Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian!: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Urano, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian, dies in an earthquake. She is reincarnated in another world as a young girl named Mayne, but learns that books are scarce and only provided to prestigious elites. Mayne (retaining her memories from her previous life) decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again.

Series details

• Title: Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian!
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime, Fantasy
• Premiere date: 2019-10-02
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: NTV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.7/10
• TVMaze ID: 43540
• IMDb ID: tt10885406
• TVDB ID: 366263

Cast and credited roles

• Yuka Iguchi — Mayne
• Sho Hayami — Ferdinand
• Megumi Nakajima — Turi
• Fumiko Orikasa — Eva
• Tsuyoshi Koyama — Gunther
• Mutsumi Tamura — Lutz
• Takehito Koyasu — Penno
• Satoshi Hino — Otto
• Tomoaki Maeno — Mark
• Aya Uchida — Frieda
• Hiroshi Naka — Gustaf
• Kazuhiko Inoue — Sylvester

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-10-02; final listed air date 2020-03-10; episode order: 14.
• Season 2: premiered 2020-04-04; final listed air date 2020-06-20; episode order: 12.
• Season 3: premiered 2022-04-11; final listed air date 2022-06-13; episode order: 10.
• Season 4: premiered 2026-04-04; final listed air date 2026-10-03.

Source and licence

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