


While initially confused by the girl’s strange new hobby, he is curious and helps her in her quest. He is a young boy, around 5 years old, who helps Myne in her goal to make a book. The next most important character is Lutz. However, the girl she took her new body from, the original Myne, is exceedingly frail, falling ill almost weekly, so she has to pace herself. Thanks to her love of any kind of literature, whether it be a history textbook or a cookbook, she has an encyclopedia’s worth of modern knowledge to bring to the people in her new life. What separates Myne from the rest of the peasants of this new city is her incredible intelligence, at least compared to the rest of the inhabitants, similar to Belle in Beauty and the Beast, but on a much larger scale. Myne is a bubbly, positive and very bright bookworm who just wants to indulge in her favorite hobby, reading. Not only does it have a female character as its lead, which is a rarity in isekai, but it also keeps the viewer entertain despite a lack of fights and flashy visuals. ” Luckily for us, each character is not only fun, but memorable.Īscendance is a very unique isekai. The first major arc of the show is Myne’s attempts to make paper! With such a simple and, in some regard, boring problem, the show needs a stellar cast of characters to keep viewers engaged in the story. Ascendance is a very relaxed show, with conflicts that are much more grounded than most fantasy stories. Where Ascendance of a Bookworm differs from most isekai is its lack of action. The main characters tend to be everyday people put into a situation where they can change this new world for the better, making for fun fish-out-of-water stories. Isekai stories are about characters being flung into another world, usually a fantasy world. She then vows that if she can’t have books, she will make them. Worst of all, her cherished books are too expensive for her to buy. She then wakes up in the body of a 5-year-old peasant girl named Myne, in the middle of a medieval Europe-like world. Unfortunately, her story is cut short after an earthquake causes a bookshelf to fall on her and end her life. She absolutely loves books, and she actually achieves her dream at the start of the story. Jokes aside, Ascendance of a Bookworm is a stellar anime that everyone can enjoyĪscendance of a Bookworm is an isekai anime about a college student named Urano Motosu, whose goal in life is to become a librarian. With a female hero, a story about family and friends, and a conflict revolving around books, Ascendance of a Bookworm seems like an English teachers dream. So 2021 show results collected in 2020.Ascendance of a Bookworm has a female character who loves books more than swords. The Kono Light Novel ga sugoi! magazine counts its volumes using the number of the following year. Results of the "Kono Light Novel ga sugoi!" Rankings

The number of sold volumes reached 4 million including electronical version.Myne (retaining her memories from her previous life) decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again. When she awakens as Myne she learns that books are scarce and only obtainable by rich people, mostly nobles. Luckily, she gets reincarnated in another world as the young daughter of a commoner family. The story centers around Urano Motosu, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian who dies in an earthquake buried underneath her beloved books.
ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM SERIES
The series has also been released as a manga and has an anime series animated by Ajia-Do.

Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~ Honzuki no Gekokujō ~Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen~), also known as Honzuki no Gekokujō (本好きの下剋上), is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Miya Kazuki and illustrated by You Shiina.
