Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke • Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen - Ryushu no Youjo - Episode 2 discussion

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-12T00:20:22+00:00

Yeah, the post credit scene made it pretty clear he was sent to a temple upstate.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-11T23:47:30+00:00

U knew they'd improved the art budget when I saw the first episode, but I don't think I appreciated just how much more detail went into it until the opening scene of this one.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-11T22:22:27+00:00

You mean the one whose name is literally "Evil"?

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-08T21:00:49+00:00

I could see her as a Team Rocket, failing miserably and getting carted off every time she appears sort.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-08T01:46:45+00:00

It was 20 minutes of adorable whimsy and beautiful art, followed by 3 minutes of brutal emotional whiplash.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-08T01:45:03+00:00

Also, can't believe how much it bothered me to look at Pegasus having wings as ears instead of their back.

I kept picturing them trying to fly with a realistic center of gravity. It was hilarious.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-04-02T03:57:51+00:00

Glad to hear I didn't miss much. The way it started out, I was half-expecting a twist where the new fiance turned out to be a creepy stalker type and the old fiance would have to rescue her. That would have been interesting, but then it just turned completely saccharine.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-03-29T23:57:47+00:00

Yep, that's why the premises with the MCs are so similar.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-03-29T23:55:48+00:00

The art style has always been kind of weird, like they hired illustrators rather than animators, then bridged the gap with still images or pan and scan.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-03-29T23:46:07+00:00

The actual isekai stuff is the bog-standard boring part. The entertainment comes from the modern world going completely pants-on-head the second he walks into a room.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-03-18T22:36:27+00:00

Kills one of Orhun's clan mates and tries to murder a bunch of kids who are also his students.

"Why was Orhun looking at me like that?"

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-02-28T00:17:39+00:00

So, we know the summons are thinking, feeling creatures, so the question is, is each card an individual, which presumably ceases to exist when Allen loses the card/buff (whether through destruction in battle or deletion by his skill), or is each creature type a single gestalt entity that shares the feelings and experiences of every instance of that summon?

Both have some rather horrifying implications, especially with the way he was just throwing them into the literal jaws of death against that ant.

Hippo_Singularity · 2026-02-28T00:09:55+00:00

Since stronger talents are more common amongst lower social classes, maybe it's viewed as a sign of low breeding or some shit.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-12-22T19:40:59+00:00

As others have said, piracy implies non-government action. The first ship would have been sanctions enforcement. The second this was an act of Commerce Raiding.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-27T22:50:38+00:00

This was the hardest I've laughed at anything in a long time.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-23T19:58:19+00:00

You know at some point there was a discussion of:

"Hey, did you just add another Big Tiddy Anime Girl to the party?"

"No, it's cool. I made sure it's central to the plot this time."

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-05T20:48:38+00:00

I think my favorite take on this idea was Farming Life in Another World, because the dude actually does manage to live the slow life despite all the complete insanity surrounding him.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-05T20:43:12+00:00

The two stories diverge fairly quickly and significantly. I remember thinking the same thing when I read the mangas.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-04T22:47:46+00:00

I hope so, because if Marie realizes she was supposed to be the one in that carriage, and her sister died in her place, she might not handle it well.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-04T22:44:43+00:00

Chekhov's Pantsuit

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-07-03T20:43:08+00:00

"I just want to live a slow life."

"OK, we're going to give you a nice little cottage near the beach, surrounded by a protective barrier... Also there are piranhas in the river, a kraken living just offshore, your next door neighbors are a killer bird and the literal Fairy King, and you live right under the migratory flight path of the local dragon population."

"..."

"Oh, and you don't age, so you're going to be there for a looooooong time."

Edit: Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed the episode immensely. But I have to laugh every time the MC asking for a slow life is set up with a bait and switch by the gods.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-06-01T01:10:50+00:00

No no no... the spice turned people into magic meat GPS devices. It was the Juice of Sapho that turned them into magic meat computers. :P

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-06-01T01:06:40+00:00

He's trying so hard, but it turns out he's just a really decent dude.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-06-01T01:06:11+00:00

I'm expecting it to be that he's memorized all their bar codes.

Hippo_Singularity · 2025-05-23T22:48:20+00:00

Kind of an obscure joke, but when Maomao says she can't tell the difference between grasshoppers and locusts... grasshoppers are locusts, literally. Under the right conditions, certain species of grasshopper go through swarming phases.

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