Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesJapanese: 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～ English: Ascendance of a Bookworm German: Ascendance of a Bookworm Spanish: Ascendance of a Bookworm French: Ascendance of a Bookworm More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 14 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Oct 3, 2019 to Dec 26, 2019 Premiered: Fall 2019 Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:30 (JST) Producers: WOWOW, Genco, MediaNet, KlockWorx, flying DOG, BS Fuji, Yomiuri TV Enterprise, ABC Animation, Happinet, Tokyo Animator Gakuin, TO Books, JTB Next Creation Licensors: Sentai Filmworks, Crunchyroll Studios: Ajia-do Source: Light novel Genre: Fantasy Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 7.981 (scored by 168,671 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #6742 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #772 Members: 326,612 Favorites: 3,005 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Dec 25, 2019 Stark700 Recommended You’ve probably heard the phrase “knowledge is power”. One of the fundamental elements of power comes from books and even in our modern world today, that phrase remains as true as ever. Ascendance of a Bookworm attributes to a bookworm named “Myne” who is reincarnated into another world as she hopes to regain her ability to read. With the amount of isekai anime coming out in recent years, it’s easy to paint this show as another clone. However, you should actually take a careful look into this anime and see it more of as a slice of life isekai. What does that mean? In some ways, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 25, 2019 Goober-fish Recommended To round off this year of abysmal drops in the bucket from the rusty spigot tapped into the vast ocean of low-effort isekai anime still waiting down the pipeline, “Ascendance of a Bookworm” hit me like a brief mouthful of ambrosia that I desperately desired. There are only so many ways to frame an isekai anime nowadays, it’s like when Fox announces they’ve renewed The Simpsons for another 3 seasons and realizes, “Haven’t we already done everything?” In this regard, Bookworm isn’t exactly novel when you think about how it recontextualizes this tired concept. It’s not an original concept, but it’s one that recognizes the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 26, 2019 RPWPA Recommended Honzuki No Gekokujou is a phenomenal anime. It has great characters, drama, story and pacing that is so perfect it makes you want to watch it all in one go. When I started watching the anime I felt like this would be a boring Isekai from the first 3 episodes but I'm glad to say this was very far from it. What I thought was going to be a disappointing anime turned to be one of the best if not the best alongside Iruma-kun. This anime also has some of the best character development I have seen in an anime. The characters in the anime ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 6, 2019 Zedlin Recommended Preliminary (6/14 eps) This is currently my favorite isekai anime as of making this review. I understand having favorite and isekai next to each other is in itself like a cardinal sin in the anime community. But hear me out, it’s unlike every other brain numbing action fantasy isekai. It’s not when Kirito— sorry, some dumb, brokenly strong character gets bitches and slays any monster without real consequences. Ascendance of a Bookworm gets what so many other isekai get wrong. Ascendance of a Bookworm is a isekai, but that’s not really what sells the show for me. It’s the slice of life that makes me adore Maine the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 25, 2019 KANLen09 Recommended Isekai Bookworm: the Isekai we needed but didn't deserve, and furthermore, the most underrated and least watched Isekai of the season, that's at least getting a continuation in Spring 2020 for its 2nd cour...like how great is that! It's almost like in the slew of all-too-familiar Isekai LNs that purge the same formula as if that's the ONLY way to make it interesting, that Ascendance of a Bookworm FINALLY saw the change towards that formula to forge and become its very own thing. *Spoilers be warned* In the sense of realism, Isekai Bookworm retains the fantasy that the genre is all but known for, but with the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 12, 2020 Honesty Mixed Feelings *NO SPOILERS* Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 25, 2019 SuperiorInterNed Recommended Preliminary (14/14 eps) It’s going to be a fairly lengthy review since I want newcomers to know how critically underappreciated this show is. If you want a shorter review, there’s one on the final paragraphs. As a blossoming anime watcher, there are a lot of steps you naturally take in order to become the person with the most sophisticated taste from scratch, obviously. This is my first season, fall 2019, where I tried to hand pluck individual shows for my very own list. I have to say, finding that special show is difficult. There were just so many continuations and so many new shows that it was hard ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 28, 2019 Marinate1016 Recommended Bookworm is a perfect example of why preliminary reviews should not be allowed on this website and allowing them only lowers the credibility of MAL reviews. I truly must apologise to this series for writing it off when I first started watching it. When I made my first review for this show, I gave it a 6/10 after 4 episodes and felt that there was little to no substance here. I could not have been more wrong. It wasn't the show that had issues, it was me. It was the fact I wasn't appreciating the little things that make good storytelling and instead of substance, I ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 17, 2020 aoikimahri Mixed Feelings *contains spoilers up to episode 21 when I dropped it. I've seen beyond this one season.