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Over the weekend I caught up on Ascendance of a Bookworm, which meant finishing the second and third seasons. It's definitely one of the better isekai I've seen, but that still only made it a fairly average anime. I liked how Main slowly introduced new technologies. Watching her 'invent' stuff was the best part of the show, as was the merchant aspect. That said, her book obsession became increasingly at odds with the plots that began happening around her. It was so important early on but by the end you could've cut the whole book aspect and it wouldn't change anything. And the bad guys were all stupid evil, anytime the show got serious it became worse because they were all cackling cardboard cutouts. I didn't care for certain aspects of the setting either, the church especially felt really poorly thought out for a supposedly important institution. Regular people literally knew nothing about it and didn't care at all. In our world's Medieval times, religion was a pillar in most people's lives. Their whole mana shortage was dumb too because there's an obvious way to fix their problems and they aren't doing it for some reason.

I'd rank the third season below Spy x Family but ahead of Heroines Run the Show on my Spring 2022 ranking in post 468. Bookworm was fine but nothing special.