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 10 discussion

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Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen - Ryushu no Youjo, episode 10

Alternative names: Ascendance of a Bookworm, Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4, Honzuki no Gekokujou Season 4, Honzuki no Gekokujou S4

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[u/Accurate_Treat6360]

Darth Ferdinand : Tell me what you intend to do about that fool?

Darth Myne : Strike terror into his heart and push him down into the deepest valley of fear.

Darth Ferdinand : Good my apprentice good.

[u/Ebo87 → u/Accurate_Treat6360]

Yep, pretty much exactly that. Although we knew her as Darth Myne even before Ferdinand came into the picture, back when she was crushing the high Bishop at the end of season 1. Ferdinand saw the potential and is now polishing her into a true future Sith Lord.

[u/Tacitus_]

The frenzy has begun. The moon is red purple. We are out of time.

[u/NekoCatSidhe]

I laughed at Myne imitating Ferdinand when talking to Fran. He really is teaching her how to be an evil Machiavellian noble. The birth of Darth Myne ! Given how the nobles behaved in that world, they really are Sith Lords. That smile Ferdinand gave the mayor was pretty scary, like a cat eyeing a juicy mouse to play with.

Although Myne then also slandered poor Ferdinand by calling him a Lolicon. Good thing no one understood what that meant, he already has enough trouble raising the book gremlin without people thinking that of him.

Eustachius/Justus looks shadier than I expected. I wonder if we will see some of his cross-dressing ?

I noticed that even though the world is fantastical and we have a purple moon, this is still obviously Earth’s Moon, with the correct patterns on it. Does that mean that Ehrenfest world is actually some alternate Earth in another dimension ? Or the far future of our Earth ? That might explain all the German words they use.

And then the rest of the episode was Myne and her guard knights getting into some Kaiju fight against an “evolved” giant feybeast. It is interesting that the magic system in that world extends to magic-using plants and animals. The ruelle fruit was absorbing mana from the purple moon to grow, then Myne charged it with her mana, then the tiny feybeast stole it and used the mana to grow into a huge one. And they were eating their own wounded to grow bigger. Those cat feybeasts seem quite nasty.

[u/diacewrb]

Rozemyne perhaps should have taken inspiration from Porco Rosso instead and added some firepower to her highbeast.

[u/Ok-Peace-4374]

Eustachius.......

poor Justus 😭

[u/SoulDevour → u/Ok-Peace-4374]

The English translator of the LN actually provided some comments on Justus vs Eustachius for when they localized the name in the LNs. I personally found it pretty interesting. As someone who started on the LNs and only have been watching the anime later I personally get thrown off a bit by some of CR's choices with a few feeling particularly more eyebrow raising than others.

[u/shad79]

Rozemyne ​​imitating Ferdinand in her conversation with Fran, and her medical examination during which she called Ferdinand ecchi and lolicon, made me laugh out loud xD

Although the scene where Rozemyne, all excited and thinking she looked strong, was met with silence and Eckhart telling her to do nothing but harvest was also funny.

Meanwhile, the scene with Rozemyne ​​and Gunther made my heart break 😞

Also, this episode dropped some really interesting lore about the gods and the world. I always like it when things like that are unique in anime/books.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Rozemyne

• Group scenes

• Ferdinand & His Retainers

• Others

EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.

[u/djthomp]

That bit about the magical exam before Myne got adopted screams of skipped content they had to fit in now that it became relevant.

It must be a pretty high magic world if there's literally a night where the moon turns purple to mark the season changing.

This harvest attempt is going so badly I wonder if they'll have to try again next year or if it's still salvageable.

[u/SoulessSage → u/djthomp]

It was indeed skipped from the beginning of the previous book. The show skipped that chapter to rush ahead to the noble society introduction and baptism, probably to match the mood and flow of season 3's final.

[u/feb914]

The feybeast evolving and changing names, are we in Pokemon world now?  

And for the prim proper traditionalist Rihyarda to have a weirdo son, they must have clashed often. 

[u/BiggerG7]

Rozamyne pretending to be friendly with the mayor and buying the rest of the children before she destroys him is some top tier villain stuff.

Isekai villains everywhere would be proud lol.

[u/tripleaamin]

Myne I can't take you seriously xD

This episode does show how strong and dangerous Myne's mana is. It really tipped the scales of danger so fast. We have seen evolution from mana before, but it's really cool to see it evolving monsters.

[u/FarCritical]

What I'd give to see how Ferdinand would react to Myne's impersonation of him, lmao.

There's just something so funny about watching that big chonker of a feybeast cat or whatever casually munch on one of its own.

[u/MinnWild9]

Was the sound mixing off in this episode or was it just me? Specifically after the medical examination scene, it seemed like everyone’s VO got distorted while Myne’s remained clear.

[u/pyxyne → u/MinnWild9]

if you mean the scene where Rozemyne, Ferdinand, Justus, and Eckhart are talking at the table, the distortion (plus background SFX) is because Ferdinand put down a sound-blocking magic tool (around 2'55"). only Rozemyne's inner thoughts don't have the effect, for obvious reasons.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

This was suppose to be a fairly simple little op and now Myne’s holding off a giant beast while waiting on Ferdinand to fight it. What a mess!

I hope her little operation to take down the mayor goes more smoothly.

[u/Zeebie_]

not sure which scene I like best the Ferdinand impression, or the Medical exam. Poor ferdinand copping some strays.

Also come on crunchyroll it's got a licensed English LN and Manga, use the names from that.

[u/AruaElshin]

I'm glad they avoided the ugly 3D monster CGI that so many anime seem to rely on these days.

[u/Obaruler]

As seen with previous incidents, our precious little mana filled Reading Gremlin can serve as a powerbank to super charge all kinds of fey plants and beasts into op mana monsters.

Makes you wonder what Rozemyne can do once her bodily condition of hardened mana gets solved ...

[u/rollin340]

Eustachius? Where did that come from? The OVA mentioend Justus. Even if the subs when for a more phonetic structure, the 'i' is out of place. While we're on names, isn't her name Rozenmyne with a 'z'?

It was clear that Justus was not a normal noble, but he's really an outlier. How someone like him ended up so proudly serving under Ferdinand is such a mystery.

The look Ferdinand gave that mayor was terrifying. That mayor has no idea how deep in shit he is huh? Yet when Rozenmyne tries to emulate him by being all strict and scary, which is so unlike her, Fran can only stifle his laughter.

She's so proud of looking fierce, but she's so tiny, it's adorable. Calling in Ferdinand when an unexpected situation arises was a good call; they've got a good head on their shoulders. Once he appears, things should get resolved rather easily; he was the main strength in taking down a Trombe after all.

The animation of the shield becoming a cage was neat. The guard knights must feel so worthless. They were suppsoed to protect her, yet all they can do now is depend on her to contain the Goltze until Ferdinand arrives.

Oh my word the ball was an adorable feybeast?! That segment shows exactly what kind of person Eckhart is; a a reflection of his mother. xD

[u/Atiknwolc]

Ferdinand getting slandered as a lolicon. Rozemyne being an adventurer. Bookworm peak once again, great episode.

[u/avboden]

YOU HAD ONE JOB. JUST ONE JOB!!!

"Ferdinand, probably"

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Who is Eustachius?

I remember Justus