Fans are talking about Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke #14 — here's what they had to say.
Everyone's totally losing it over the sheer terror of how the nobility handles treason, mixed with how insanely overpowered Rozemyne's PR game and magic tools are.
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Ready! Need to mentally prep for the Hasse resolution today smh
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Chapter 14. The mayor only finding out now that the former High Bishop is already dead lol
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Pray to the gods! ꐕ Give thanks to the gods! orz
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Every time I hear Hasse I think of Chiyoshi Hase (man I'm getting old...)
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The former High Bishop ain't even around anymore tho
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Bro's dead as hell lmao
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"He has passed away." *Murmur murmur.*
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The info warfare worked insanely well ngl
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Zero glam on this screen rn lolw
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Looks like the scheme paid off...
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Gotta drop that pride and full-body dogeza right now to survive ngl...
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The backdoor dealing through the merchants is doing work
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Mayor's getting backed into a corner fr
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Rumors back in an era with zero tech are terrifying tbh
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Hasse is reaching its boiling point rn
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Who even is this super twintailed kid?
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Random key change goin bow-wow-wow~♪
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It's on! Seeing the inside of the Winter Mansion in Hasse is peak anime-only stuff ngl
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Ugh I still can't memorize all these god names smh
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Students finally back from the Royal Academy, huh
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Sasuga Rozemyne as always!!!!
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Hartmut getting an award letsgooo
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Top students are Hartmut and Brunhilde?
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Spring is the Water Goddess and the color is green, I keep mixing this up initially
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I've literally developed a reflex where I just giggle seeing Angelica lol
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Ang-chan 🤭 Good luck with your studies
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Brigitte, time to hit the books lol.
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Original anime scenes are great, Brigitte is awesome
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Wasn't Hartmut the top scorer at the Spring Prayer feast?
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Time to climb the ladder using education as a weapon!
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Ah true, Ehrenfest is just one territory among many. Wonder if we'll get turf wars with other places later
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Oh damn, we got a actual country name, Jurgenschmidt!
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Are some mystery factions gonna pop up again?
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Total monopoly. Cornering the market on textbooks to get ahead.
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Ohh, instead of selling textbooks, they're monopolizing them to buff their own domain's grades. Big brain.
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Well, getting the death penalty is pretty much standard at this point tbh
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Attacking a lesser temple is a major felony. Skipping the harvest blessing once isn't gonna cut it. Mayor's getting done for treason
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I mean with that mindset of his, no way he's ever gonna reform lol.
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Benno and Mark!! Mark looks so alive and kicking ✨
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Maeno's voice acting for shady Mark is top tier lmao
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Not really playing up the past-life trauma/values conflict much here (just Mine though...)
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The mayor got shrunk... Mini-mayor...
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Time to test that self-produce skill fr
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Being carried by Fran even at this distance lol
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Brigitte's dress! When did that happen!?
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Brigitte's finally getting a shot at life as a woman fr
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Brigitte's outfit in this ep! They crammed it all in
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Damuel's scene got axed huh
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Pretty brutal for a former normal Japanese person tbh...
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Brooch animation looking super crisp and nice ~
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Any anime where the family-bond hair ornament looks this good is a masterpiece
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Getting measured? Brigitte's dress? Is she being bestowed a gift? The hair ornament! Big sis Tuuli....
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Did they even mention the guards' reward when Angelica passed?
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Mayor's getting punished... I mean, obviously, but still (^_^;)
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The Lesser Panda looks so out of place lmao
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Oversized Lesser-kun edition
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Bro can make the Catbus bigger??
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Eustachius staring all analytical at Lesser-kun is cracking me up 😆
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Even Ferdinand respects that brooch
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This microbus-sized Lesser Bus is so surreal......
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The sheer presence of a microbus-sized Lesser-kun is wild w
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Rozemyne's schtewarte is way too weird (lol)
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Catbus can switch to large vehicle mode? That's insane
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Looks like a total mob character but his etiquette is immaculate...
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Saint Rozemyne's speech time
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Saint-sama... SAIIINT-SAMAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Saint delivering the sentence. Got her dad to negotiate so it's just canceling the ceremony and a 10-year tax hike
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Absolute peak Saint behavior! No doubt about it, she's a Saint
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Bring out the traitors! Time to punish 'em
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A masterclass in balancing fear of the lord and PR for the Saint's mercy to max out loyalty
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Rozemyne's acting skills are insane, and Ferdinand is out here being a literal demon naturally
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Town didn't get wiped out so residents can live with this punishment. Attackers and the mayor take the fall.
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Getting your whole town erased is just common sense here... feels like One Piece where islands and countries randomly get nuked in secret. Celestial Dragon vibes fr.
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Rozemyne playing the Saint role to absolute perfection
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"Annihilate the whole town" would literally have happened if the Archduke was here too, probably
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The gentle shrine maiden's merciful response contrasting with the ice-cold High Priest's voice orz
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No way the mayor didn't know the details. The former High Bishop's backing just disappeared so it all came to light
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Well, gotta be thorough or they might attack again tbh
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A bit of a sweeping judgment, but a brilliant move to leave them zero room for sympathy
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Mayor's convo got totally butchered out!
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Makes sense pacing-wise, but I really loved the dynamic between Roze and the mayor
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A literal litmus test. Mine thinks it's unnecessary, but the townsfolk actually volunteer to do it themselves
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The Gate of Selection... anyone with ill intent can't pass
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Innocent folks are gonna walk right through with zero issues, obviously
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Mobs with absolute zero hesitation are kinda based ngl. But damn what a broken magic...
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Kinda like a Japanese Christian-hunting fumi-e...
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Magic that can read people's feelings?? Kinda overpowered ngl?
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Huh? The Gate of Selection!? Like a fumi-e test? Wait, can it actually weed people out?
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How does this magic even work anyway