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Stark700 · 2022-01-28, 05:14

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Ichijnsha announced on Friday that Yui and Satsuki Shiina's Bibliophile Princess (Mushikaburi-hime) light novel series is inspiring a television anime that will premiere this year. Tarou Iwasaki (Ryoko's Case File, One Week Friends, Sweetness & Lightning) is directing the anime at Madhouse. Mitsutaka Hirota (Sweetness & Lightning, Anime-Gataris, Rent-A-Girlfriend) is in charge of series scripts. Mizuka Takahashi (Overlord III sub-character design) is designing the characters.

Synopsis

When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple—one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!

ANN source

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...n-2022/.181977

nikita22 · 2022-02-01, 06:28

The art in the manga is very gorgeous. I hope anime will be as beautiful.

Stark700 · 2022-05-31, 08:34

Coming October (Fall) 2022

Frontier · 2022-10-06, 10:06

Spoiler:

Alchemist007 · 2022-10-06, 11:39

Bookworm princess with some romance stuff on the side, or will the romance stuff be center stage?

Frontier · 2022-10-06, 12:25

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Originally Posted by Alchemist007

Bookworm princess with some romance stuff on the side, or will the romance stuff be center stage?

I think the romance will be pretty prominent. I mean, they straight up kiss in the ED

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serenade_beta · 2022-10-06, 21:04

Spoiler for ep1:

FlareKnight · 2022-10-06, 21:58

I don't want to make any presumptions...but man this Irene girl is looking shady

. I'd say the scheming "thieving cat" is too common for it to be the case here, but admittedly I haven't seen that actually being used in a while. So honestly it really could be the case here. Mostly since something is definitely off about that girl. It could definitely be coincidence, but I don't think it is. Mostly since Elianna is too nice a person to suspect Irene in that way.

You could easily interpret moments like the book getting ruined as her attempting to make Elianna overreact to demonize her. Most of her actions do fall into the territory of "either she's a really good person that reacts really strongly when she does wrong" or "she's an evil....person trying to use that loud apology to again make Elianna look bad." Although again if no one heard Elianna raise her voice at all then it would seem strange to interpret her as grilling the girl. And it's not like everyone that used to be close to her is acting distant and cold on their own. Either they are just weirdos or she's telling lies to again make Elianna look bad. I don't care how outgoing that girl is. Daughter of a viscount who showed up for some etiquette training is fast moving in on the crown Prince? Yeah...

And honestly I don't even think it is just on Irene. Look who turned on Elianna first. The Uncle. Someone who...might want to get some power in that country. He's not next in line so the closest thing would be hand picking his own Queen. Maybe kill his nephew after the wedding...and rule from behind Irene. Heck, maybe that damaged ladder was a flimsy assassination attempt. Elianna is well known to climb all over the place for her books and if they think she's an idiot then maybe he'd think she wouldn't pay attention while climbing the ladder...

Honestly this feels like less of a romance story than a political duel from the shadows

. Of course I don't think that Irene has that easy a shot at getting the Prince. He's definitely into Elianna as much as she is into him. Yeah, they don't necessarily know how the other person actually feels. But this girl will have to be one heck of a manipulator to get her way. And if she is spreading lies I don't think Christopher is going to buy it.

Solid first episode

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Cloudedmind · 2022-10-06, 22:19

Yeah, there's definitely something fishy going on. I don't know if Irene has anything to do with it, but the uncle and Glen's sudden behavior seems odd.

Even if Irene's been going around spreading rumors I don't know why they'd believe it since they've both known Elianna for about 4 years now. The girl basically just reads and hangs around the prince's office.

ryllharu · 2022-10-08, 06:15

I got the sense that Elianna is so deeply aloof that she's not really paying attention to all the things going on around her.

It creates a rather interesting "Limited First Person POV." To the audience, things are very obviously going on in a mysterious manner, Elianna just isn't inclined to notice, care, or be bothered by them.

But on the other hand, when someone asks her something, she responds appropriately and knowledgeably. She knows the names of most of the people surrounding the prince. So perhaps she still pulls in all the information being said around her while she reads, she just never acknowledges it until it becomes necessary?

