The Ascendance of a Bookworm series came out in two separate parts where the first season arrived in the fall of 2019 with fourteen episodes and then came back with a second season in 2020 along with some OVAs that were produced for it. That show saw release through Sentai Filmworks in North America and some overseas distribution through Anime Limited.
With the second season finishing up in the summer of 2022, we learned exactly a year ago in December 2023 from TO Books that WIT Studio is working to adapt the Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke light novels. No dates or details beyond that were revealed in terms of staff or planned dates.
Now, the publisher has updated on that with plans for it to make a 2026 debut and that it will be a TV series.
This Collector’s Edition sports both Seasons 1 and 2 in their entirety on Blu-ray, alongside a suitable hefty tome in the form of a 112-page booklet filled with artwork and information about the series. All of this is, of course, stored within a rigid slipcase, with the discs housed within an Amaray case.
Check out our review of the first two seasons on Blu-ray.
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 first season of the series saw 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, and Hiroshi Naka as Gustaf. Additional second season cast includes Yuko Sanpei as Gil, Shō Karino as Fran, Chiyo Tomaru as Delia.
The first season opening theme song is “Masshiro” as performed by Sumire Morohoshi while Megumi Nakajima is on board to perform the ending theme song “Kamikazari no Tenshi” for the show. The second season opening theme song is “Tsumujikaze” as performed by Sumire Morohoshi while Megumi Nakajima is on board to perform the ending theme song “Ephemera Wo Atsumete” 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.
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Plot Concept: When she woke up, she was in a parallel world…
Avid bookworm and college student Motosu Urano ends up dying in an unforeseen accident. This came right after the news that she would finally be able to work as a librarian like she had always dreamed of.
When she regained consciousness, she was reborn as Myne, the daughter of a poor soldier. She was in the town of Ehrenfest, a town that existed in a parallel world and had a harsh class system where the magic-wielding nobles ruled supreme. But Myne doesn’t really let that get to her. After all, as long as she had books, she didn’t really need anything else.
However, this world had a very low literacy rate and no real way of printing books, so books were scarce and belonged only to the nobles. They were completely out of reach for the daughter of some poor soldier. But that doesn’t stop Myne from wanting to read books, so she makes a decision…
“If there aren’t any books, I’ll just create some.”
Myne might not have energy or money, but she has an endless amount of knowledge from all the books she read in her previous life. Will Myne actually be able to make some books? Myne’s adventure to create books starts now.
[Source: ANN]
