#ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM NOVEL SERIES#

Tuuli ( トゥーリ, Tūri) Voiced by: Megumi Nakajima (Japanese) Lisa Reimold (English) Myne's elder sister by one year who follows her mother's craft in becoming a seamstress. Ferdinand ( フェルディナンド, Ferudinando) Voiced by: Show Hayami (Japanese) Armen Taylor (English) The High Priest in the city of Ehrenfest. Now, Myne has to put her book-knowledge to the test in order to become a librarian in her new world. Her frailty is due to a rare disease known as the 'Devouring,' which consists of high fevers that spark whenever the host is stressed or depressed. Myne, retaining her memories from her previous life, decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again.Ĭharacters Myne ( マイン, Main) / Urano Motosu ( 本須麗乃, Motosu Urano) Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (Japanese) Reba Buhr (English) The titular bookworm, Urano (a college student) was on the cusp of being a librarian when she was ironically crushed to death under a pile of books during an earthquake and reincarnated as a sickly five-year-old girl named Myne, but in a world where books are only for extremely rich nobles. Urano awakens in the body of a weak, five-year-old girl named Myne in a world where books are scarce and only available to elites. With her dying breath, she wishes to be reincarnated in a world where she can read books forever. The story follows Urano Motosu, a book-loving post-secondary college student and soon-to-be librarian who ends up crushed to death beneath a pile of books at her house during an earthquake. A third season aired from April to June 2022. A two-part OVA episode released in March 2020.

#ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM NOVEL SERIES#

An anime television series adaptation by Ajia-do Animation Works aired the first part from October to December 2019, and the second part aired from April to June 2020. Both the light novel and manga are published in English by J-Novel Club. It was collected in seven tankōbon volumes by TO Books. It was later acquired by TO Books, who has published twenty-nine volumes since January 2015.Ī manga adaptation of the first part with art by Suzuka was serialized online via Niconico Seiga website from October 2015 to July 2018. It was serialized online from September 2013 to March 2017 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. 'Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Stop at Nothing to Become a Librarian') is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Miya Kazuki and illustrated by Yū Shiina.

Ascendance of a Bookworm ( Japanese: 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～, Hepburn: Honzuki no Gekokujō: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen, lit.

Ascendance of a bookworm novel