There was also the period where she was barred from the Archives. A whole army of people where in their searching and researching something. Given that Elianna reads on average a book a day? Even rounding down a little, she's probably read 1,200 of those books personally.

Primarily a straightforward romance or not, I am deeply intrigued by the mystery they've already been setting up for us to notice.

stray · 2022-10-08, 07:06

Seems cute so far but I'm not sure how I feel about the protagonist. Also seems like it could potentially be very slow moving. I'll give it a couple more episodes at least.

frubam · 2022-10-09, 01:29

Not usually my kind of show, but after watching the Saint's Power is Omnipotent, the taste for the otome-type situation pushed me into watching this.

I enjoyed it; not as interesting a protagonist as the aforementioned series, but the first episode established a sort-of mystery element in Irene. Is she a snake sneaking in, or just really charismatic? Unfortunately, they ruined the "sort-of mystery" element by the comment from the maid; about having to be careful around Irene. Nonetheless, I hope that its a slow burn to find out and not a "Irene and Elianne are alone so Irene's personality does a 180 to find out she's a snake" kind of scenario, because that would be boring as f*k.

Elianne's role felt rather limited, but still feels like she develops throughout the episode. At first she only cared about the books, and associating with the various people close to her was just a side job. But over the course of the four years, it seems like their presence is felt just as much as her love for books, so it was interesting to see how it affected her as those elements seemed to be 'taken' away from her. It does feel very one-shot-ish to me though... but so did Shirayukihime's. I'll stick with to see if she evolves as a character enough to keep me interested.

Ghostfriendly · 2022-10-09, 05:11

Reverse harem seems to be cast from the same mould as Hamafura. I guess the Western fairytale prince has to be a blonde, and ironically black-hearted; Chris has just the same bad-boy feeling as Geordo. Still not 'Heathcliffe with blonde hair' tho, since he seems to enjoy himself a lot more.

Eli's role rather than herself seems presently limited; she's a sleepy sweetheart who thinks a bit about what's going on and does her best. This isn't pretending to be especially progressive, so might be good.

It was an unreasonable complaint about Bookworm that the kind of books Myne likes are never detailed (her engagement in the bookmaking process and desire to escape into a good book, are substantial, apparent and reasonable). Still nice for Eli interest in history and other cultures to come out, which is actually not bad thing for future queen candidate.

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Originally Posted by frubam

I enjoyed it; not as interesting a protagonist as the aforementioned series, but the first episode established a sort-of mystery element in Irene. Is she a snake sneaking in, or just really charismatic? Unfortunately, they ruined the "sort-of mystery" element by the comment from the maid; about having to be careful around Irene. Nonetheless, I hope that its a slow burn to find out and not a "Irene and Elianne are alone so Irene's personality does a 180 to find out she's a snake" kind of scenario, because that would be boring as f*k.

It seemed as if the maid was warning Eli that Irene might outshine her and steal her fiance. That might be held against Irene, but wouldn't mean she was a villainess. Rather than breaking up a love match, a prince's engagement is political; her family be pushing her into it, she could have a strong motive to become queen or be genuinely in love, or the maid's worries are actually a big misunderstanding. A sudden villainess reveal as you mentioned certainly would be a worse outcome.

frubam · 2022-10-09, 05:45

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Originally Posted by Ghostfriendly

It seemed as if the maid was warning Eli that Irene might outshine her and steal her fiance. That might be held against Irene, but wouldn't mean she was a villainess.

I would hope so. Saying "I heard bad things about her..."(at least that's what the line was translated as) is a usual foreshadowing of an incoming villianess. However, taking another gander at the episode, I didn't get a villainess vibe when Irene was talking to Elianne in the courtyard, as that felt like her normal personality before the apology kicked in. Actually, the spilling of the tea and her getting wet, not to mention needing etiquette training kinda gives an impression that she's less sophisticated than her peers(like, not a dainty girl), and a bit of a klutz.

But that wouldn't explain the mood swings of the other prominent characters thus far.

