Ascendence of a bookworm series#

And this is when she learns that books are extremely rare and valuable in this world - only the nobles can afford them. However, it’s also in the market where Myne gets her first glimpse of a book. Further, even when Myne goes to the market, there’s no writing in sight. Within her family’s home there’s no writing to be found, and her family doesn’t even know what a book is.

Ascendence of a bookworm series#

Well, that’s not entirely accurate there are books and writing, the series just makes it seem like there aren’t. When Myne first enters this world, there’s actually no writing at all, let alone books.

Are There Books or Not?Īscendance of a Bookworm is a bit strange in how it handles the existence of books, and writing in general. The goal of most merchants is to make enough money to open their own shop and become a craftsman. This dream isn’t something his family supports, because as they explain it, merchants don’t have a set home. Lutz comes from a family of craftsmen, but his dream is to become a merchant. However, what’s interesting about that is they’re about the same size, despite it being stated that Myne is small for her age due to her illness. I don’t think their ages were ever stated, but Lutz is either the same age as Myne or just slightly older. The other major character is Lutz, Myne’s best friend. The previous host of this body died due to her illness, and it appears that Myne could share the same fate. For all practical purposes it is, because Myne is the name of the girl whose identity she’s taken over, but her original name was Urano Motosu.Īnd, this body which now belongs to Myne (Urano), is very sickly. This also means that Myne isn’t really the main character’s name. Instead, she awoke within the body of a young girl who had recently died in her sleep. Yes, she died, but she wasn’t reborn, or even really transported into this other world. However, to say that she was reincarnated isn’t entirely accurate. Myne is the main character of the series who was reincarnated in this bookless world. However, most of them simply play support roles, like Myne’s entire family. Looking at the character list, this series actually had a lot more characters than I was thinking. There’s mana (barely) and some sort of fantasy plant, but that’s it. Oh, and despite this being a fantasy world, there are surprisingly few fantasy elements. It felt more like there was mana just because the series would have been too plain without it - but it still doesn’t add anything.

However, she was already on that path, so mana doesn’t really have anything to do with it. Mana was basically introduced into the series as a way to push Myne, the protagonist, along her journey to find books. But even if it is eventually explored, I don’t see why it really matters. It introduces some other potentially interesting concepts, such as mana which manifests as dōjutsu like in Naruto, but so far that hasn’t really been explored. That’s basically the entire premise of the anime. And, since she loves books more than anything else in the world, she decides to make her life’s goal finding (or creating) books to read. This time around we have a female main character who has been reincarnated into a world without books. Sure, they’re all isekai about someone creating things, but Ascendance of a Bookworm doesn’t have any of the action the other two series have. Stone are the ones who also like this series. My best guess is the same people who liked TenSura and Dr. It’s also rated extremely high on MAL for whatever reason. Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen / 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～) is an isekai anime based on a light novel, if you couldn’t tell by the insane length of the Japanese title.