The WORST episodes of Ascendance of a Bookworm
Every episode of Ascendance of a Bookworm ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Ascendance of a Bookworm!
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 as she had always dreamed of. When she regained consciousness, she was reborn as Myne, the daughter of a poor soldier. She was in the town of Ehrenfest, which had a harsh class system. But as long as she had books, she didn't really need anything else. However, books were scarce and belonged only to the nobles. But that doesn't stop her, so she makes a decision... "If there aren't any books, I'll just create some."
#1 - Delia and Dirk
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/24/2022
Dirk suddenly develops a high fever. Delia, who adored Dirk, and started to see him as her own family, was worried sick. Myne 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, Myne continues her colored-ink experiments with Heidi as she helped out with taking care of Dirk at the cathedral, but...
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#2 - The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/17/2022
Myne is finally able to go home. Her little brother Kamil is born and she becomes even more determined to create books. That is when Myne 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 Myne. They start to make colored inks through trial and error. Meanwhile, a baby is abandoned at the cathedral and Myne and her attendants end up taking care of him.
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#3 - The Story About Winter Stays and the Future
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/19/2022
Myne 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 Myne because of her powerful mana and her bizarre knowledge. In order to keep her out of danger, Ferdinand comes up with a proposal, and...
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#4 - Ominous Developments
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/31/2022
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. Myne is worried about what might've happened. It is decided that Myne should stay home until they can find out what is going on. Myne gets to spend some time with her family back home again. After a while, Myne 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!
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#5 - The Beginning of Winter
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/12/2022
Autumn has come to a close. Myne 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, Myne finds out that the guild master of the Ink Guild, Wolf, is trying to get information on her. Benno then proposes an idea to Myne and...
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#6 - Gift From the Blue-Robed Priest and Going Home
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/10/2022
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.
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#7 - Life Improvements and Slates
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2019
Having learned how expensive books are in this world, Myne 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 Myne, offers his help. Myne 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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#8 - A World Without Books
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2019
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 Myne. 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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#10 - Spring Prayer
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/3/2022
Myne and the others get ready to head off to the Spring Prayer, when they meet a blue-robed priest named Sylvester. Myne 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 Myne before. But that night, something terrible happens!
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#11 - The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/26/2022
The knight Damuel has become Myne's bodyguard. Now that she's able to go places, Myne 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 Myne can't wait to go back to her family, but then she receives some devastating news.
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#19 - Baptisms and Strange Fevers
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2019
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, who has more opportunities to go to the forest, starts making wooden tablets with the help of Lutz. Meanwhile, Lutz asks Main Lutz to let him meet Otto. Lutz had a dream of becoming a traveling merchant. However, Main, shocked by her repeated failures at making paper, collapses from a high fever before the meeting with Otto.
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#20 - Seeds of Suspicion
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2019
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 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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#22 - The Black Protective Charm
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/7/2022
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 Myne is being targeted and gets worked up over protecting Myne. But then, Myne is attacked by some mysterious men. Myne believes what Sylvester told her and presses her blood seal upon the black charm he gave her. But then, Myne's attackers become even more aggressive. Finally, the high priest's true intentions and his plans with Dirk are revealed.
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#24 - The Choice To Be an Apprentice Priestess
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/2019
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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#25 - The Events of Winter
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2019
While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Myne 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. Myne 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 Myne hits upon the perfect gift to give Turi to wear on her baptism day.
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