YASSER, Ryan Naif M.

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#12042390 12/09/2022
Video Review #2
Anime is my personal favorite form of entertainment among a plethora of other media to
consume. I have chosen the anime: Ascendance of a Bookworm for my second video review paper.
“Ascendance of a Bookworm: I’ll Stop at Nothing to Become a Librarian” is a 2017 Netflix anime
adaptation of the Japanese light novel series of the same name by Miya Kazuki.
Urano Motosu, the protagonist of the tale, is a bookworm and aspiring librarian who dies
after an earthquake collapses the bookshelves in her home. She hopes with her last breath to be
reborn into a world where books are eternally accessible. In a world where books are scarce and only
available to elites, Urano awakens in the body of a frail five-year-old girl named Myne. With her prior
life still fresh in her mind, Myne intends to write and publish her own books so that she can pick up
the reading habit once more.
Myne's difficulty in saving up for her goals brought the issue of capital budgeting to the fore.
She needs to work to help with the costs of her medical care now that she is sick. In order to
improve her overall health, she spent money on medical equipment. Nonetheless, this is quite
cumbersome because she is investing so much money in medical gear that she may need for an
extensive amount of time. The more she uses her expensive equipment to help her health, the less
valuable the items become. In this scenario, the equipment she invested in kept her alive throughout
the series, but there is always the chance that it could backfire because she may only sustain this
lifestyle for such a long time, whether it be from a financial, physical, or mental standpoint.
This exhibits the intrinsic capacity of series to inculcate notable life skills and propagate
financial literacy even if we are not consciously aware of the things we are learning. Myne shows a
good example of placing significance on capital budgeting in my business endeavors, as it is crucial
to evaluate major investments and projects. Additionally, understanding capital budgeting can help
us assess prospective cash inflows and outflows to identify or anticipate future returns that would be
accumulated from achieving sufficient benchmarks.