Ascendance of a Bookworm - Season 1
Run Time: 23 mins
Air Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019
Average Rating: ⭐ 8.1 (114 votes)
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A World Without Books
Season 1 - Episode 1
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 a...
Life Improvements and Slates
Season 1 - Episode 2
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...
The Events of Winter
Season 1 - Episode 3
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. Me...
Forests and Clay Tablets
Season 1 - Episode 4
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 th...
Baptisms and Strange Fevers
Season 1 - Episode 5
The season has shifted to summer, and the day of Turi's baptism has arrived. Turi attracts attention with a hair ornament made by Main. Main...
Meeting
Season 1 - Episode 6
Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will deci...
Seeds of Suspicion
Season 1 - Episode 7
With the paper-making process about to begin, Main can't hide her excitement as she and Lutz go to meet Benno as per his invitation. He reve...
Lutz's Main
Season 1 - Episode 8
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 resol...
The Guild Master's Granddaughter
Season 1 - Episode 9
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 ma...
To the Second Winter
Season 1 - Episode 10
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....
Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings
Season 1 - Episode 11
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 ...
Baptism and Divine Paradises
Season 1 - Episode 12
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 o...
The Choice To Be an Apprentice Priestess
Season 1 - Episode 13
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 soo...
Conclusions
Season 1 - Episode 14
Main, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowing that Main's life is riding on a successful negotiation. But ...
Apprentice Priestess
Season 1 - Episode 15
Main is now an apprentice priestess at the cathedral. How will she adapt to a new life in new surroundings, and how will they react to her?
Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense
Season 1 - Episode 16
The stark contrast of the values at the church compared to life downtown continues to bewilder Main, as she butts heads with her retainers a...
Needs
Season 1 - Episode 17
With Fran now fully on her team, Main must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.
Orphanage Reforms
Season 1 - Episode 18
Main is taken to the orphanage and collapses in shock when she sees the state it and its inhabitants are in. She wants to help the kids, but...
Cleanups and Star Festivals
Season 1 - Episode 19
As newly appointed orphanage director, Main's first task is to lead a major cleanup of the orphanage and its inhabitants. And as summer come...
The Path Ahead of Lutz
Season 1 - Episode 20
The friction in Lutz's family caused by his choice of profession comes to a head, and he runs away from home to get away from it all.
New Retainers
Season 1 - Episode 21
When Main hears that Eva is pregnant, she decides to make a picture book for the baby and looks to recruit Wilma to be her artist. However, ...
Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids
Season 1 - Episode 22
With the picture-book production in full sway, Main must navigate several hurdles regarding the process and, more pressingly, Wilma's condit...
Harvest Festivals and Staying Home
Season 1 - Episode 23
The Harvest Festival is here, and Main finds the library ransacked. She is outraged at first, but this may be a welcome opportunity for her....
Knight Orders and Requests
Season 1 - Episode 24
Main has to break the news to her family that she has to stay in the cathedral over winter. Meanwhile, the request from the knight order loo...
Trombe and Battles
Season 1 - Episode 25
Main and the head priest set out to join the knights on a mission to take down a rampage trombe. With this being her first exposure to prope...
Dreamlike World
Season 1 - Episode 26
Tasked with healing the land ravaged by the trombe, Main has to put on a show. How that will affect the way the onlookers see her is anybody...
The Beginning of Winter
Season 1 - Episode 27
Autumn has come to a close. Main starts selling the scripture picture books, gets asked by the apprentice blacksmith Johann to be his patron...
The Story About Winter Stays and the Future
Season 1 - Episode 28
Main ends up having to start her winter stay at the cathedral. However, she instantly becomes homesick. Also, in a meeting with Benno, Ferdi...
The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives
Season 1 - Episode 29
The knight Damuel has become Main's bodyguard. Now that she's able to go places, Main is excited about going to the library. They hold the D...
Spring Prayer
Season 1 - Episode 30
Main and the others get ready to head off to the Spring Prayer, when they meet a blue-robed priest named Sylvester. Main doesn't know how to...
Gift From the Blue-Robed Priest and Going Home
Season 1 - Episode 31
With the Spring Prayer finished, Main and the others returned to the cathedral. Sylvester appoints Main as his guide to show him around the ...
The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors
Season 1 - Episode 32
Main is finally able to go home. Her little brother Kamil is born and she becomes even more determined to create books. That is when Main me...
Delia and Dirk
Season 1 - Episode 33
Dirk suddenly develops a high fever. Delia, who adored Dirk, and started to see him as her own family, was worried sick. Main sees his sympt...
Ominous Developments
Season 1 - Episode 34
On the way home from Heidi's workshop, they hear the emergency bells sound through the city as well as see a red emergency flare go up into ...
The Black Protective Charm
Season 1 - Episode 35
Because of the lack of caution exercised by one of the gate guards, the carriage with the noble from another domain has entered the city. Gu...
Blessing
Season 1 - Episode 36
To protect her family, Main agrees to be adopted by Sylvester. It is he who enters the cathedral with Sir Karstedt just at the moment when F...