Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 3rd Season (2025)

TheRockzSG

Recommended

If you are reading a review for an anime's 3rd season, I am sure you already know what is Ascendance of Bookworm is about. So I will leave out the introductory part of the review. Let's jump straight into this review.

Let's start with the positive part of the review.

As expected, the story is fantastic. Miya Kazuki did a fantastic job writing the story. The characters are the same lovable characters we love from Season 2. Myne still has a crippling addiction to reading. Ferdinand and Benno have a Myne-induced headache every single episode. Lutz desperately tries to keep Myne not working herself to ...

NextUniverse

Recommended

As with every other season before it, Ascendance of a Bookworm is a moderately slow story with a grand tale to tell. S3 is just one piece in that grand tale, and the quality of it is the same as everything before it.

I haven't made any review for the series before now, but to make a long story short, the whole thing is pretty good at mixing different things in Myne's life together to make for a story that's a little more than what is currently shown at any time. S3 adds a bit more to that with a ton of character motives and other ...

qdmoefte

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/10 eps)

ylight67

Recommended

This is a spoiler free, but slightly suggestive, short review.

I feel like this is a series that manages to keep up a joyful, childish mood the entire time, like nothing bad can ever happen, but at the same time it always keeps you on the edge, thinking about what is going to go wrong next and when. In my opinion pretty much everything about this anime is well put together and perfect, including the characters, the upper mentioned balance, the sounds, music, CV, the story as well, etc. The only things that keeps bothering me are the servants. Everything feels so strict and controlled, nobody ...

SpRayquaza11

Recommended

Honzuki, Is probably the most underrated isekai anime ever. Sure it has a more slow slice-of-life approach, Yet, it has the best World Building in any show I have seen so far, the nobles, and commoners' lifestyles, and the interactions between the two are perfect, A true mirror image of what held true for our World during the middle ages. The only problem that I may need to point out is

It is slow ….
Really slow …
I mean, It has been 3 seasons and we are still in the same City xD, We do Know that the Lore and the World building is Certainly not ...

Ajgeo

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/10 eps)

Unfortunately there's no rating category for directing or scene smoothness or w/e you want to call it, I'm sure there's a film word for it, but I don't know it.

Source material is great, I'm reading the light novels right now. This is a pretty solid part of the story as well, so all's good there.

Art, people might think it looks kind of bland or simple, but it's the exact art style of the light novel, but done better somehow. That gives it a lot of charm that makes it impossible for a light novel reader like myself to have any qualms with it. That ...

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

take0kun

Not Recommended

I absolutely loved the first season of this series. I think it's one of the better Isekai animes, but this series felt very flat to me. I don't know if I was becoming delirious or if the characters seem to be getting dumber and slower by the episode. The indecision of all the characters led to a confusing plot unraveling. I felt like I wasted my time.

A lot of the characters that I loved during the beginning like Lutz and Ben-merchant and Otto became almost background characters in this season. Although I can't even tell you who became the supporting roles. I'm not even sure ...

CrustyMustard

Recommended

Preliminary (3/10 eps)

Hmm ok so I binged Ascendance of a bookworm like last year and I'm not gonna lie I was absolutely loving it even tho it was basic ash.

Now looking back... its still basic ash but idk it gives me serotonin soooo

I think last season was better than this season but I'm not 100% sure since only 3 eps aired.. Anywho, into the rating cuzzz uhhhhhhh.... cuz I can I guess.

Story: Its an Isekai what can I even say... I still love it tho, just not fresh 7/10

Art: Basic ash, like the rest of the show but not too basic that its boring, ...

Marinate1016

Recommended

In a world of rushed adaptations and instant gratification, it’s rare to see a studio take their time and lay the groundwork of a story. Luckily for fans of the Honzuki anime and LN, we got just that.

Over the course of the past 3 years, we’ve been blessed with 3 wonderful seasons of Honzuki. Each subsequent season building on the events of the previous, expanding the rich and magical world and developing the loveable cast of the series. Despite 30+ episodes of this, we have only just scratched the surface of the story and there is so much more to come.

If you’re 3 seasons deep ...

Hedgie

Mixed Feelings

Before reading this, mind that there will be spoilers of all the seasons, just in case new watchers are curious if the series gets better over time.

