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md3 watches Ascendance of a Bookworm eps2-4

2:45 PM 12/4/2019

Ascendance of a Bookworm Episode 2 – Life Improvements and Slates

I feel less compellted to stop the ep every few minutes to write my reaction notes, since I already watched these clips before on YOuTube. I feel like I can finally relax and watch this series. I should watch spoilers more often. LOL

I've been warry for a little while now, but I wonder if this is it... I've been seeing AniTube vids latey alluding to "that scene" from this series. Though I have no idea what they're talking about, it sounds like something problematic sprang up in the story. And more and more, I wonder if it's this romance that the show is pushing between Main (I don't like that Crunchyroll spelling; my brain keeps wanting to read "main") and Lutz. I mean, if they take that to fruition without time skips, then that means this adult lady from our world, trapped in the body of a 5 year old, will be in a romantic relationship with a 5 year old boy from this fantasy world. O____o;;;;;;;;;;;; I hope they don't do that. ...But knowing how often incest has been pushed as the romantic subplot, more often in anime this past decade or so....I'm afraid that may be the case. x__x; I really hope I'm just being paranoid! ;o;!

Also, this whole shampoo/sniffing hair reminds me of when I was younger and I did understand that it's weird/intrusive if a guy does that to a girl. Up until that point in my life, women had frequently commented on my shampoo scent and sniffed my hair. And I just came to learn that it must be a normal thing. Then the first time a guy asked if he could sniff my hair, my first thought was, "Well, I don't want to change my response, just because of his gender." I had spent a lot of my childhood sexist against males, and I was trying very hard to grow out of it. So I let him pick up a lock of my hair and sniff it. Granted, my hair was so freaking long that even picking it up, kept him at a good 3-4 foot distance away from me. So I didn't realize it was anything considered intimate. But in retrospect, and after guys kept approaching me more than once in the hardware store, while I was still in my church clothes,...What kind of weirdo chases after girls running errands in a store, whenever she happens to be in a nice dress, then strikes up random conversations and asks to sniff her hair?! In retrospect, that was weird. And as an asexual, I am retroactively creeped-out.

3:15 PM 12/4/2019

Well, Crunchyroll crashed during the commercial break again. Do I have to stop watching now? Like I did yesterday during Dr. Stone? ;o;? If this keeps happening, maybe I'll just watch fansubs on YouTube. ;_; I really don't want to though! I'll try reloading the page and see if it'll let me skip to the middle of the episode, where I left off.

3:31 PM 12/4/2019

She forgot her papyrus idea?

Well, I'm not going to wait through another commercial break that'll probably crash or buffer like all the others. I'm going straight to the next episode. And I just hope there isn't more to ep2 besides the ending theme and previews.

3:32 PM 12/4/2019

Ascendance of a Bookworm Episode 3 – The Events of Winter

omg Give Main some tools! LOL

Aw, poor Turi. She should be proud of all the things she was able to help Main do, that Main so obviously couldn't do alone. Instead she feels sad that Main is better at weaving than her. ;_;

I learned a long time ago that age doesn't matter, just experience. Being the older sister isn't some kind of automatic hierarchy that makes you naturally better at everything vs your younger sister. I have so much social anxiety that I've been paralyzed with inexperience for most of my life, so growing up, it was only logical to me that my outgoing sister had lots of experience and capabilities that I couldn't do. I never felt sore at her about it. Instead I recognized that I could rely on her to help me with the things she did better than me. I just got lucky that the pseudo-philosophical blabbering I naturally do is for some reason very useful to her (per her words). Sisters is a team thing, not a hierarchy.

Gotta say, there's a lot of scenes in this anime that suddenly stop. Like I expect the characters to do an action, but they freeze instead. I know there's a lot of limited animation and a series needs to save their budget. But this series does it so well, that during the times when they cut corners, it's really unexpected. Not bad, which is what makes their choices for when to place the limited animation, still good direction. Just unexpected, after the series/episode has been able to fool you so far, with the other limited animation corner cutting it placed so well that it was unnoticable. It didn't impede the natural flow of the episode/series so far. It's pretty impressive. ^-^! Like when Turi was warming the parue tree's branch to pick the fruit, or when Lutz was about to flip the pancake/paruecake.

I love that Main straight up called her dad's jealousy by acting innocent.

I love when Main talks like an adult in that tiny body. LOL "I'm not the type of person to work without compensation." LOL Wow. She really had him make a crochet hook. I thought she'd use knitting needles instead. Ambitious!

LOL Her dad's so silly! LOL

4:04 PM 12/4/2019

Ok. No time for ending credits or ending themes. I gotta get on with my day.

4:58 PM 12/4/2019

Ascendance of a Bookworm Episode 4 – Forests and Clay Tablets

Back from my daily walk. Maybe I can watch this ep without sitting and typing at my laptop? (Feh. Heard that one beofre. x_x; )

"Officially going there to learn to read and write." Yosha!!!!!!!!!

I keep forgetting Main's dad is the captain. lol

When I first saw this scene on YouTube, I was confused because I thought clay soil was most prevalent around water. o.o? Isn't it that layer that's usually exposed on the sides of creeks and rivers? But in this series Main says, "He took em to a spot with very little vegetation ro drainage." I'll have to research later.

"With books, you can learn what people in the past were thinking, and experience so much mroe than you normally could in an average lifespan." Damn straight. Whenever spoilsports start denegrating 2nd hand experience and blabbing on about how "you can only really learn stuff first-hand" and whatever, I always end up shouting, "Then what the hell are libraries for!?!" Second-hand experiences have value, damn it! "Experience so much more than you normally could in an average lifespan."

Why is their first instinct to jump onto those tablets when they didn't know what they were?! This is why there are so many fairtales about people doing random stupid stuff, then getting cursed!

I didn't expect them to introduce magic like this. Why is she glowing?

Well, because they owed her, now she has more hands to produce more clay.

Damn. Rain.

Oh no! No no no no no no! As somone who as tried to speed up ceramics baking by cheating with fireplaces and ovens before the actual kiln, please don't just toss your clay tablets into a stove fire! o~o!!!

...and kablamo. ^^;;;;

5:28 PM 12/4/2019

Well, that's enough new anime for right now. I've got stuff to do.

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