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  • Not sure if it’s less known, given it has been adapted into 3 seasons of anime, with a 4th in the making. But I never met anyone who knew about it outside of fan-communities.

    Ascendance of a Bookworm Bookworm Urano died shortly before she was able to fuffil her dream of becoming a librarian. Buried by her own books, ironically enough. She gets reborn as Myne, a sickly child in a medieval-era world where books are a rarity reserved for nobles and some rich merchants.

    Being the obsessed bookworm she is, Urano, now Myne, sets out to create her own books no matter what.

    The series shines with heavy, but rarely boring or intrusive world building. From the home of Mynes family, the forrest, the city, up to the nobles quarters and other duchies, the world keeps on expanding. Characters are rarely, if ever, one-dimensional. They have their own motivations that go beyond plot conveniences. The cast of characters is also shifting every once in a while, with most characters never truly disappearing out of sight and progressing on their own still. Storywise, its a mix of wholesome, yet dark fantasy with excursions into the development of printing and other technologies in our world. Mist stoeybeats get sprinkled with a little bit of natural humor.

    The LN is at book 29(?), so there is a lot to dive into. Believe me when I say that my description has barely scratched the surface. The anime has finished the contents book 7 and is very faithful to the source. Rarely cutting material, but often shortening some beats or mentioning them in little shorts that play after tje credits. If you wish to get a feel for the story overall, the first few episodes of the anime will do that just fine.