Ghostfriendly · 2022-10-09, 06:19

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Originally Posted by frubam

But that wouldn't explain the mood swings of the other prominent characters thus far.

They might have been fed a false rumour about Eli, or they think she's about to leave and so upset they're trying to distance themselves. Definitely a bad communication plotline, since they're not discussing problem with her.

zztop · 2022-10-09, 10:37

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Originally Posted by Alchemist007

Bookworm princess with some romance stuff on the side, or will the romance stuff be center stage?

Spoiler for spoiler romance in story:

Frontier · 2022-10-13, 10:02

Eli thinks her time as a fake fiance and thinks she'll lose the companions and precious life she's found, but while she'll miss the books...deep down she'll miss Christopher and his smile the most

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Don't you just hate it when you finally realize your feelings for someone and then catch them getting chummy with another woman? Poor Eli

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"I thought you were with your aunt today!" Christopher just digging himself deeper. Like, that's totally something someone cheating would say, you dunce

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Well, at least Eli has her father and brother on her side. They seem to genuinely care about her

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Man, Alexei does not mess around. Dude is absolutely savage, even forcing Elianna to work when she just came back to return a book. I don't think that was even part of the plan to catch Irene in her lies, he genuinely just wanted to put Elianna to work

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Oh wow, it's kind of surreal getting a proper Otome Game Villainess plot that doesn't involve said Villainess regaining past memories and becoming the Main Heroine! And Irene was not only going to frame Elianna for attacking her but claim Eli was basically bullying her (and poor Elianna has no idea what's going on). But the look on Christopher's face when he knew she was digging herself deeper and when everyone realized Elianna couldn't have pushed her down was priceless

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So both Irene and her father are under arrest, and it turns out they were partners-in-crime in this, to the point of trying to assassinate Elianna (and commit other crimes too). Luckily Christopher and co. were able to figure out what was happening and do their best to protect Elianna from them, and effectively expose their crimes. Bonus points by having Alan (Gen Sato!) get all chummy with Irene so he could inevitably turn on her for the big reveal

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When it gets right down to it, Irene resented Eli for not being worthy to be Christopher's queen, but that's all the excuse Christopher needed to have everyone extol how great and impactful Elianna has been. She reads a lot of books, ancient ones too, and that gives her the knowledge to actually help out and benefit the kingdom with the stuff she reads about. Elianna is a vital and important individual for the kingdom :nod!:

Irene and her father are lead off to face judgement for their crimes, and Christopher manages to secure the loyalty of the one individual left who opposed him marrying Elianna...so it seems like in some respect this was all orchestrated to both expose and arrest Irene and her father while also showing off just how great Elianna is. Because Christopher has been after her ever since their first meeting as kids

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I can't wait to meet the queen/Christopher's mother

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FlareKnight · 2022-10-13, 10:55

I didn't think that was going to resolve so fast

. But that was nice. Although I will criticize the people around Christopher since they weren't exactly doing a good job making Elianna feel comfortable or welcomed. Sure that's sometimes unavoidable. But I feel like some messaging could have been extended so she wasn't left fluttering in the wind like that.

But hey, at least things worked out alright. And in a sense Elianna's position has never been stronger. It was at least a good chance for her to work through her own feelings and that's not a bad thing. And certainly Christopher's legitimate feelings are starting to get through. She convinced herself that it was just a convenience thing and certainly he initially did extend it like that. But it's certainly clear that he never intended on looking at anyone else besides her.

Good episode

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Ghostfriendly · 2022-10-13, 12:09

I wanted an anime with such a charming, soft-spoken heroine, who's even much more capable than we thought, to be good. However, an episode of standing about, verbally explaining how great the heroes are and how pathetic the villains, including two characters who haven't even appeared before, was excruciating. The worst thing is that if this was a harem Isekai based on a webnovel first posted on 4chan, it would still have a thread of commenters to defend it.

Frontier · 2022-10-13, 12:13

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Originally Posted by Ghostfriendly

I wanted an anime with such a charming, soft-spoken heroine, who's even much more capable than we thought, to be good. However, an episode of standing about, verbally explaining how great the heroes are and how pathetic the villains, including two characters who haven't even appeared before, was excruciating. The worst thing is that if this was a harem Isekai based on a webnovel first posted on 4chan, it would still have a thread of commenters to defend it.

