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Ascendance of a Bookworm

8.1 / 10

2019

2 seasons

38 episodes

AnimationDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. "What has gotten into Myne?" they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a "What" but a "Who": Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new Myne intends to do everything she can to bring her beloved books to the masses in the time she has left.

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Cast

Yuka Iguchi

Show Hayami

Mutsumi Tamura

Takehito Koyasu

Megumi Nakajima

Tsuyoshi Koyama

Fumiko Orikasa

Tomoaki Maeno

Kazuhiko Inoue

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Yuuichirou Umehara

Yuko Sanpei

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Ascendance of a Bookworm

Ascendance of a Bookworm has an upcoming episode on 2026-04-11.

Seasons

1.A World Without Books
7.3
03-10-201924m
Motosu Urano, a college student and a bookworm of the highest order, loses her life in an avalanche of books and wakes up in another world as a sickly girl named Main. Nevertheless...
2.Life Improvements and Slates
7.2
10-10-201924m
Having learned how expensive books are in this world, Main resolves to make books of her own. However, she soon finds out just how frail her new body is when she and her elder sist...
3.The Events of Winter
7.8
17-10-201924m
While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Main has a plan: a plan to craft pseudo-papyrus as the first step towards making a book. Meanwhile, Eva teaches Turi a bunch of ski...
4.Forests and Clay Tablets
7.9
24-10-201924m
Spring has arrived, and Main is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest. But first, she must convince her family that she can handle the journey.
5.Baptisms and Strange Fevers
7.4
31-10-201924m
The season has shifted to summer, and the day of Turi's baptism has arrived. Turi attracts attention with a hair ornament made by Main. Main, who has more opportunities to go to th...
6.Meeting
8.4
07-11-201924m
Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Main's futures.
7.Seeds of Suspicion
8.2
14-11-201924m
With the paper-making process about to begin, Main can't hide her excitement as she and Lutz go to meet Benno as per his invitation. He reveals that he is willing to arrange for al...
8.Lutz's Main
8.4
21-11-201924m
As Main and Lutz begin making their paper for real, Main's excitement gets the better of her, and Lutz's suspicions come to a head. He resolves to talk to her about it after the pa...
9.The Guild Master's Granddaughter
8.0
28-11-201924m
Benno looks to have Main and Lutz registered with the Merchant Guild, but the guild master proves to be an obstacle. This results in them making plans to meet Frieda, his granddaug...
10.To the Second Winter
8.4
05-12-201924m
Main learns from Frieda that the illness she has is called the Devouring, and that it will flare up if she ever feels anxiety or loses hope. Almost on cue, her fever starts acting...
11.Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings
8.8
12-12-201924m
With Main collapses, everyone she knows comes together in a bid to save her life. But soon, she is faced with a life-or-death decision, one that she must discuss with her family.
12.Baptism and Divine Paradises
8.4
19-12-201924m
The day of Main and Lutz's baptism has arrived. Wearing a fancy dress and a new hair ornament, Main appears a clear standout from the rest of the kids, but soon she loses her way a...
13.The Choice to Be an Apprentice Priestess
8.5
26-12-201924m
When Main brings up wanting to become an apprentice priestess to her family, she learns the truth about the role and what it entails and soon comes to realize that she is in for th...
14.Conclusions
8.6
26-12-201924m
Main, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowing that Main's life is riding on a successful negotiation. But will things really go so smoothly for th...
15.Apprentice Priestess
7.8
05-04-202024m
Main is now an apprentice priestess at the cathedral. How will she adapt to a new life in new surroundings, and how will they react to her?
16.Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense
7.8
12-04-202024m
The stark contrast of the values at the church compared to life downtown continues to bewilder Main, as she butts heads with her retainers and her expected duties at the church.
17.Needs
8.0
19-04-202024m
With Fran now fully on her team, Main must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.
18.Orphanage Reforms
7.8
26-04-202024m
Main is taken to the orphanage and collapses in shock when she sees the state it and its inhabitants are in. She wants to help the kids, but will she really be able to?
19.Cleanups and Star Festivals
7.8
03-05-202024m
As newly appointed orphanage director, Main's first task is to lead a major cleanup of the orphanage and its inhabitants. And as summer comes around, she also has some festivities...
20.The Path Ahead of Lutz
8.0
10-05-202024m
The friction in Lutz's family caused by his choice of profession comes to a head, and he runs away from home to get away from it all.
21.New Retainers
7.5
17-05-202024m
When Main hears that Eva is pregnant, she decides to make a picture book for the baby and looks to recruit Wilma to be her artist. However, she finds a few roadblocks on her path.....
22.Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids
7.8
24-05-202024m
With the picture-book production in full sway, Main must navigate several hurdles regarding the process and, more pressingly, Wilma's condition.
23.Harvest Festivals and Staying Home
8.0
31-05-202024m
The Harvest Festival is here, and Main finds the library ransacked. She is outraged at first, but this may be a welcome opportunity for her...
24.Knight Orders and Requests
7.8
07-06-202024m
Main has to break the news to her family that she has to stay in the cathedral over winter. Meanwhile, the request from the knight order looms large over the horizon.
25.Trombe and Battles
8.2
14-06-202024m
Main and the head priest set out to join the knights on a mission to take down a rampage trombe. With this being her first exposure to proper noble society, who knows what perils l...
26.Dreamlike World
9.0
21-06-202024m
Tasked with healing the land ravaged by the trombe, Main has to put on a show. How that will affect the way the onlookers see her is anybody's guess... and so is how the head pries...
27.The Beginning of Winter
8.7
12-04-202224m
Autumn has come to a close. Main starts selling the scripture picture books, gets asked by the apprentice blacksmith Johann to be his patron, and starts taking the next step in her...
28.The Story About Winter Stays and the Future
7.3
19-04-202224m
Main ends up having to start her winter stay at the cathedral. However, she instantly becomes homesick. Also, in a meeting with Benno, Ferdinand, and Karstedt, it's revealed that W...
29.The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives
8.0
26-04-202224m
The knight Damuel has become Main's bodyguard. Now that she's able to go places, Main is excited about going to the library. They hold the Dedication Ceremony where she offers her...
30.Spring Prayer
8.0
03-05-202224m
Main and the others get ready to head off to the Spring Prayer, when they meet a blue-robed priest named Sylvester. Main doesn't know how to deal with Sylvester who seems to do wha...
31.Gift from the Blue-Robed Priest and Going Home
8.0
10-05-202224m
With the Spring Prayer finished, Main and the others returned to the cathedral. Sylvester appoints Main as his guide to show him around the orphanage and workshop, where they obser...
32.The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors
7.7
17-05-202224m
Main is finally able to go home. Her little brother Kamil is born and she becomes even more determined to create books. That is when Main meets a helpful collaborator named Heidi,...
33.Delia and Dirk
8.0
24-05-202224m
Dirk suddenly develops a high fever. Delia, who adored Dirk, and started to see him as her own family, was worried sick. Main sees his symptoms and realizes that he may have the De...
34.Ominous Developments
7.3
31-05-202224m
On the way home from Heidi's workshop, they hear the emergency bells sound through the city as well as see a red emergency flare go up into the sky. Main is worried about what migh...
35.The Black Protective Charm
8.0
07-06-202224m
Because of the lack of caution exercised by one of the gate guards, the carriage with the noble from another domain has entered the city. Gunther finds out that Main is being targe...
36.Blessing
9.0
14-06-202224m
To protect her family, Main agrees to be adopted by Sylvester. It is he who enters the cathedral with Sir Karstedt just at the moment when Ferdinand and Sir Bindewald are involved...