Ascendance of a Bookworm

2019–2022

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Seasons

Season 1

  • E1 A World Without Books 2019-10-03 路 24m
  • E2 Life Improvements and Slates 2019-10-10 路 24m
  • E3 The Events of Winter 2019-10-17 路 24m
  • E4 Forests and Clay Tablets 2019-10-24 路 24m
  • E5 Baptisms and Strange Fevers 2019-10-31 路 24m
  • E6 Meeting 2019-11-07 路 24m
  • E7 Seeds of Suspicion 2019-11-14 路 24m
  • E8 Lutz's Main 2019-11-21 路 24m
  • E9 The Guild Master's Granddaughter 2019-11-28 路 24m
  • E10 To the Second Winter 2019-12-05 路 24m
  • E11 Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings 2019-12-12 路 24m
  • E12 Baptism and Divine Paradises 2019-12-19 路 24m
  • E13 The Choice to be an Apprentice Priestess 2019-12-26 路 24m
  • E14 Conclusions 2019-12-26 路 24m
  • E15 OVA: Eustachius's Incognito Operation Downtown, Visiting Missus Corinna 2020-04-05 路 24m

Season 2

  • E1 Apprentice Priestess 2020-04-12 路 24m The stark contrast of the values at the church compared to life downtown continues to bewilder Main, as she butts heads with her retainers and her expected duties at the church.
  • E2 Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense 2020-04-19 路 24m With Fran now fully on her team, Main must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.
  • E3 Needs 2020-04-26 路 24m 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 will she really be able to?
  • E4 Orphanage Reforms 2020-05-03 路 24m As newly appointed orphanage director, Main's first task is to lead a major cleanup of the orphanage and its inhabitants. And as summer comes around, she also has some festivities in mind.
  • E5 Cleanups and Star Festivals 2020-05-10 路 24m 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.
  • E6 The Path Ahead of Lutz 2020-05-17 路 24m 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, she finds a few roadblocks on her path...
  • E7 New Retainers 2020-05-24 路 24m With the picture-book production in full sway, Main must navigate several hurdles regarding the process and, more pressingly, Wilma's condition.
  • E8 Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids 2020-05-31 路 24m 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...
  • E9 Harvest Festivals and Staying Home 2020-06-07 路 24m 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 looms large over the horizon.
  • E10 Knights Orders and Requests 2020-06-14 路 24m 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 proper noble society, who knows what perils lie in Main's path?
  • E11 Trombe and Battles 2020-06-21 路 24m 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's guess... and so is how the head priest will react.
  • E12 Dreamlike World 2022-04-12 路 24m Autumn has come to a close. Main starts selling the scripture picture books, gets asked by the apprentice blacksmith Johann to be his patron, and starts taking the next step in her bookmaking endeavors. While this is going on, Main finds out that the guild master of the Ink Guild, Wolf, is trying to get information on her. Benno then proposes an idea to Main and...

Season 3

  • E1 The Beginning of Winter 2022-04-19 路 24m Main ends up having to start her winter stay at the cathedral. However, she instantly becomes homesick. Also, in a meeting with Benno, Ferdinand, and Karstedt, it's revealed that Wolf is a dangerous individual with ties to nobles. Apparently, even the nobles are after Main because of her powerful mana and her bizarre knowledge. In order to keep her out of danger, Ferdinand comes up with a proposal, and...
  • E2 The Story About Winter Stays and the Future 2022-04-26 路 24m 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 Dedication Ceremony where she offers her mana into small holy grails. That was quite tiring for her, but she still goes back into town to see how Johann is doing with her order. Her passion for books just doesn't top. Spring is drawing closer, and Main can't wait to go back to her family, but then she receives some devastating news.
  • E3 The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives 2022-05-03 路 24m 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 deal with Sylvester who seems to do whatever he wants. She tries to avoid Sylvester as they go around to various farming villages and she does an amazing job doing all of the rituals. Eventually, they end up at Viscount Gerlach's mansion. Apparently he had shown interest in Main before. But that night, something terrible happens!
  • E4 Spring Prayer 2022-05-10 路 24m With the Spring Prayer finished, Main and the others returned to the cathedral. Sylvester appoints Main as his guide to show him around the orphanage and workshop, where they observe how the scripture picture books are made. As he leaves, Sylvester gives Main a necklace with a black stone, saying it's a protection charm just in case anything were to happen. Meanwhile, Ferdinand, who had also witnessed the books being made, tells Main's method of making books will change history and how dangerous that may be.
  • E5 The Gift from the Blue-Robed Priest and Going Home 2022-05-17 路 24m 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 meets a helpful collaborator named Heidi, who is the daughter of an ink maker. Heidi is extremely curious and passionate, so she hit it off immediately with Main. They start to make colored inks through trial and error. Meanwhile, a baby is abandoned at the cathedral and Main and her attendants end up taking care of him.
  • E6 The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors 2022-05-24 路 24m 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 symptoms and realizes that he may have the Devouring. After talking to Ferdinand, they decide to raise him without letting others know that he has the Devouring. Meanwhile, Main continues her colored-ink experiments with Heidi as she helped out with taking care of Dirk at the cathedral, but...
  • E7 Delia and Dirk 2022-05-31 路 24m 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 sky. Main is worried about what might've happened. It is decided that Main should stay home until they can find out what is going on. Main gets to spend some time with her family back home again. After a while, Main is finally allowed back outside and heads to the cathedral. Once she gets there, she realizes Dirk is missing, and unbeknownst to her, there was another threat lurking just around the corner!
  • E8 Ominous Developments 2022-06-07 路 24m 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. Gunther finds out that Main is being targeted and gets worked up over protecting Main. But then, Main is attacked by some mysterious men. Main believes what Sylvester told her and presses her blood seal upon the black charm he gave her. But then, Main's attackers become even more aggressive. Finally, the high priest's true intentions and his plans with Dirk are revealed.
  • E9 The Black Protective Charm 2022-06-14 路 24m 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 Ferdinand and Sir Bindewald are involved in a fight, but this entire affair will not only have consequences for Main because now Count Bindewald, the bishop, and Delia have to answer for their actions.
  • E10 Blessing
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