I don't think this is actually a Harem...any more than the Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent was a Harem...

2022-05-31, 08:34	Link #3
Stark700 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Somewhere on Earth	Coming October (Fall) 2022 <p>No iframe support, please <a href="http://youtu.be/W2llbRzsic8">watch on YouTube</a>.</p> __________________

2022-10-06, 10:06	Link #4
Frontier Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013	Spoiler: So we've got a beautiful Shojo-esque romance between a noble girl who loves books voiced by Reina Ueda as she gets charmed by a Bishonen prince voiced by Ryohei Kimura? And produced by Madhouse? Sign me up ! Man, it's just nice to hear Ryohei Kimura in something new as a lead again. It feels like he hasn't been appearing as much as he used to outside of reprisals and playing anime Ultraman . The Opening is very nice and pleasant! Showing Elianna and her love of books but her growing relationship and connection with Christopher! We've also got all the other Bishonen's in the cast as well as that girl in the green dress who I'm guessing is probably Elianna's future gal pal (you always need at least one in there). Also some action, a flashback between Christopher and his mother (?), and Christopher and Elianna meeting as kids? They kind of looked younger there . So Elianna comes from a long line of book lovers, and has some beautiful looks and blonde hair (Aileen has some competition), and she's very sweet and considerate...she just also loves reading . Elianna thinks Christopher is only after a fake engagement for purely convenient reasons, but his words and actions tell a different story. I mean, he opened up by just wanting her to read next to him! And it's pretty clear that he's trying to win her over with the one thing she loves the most...books! Of course that also had the drawback that she pays more attention to the books than him, but that changes by the end of the episode . We meet the other hot guys in Christopher's retinue...stoic and work-oriented Alexei (Kouki Uchiyama!), Kind and affable Glen (Yuma Uchida!), and Christophers' uncle who helps run the place (Wataru Hatano!). I think the only one we didn't meet is the guy with his hair braided who I think we only saw from behind talking to Irene . Is Irene trying to sabotage Elianna? Eli's maid made it sound like she has a more sinister reputation than her cute face and personality suggest, and next thing we know she's trying to get all chummy with Christopher's men ? Why is everybody acting so suddenly cold to Elianna? She hasn't really done anything and yet now they're acting distant from her. Is this deliberate as they try to investigate Irene? Do they think now that Irene is a better marriage candidate that they need to distance themselves from Elianna? But she got along with them so well . The only person who hasn't changed how they are around Elianna is Christopher, and his sincerity and finding her the book she wanted finally earns him her full attention and a delightful and bright smile from her directed only in him. He finally got her to look at him . And now just when it seems like Elianna is starting to fall for Christopher...she feels like she might lose him to Irene. Ouch . The Ending is just as soothing and pleasant as the Opening! With nice illustrations of the cast and ending on, of course, Elianna and Christopher! It even shows us Christopher about to kiss Elianna! Wow ! __________________

2022-10-06, 11:39	Link #5
Alchemist007 Senior Member Author Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: USA	Bookworm princess with some romance stuff on the side, or will the romance stuff be center stage? __________________ Fanfics Art MyAnimeList

2022-10-06, 21:04	Link #7
serenade_beta そのおっぱいで13才 Join Date: Dec 2006	Spoiler for ep1: Seems to be a pretty simple shoujo manga romance thing The whole, we didn't start off in a serious relationship but have slowly gotten attracted to each other, thing. Of course, since the protagonist so far has done nothing but read books, technically there is no reason for the audience to root for her, but anyhow, I think it was fine enough. Nothing too dark or grimy, but a simple romance. But then you read the summary and maybe it will get grimy. Anyways, I still think it will revolve around romance though. I guess the question is if the other girl is intentionally evil or not. __________________ -Blog --> http://tdnshumi.blogspot.com/ (Mainly about video games) -R.I.P. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Gaming wouldn't have been the same without you (9/19/13)

