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Yeah, I'm not gonna format this. I'll just pour out my thoughts and feelings. Maybe I can make more sense of it later...

No mention of Veronica? Sylvester only lost his cool when Bezewanst brought her up and Syl shouted him down for having to sentence his own mother.

Delia's reaction was rather mild... she should have been horrified and gone pale as a ghost when Myne suggested it. Also I'm not fond that they cut Sylvester's line that he'd only let Myne's decided punishment for Delia stand, if he believed it harsh enough. Like this it's like Myne could have given Delia a slap on the wrist if she wanted, but was being mean, where in the books she had to be so harsh or otherwise Sylvester wouldn't have accepted it and executed Delia.

WHY did they add the "I want to marry you dad"? I hate this cliché and it was not in the book. Why do they add such unnecessary crap, but cut out other stuff?

AND WHY ARE YOU SMILING AND LOOKING HAPPY! They fucked it up. There should be tears streaming down Myne's face as she casts the blessing and fuck the happy music too.

It looked so good up to that point, but nope, they had to sink it the last mintue >:(

WHY IS HER FAMILY SO HAPPY WHEN LEAVING AND NOT EVEN LOOKING BACK AS SHE BOWS? *argh*

I HATE this flip-flopping from from sad to happy to sad to happy... If the blessing and good-bye were the last scenes, I could understand why they didn't want to end on a sad note and thus made it brigher, but then they showed her crying while bowing anyway and then went back to happy with the post-credits... Why do they do this?

It's just so infuriating to see these glimpses of greatness and what-might-have-beens only to have it ruined anyway with such stupid decisions in between.

Hmm.... so Melchior loves stories about the gods and in the past the high bishop was chosen from among the archduke's children...

I think Melchior will succeed Rozemyne's post as the High Bishop once she vacates the position to marry.

Seeing Rozemyne's interaction with Wilfried following the tea party with Melchior was fun. They already act like a married couple there, being very reminiscent of some interactions Sylvester and Florencia had. ^^ That sure was cute.

So Ferdinand is taking his training seriously. I think this has nothing at all to do with a simple "change of pace" and all with his fight against Hassheit. He's probably shook about how hard a time he had defeating his old rival and/or feels like he's rusted.

I'm sad to say this, but this is the first (and hopefully only) episode of Bookworm that is just bad to me. Not just parts, but the episode as a whole.

It feels like the animation team made it entirely off of cliff-notes without anyone having read the novel and really knowing what's going on. Pretty much every scene is wrong in some way or the other, and not just nitpicky, but also some significant changes/errors.

-Johann should have been overjoyed to make something other than metal letter types all day long. That would have been a much better investment of the few second he spend to wonder about toys...

-Instead of actually sleepwalking, Heidi is just incredibly stupid, risking her career consciously!

-Josef instead of helping Heidi is just despairing.

-Damuel an utter failure as a guard knight, allowing the clearly agitated Delia to grab Myne and only oggling things while Fran goes to do Damuel's job.

-Myne doesn't even mention that the adotion talk came before Delia bonded with Dirk, which is what mollified her in the LN.

-Tuuli and Myne flip who's disappointed with the other making the cuter stuffed animal.

-Tuuli isn't even making a seperate one for Renate, but helping Myne make hers,

-The bell should be INSIDE the animal -> !!!!choking hazard!!!!

-Somehow Delia sounds partly sinister instead of just being innocently happy after running off with Dirk.

-Instead of frantically searching for the foreign noble, Otto stands around in a stupor in a back alley.

And when Delia asks if she can be exused since Dirk's father will soon arrive, before being dismissed... what is wrong with Delia's voice? For these two sentences it sounds like she's too far from the microphone making the voice sound muffled. Did no one notice that in recording or editing? oO

Also in the anime-only Bezewanst tantrum he's not waring his robes. Priests are supposed to always wear their robes inside the cathedral. And Bezewanst's white robes are the symbol that everyone else there has to dance to his tunes. There's no way he wouldn't wear it in the church.

I dearly hope they put all the thought and care they clearly did not invest in this episode into the finale rather than them running out of steam...

I think the doors between the duchy dormitories and the central parts of the Royal Academy are teleporter doors.

