During Anime Expo 2025, Yomiuri TV announced the Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke anime series will premiere in spring 2026. The anime will be produced by WIT Studio, and it adapts the third part of Miya Kazuki’s light novel series.
Miya Kazuki wrote Ascendance of a Bookworm from 2013 to 2017 on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website. You Shiina illustrates the print edition. The main series ended with its 33rd volume in December 2023, which now has over 11 million copies in circulation.
The light novels received an anime adaptation by Ajia-do in October 2019. Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 1 ended in December 2019, and the second season premiered in April 2020. Moreover, the anime’s third season premiered in April 2022, and Crunchyroll streamed it with an English dub in May 2022.
The anime is available in its entirety on Crunchyroll. Lastly, here’s a description of the anime series via Crunchyroll:
Avid bookworm and college student Motosu Urano ends up dying in an unforeseen accident. This came right after the news that she would finally be able to work as a librarian like she had always dreamed of. When she regained consciousness, she was reborn as Main, the daughter of a poor soldier.
She was in the town of Ehrenfest, which had a harsh class system. But as long as she had books, she didn’t really need anything else. However, books were scarce and belonged only to the nobles. But that doesn’t stop her, so she makes a decision… “If there aren’t any books, I’ll just create some.”
