Fans who have picked up the J-Novel Club release of Ascendance of Bookworm learned back in March are lucking out in that it’s being slotted for an anime adaptation. The updates have come in regularly this spring and summer and now the show is set for the fall season with the official site revealing an October 2nd, 2019 bow on WOWOW before moving to other services over the next week. It’s also been revealed to be a fourtee-episode series. The show comes from director Mitsuru Hongo based on the series composition by Mariko Kunisawa. Yoshiaki Yanagida and Toshihisa Kaiya are on board for character designs with Ajiado handling the animation production. The series is also set for an October 2019 debut.
The announced cast includes:
- Megumi Nakajima as Turi
- Fumiko Orikasa as Eva
- Tsuyoshi Koyama as Gunther
- Mutsumi Tamura as Lutz
- Takehito Koyasu as Penno
- Satoshi Hino as Otto
- Tomoaki Maeno as Mark
- Aya Uchida as Frieda
- Hiroshi Naka as Gustaf
Megumi Nakajima is on board to perform the ending theme song “Kamikazari no Tenshi” for the show.
The series began ints print run in 2015 and has seventeen volumes to date plus a manga adaptation that’s at seven volumes.
Check out the official website and Twitter.
Plot Concept: A certain college girl who’s loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Maine, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she’s been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don’t exist. She’d have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one. Maine resolves herself: If there aren’t any books, she’ll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!
[Cast Source: ANN]