When Rozemyne goes to Anastasius' Villa, she thinks she went through a regular door. But later in Hildebrand's epilogue chapter of P4V5 we learn that the royal villas are actually not in the academy, but elsewhere and connected to the academy via teleportation circle incorporated into the door.

So from this we know that teleporters of this kind that are subtle enough for people to not notice them being teleported can and do exist.

The other issue is how the entrances to the duchies change... or don't change depending on your point of view when the ranking chances, as well as their general position.

We know that the dormitories are arranged in a ring around the central buildings, and yet the dorms are connected to a corridor that Rozemyne did not describe as curving.

Also when Ehrenfest goes up, it isn't just the plaque over the door than changes, but the position of the door itself.

If it was just a regular corridor, that would mean that the duchies physically exchanged dorms, which would mean considerable expenditure of mana for the Entwickeln... but we heard no such thing mentioned. Considering how much mana it took to add a couple of pipes to the lower city, surely completely remodeling every aspect of the entire dorm would need more mana than Sylvester and Florencia could muster on their own and leave Sylvester in a state not just mentally, but also physically exhausted.

Because of all this I think that the doors to the dorms are actually teleporter doors like the ones to the royal villas and instead of switching dorms, they just reconfigure the teleporters to connect to the appropriate dormitory for duchies that changed rank. And we just havn't been told so, because Rozemyne doesn't know and it just didn't come up in the side-stories.

This attack on the king is probably going to serve as a good smokescreen to whoever has sent the one ternisbefallen against Ehrenfest earlier. I wouldn't be surprised if people assumed this earlier ternisbefallen had just been lost or gotten lose early, when the terrorists smuggled those meant for the interduchy trounament attack to the academy.

With Werkerstock being one of the defeated duchies of the civil war and the home of ternisbefallen that's a very logical conclusion to come to. The only anomaly is how that first ternisbefallen bee-lined for the Ehrenfest gathering spot while ignoring closer, more mana-rich gathering spots. If not for that I'd even be inclined to believe in an accidental release of the beast meant for the later assault myself.

But at the same time I can't help but feel like the two incidents are still connected. Maybe someone from Ahrensbach secretly worked with the terrorists and unleashing the ternisbefallen against Ehrenfest's gathering spot was the payment for helping to get the beasts into the academy. With her highly suspicious behavior, Fraularm is the natural suspect #1, though she might very well have acted on Georgine's orders, most likely behind Aub Ahrensbach's back.

I'm just speculating based on Pre-Pub stuff, so no actual WN spoilers please.

Hmm... they made a rather odd choices here.

In the books it was specifically pointed out how they did NOT touch during sword dances... and the anime made it look like they were having a practice fight... kind of defeats the "dance" part if you ask me.

So I made Categories for 3 different level of spoilers.

The idea is:

General - Anime Spoilers & Other

Light Novel - Translated LN Spoilers

Web Novel - All Spoilers

This is the least I can do for more spoiler moderation, since the discuss section of the wiki is so limited compared to the wiki itself.

You can change the current category you're on with the "Category" dropdown.

I know this is when the ink guild ganged on him, but does anyone know why Lutz is carrying a cloth out of all thing?

I wish there was a way to spoiler images in the discuss area -_-

In the recent pre-pub release, Rauffen wears a blue cape.

This is curious. I would have thought that as a sovereignty noble he would wear a black cape, like the members of the Sovereignty Knight's Order.

Does anyone know why?

Is this due to him being the Dunkelfelger dormitory supervisor or do nobles keep wearing the colour of the duchy they were part of at their graduation (with the obvious expections of those that become priests like Ferdinand switching to blue?

Or is it just a personal choice, rather than a strict social norm like skirt-length for girls?

I guess that Dunkelfelger capes also differ in the shade of blue they use from what Ferdinand is wearing, to avoid confusion between Priest Knights and people from that duchy.

Just wondering, is there any students from Sovereignty besides the Princes in the Royal Academy? Because there are sovereign nobles such as the Professors and the Princes' retainers. If yes, then how their dormitory is placed and their rank is determined?

Does anyone know why there's a pause this week in J-Novel Club's pre-publications?

I would have expected a pause in the weeks of Christmas or New Year, but why now?

From Justus special chapter we learned that the magic tools in the merchant guild hall are charged by layscholars, but we never heard of if or how guildcards are charged with mana.

