Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 3rd Season Episode 10 Discussion

Gendolfas said:
Hm.. If Sylvester is the ruler of the town in the first place.. Why he can't just change these rules, which are clearly biased towards nobility?.. Well, it probably shows he's not all mighty, and even as he is a ruler.. He can't do a lot of stuff, probably.. And his ruling isn't above law.. And with how scheming nobles can be.. It probably means that Sylvester just got some more enemies here.. Protecting Myne here.. Even if I don't like the dude's pig fetish and some other ones.. He's helping Myne here.. But also she might or might not be of use to him, I don't know..

Alice3173 said:

Sylvester doesn't rule the town, he rules the duchy. But the issue it's one of many duchies in the country. He has wide latitude to rule as he wants within Ehrenfest but there's two things he has to keep in mind with his decisions. The first is the country's overall laws. The other is the intent of the influential factions of Ehrenfest's nobles.

Ardi8 said:
I didn't like the way it ends, season 1 and 2 had good ending but this, is completely different. Myne should be separated from her own family. Then, if there will be 4th season of this, I hope it'll be 14 episodes like first season or even 20, as this anime for me need more episodes. Anyway, this season is for me least favourite than the previous ones. Solid upper 7/10.

astralkill00 said:
That was lovely and were dangerously heartbreaking. I didn't think Myne or Rozemyne could do that kind of prayer as a farewell gift.
That end card of "The Story to be told is finished/over" was really nice.

Well this was an incredibly disappointing episode. The pointless and often nonsensical changes they made completely undermined the actual impact of Myne becoming Rozemyne. Whenever I reread part 2 volume 4 I always have to take a break in the middle of that meeting with her family after the battle against Bindewald and Bezewanst but here it just didn't have any emotional impact at all. In the novel this is one of two points in the entire story that we ever see Gunther cry, with the other being a point where Myne accidentally sees him at the dining room table crying after everyone has gone to sleep around the time that Myne decides not to sign with a noble to not die from the Devouring. In this scene in the novel, however, he is openly crying and quite distraught. But the anime makes this scene weirdly upbeat in comparison for some moronic reason when it's supposed to be quite sad.

There were also a number of nonsensical adaptation changes such as Bezewanst's crocodile tears because they apparently felt the need to make him seem even more pathetic than he already was. They also completely left out all mention of Veronica, Sylvester's mother and Bezwanst's sister, who was charged with treason for her role in all of this. The falsified papers Bindewald used to enter the city were made by her using Sylvester's official seal while he and Karstedt were attending the Archduke Conference outside the duchy. (The reason it took them so long to get back to Ehrenfest was because they were literally halfway across the country when Myne activated the pendant.) Basically the entire scene with Sylvester discussing Bindewald and Bezewanst's crimes was shortened massively, including where Myne was given the opportunity to turn Bindewald's accusations around on him with him pretty much visibly shitting himself when he realizes just how deep in trouble he is.

There's also other pointless attempts to make things seem less dark than they are. In addition to Delia going into Myne's Shield of Shutzaria while Ferdinand is dueling Bindewald, she actually allows three of Bezewanst's other attendants in. They ask her if she would allow them in since she allowed Delia and she responds with "if you can enter it then sure." Two of them safely get in but the third is launched away from it by the wind to the shock of her and Bezwanst's other retainers. Myne explains that she had malicious intent towards her and then she's vaporized by Ferdinand's duel with Bindewald.

The choice to leave Damuel less injured and conscious after his fight with Bindewald also turned out to have some really weird results since during Myne's final blessing they showed him asleep in a random bed and Freida was there. Which makes zero sense since the last time we saw him, he was conscious and in the temple with Myne and the others. In the novel, he's knocked unconscious and badly injured by Bindewald. After they arrive, the Knights Order takes him to his older brother Henrik's estate since it's close to the temple. Henrik is the noble that Freida is signed with and happened to be there when he was brought in and happened to be in the room when Myne's blessing healed him. Which itself was kinda hilarious because rather than simply waking up, he scared the crap out of Freida and the servant who was present by suddenly jumping up and drawing his wand since his last conscious memory was being in the middle of combat.

It also glosses over and doesn't really communicate some other things. For example, Myne's final blessing is shown in a way that it appears to include Karstedt and Sylvester. This was not the case however. It affected Myne's immediate family, Fran, Dirk, Damuel, Ferdinand, Benno, Mark, and Lutz. And later on when talking to Ferdinand Sylvester expresses surprise at her managing to give the blessing she did because a blessing from all the God of Darkness, Goddess of Light, and all of the Eternal Five is pretty much guaranteed to fail due to the relationship Ewigliebe has with the other gods. So this blessing was actually a big deal. Neither Sylvester, Karstedt, nor Ferdinand knew of anyone having succeeded at such a blessing.

They also didn't address Arno at all. He's actually been interfering in subtle ways since Fran first became Myne's attendant due to his dislike of Fran. Before Ferdinand came to the temple, the orphanage director was a woman named Margaret. She sexually abused some of the male orphans, of which Fran was one. (Arno on the other hand was not and he was jealous of Fran.) At some point she got pregnant from one of them and was barred from re-entering noble society so she committed suicide. When he heard Fran express relief at this, Arno ended up with a serious grudge against Fran and started doing anything he could to cause problems for Fran without it being so obvious he got in trouble for it. His suggestion of Myne becoming orphanage director and using those chambers as her own, for example? If you pay close attention in the anime you'll see that Fran has a somewhat subtle but noticeably negative expression when that happens. Arno did this on purpose to torment Fran since he knew Fran didn't want to go back there since that's where Margaret abused him. A more subtle one would be when Myne encounters Bezewanst on the way to the Dedication Ceremony. In the novel, Ferdinand actually comments that she arrived earlier than expected. This is not long after Fran had requested Arno slow down because he was walking too quickly for Myne to keep up. These two events combined with the later revelations on Arno's actions are meant to communicate that he'll even cause issues for Myne if it causes Fran distress. This was also the case when he told Fran that Ferdinand was absent. In reality, Arno was aware that if Fran showed up that Ferdinand would want to be notified of this. He chose not to do so though to cause Fran issues. Which directly led into the encounter between Myne's group and Bezewanst's group. As a result of all of this, when Ferdinand pieced things together, he had Arno executed.

One final thing that wasn't communicated at all in the adaptation is that Ferdinand and Sylvester both actually felt quite awful about having to tear Myne from her family like they did. Instead the adaptation makes them come across as far more unfeeling than they are. Well okay, maybe not so much in the case of Ferdinand who is extremely good at masking his feelings but definitely in the case of Sylvester. Not only did Sylvester end up tearing apart Myne's family but he also sentenced his uncle to death and his own mother to life imprisonment so he genuinely felt utterly awful about the entire situation.

To be honest, this entire season's terrible quality ended up coming across like the studio just really doesn't want to bother with it anymore. Even if they do make a fourth season I'm not sure that I'll even bother watching it because it was really just that awful. The first two seasons had issues but were overall quite good adaptations. This one was atrocious to put it politely. And their insistence on glossing over the darker parts of the Bookworm world is going to really put them in a bind. What should be the season finale of a fourth season is simply not something they can actually gloss over. so their options are to gloss over it anyways and cause issues for the adaptation's future or don't gloss over it and get panned for a massive and very sudden mood whiplash.

Ryoda- said:
What a lovely show this was.
I didn't think I'd like it so much, but now that I'm here, it's really a hidden gem that I recommend everyone at least gives a try.
I hope it continues.