After keeping up with the series for three seasons, I can say, with a heavy heart, that it is not what it used to be. The series that once had me hooked and blasting through two seasons is now a chore to watch. It lost the components that gave it heart and made it so binge-able.

With the first season, it was all about Myne’s family and friends. The world-building was essential for the plot, since we are ...

robert788

Mixed Feelings

Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 3rd Season (2022)

Well, this show although it has a pretty great and emotional ending was just a bit lacking. It just does what it has done before, rather slowly and in various directions which ends up being somewhat bang average.

The art style is consistently improved from the 1st season to this which is a huge plus point and it also keeps its style.

The sound is fine, nothing really great just the same old stuff.

The character development is good in places and boring in others. I had to skip at times ...

Mcsuper

Recommended

Our beloved bookworm is back for yet another season, and it’s a little different what I had remembered from the excellent Season 2. The story went a bit away from the slice of life elements in creating new inventions and reading books, and we actually see a bit of stakes in this season, with dangers of Myne being kidnapped, and even some action sequences.

The reason why I loved this series was the slice of life elements which even felt a bit educational at times, and while those themes still exist in this season, it felt more action and politically oriented, which isn’t what I had ...

Caeruleus_CCXVI

Recommended

6.75/10
This season was the weakest by far, with 1 being an amazing start and 2 being a fine sequel and the 3rd just being fine. However when I take a step back and look at the story as a whole it truly deserves my 7/10 rating and anyone that knows how I rate that is pretty high, because as everyone should know 5/10 is average and most things truly sit around that mark.

This show really uses the isekai genre well unlike most shows, and this truly does not feel like the copy and paste genre that most anime memes on for. I am looking ...

mrfried

Recommended

after watching and enjoying the first two seasons, I really was looking forward to watching season 3, and fortunately, it did not disappoint.

Sometimes you get a drop in quality or a series can go off the rails as it goes on, but this managed to maintain its quality in the animation, and the story kept me watching.

Season 3 is the payoff to all the groundwork that the first two seasons created, the plots, the scheming, it all comes to it's conclusion in season 3, and season 3 wraps up so much that it feels more like an ending, even if it promises a 4th season.

If ...

RudolfTostarrica

Not Recommended

This review doesn’t include details, just a general comment on the plot of the season and it’s delivery.

I loved the first season, I was quite alright with the second one (although it felt inferior) and I went through this 3rd season with struggle and wishing it was even shorter.

I’m not sure what’s the main thing in this season, really. At the start it seems it will be about the menace of a ridiculous “enemy”, but it was smoke. The enemy is gone in no time. Then it was that the real enemy was someone else, but it barely matters because when they actually “attack” it’s ...

RPWPA

Recommended

In an already established world with magic, power systems and supernatural beings (and what they consider gods for some reason), there is a very big flow in almost all fantasy anime that starts with those troupes, forgetting the existence of a family.

From the first episode of season 1 in Honzuki, we are introduced to an idea that has been expanded to a degree I never saw before, the value of having a family and how hard it is to write them. Yet, with every new season we are met with deeper level of depth to each character and how they relate to their family. ...

i-like-this

Recommended

The Smart Isekai.

If you’re someone who enjoys nitty-gritty world-building details and its political tensions in your isekai without the things that hold the genre back like cardboard box MCs, harems, generic video game level and skill systems, immature writing, “tHe HeRo”/“ThE dEmOn LoRd” etc then Ascendence of a Bookworm will probably be right up your ally.

After the first and second seasons focused mostly on world building the third is allowed to focus on the political ramifications of the reincarnated book nerd turned commoner Myne and her quest to create a library so she can become a librarian in a world with little in ...

Speech500

Recommended

I absolutely love this anime and was really looking forward to the third season.

In terms of execution, it was good. The animation was never the draw of this show, but it did the job. I enjoyed the music too. Everything from the production side was fine.

Unfortunately, ten episodes wasn't really enough to fully flesh out all the different arcs they were going for. There was the high priest conspiracy, the adoption plot, the merchant plot, the magic plot, the orphanage plot.

Inventing the gutenberg press somehow felt like a side quest despite arguably being the culmination of the whole narrative from season one onward.

With so little ...

LikeAFerro

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