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Ascendance of a Bookworm
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677 WN Chapters (Complete)
47 Omake Chapters (Ongoing)
33 LN Volumes (Complete)
1 Gaiden Volume
2 Short Story Compilations
5 Fan Books
7 Drama CDs
47 Omake Chapters (Ongoing)
33 LN Volumes (Complete)
1 Gaiden Volume
2 Short Story Compilations
5 Fan Books
7 Drama CDs
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Completely Translated
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Every 124.1 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #3021Monthly Rank: #4438
All Time Rank: #282
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On 13202 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #6699
All Time Rank: #124
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A bookworm who had finally found a job as a librarian at a university was sadly killed shortly after graduating from college.
She was reborn as Myne, the daughter of a soldier in a world where the literacy rate is low and books were scarce. No matter how much she wanted to read, there were no books around. What is a bookworm to do without any books? Make them, of course.
Her goal is to become a librarian! So that she may once again live surrounded by books, she must start by making them herself.
Associated Names
One entry per lineAscendence of a Bookworm: I'll Stop at Nothing to Become a Librarian
El Ratón de Biblioteca
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
La Petite Faiseuse de Livres
愛書的下克上
本好きの下剋上 ~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~
책벌레의 하극상
El Ratón de Biblioteca
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
La Petite Faiseuse de Livres
愛書的下克上
本好きの下剋上 ~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~
책벌레의 하극상
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a.) do not fully comprehend the native language, and/or the culture of the writer as things are lost in translation.
b.) aren't far enough in the novel to appreciate it...
c.) have ethical/technical gripes with it that really aren't related to it's quality of writing.
d.) read the raw web-novel version instead of the fleshed out and edited light novel edition. (which, let me tell you as an avid LN reader, it makes a world of difference). I'm not saying the novel has no flaws. It's full of it, and some criticisms really are irrefutable, but...
I've made notes of some of the commentaries that get repeated by the readers here, and this is what I have to say...
You don't need to like the protagonist to enjoy the novel. It's a very rare GEM in the isekai world where plenty of stories are only about revenge or power-building up. It's like reading/watching the Medieval Modern History segments on YT where you get all the nitty gritty setting details about how people actually live in the old days. It's a sub-genre of "information-high" isekais, where enjoyment might purely be for slowburn world-building. It's not the same as slice of life. To those who say it's like the rest of the rabble...I've read over 5000 isekai titles in every sort of language I can, and I can confidently say it's really not. There are similar premises and qualities in other novels, but the essence and purpose is totally different.
Getting finicky over the translation title of Honzuki. Bookworm/book-fetishist, does it really matter? If you want the literal translation, it's (revolution of the) "book-lover" which you can take either way.
Don't stay for the romance. It's not that kind of series. The author does a great job of explaining and developing interpersonal relationships. Moreover, although Myne does get married later on... it's purely platonic. Yes people, platonic relationships are a thing. Not everything needs to be romanticized nor does age-gap always needs to be demonized. Context is important. No, her husband is not a lolicon. She would've been forced to marry or be engaged by the society one way or another. It may be morally wrong for our modern society, but marrying or being engaged at a younger age in their world is also probably a normal thing if you consider the living standards and life expectancy of the people. Sometimes marriage was also just purely political, like in Freida's case. Just think back to the middle-ages.
Is Myne a 20 year old or a 5 year old? This is a spoiler which gets explained later on the novel; and so there is a reason why she acts like a little child with a lot of adult knowledge. The circumstance is a bit more complex, to say a 20 year old soul took over the body of a 5 year old is inaccurate. Nevertheless there is a reason why she acts the way she does. And to add to the topic...
"The heroine is insufferable... ly s*upid, and childish---"
She's insufferable, but she also is indeed suffering. She's also still physically an actual child. Just because you have the memories of an old soul, doesn't mean your physical and neurological developments will have caught up, and it's something not many people think about. There's also a psychological phenomenon called "role-bias", which is a scenario in which people, when given a specific role, tend to modify themselves into fitting and fulfilling that role. A famous one is the cop-inmate case study. I'm sure if something like... you transmigrate into the body of a cat, trust me, you will start behaving like one. The author also states that you are meant to dislike Myne at the start of the series. She was meant to be dislikeable. She's so realistically a POS trouble-making child that it's refreshingly different and accurate. And not only does she grow and learn from her mistakes, she's also being forced to readapt to not 1, but 3 new and different cultures simultaneously. If I were in her shoes I would probably implode from all the external and internal pressure.
This last one is a side-gripe but someone once wrote that "Myne reads a ton of books, why is she not a genius?"
....................Y'know, just because you read a lot, doesn't mean you're going to remember everything you've read. Myne says so herself, that she's actually a very average person, and even Ferdinand has accidentally overstated her mental abilities based on his first impressions. Moreover the things she's been making aren't crazy fancy inventions, they're very common home-ec skills (which by the way---kind of isn't a thing in North American culture, but is in Asia... you are taught in school a variety of life skills outside of typical education).