The Best Episodes of Ascendance of a Bookworm

To protect her family, Main agrees to be adopted by Sylvester. It is he who enters the cathedral with Sir Karstedt just at the moment when Ferdinand and Sir Bindewald are involved in a fight, but this entire affair will not only have consequences for Main because now Count Bindewald, the bishop, and Delia have to answer for their actions.

Director: Mitsuru Hongo

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Main, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowing that Main's life is riding on a successful negotiation. But will things really go so smoothly for them?

Director: Yoshiki Kawasaki

Writer: Yuuko Ishiyama

Tasked with healing the land ravaged by the trombe, Main has to put on a show. How that will affect the way the onlookers see her is anybody's guess... and so is how the head priest will react.

Director: Yoshiki Kawasaki

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Autumn has come to a close. Main starts selling the scripture picture books, gets asked by the apprentice blacksmith Johann to be his patron, and starts taking the next step in her bookmaking endeavors. While this is going on, Main finds out that the guild master of the Ink Guild, Wolf, is trying to get information on her. Benno then proposes an idea to Main and...

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Main and the head priest set out to join the knights on a mission to take down a rampage trombe. With this being her first exposure to proper noble society, who knows what perils lie in Main's path?

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

With Main collapses, everyone she knows comes together in a bid to save her life. But soon, she is faced with a life-or-death decision, one that she must discuss with her family.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

The day of Main and Lutz's baptism has arrived. Wearing a fancy dress and a new hair ornament, Main appears a clear standout from the rest of the kids, but soon she loses her way and finds herself in what she sees as heaven on earth.

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

With Fran now fully on her team, Main must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

The friction in Lutz's family caused by his choice of profession comes to a head, and he runs away from home to get away from it all.

Director: Yoshiki Kawasaki

Writer: Yuuko Ishiyama

The Harvest Festival is here, and Main finds the library ransacked. She is outraged at first, but this may be a welcome opportunity for her...

Director: Atsuko Kase

Writer: Yuuko Ishiyama

The knight Damuel has become Main's bodyguard. Now that she's able to go places, Main is excited about going to the library. They hold the Dedication Ceremony where she offers her mana into small holy grails. That was quite tiring for her, but she still goes back into town to see how Johann is doing with her order. Her passion for books just doesn't top. Spring is drawing closer, and Main can't wait to go back to her family, but then she receives some devastating news.

Director: Shinpei Matsuo

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Main has a plan: a plan to craft pseudo-papyrus as the first step towards making a book. Meanwhile, Eva teaches Turi a bunch of skills in order to prepare her for her upcoming baptism in the summer. Main is told to think about where she wants to apprentice, but as always, books are the only thing on her mind. As winter rolls on, however, the family bonds and grows closer together, and Main hits upon the perfect gift to give Turi to wear on her baptism day.

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Main's futures.

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

As Main and Lutz begin making their paper for real, Main's excitement gets the better of her, and Lutz's suspicions come to a head. He resolves to talk to her about it after the paper is finished.

Director: Yoshiki Kawasaki

Writer: Yuuko Ishiyama

Main learns from Frieda that the illness she has is called the Devouring, and that it will flare up if she ever feels anxiety or loses hope. Almost on cue, her fever starts acting up...

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Spring has arrived, and Main is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest. But first, she must convince her family that she can handle the journey.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Benno looks to have Main and Lutz registered with the Merchant Guild, but the guild master proves to be an obstacle. This results in them making plans to meet Frieda, his granddaughter.

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

When Main brings up wanting to become an apprentice priestess to her family, she learns the truth about the role and what it entails and soon comes to realize that she is in for the fight of her life.

Director: Chikayo Nakamura

Writer: Yuuko Ishiyama

Main is now an apprentice priestess at the cathedral. How will she adapt to a new life in new surroundings, and how will they react to her?

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

The stark contrast of the values at the church compared to life downtown continues to bewilder Main, as she butts heads with her retainers and her expected duties at the church.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Main is taken to the orphanage and collapses in shock when she sees the state it and its inhabitants are in. She wants to help the kids, but will she really be able to?

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

As newly appointed orphanage director, Main's first task is to lead a major cleanup of the orphanage and its inhabitants. And as summer comes around, she also has some festivities in mind.

Director: Chikayo Nakamura

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

With the picture-book production in full sway, Main must navigate several hurdles regarding the process and, more pressingly, Wilma's condition.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Main has to break the news to her family that she has to stay in the cathedral over winter. Meanwhile, the request from the knight order looms large over the horizon.

Director: Takahide Ogata

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa

Having learned how expensive books are in this world, Main resolves to make books of her own. However, she soon finds out just how frail her new body is when she and her elder sister, Turi, decide to go to the gate to deliver something their father forgot—she can hardly take a few steps before running out of breath. But that's when Lutz, a neighborhood kid the same age as Main, offers his help. Main is touched by this and soon makes it to the gate. There, Otto gives her his old slate, letting her experience the joy of writing once again

Director: Yoshiki Kawasaki

Writer: Mariko Kunisawa