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Ascendance of a Bookworm
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Rating(4.2 / 5.0, 764 votes)
5 | 65% (498 votes) |
4 | 13% (99 votes) |
3 | 7% (51 votes) |
2 | 4% (28 votes) |
1 | 12% (88 votes) |
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2013
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Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
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
Licensed
Yes
Completely Translated
No
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One entry per lineEnglish Publisher
One entry per lineRelease Frequency
Every 125.5 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #3826Monthly Rank: #4416
All Time Rank: #282
Reading List [Graph]
On 13207 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #6769
All Time Rank: #126
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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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Recommendation Lists
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09/19/17 | blastron | c55 |
08/27/17 | blastron | c54 |
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04/25/17 | blastron | c51 |
04/18/17 | blastron | c50 |
04/11/17 | blastron | c49 |
04/04/17 | blastron | c48 |
03/21/17 | blastron | c47 |
03/14/17 | blastron | c46 |
02/28/17 | blastron | c45 |
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01/31/17 | blastron | c43 |
01/24/17 | blastron | c42 |
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If I had stopped reading sooner, I might have given it 5 stars. By the end, I want to say 3 or 2.5 stars, so I'm splitting the difference. There is a lot of good in this series. The world building is especially impressive, and the author seemed to have a general plan of how the entire series was going to go. People keep complaining about how selfish the character is in the beginning, but I highly doubt that anyone would adjust that well to such a drastic change in living conditions.
The main issue I had was how much things change as the series goes on. It makes sense that as the character's position rises, the setting changes. However, it feels like whatever drew me to the series at the beginning is gone by the end. The main themes I liked were the process of creating and trying to spread books, and the loving family relationship that Myne ended up finding in her new family and friends. Both increasingly fade away as the series progresses.
The book theme is still technically there, but the MC is increasingly distanced from the actual making of the books, and only sort of spreads them. In fact, I feel like there is almost no real progress after half way into the series. She has a series of printing workshops, and you occasionally hear about some expansion to another city, but trying to spread the books to the other parts of the country seems really slow. There is only some more kind of sudden progress at the very end of the series.
On the family and friends front, this series gets outright tragic. At the end of part 2, the MC has to separate from her family when she gets adopted by the archduke, to the point of signing a magic contract that will kill them if they ever call each other family again. She can still interact with her friends at first, but that gets cut off slowly too. That sort of tragic feel continues, and you feel like the MC is just constantly loosing everything she cares about besides books. She has new adoptive family and friends, but there is always a sense of distance because she can't admit anything about her real identity. I feel like I would have cared a bit more if the few characters who did know everything actually got closer to her. Honestly, her position may be higher, but her life seems to just get more depressing.
The last third to half off the series becomes increasingly about politics and magic. At this point, the series becomes sort of bland. There are no real surprises or upsets. Things get kind of predictable. The character gets increasingly OP, to the point where Part 5 is literally called "Incarnation of the Goddess". Even when the closest thing to a main antagonist is defeated, it basically happens off screen, by the adoptive father character that was barely developed.
Finally, there is relationship development for the MC at the end, but it doesn't even really feel romantic. If anything, it feels like the character she ends up with was the only option because the only other was cut off, so she had to end up with him. At least there is a reunion with the family at the very end.
Even at the end, the series isn't bad, but if the ending is how the series started, then I wouldn't have been interested enough to keep reading.