A Bottom Tier Ahead

[krpalmer]

I read the first “Bottom-Tier Tomozaki” translated light novel without the push of “this will eventually explain what happened in the story after its anime adaptation left off,” but did wonder in an idle way about what an adaptation might be like. Seeing the announcement of just such an anime was a surprise; I hadn’t quite realised how many Japanese volumes had accumulated already. As I’d said before, beyond the general question of whether it’s too easy to suppose anime made from prose can turn out just plain “talky” there’s also the elaborateness of the colour illustrations I’ve seen; in this particular season I’ve started watching the anime “Ascendence of a Bookworm” only to think the cover illustrations of its original novels threaten to overshadow the animated artwork. Still, even if the surprise hit now there’s something to having a series “a ways off” yet.