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FlareKnight User of the "Fast Draw" Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada	I don't want to make any presumptions...but man this Irene girl is looking shady . I'd say the scheming "thieving cat" is too common for it to be the case here, but admittedly I haven't seen that actually being used in a while. So honestly it really could be the case here. Mostly since something is definitely off about that girl. It could definitely be coincidence, but I don't think it is. Mostly since Elianna is too nice a person to suspect Irene in that way. You could easily interpret moments like the book getting ruined as her attempting to make Elianna overreact to demonize her. Most of her actions do fall into the territory of "either she's a really good person that reacts really strongly when she does wrong" or "she's an evil....person trying to use that loud apology to again make Elianna look bad." Although again if no one heard Elianna raise her voice at all then it would seem strange to interpret her as grilling the girl. And it's not like everyone that used to be close to her is acting distant and cold on their own. Either they are just weirdos or she's telling lies to again make Elianna look bad. I don't care how outgoing that girl is. Daughter of a viscount who showed up for some etiquette training is fast moving in on the crown Prince? Yeah... And honestly I don't even think it is just on Irene. Look who turned on Elianna first. The Uncle. Someone who...might want to get some power in that country. He's not next in line so the closest thing would be hand picking his own Queen. Maybe kill his nephew after the wedding...and rule from behind Irene. Heck, maybe that damaged ladder was a flimsy assassination attempt. Elianna is well known to climb all over the place for her books and if they think she's an idiot then maybe he'd think she wouldn't pay attention while climbing the ladder... Honestly this feels like less of a romance story than a political duel from the shadows . Of course I don't think that Irene has that easy a shot at getting the Prince. He's definitely into Elianna as much as she is into him. Yeah, they don't necessarily know how the other person actually feels. But this girl will have to be one heck of a manipulator to get her way. And if she is spreading lies I don't think Christopher is going to buy it. Solid first episode . __________________ Anime-Evo

2022-02-01, 06:28	Link #2
nikita22 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2019	The art in the manga is very gorgeous. I hope anime will be as beautiful.

2022-10-06, 22:19	Link #9
Cloudedmind Senior Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: California Age: 38	Yeah, there's definitely something fishy going on. I don't know if Irene has anything to do with it, but the uncle and Glen's sudden behavior seems odd. Even if Irene's been going around spreading rumors I don't know why they'd believe it since they've both known Elianna for about 4 years now. The girl basically just reads and hangs around the prince's office. __________________

2022-10-08, 06:15	Link #10
ryllharu Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007	I got the sense that Elianna is so deeply aloof that she's not really paying attention to all the things going on around her. It creates a rather interesting "Limited First Person POV." To the audience, things are very obviously going on in a mysterious manner, Elianna just isn't inclined to notice, care, or be bothered by them. But on the other hand, when someone asks her something, she responds appropriately and knowledgeably. She knows the names of most of the people surrounding the prince. So perhaps she still pulls in all the information being said around her while she reads, she just never acknowledges it until it becomes necessary? There was also the period where she was barred from the Archives. A whole army of people where in their searching and researching something. Given that Elianna reads on average a book a day? Even rounding down a little, she's probably read 1,200 of those books personally. Primarily a straightforward romance or not, I am deeply intrigued by the mystery they've already been setting up for us to notice.

2022-10-08, 07:06	Link #11
stray Speedy Sea Cucumber IT Support Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Philadelphia	Seems cute so far but I'm not sure how I feel about the protagonist. Also seems like it could potentially be very slow moving. I'll give it a couple more episodes at least.

