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Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019) | Slate

Ascendance of a Bookworm

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Ascendance of a Bookworm

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Rated 8.1 on TMDB

Ascendance of a Bookworm

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

When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. "What has gotten into Myne?" they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a "What" but a "Who": Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new Myne intends to do everything she can to bring her beloved books to the masses in the time she has left.

Status: Returning
First aired: 2019
Seasons: 2, plus specials
Episodes: 60 aired
Average episode: 24m
Rated: TV-14
Genres: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Network: Nippon TV, WOWOW Prime, YTV, ABC TV, FBS, Chukyo TV, RNB, HTV, FCT, STV, KNB, KTK, RAB, TVI, MMT, ABS, JRT, TOS, YBC, UMK TV Miyazaki, TeNY, RNC, NIB, KKT, Daiichi-TV, FBC, RKC, KYT, KRY
Country: Japan

Language

Japanese

Direction and writing

Yoshiki KawasakiDirector, Assistant Director

Takahide OgataDirector

Mitsuru HongoSeries Director, Director, Writer

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Seasons

Ascendance of a Bookworm36 episodes
Adopted Daughter of an Archduke24 episodes

Cast

Yuka IguchiMain (voice)
Mutsumi TamuraLutz (voice)
Takehito KoyasuBenno (voice)

Megumi NakajimaTuuli (voice)
Tsuyoshi KoyamaGunther (voice)
Fumiko OrikasaEffa (voice)

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