Review of Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 2

This show is another isekai that I first thought will be a junk. But as the story progress, i come to love it. I haven't read the source of this anime, so this review is based only from the anime. Beware this review may contain Spoiler. The MC is little girl & fragile, easy to get tired & sick. Usually MC start from little kid and there is time skip as story progress, transform them to their adult form. But this one isn't, the MC remain as kid from season 1 to season 2. The pacing is quite slow at first, made me boredand nearly stopped watching it. But there is an event that nearly never happen in the all other isekai show. Someone inside the isekai find out the MC is from another world, not from there. From that point on, I 'm become more interested.

Honzuki take another route of isekai, instead of action packed fighting monster, they choose a slice-of-life genre with a little bit magic as flavor. We nearly don't see anyone using magic at season 1. We get the MC using her knowledge & helping hand from people around her to solve any issue arise in the show. And clearly it become one good point of this show.

Also Honzuki remind me of another isekai, Gate, that pretty much the same. Although gate have more action than honzuki. They have the same vibe of slice-of-life and otaku MC. I don't know if its become a thing in Japan, there are quite a list of show that plot otaku as the MC. Together with Gate, this show give us a pleasant feeling and show us that otaku can become a good leader & make a miracle when it's needed.

The visual are so good and sometime the background buliding get better visual than the character itself. Not a popular studio like A-1, madhouse, JC staff, etc. They provide a good visual for this show.

The sound is good to. But since this one is more a drama than action, we won't find an upbeat full of spirit BGM. But the melodic slow BGM is really fit with the drama in this show.

Overall, this show is must see if you like Gate or slice-of-life show. I enjoy it more than i thought it to be.