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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen / Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Official name: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~
- Chinese name:小书痴的下克上~为了成为图书管理员而不择手段~
- Other names:爱书的下克上:为了成为图书管理员不择手段! / 书虫的下克上~为了成为图书管理员而不择手段~ / Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erande Iraremasen
- Premiered:October 2, 2019
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Fantasy / Daily / Healing / Another world / Source novel
- Original author:香月美夜
- Director:本郷みつる / 川崎芳樹
- Scenario:石山優子 / 國澤真理子
- Storyboard:緒方隆秀 / 川崎芳樹 / もりたけし / 本郷みつる / 鹿間元子
- Co-director:うえだしげる / 中村近世 / 緒方隆秀 / 鹿間元子 / 川崎芳樹
- Studios:亜細亜堂
- Production cooperation:エムケイ座
- Producers:ジェンコ
- Copyright:©香月美夜・TOブックス / 本好きの下剋上製作委員会
- Family:Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Rating:12+
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
Motosu Urano, a book-loving college student and soon-to-be librarian, ends up crushed to death beneath a pile of books during an earthquake.
With her dying breath, she wishes to be reincarnated in a world where she can read books forever.
Fate, however, would have other plans, as she awakens in the body of a young girl named Myne in a world of low literacy rate and where books are expensive, scarce, and only provided to nobility.
Myne, retaining her memories from her previous life, decides to create and print her own books so that she can read them again.
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EP1 - A World Without Books
Motosu Urano, a college student and a bookworm of the highest order, loses her life in an avalanche of books and wakes up in another world as a sickly girl named Main. Nevertheless confident that she can deal with any situation as long as she has books to read, she looks all over her new home for one, but doesn't find any. To make matters worse, she couldn't see any writing in town when out with her mother Eva. She realized that she found herself in a world with a low literacy rate, one where books were prohibitively expensive.
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EP2 - Life Improvements and Slates
Having learned how expensive books are in this world, Main resolves to make books of her own. However, she soon finds out just how frail her new body is when she and her elder sister, Turi, decide to go to the gate to deliver something their father forgot—she can hardly take a few steps before running out of breath. But that's when Lutz, a neighborhood kid the same age as Main, offers his help. Main is touched by this and soon makes it to the gate. There, Otto gives her his old slate, letting her experience the joy of writing once again
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EP3 - The Events of Winter
While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Main has a plan: a plan to craft pseudo-papyrus as the first step towards making a book. Meanwhile, Eva teaches Turi a bunch of skills in order to prepare her for her upcoming baptism in the summer. Main is told to think about where she wants to apprentice, but as always, books are the only thing on her mind. As winter rolls on, however, the family bonds and grows closer together, and Main hits upon the perfect gift to give Turi to wear on her baptism day.
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EP4 - Forests and Clay Tablets
Spring has arrived, and Main is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest. But first, she must convince her family that she can handle the journey.
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EP5 - Baptisms and Strange Fevers
Spring has arrived, and Main is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest. But first, she must convince her family that she can handle the journey.
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EP6 - Meeting
Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Main's futures.
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EP7 - Seeds of Suspicion
With the paper-making process about to begin, Main can't hider her excitement as she and Lutz go to meet Benno as per his invitation. He reveals that he is willing to arrange for all the equipment and materials they need to make paper, but the ensuing conversation makes Lutz see Main in a very different light.
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EP8 - Lutz's Main
As Main and Lutz begin making their paper for real, Main's excitement gets the better of her, and Lutz's suspicions come to a head. He resolves to talk to her about it after the paper is finished.
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EP9 - The Guild Master's Granddaughter
Benno looks to have Main and Lutz registered with the Merchant Guild, but the guild master proves to be an obstacle. This results in them making plans to meet Frieda, his granddaughter.
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EP10 - To the Second Winter
Main learns from Frieda that the illness she has is called the Devouring, and that it will flare up if she ever feels anxiety or loses hope. Almost on cue, her fever starts acting up...
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EP11 - Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings
With Main collapses, everyone she knows comes together in a bid to save her life. But soon, she is faced with a life-or-death decision, one that she must discuss with her family.
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EP12 - Baptism and Divine Paradises
The day of Main and Lutz's baptism has arrived. Wearing a fancy dress and a new hair ornament, Main appears a clear standout from the rest of the kids, but soon she loses her way and finds herself in what she sees as heaven on earth.
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EP13 - The Choice to be an Apprentice Priestess
When Main brings up wanting to become an apprentice priestess to her family, she learns the truth about the role and what it entails, and soon comes to realize that she is in for the fight of her life.
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EP14 - Conclusions
Main, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowing that Main's life is riding on a successful negotiation. But will things really go so smoothly for them?