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Muse Vietnam Streams Ascendance of a Bookworm Anime's 2nd Part
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian anime distribution company Muse Asia's Muse Vietnam YouTube channel announced on Monday that it will stream the second part of the television anime of Miya Kazuki's "biblia fantasy" novel Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujō - Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen). The stream will debut on April 5 at 1:40 a.m. GMT +7.
The streaming service recently added the anime's first half last week.
The second part will premiere in Japan on April 4, and it will have 12 episodes.
J-Novel Club is releasing both the light novels and Suzuka's manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:
A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amounts of money to buy one. Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!
Mitsuru Hongo (Kasumin, Crayon Shin-chan films, World Trigger) is directing the anime at Ajia-do (Genshiken, Spirit of Wonder) with assistant director Yoshiki Kawasaki (Monster Hunter Stories RIDE ON episode director), and Mariko Kunisawa (Hatsukoi Limited, Magimoji Rurumo) is in charge of the series scripts. Yoshiaki Yanagida (Genshiken, Spirit of Wonder) and Toshihisa Kaiya (Ruin Explorers - Fam & Ihrie, Spirit of Wonder, World Trigger) are designing the characters.
The second part of the anime will add Yūko Sanpei, Shō Karino, Chiyo Tomaru, Minori Suzuki, and Kiyono Yasuno to the cast as Gil, Fran, Delia, Rosina, and Vilma, respectively. All five new characters are gray-robed church servants who will serve as attendants to Myne. Minori Suzuki will perform the second part's ending theme song "Ephemera o Atsumete" (Gathering Ephemera).
The anime also had two OVAs that debuted with a limited edition of the first novel of the series' fifth part on March 10.
Kazuki began the original novels on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" website in 2013, and You Shiina illustrates the print edition.
