Questions tagged [ascendance-of-a-bookworm]

I've seen the anime spell Myne's name as Main in the credits and such, but the light novels use Myne. Why is this? Where does this name even come from?

The premise of Myne selling the pound cake recipe to Frieda and her chef is that sugar is new and nobody really knows how to use it. If we compare this to our own history, is it believable that nobody would know how to bake confections? Humans are…

At one point in the story, Myne tells Lutz that she is actually a reincarnation, and the original Myne was in all likelihood swallowed up by the heat of the Devouring. I found this explanation kind of strange. As a Japanese person, Myne should be…