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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

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    Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 28 - The Story About Winter Stays and the Future
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #1 - The Story About Winter Stays and the Future

    S1:E28

    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...

    Director:Kenta Nouda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  2. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 34 - Ominous Developments
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Ominous Developments

    S1:E34

    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!

    Director:Yuta Murano
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  3. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 21 - New Retainers
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - New Retainers

    S1:E21

    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...

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  4. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 1 - A World Without Books
    7.6/10(83 votes)

    #4 - A World Without Books

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Mitsuru Hongo
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  5. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 2 - Life Improvements and Slates
    7.7/10(71 votes)

    #5 - Life Improvements and Slates

    S1:E2

    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 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 Main, offers his help. Main 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

    Director:Yoshiki Kawasaki
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  6. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 32 - The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors

    S1:E32

    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.

    Director:Kenta Nouda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  7. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 4 - Forests and Clay Tablets
    7.8/10(68 votes)

    #7 - Forests and Clay Tablets

    S1:E4

    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 the journey.

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  8. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 5 - Baptisms and Strange Fevers
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    #8 - Baptisms and Strange Fevers

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Motoko Shikama
    Writer:Yuko Ishiyama

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  9. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 7 - Seeds of Suspicion
    7.8/10(66 votes)

    #9 - Seeds of Suspicion

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Chikayo Nakamura
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  10. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 9 - The Guild Master's Granddaughter
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    #10 - The Guild Master's Granddaughter

    S1:E9

    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 making plans to meet Frieda, his granddaughter.

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  11. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 15 - Apprentice Priestess
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Apprentice Priestess

    S1:E15

    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?

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  12. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 16 - Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense

    S1:E16

    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.

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  13. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 18 - Orphanage Reforms
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Orphanage Reforms

    S1:E18

    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?

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  14. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 19 - Cleanups and Star Festivals
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Cleanups and Star Festivals

    S1:E19

    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.

    Director:Chikayo Nakamura
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  15. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 22 - Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids

    S1:E22

    With the picture-book production in full sway, Main must navigate several hurdles regarding the process and, more pressingly, Wilma's condition.

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  16. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 24 - Knight Orders and Requests
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Knight Orders and Requests

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  17. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 10 - To the Second Winter
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #17 - To the Second Winter

    S1:E10

    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. Almost on cue, her fever starts acting up...

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  18. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 13 - The Choice To Be an Apprentice Priestess
    7.9/10(61 votes)

    #18 - The Choice To Be an Apprentice Priestess

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Chikayo Nakamura
    Writer:Yuko Ishiyama

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  19. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 3 - The Events of Winter
    8.0/10(70 votes)

    #19 - The Events of Winter

    S1:E3

    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. Meanwhile, Eva teaches Turi a bunch of skills in order to prepare her for her upcoming baptism in the summer. Main 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 Main hits upon the perfect gift to give Turi to wear on her baptism day.

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  20. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 6 - Meeting
    8.0/10(65 votes)

    #20 - Meeting

    S1:E6

    Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Main's futures.

    Director:Takahide Ogata
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  21. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 8 - Lutz's Main
    8.0/10(68 votes)

    #21 - Lutz's Main

    S1:E8

    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 resolves to talk to her about it after the paper is finished.

    Director:Yoshiki Kawasaki
    Writer:Yuko Ishiyama

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  22. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 17 - Needs
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Needs

    S1:E17

    With Fran now fully on her team, Main must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.

    Director:Shigeru Ueda
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  23. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 20 - The Path Ahead of Lutz
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #23 - The Path Ahead of Lutz

    S1:E20

    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.

    Director:Yoshiki Kawasaki
    Writer:Yuko Ishiyama

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  24. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 23 - Harvest Festivals and Staying Home
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Harvest Festivals and Staying Home

    S1:E23

    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...

    Director:Atsuko Kase
    Writer:Yuko Ishiyama

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  25. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 Episode 29 - The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #25 - The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives

    S1:E29

    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.

    Director:Shinpei Matsuo
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Story About Winter Stays and the Future" is the worst rated episode of "Ascendance of a Bookworm". It scored 7.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Kenta Nouda and written by Mariko Kunisawa, it aired on 4/19/2022. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ominous Developments".