 I'm gonna be honest a sentence of a bookworm is not even close to the worst thing I've ever read But I think it might be one of the most boring things I've ever read. This is the introduction song It's not very good, but it's not too long I know the lighting is not great right now, but unfortunately that's the best I could do at the moment So we'll just just work with me Okay, move to another tab and listen to the sweet sound of my voice if it bothers you So you might be familiar with a sentence of a bookworm from the anime adaptation that was made I believe last year And before that it was obviously a light novel and this was a patron requested review for me to go over the first three volumes of it, I believe and They're they're not pretty that long individually. I think all together. They're like 140,000 words ish, so they didn't take me that long to get through oh And in fact, I probably could have finished them all in one or two days if I was interested in them But I just wasn't because this series While it has some stuff I will admit is pretty good like it has some Characters and character interactions that I think are well done You know, they're not super cliched and they do have a little bit of personality to them I like some of the world-building that's there and the way it's introduced as well because you really do feel like This is how an average person lives in this world This isn't just how the kings and the heroes and the rich people of the land live. This is how average folks live I like some of that, but there is at first basically no story and Even the end goal that they're working towards with the story I just do not care about and once and admittedly after a little while they do bring in some other stuff, but I I Still don't care. I just don't and there's not really any like action or anything That there's no there's nothing there that intrigues me personally like there's no intrigue. There's no big questions that we need answered There's no Bigger goal or conflict that it's working towards really. It's just this person wants to read books So the plot of this series is very very basic It's basically this Japanese woman who was 22 years old and who was a major bookworm You know, she's lit. She was a librarian and just read all the time. That's all she did She dies in a freak accident and then is reincarnated into the body of a five-year-old girl in this other Dimension and this other dimension is a place where magic is real, but technology and everything is that like a medieval level So She doesn't have books there and she's sad and then she decides well if this is my new lot in life I'm just gonna try and make books and so that's what she does and the thing is paper and ink and all that is prohibitively expensive back then and so she has to try and find new ways to make stuff that she can write with and it's um, I Mean I get what she's going for there And I do feel kind of bad for her at first because the situation. She's in is again. She's just some peasant girl living in basically a shitty medieval city, but I I Don't care that much is the thing and I never did like the I don't remember what her Japanese name was I know they say it once or twice, but her name in this world is mine. So that's what she usually goes by and mine I Mean she's kind of nice and cute and stuff and she's not a total self-insert and I'll admit that's a positive, but She's just um, I Just can't I hate to repeat myself so much But I just cannot bring myself to care that much about how she can't read books and how she's willing to go to all of this trouble just to just to get something to read and in the process of doing so she actually actually winds up Increasing the technological level of this place that she lives in and she actually makes money off of it later on but like God, I just don't care that much, you know and Admittedly after a little while it does the story does go into a little bit of a different direction and other stuff starts happening So that's a little bit more interesting, but I I Just cannot bring myself to get invested in this sort of thing like most of the characters Aren't really that interesting like mine is fine, but all the rest are just sort of blank slates they're boring very blank slates and Part of the reason for that I think is just that I don't like the way light novels are written Like they come with illustrations usually and they're usually written to be Extremely bare bones in their description and their dialogue and everything like whenever there's a fight scene you in these sorts of Things usually it's just there was a fight scene. It was really hard and then I won and I'm really not exaggerating when I say that they are absolute bare bones, which is why they're called light novels and even though The few that I've read some of them have had really really grand neat ideas and stuff. They have almost never Dragged me in because I just can't get into that writing style and part of it might just be Translation issues. I understand that because they're written in Japanese to begin with but The fact of the matter remains that I just don't like the way they're written I don't have a whole lot else to say about the series itself But what I will say real quick is that I totally totally understand the appeal like It's kind of hard to explain if you aren't someone who's Read a lot of light novels or someone who is a fan of anime, but basically a Shitload of anime are based on light novels Which means that the light novel industry has gotten bigger or actually might have been the other way around They might have gotten bigger and then anime started being coming out started coming out that were based on them The point is that with anything successful eventually you get your own set of tropes and everything that Sort of subsumed the entire Well, not really genre, but it just subsumes everything and in the case of light novels and their anime adaptations We have this thing called isekai now isekai just means another world and basically We have that sort of story in the West to like Chronicles of Narnia is basically an isekai story It's about a character usually a kid or a teenager or a group of kids or teenagers Who just get taken to some other world and it might be magical. It might be sign Science fiction type thing, but the point is it's some other place that they're taken to and then they go on adventures in that world and with the isekai specifically the isekai boom It They're basically all the same. It's a little difficult to explain but again if you are a fan of anime and You see a teenage boy who gets taken to another world and he is just an instant overpowered Magical badass who doesn't have to work for anything and then he also gets a harem of beautiful women who are fawning all over him And then he goes off and has cool adventures because he's just such a Chad that he gets to defeat the demon lord or whatever Now that has been done a million and one times so any deviation from that formula I can understand why people would want that so with something like a sentence of a bookworm where instead of a teenage boy It's an adult woman who gets put into the body of a little girl and instead of going on big grand adventures She just wants to read books and instead of being this major badass. She's just a regular person and She's just sort of living well It's often called slice of life in anime speak But I don't know if there's really a term for it in the West, but it is basically what it sounds like It's a slice of life. It's just someone live in their lives They're usually more character driven rather than plot driven and it's just Usually a sort of cozy comfort food type thing like you don't have to think that hard about it You can just sort of smile when happy things happen to them and get a little bit sad when they're a little bit sad That sort of thing and so I really totally 100% Understand why people would like something like a sentence of a bookworm. I really do I just I Didn't I didn't not even a little bit so that was a little bit rambly, but I Just I don't know how else to put my thoughts on that like a sentence of a bookworm is Pretty boring to me like I didn't hate it hates a very strong word. I just Did not care about anything and I was bored the whole time, but When you look at it in the broader context of when it was released and how I get why people would like it And if that's something you're looking for you might enjoy this But honestly, I just can't get past the writing bit and if you can't do that then maybe check out the anime I actually did see a couple episodes of that back when it came out and I again I was bored out of my skull, but it's at least easier to get into Oh Patreon patron the oppo Savalain and Eva tumor brother Santotis Christopher Quinten deanna dehim embus Emily Miller Joel Carcat Kitsune Lawrence Hicks Lisa Ruda Kova Madison Lewis Bennett microphone Rizia roll sad martigan tobacco crow Tom beanie vacuous Silas Bay Victus You're all pretty cool if your name isn't on here then sign up for patreon give give me money please I I need want you more money now and Subscribe and channel like video stuff. Bye