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Ascendance of a Bookworm Collector's Blu-ray Delayed to September
posted on by Andrew Osmond
UK Anime News reports that customers who had ordered Anime Limited's upcoming Collector's Blu-ray of Ascendance of a Bookworm have been informed by email that the title has been delayed to September 25. The title is also being listed with this date on the AllTheAnime website.
Anime Limited's edition will contain the first two TV seasons of the anime, as well as the two side-story OVA episodes that accompany these seasons, as well as a 100-page booklet on the series.
J-Novel Club is releasing both the source light novels and their 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) directed 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) was in charge of the series scripts. Yoshiaki Yanagida (Genshiken, Spirit of Wonder) and Toshihisa Kaiya (Ruin Explorers - Fam & Ihrie, Spirit of Wonder, World Trigger) designed the characters.