They obviously need mana to work, but where do they get it from?

I could come up with two theories:

1) They require so little mana that even the bodies of commoners can keep them charged.

2) There is a magic tool within the merchant guild hall that charges them. If there was a dedicated charging station, we'd probably have heard about it, but maybe the recharge is integrated into another magic tool and while it does it's regular duty, it also tops of the guild card's mana. Kind of similar how certain key-chips in today's world work, that get charged and updated by holding them to the master-reader usually at the main entrance.

Personally I think #1 is more likely. Since nothing can grow in soil completely empty of mana, I think it's save to assume that every living thing in their world has at least a tiny bit of mana in it. That would also explain how blood can work to register commoners "without mana" to magic tools like the guild card or citizenship medalion.

SPOILER WARNING for Light Novel Part 2, Volume 4 and onward and anime-only-viewers!

I just had a thought about the magical contract about how Rozemyne and her family have to treat each other. I do not think it prevents them from hugging (among other things).

The contract states 3 specific points.

1) Main must be treated as dead.

2) Neither side may acknowledge the other as family.

3) Her family must treat her like they would a noble.

Point 1 is pretty straighforward. Never call her by her old name and tell no one the "old" and "new" are the same person.

Now point 2 and 3 are where it becomes fuzzy... maybe intentionally so.

2 in my opinion only applies to communication. So they can not call each other family or admit to others they are family, whether it's verbal, written or via gesture. But it does not prevent them to ACT like family, does it?

And point 3 is the most ambiguous. The only thing we (and most certainly Main's family know) about how to treat nobles is to kneel when they meet them and treat them with respect and to follow their orders or face dire consequences for their disobedience.

That means Rozemyne could just order them to do anything and everything. Which means she could give them permission to hug her, or she could even "order" them to hug her, which would mean they had the obligation to do so.

I wonder if those loopholes were left open due to trying to keep the text simple enough for commoners to understand, because Sylvester didn't think Main or her family would be crafty enough to notice and use them or if he left those gaps intentionally... either out of mercy or as a learning opportunity similar to how Benno used to trick her, but unlike Benno he just left it in place without giving any hints and goes with a wait and see approach.

Either way, I am quite sure that Rozemyne would be perfectly able to hug Tuuli or her parents in her hidden room.

Besides, she hugs Lutz all the time and he is not related to her, so hugging doesn't even count as purely family-based behaviour in the first place.

I dont know what you all think, but i was a bit dissapointed in the anime adaptation of the trombe incident. When reading the light novel, it seemed to me that Myne was trully being enveloped in the trombe and that pretty much only her face was left uncovered. It seemed to me that there was basically already a decent size tree around her in the novel, while in the anime there is only a small part of a tree growing that the knights should have been easily able to free Myne from.

If the world she was transmigrated to is a round earth-like planet orbiting a sun, than countries near the poles experience the seasons completely differently from countries near the equator. How does this coincide with the story of the gods and how they created the seasons? Is the north pole the domain of the god of life or something? If there are deserts then maybe they're rich leidenchaft or the godess of lights mana? They did mention that Illgner had a more temperate climate...Maybe this explains why different places have high concentrations of different types of mana? Maybe the gods don't actually exist and they are just stories made up to explain the natural phenomena around them.

Gunther - will he become a lead guard at the temple to help protect Rozemyne? He could also teach all the other men in the temple about hand fighting.. when they do not have or run out of mana..... that would increase his time with Myne when she is in the temple.. and help those who depend on mana to know how to handle things when they run out.. since not a lot of them have a lot of mana

Sister - Tuli... she gets to see Rozemyne when she helps with making her clothes..

I like the novel better than the anime.. but it is still nice...

Is it possible that if they can heal Rozemyne from her illness causes.. that she can become a taller young women by the time she is old enough marry and thus be able to bear children .. for some awesome to be introduced character?

Can mana be shared with others so they can have it more? How could Lutz get mana?

What if Gunther and Effa could move into and take care of the orphans under Rosemyne direction when she is the new High Bishop and running the temple?

How much can she improve the medical ability of the country? if they start to work with her on that...

Will she begin creating commons schools?

So.. lots of thoughts and wondering and waiting for the next novels to come out.. thanks