whit. Which is j

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