Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo, episode 22
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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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The moment this show tried to use AI everywhere I knew it was a huge red flag. There’s simply too many sloppy aspects everywhere this season, as others stated multiple times:
- Bad direction
- The studio not understanding the author’s view
- Bad pacing
- Bad animation
I’m very hyped about the story because the source material is cared dearly by the fans, but holy fuck this season is unwatchable.
The pace of this season is either 1000 miles an hour or walking pace. In the past, they cram-packed shitloads into a single episode, and now they spent an entire episode on Wilfried’s white tower shenanigans. And they previously spent an entire episode on Georgine’s visit. These are two of the most important events to progress character and plot, but they are not action-packed like you’d expect from an anime.
So, my guess is that the author, Miya Kazuki, or somebody else who deeply cares about this story has made some stipulations about which events need to be given the most time. It’s good that they were able to spend at least a little time here, but I wish they could have spent a little time on all of the other fairly important moments in the rest of this arc. But I also understand that they probably want to rush this arc, because if they can get a next season, I think that’s where the anime would probably have the best chance of catching on.
And since no review this season is complete without me shitting on the animation, I’ll point one thing out. There’s one scene where they shoot a deer with a bow and arrow, which would be fine, but the arrow hits it in the stomach area and it immediately drops dead. No, that is not how that works.
At least the animators were able to make Rozemyne very slightly taller than Charlotte, which is an important detail to Rozemyne, who is always shorter than everybody else.
I would like to take this moment to talk about the absolutely ridiculous plot device called the White Tower.
Why imprison somebody out in the woods instead of like in a special place in some other building? It’s hard for me to think of a lore-friendly in-universe answer that makes any sense. I think it’s out in the woods with no guards simply because that makes it easier for Wilfried to commit this crime.
Only the Aub’s family can enter? How does Veronica get her food? They’re not going to waste mana teleporting things back and forth. If they have an attendant doing it, one of the Aub’s family would need to go there every time to open the door. And hauling food out into the forest several times a day sounds like a hellish job. If an attendant is doing it, they need to be escorted by the Aub’s family, but it would be even weirder for the Aub’s family to do it themselves.
When Georgine visited Veronica, Veronica looked well-groomed. As a noble, that means that she has an attendant grooming her. But again, that runs into the same problem. How do they get in? Who’s letting them in?
This is all a lot of to-do just to have some weird prison in the middle of nowhere. If you can have all of these rules about who can enter on a building way out there, then you can have the same rules on a closer building, where it’s not such a hassle for somebody from the Aub’s family to go open the door when needed.
Should have executed that fucker. If it had been anyone else’ kid they would have been on the chopping block the moment they said they entered the tower. But because it’s that stupid retard’s son he gets a slap on the wrist.
I agree that he was underpunished, but execution seems a bit harsh—he is only a kid, and they need his mana (and no one else’s kid could have been in that position anyway, because of the requirements to open the tower door). Disinheriting him completely and permanently would have been about right, I think. There’s no way he would ever make a competent archduke anyway, with his credulous personality. He surely must have been warned about other nobles’ kids, and didn’t listen.
No. Execution is the only valid punishment if the retard was a fair Aub. Others get executed for less. Including children.
I’d much rather have the right outcome (= not executing an elementary-school-aged kid for being the kind of ignorant idiot kids that age often are) for the wrong reason than the wrong outcome for the right reason (in this case, enforcing a law uniformly regardless of the identity of the accused—does that even constitute a “right” reason if the law itself is unjust?)
That’s totally aside from the fact that they still need his mana and therefore can’t afford to kill him. Enforcing the law uniformly might lead to a bunch of other, completely innocent people being hurt because they’ve destroyed a resource. In the real world, that’s the kind of thing that tends to get sentences commuted.
Realistically, the blame lies less on Wilfried than on Veronica and Sylvester, who raised him poorly. But you’re right. Usually, when the Aub sucks, everybody else pays for it, and that didn’t happen here.
Another person who doesn’t get the punishment he deserves is Oswald, who didn’t really even show up in this episode. He’s Wilfried’s head attendant. Earlier, we heard that Wilfried’s attendants are always chasing after him, but where were they in this episode? Letting him run free around nobles of all factions? Ridiculous. Oswald should have been instantly fired for allowing this to happen, at the very least.
Realistically, the blame lies less on Wilfried than on Veronica and Sylvester, who raised him poorly.
Well, they didn’t raise him at all. That’s the problem.
From Part3, Volume 5:
The plot was fairly devious, if you asked me: Wilfried had essentially been raised by his grandmother since birth, so it only made sense that he would love her more and consider her more trustworthy than his actual mother, who had only recently been given the opportunity to regularly interact with him. Veronica had his unconditional trust, and it stood to reason that he would welcome her guidance in a situation like this.
Letting him run free around nobles of all factions? Ridiculous. Oswald should have been instantly fired for allowing this to happen, at the very least.
Oswald did have his eyes on him until he was relieved by Linhardt.
“Nothing abnormal happened while I was there,” Oswald responded, “and I stayed with him until Linhardt came to relieve me.”
Linhardt had desperately run around trying to keep up with Wilfried and his friends, but at one point, he tripped over and fell hard enough to hurt his legs. While Linhardt was being treated, Wilfried was looked after by his friends’ attendants.
It’s not being said specifically, but I assume that tripping Linhardt was also part of the plan to get Wilfried out form under his attendants eyes. I have enough problems with Oswald as a retainer for Wilfried, but in this case he’s blameless for once.
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