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Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo, episode 8
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Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4, Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 4th Season, 本好きの下剋上 司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません 第4期
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This is purely a complaint about something that was animated in this episode, but I just found it shocking, being familiar with the story.
Right after Rozemyne has her sleepless night about Hasse, (at 14:10 on Crunchyroll), she gets into her highbeast by crawling onto the seat, then kneeling on the seat, and then turning and putting her feet down into the pedal area.
One of the first things she learned about noble etiquette as a blue priestess was to never to climb onto a seat, and I’m pretty sure that was shown in the anime, too. So, Rozemyne would never do this at this point in the story, especially not in front of Ferdinand.
Fine, but even weirder, I don’t think anybody would do this. I’ve never seen anybody get into a car like this… maybe a small child, but that’s because they’re getting into an adult-sized car. This highbeast was made specifically for Rozemyne.
What a weird animation choice. If the seat was in the way, they could just make the seat move similarly to the door, which would be an easier animation, anyways.
On one side of the adaptation spectrum, you have BUG FILMS working on Witch Hat Atelier, which actually tailors the girl’s clothes to get the animation putting them on right, and on the other side, you get WIT Studio on Bookworm, who can’t even be arsed to read the stuff they are adapting.
I just don’t get it. How can it be that one of the best-selling book series can’t get a good adaptation?!
Yeah… the new animation studio keeps doing odd things like this. The animation is pretty but it feels like they pay less attention to the small things that makes the series good.
For me, this isn’t a small thing. It’s a fundamental mistake that betrays a nearly complete lack of understanding about the character being animated. It’d be like if you were making a cartoon about The Flash, and the animators had him flying somewhere like Superman.
What is the point of this part of Rozemyne’s life? What is she doing? She is learning to be not just a noble, but the Arch Bishop and the daughter of the Archduke. She is doing this seriously because if she fails, it’s quite likely that her family and all of her commoner friends in the lower city will be executed along with her.
If you just have a two sentence summary of Rozemyne’s motivation like that, then this would never have been animated like that. It goes against her core character at this point in the story.
There are allowances that need to be made for animation. Like, in their society, nobles basically always either smile or have an otherwise calm expression, and never show other emotions on their faces, but that would probably not look good as an animation.