As promised, I read Ascendence of a Bookworm Part 1. Yes, all three books of part one. And let me just say a few things… it’s pretty dang good.
It was really cool seeing the differences between the book and the anime. For instance, I had always thought it strange that everyone thought parue was only good for bird feed when all Myne had to do was taste it and see that it was delicious. There’s no way hungry poor people hadn’t tried to eat parue fruit before. The book’s explanation made a lot more sense.
We also get to see a lot more of Lutz’s family dynamics which flesh out his character a lot more. And we see that Myne’s cooking is her trying to recreate Japanese food. Speaking of food, the otherworldly vegetages didn’t make an appearance in the anime either.
Concerning the art, I still think Llo (Reincarnated as a Sword) delivers better art. In. Bookworm the cover art is great but the black and white art feels wrong. I eventually realized the issue: Rather than the art depicting a moment in time, it was as if you described a scene to an artist and had them draw it. The art is stagnant. Also the art felt more raw and unpolished. However this seemed to get a lot better by the 3rd book. And honestly it’s only a minor complaint. Other light novels have worse art or no art at all so I’d say the art is still pretty good. I just love Llo more.
As a side note, I did like how the anime depicted the Crushing scene. It might even have been better than the book. I love that moment.
Anyway Myne is about to start at the Temple and I’m looking forward to that.
As promised, I read Ascendence of a Bookworm Part 1. Yes, all three books of part one. And let me just say a few things… it’s pretty dang good.
It was really cool seeing the differences between the book and the anime. For instance, I had always thought it strange that everyone thought parue was only good for bird feed when all Myne had to do was taste it and see that it was delicious. There’s no way hungry poor people hadn’t tried to eat parue fruit before. The book’s explanation made a lot more sense.
We also get to see a lot more of Lutz’s family dynamics which flesh out his character a lot more. And we see that Myne’s cooking is her trying to recreate Japanese food. Speaking of food, the otherworldly vegetages didn’t make an appearance in the anime either.
Concerning the art, I still think Llo (Reincarnated as a Sword) delivers better art. In. Bookworm the cover art is great but the black and white art feels wrong. I eventually realized the issue: Rather than the art depicting a moment in time, it was as if you described a scene to an artist and had them draw it. The art is stagnant. Also the art felt more raw and unpolished. However this seemed to get a lot better by the 3rd book. And honestly it’s only a minor complaint. Other light novels have worse art or no art at all so I’d say the art is still pretty good. I just love Llo more.
As a side note, I did like how the anime depicted the Crushing scene. It might even have been better than the book. I love that moment.
Anyway Myne is about to start at the Temple and I’m looking forward to that.
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