© Miya Kazuki, TO Books / Ascendance of a Bookworm Production Committee
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 in December 2023 from TO Books that WIT Studio is working to adapt the Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke light novels. The series saw a formal April 4th, 2026, premiere date, and with Crunchyroll handling it once again, they’re bringing out the English dub today with its first episode. It’s got Julie Maddalena Kliewer directing it from the adaptation by Marlan Moore.
The English cast includes:
- Reba Buhr as Rosemyne
- Armen Taylor as Ferdinand
- Christopher Wehkamp as Sylvester
- Sky Santacruz as Wilfried/Ella
- Allison Hill as Florencia/Brigitte
- Bill Butts as Karstedt
- Ariana Nicole George as Elvira
- Jonathon Ha as Eckhard (spelled Eckhart in the novels)
- Hunter Mccoy as Lamprecht/Hartmut
- Kieran Regan as Cornelius
- Christian La Monte as Damuel
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. The additional second season cast includes Yuko Sanpei as Gil, Shō Karino as Fran, Chiyo Tomaru as Delia.
Part 3 cast additions include Yukari Tamura as Georgine, Mami Koyama as Veronica, Minami Takayama as Forencia, Kazuhiro Yamaji as Bonifatius, Nao Tōyama as Angelica, Asami Seto as Brigitte, and Katsumi Fukuhara as Zack.
The season features the new opening “Pages” by Little Glee Monster and the ending “Ima mo, Arigatou” by Erika Ikuta.
Check out the official website and Twitter.
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.
© Miya Kazuki, TO Books / Ascendance of a Bookworm Production Committee
© Miya Kazuki, TO Books / Ascendance of a Bookworm Production Committee
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