* I was wondering why the ratings were so high as the previews looked like an isekai slice of life show meant for kids. That's exactly what you are getting and not much more. It's something you can turn on when you are wasted on a Saturday night and your mind can't form basic words, and it has its "cute" moments, but it definitely does not deserve an 8 with how childish, nonsensical and slow the plot is. Let's start off with some of the good things before I start rambling with ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 24, 2020 Allwynd Not Recommended The premise of the anime, at least in the Synopsis section made it feel like it was going to be something interesting and out of the ordinary. Turned out to be one whiny anime riddled with plot holes and plot armor left and right. Even in the first episode when the protagonist gets the memories of the body it now inhabits, she doesn't get all of them and starts looking through the house for books as if she doesn't already have the memory of the body that there are no books there. This trend of things not making any sense continues as the anime develops. The most ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 1, 2023 7barbieringz Recommended No spoilers: Its not all about books though, the overall story is pretty interesting but like I said before its slow, theres not a lot of fighting or anything like that. I teared up a few times watching it, its not your typical isekai, but it does have common isekai elements like magic and knights. But i say gice it a try, if you want to drop ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 3, 2020 Yuri-Crusader Not Recommended Welcome to my review of Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen! This review contains minor spoilers!! The story is the biggest problem in my opinion! It has an awful start and just keeps failing as it moves along!! Motosu Urano is a Librarian and writes books for children. She lives in a distant world and she loves books in all their forms! Fiction to mathematics philosophy and everything in between. She is the definition of a bookworm and literature is her love in life! And she surrounded herself with books! But the books was not happy at all!! They were angry ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 27, 2023 Byc33 Mixed Feelings Like many others I picked up this series due to the high score and many good reviews. I generally like fantasy isekai so it was going to make it on my list eventually, but the good reviews pushed it up the "watch asap" list. I don't usually write reviews for things I watch, anime or otherwise, so excuse the lack of structure. However, I just felt the need to express my opinion for this one because I have some pretty strong mixed feelings about it after watching all 3 seasons. This series can be summed up as having an interesting premise, a good story but ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 23, 2020 Agent_Redacted Recommended If you don't like Business Studies, then Myne would prove you wrong with her inventions and her intellectual brain she brought to an unfamiliar world! You can hate the isekai genre all you want. But Ascendance of a Bookworm will surely imprint a question mark above your head and make you think otherwise. Ascendance of a Bookworm is the closest thing we'll get for another season of Spice and Wolf. And of course, the closest thing we'll get for an isekai that doesn't actually suck. Despite of the fact that Ascendance of a Bookworm's MAL thumbnail looks like some kind of rip-off of Kenja no ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 19, 2020 dot-0-sama Not Recommended The isekai genre in recent years has done exceedingly well. Especially when we look at the more popular ones like Rezero, No game no life, and konosubarash, being mindful of the fact that none of these anime are not typically what you'd call "happy go lucky" animes in the sense that they don't give the audience a feeling of infancy. Honestly I have nothing against making an isekai into a slice of life; well, I didn't at first. Honzuki no Gekokujou is one of those anime types that you see on forum sites, become intrigued by positive reviews, and then go ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 10, 2024 Rim_Harada Recommended This is real "Anime". I am surprised to have found this masterpiece after so much time of starting to watch anime, it is certainly not something normal that you would see, and it is not at all what we are used to seeing in current works. Each episode of this play makes you want more, in some, it makes you cry and in others it makes you excited and excited because that is what will happen. This is not a review, nor is it a recommendation, it is a call from the universe for you to see this masterpiece. This is Anime. Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 20, 2019 BobathonSaget Not Recommended Preliminary (7/14 eps) This show is pretty awful. There's major issues in every part of this production pipeline. From nonsensical sound fx almost appearing non-diajetic in nature half the time to the limited expression allotted to them from their limited budget being wasted on caricatures and presentation which detract from the overall theme and tone of the show. The overall narrative itself seems incredibly disjointed, ill-paced and not really thought out. The through-story ends up making the protagonist come off selfish and conceited, and the pacing and presentation only serves to double down on that conclusion. There's nothing good to say about this show except that going insane while ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 20, 2023 AeroGunz Recommended “Ascendance of a Bookworm” is what happens when You have an interesting premise with a cool twist to the isekai genre and skill to make watching it enjoyable. The story is pretty simple. A young girl, who loves books more than anything and I do mean anything, dies. Instead of going to the great beyond she ends up in the body of a little, frail, sickly girl in a different world. A world where books are a luxury only for the nobles or the rich. Possessing the knowledge from her former life and assimilating the memories of her new host body she embarks on a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 8, 2023 Nazhy Recommended This show is incredibly compelling, the way that most isekai political/ business drama are. It’s enjoyable, in the sense that I can turn off my brain and be like “I love books too!” And relate to the main character and their struggles about loving and missing books throughout the whole show. But that’s all I can say is good about it, cute at times, the drama and suspense is ok, but other than the MC having one relatable trait, she is annoying. The other characters also feel like paper, 2D characters lacking 3D development. Everything about the show is basic and lackluster, only enjoyable if ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 3, 2020 Casul_Noob1997 Not Recommended Never have I been so baffled about the popularity of an intellectual property. And that's not to say I "just don't get it," because I believe I do get this show. And I'm NOT HERE to tell those who enjoy 'Ascendance' that their opinion is wrong and mine is right, because that's pompous as all hell first and foremost. All of us have our own tastes and priorities when it comes to what a story "should be" about what it "should" focus on, and by proxy, what it does right by our personal standards' measure. Now, with my "everyone's taste is valid" disclaimer out of ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