2022-10-09, 01:29	Link #12
frubam simp for Lyria Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: on the Grandcypher Age: 40	Not usually my kind of show, but after watching the Saint's Power is Omnipotent, the taste for the otome-type situation pushed me into watching this. I enjoyed it; not as interesting a protagonist as the aforementioned series, but the first episode established a sort-of mystery element in Irene. Is she a snake sneaking in, or just really charismatic? Unfortunately, they ruined the "sort-of mystery" element by the comment from the maid; about having to be careful around Irene. Nonetheless, I hope that its a slow burn to find out and not a "Irene and Elianne are alone so Irene's personality does a 180 to find out she's a snake" kind of scenario, because that would be boring as f*k. Elianne's role felt rather limited, but still feels like she develops throughout the episode. At first she only cared about the books, and associating with the various people close to her was just a side job. But over the course of the four years, it seems like their presence is felt just as much as her love for books, so it was interesting to see how it affected her as those elements seemed to be 'taken' away from her. It does feel very one-shot-ish to me though... but so did Shirayukihime's. I'll stick with to see if she evolves as a character enough to keep me interested. __________________ Pure of heart, precious as life (^,^ )

2022-10-13, 10:02	Link #17
Frontier Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013	Eli thinks her time as a fake fiance and thinks she'll lose the companions and precious life she's found, but while she'll miss the books...deep down she'll miss Christopher and his smile the most . Don't you just hate it when you finally realize your feelings for someone and then catch them getting chummy with another woman? Poor Eli . "I thought you were with your aunt today!" Christopher just digging himself deeper. Like, that's totally something someone cheating would say, you dunce . Well, at least Eli has her father and brother on her side. They seem to genuinely care about her . Man, Alexei does not mess around. Dude is absolutely savage, even forcing Elianna to work when she just came back to return a book. I don't think that was even part of the plan to catch Irene in her lies, he genuinely just wanted to put Elianna to work . Oh wow, it's kind of surreal getting a proper Otome Game Villainess plot that doesn't involve said Villainess regaining past memories and becoming the Main Heroine! And Irene was not only going to frame Elianna for attacking her but claim Eli was basically bullying her (and poor Elianna has no idea what's going on). But the look on Christopher's face when he knew she was digging herself deeper and when everyone realized Elianna couldn't have pushed her down was priceless . So both Irene and her father are under arrest, and it turns out they were partners-in-crime in this, to the point of trying to assassinate Elianna (and commit other crimes too). Luckily Christopher and co. were able to figure out what was happening and do their best to protect Elianna from them, and effectively expose their crimes. Bonus points by having Alan (Gen Sato!) get all chummy with Irene so he could inevitably turn on her for the big reveal . When it gets right down to it, Irene resented Eli for not being worthy to be Christopher's queen, but that's all the excuse Christopher needed to have everyone extol how great and impactful Elianna has been. She reads a lot of books, ancient ones too, and that gives her the knowledge to actually help out and benefit the kingdom with the stuff she reads about. Elianna is a vital and important individual for the kingdom :nod!: Irene and her father are lead off to face judgement for their crimes, and Christopher manages to secure the loyalty of the one individual left who opposed him marrying Elianna...so it seems like in some respect this was all orchestrated to both expose and arrest Irene and her father while also showing off just how great Elianna is. Because Christopher has been after her ever since their first meeting as kids . I can't wait to meet the queen/Christopher's mother ! __________________

2022-10-13, 10:55	Link #18
FlareKnight User of the "Fast Draw" Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada	I didn't think that was going to resolve so fast . But that was nice. Although I will criticize the people around Christopher since they weren't exactly doing a good job making Elianna feel comfortable or welcomed. Sure that's sometimes unavoidable. But I feel like some messaging could have been extended so she wasn't left fluttering in the wind like that. But hey, at least things worked out alright. And in a sense Elianna's position has never been stronger. It was at least a good chance for her to work through her own feelings and that's not a bad thing. And certainly Christopher's legitimate feelings are starting to get through. She convinced herself that it was just a convenience thing and certainly he initially did extend it like that. But it's certainly clear that he never intended on looking at anyone else besides her. Good episode . __________________ Anime-Evo

2022-10-13, 12:09	Link #19
Ghostfriendly Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008	I wanted an anime with such a charming, soft-spoken heroine, who's even much more capable than we thought, to be good. However, an episode of standing about, verbally explaining how great the heroes are and how pathetic the villains, including two characters who haven't even appeared before, was excruciating. The worst thing is that if this was a harem Isekai based on a webnovel first posted on 4chan, it would still have a thread of commenters to defend it.