‎Ascendance of a Bookworm - Apple TV

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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 Main, the daughter of a poor soldier.

Anime · 2019 · 24 min

Starring Yuka Iguchi , Aya Uchida , Fumiko Orikasa

Director Mitsuru Hongo

EPISODE 1

A World Without Books

Motosu Urano gets crushed to death beneath a pile of books and awakens as a girl named Myne, in a world where books are scarce: Myne retains her memories from her previous life and creates and prints her own books so that she can read again.

23 min · Oct 10, 2019
EPISODE 2

Life Improvements and Slates

Myne discovers how frail her body is when she can hardly take a few steps before running out of breath: Lutz, a neighborhood kid the same age as Myne, offers his help and Otto gives her his old slate.

23 min · Oct 17, 2019
EPISODE 3

The Events of Winter

While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Myne has a plan to craft pseudo-papyrus as the first step towards making a book and is told to think about where she wants to apprentice.

23 min · Oct 24, 2019
EPISODE 4

Forests and Clay Tablets

Spring has arrived and Myne is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest, but first she must convince her family that she can handle the journey.

23 min · Oct 31, 2019
EPISODE 5

Baptisms and Strange Fevers

The day of Baptism has come and Turi is attracting attention with a hair ornament made by Myne, who has more opportunities to go to the forest, but is shocked by repeated papermaking failures and she got a high fever before the meeting with Otto.

23 min · Nov 7, 2019
EPISODE 6

Meeting

Lutz and Myne prepare for a meeting with Otto, but he brings someone with him and turns a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Myne's futures.

23 min · Nov 14, 2019