Ascendance of a Bookworm — Season 1, Episode 1: A World Without Books

Episode synopsis

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.

About Ascendance of a Bookworm

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2Life Improvements and Slates
• E3The Events of Winter
• E4Forests and Clay Tablets
• E5Baptisms and Strange Fevers
• E6Meeting
• E7Seeds of Suspicion
• E8Lutz's Main
• E9The Guild Master's Granddaughter
• E10To the Second Winter
• E11Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings
• E12Baptism and Divine Paradises
• E13The Choice to Be an Apprentice Priestess