Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke

I cannot believe this show made me laugh at a man punching someone so hard they exploded and then cry twenty minutes later when the little sister got dropped out of the sky. Bonifatius going full grandfather juggernaut while the guards just stood there was everything and also nothing. That window scene with Damuel is gonna haunt him for the rest of the series

You watch this girl collapse from a light breeze for three seasons and then suddenly she is ordering Angelica to jump on Lessy and launching out a window after her sister. That switch flipped hard

Rozemyne seeing her commoner family in the audience and almost blowing up the whole ceremony with her mana is such a her thing to do. Sweet and terrifying at the same time. Then the episode ends with her drugged and dragged off somewhere and now I have to wait a week to find out if she is alive. This show really said enjoy the grandfather punching people because we are about to make you suffer. The masked guy mocking her saint status before poisoning her was cold. That whole last stretch had me stressed

Honestly the pacing felt off during the attack. Everyone just kind of waited their turn while the attackers did their thing. The Bonifatius payoff carried the whole back half for me

The blue sword in the end card has me convinced Ferdinand is about to show up and absolutely wreck whoever touched her. Next week cannot come soon enough

Bonifatius is the MVP of this season and nobody else is close. That whole fight he was basically toying with them

I was not ready for the tonal whiplash. One minute it is a sweet baptism and Rozemyne being busy with nobles and the next my girl is getting poison forced down her throat in a forest. Rough week to be an archduke candidate

The old man straight up punched a guy into paste and then imagined Rozemyne hugging him for it. I have never respected a grandfather more in my life

Angelica yeeting herself off a moving highbeast to catch Charlotte midair is the most Angelica thing ever and Stenluke doing the thinking for her is exactly how it should work

Okay so the guards just stood there while ninjas climbed through a window and grabbed a princess. That part took me out of it a little. Everything else was tense though

I keep replaying Bonifatius folding those assassins. The man does not need a magic tool he needs a chiropractor

okay so was that beam Ferdinand nuking the forest or a whole third faction nobody mentioned. I have watched the ending five times and I still do not know who fired it

the blue shrine maiden line gave me chills. someone has been watching her this whole time and we never saw it coming

angelica jumped off a moving flying cat bus to catch a falling princess and people still call her head empty. she is the only competent one on that whole squad

the way bonifatius just turned into a wrecking ball while daydreaming about rozemyne hugging him is peak grandfather behavior. best gramps and nobody is close

I could not stop laughing when Charlotte gets snatched and the guards just stand there like statues. Damuel was basically a doorman this episode

That beam of light hitting the Lessy and dropping her into the trees is the only thing anyone is going to talk about all week because who fired it. Everyone is guessing Gerlach or some Ahrensbach leftover and the teaser with Ferdinand storming in has me counting down to the finale

The masked noble forcing that blue liquid down her and her own voice going quiet while Cornelius yells her name somewhere far off is genuinely one of the cruelest endings they have done

I keep replaying the mania in Rozemyne screaming give Charlotte back because that is the first time she has let the mask of the perfect noble drop completely

The adaptation speed is starting to hurt now. They rushed past so much of the merchant and temple comedy to get here and I miss the trifecta