Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen

Urano Motosu loves books and has an endless desire to read literature, no matter the subject. She almost fulfills her dream job of becoming a librarian before her life is ended in an accident. As she draws her last breath, she wishes to be able to read more books in her next life.

As if fate was listening to her prayer, she wakes up reincarnated as Myne—a frail five-year-old girl living in a medieval era. What immediately comes to her mind is her passion. She tries to find something to read, only to become frustrated by the lack of books at her disposal.

Without the printing press, books have to be written and copied by hand, making them very expensive; as such, only a few nobles can afford them—but this won't stop Myne. She will prove that her will to read is unbreakable, and if there are no books around, she will make them herself!

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Adaptation:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
Sequel:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season
Side story:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen OVA
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Myne

Main

Iguchi, Yuka
Japanese

Lutz

Main

Tamura, Mutsumi
Japanese

Ferdinand

Supporting

Hayami, Show
Japanese

Benno

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Tuuli

Supporting

Nakajima, Megumi
Japanese

Gunther

Supporting

Koyama, Tsuyoshi
Japanese

Frida

Supporting

Uchida, Aya
Japanese

Otto

Supporting

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Eva

Supporting

Orikasa, Fumiko
Japanese

Ralph

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Nabatame, Hitomi
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Ozawa, Fumihiro

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Oomori, Shinji

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Ozawa, Shinichirou

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Koyama, Michiyoshi

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Opening Theme

"Masshiro (真っ白)" by Sumire Morohoshi (諸星すみれ)

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"Kamikazari no Tenshi (髪飾りの天使)" by Megumi Nakajima

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Sep 1, 2023

7barbieringz

Recommended

No spoilers:
I recommend this if youre okay with slow pace and slice of life. The world building is wonderful and I really enjoy watching the MC overcome her hurdles as she gets closer to her dream of reading more books.

Its not all about books though, the overall story is pretty interesting but like I said before its slow, theres not a lot of fighting or anything like that.

I teared up a few times watching it, its not your typical isekai, but it does have common isekai elements like magic and knights. But i say gice it a try, if you want to drop ...

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Aug 27, 2023

Byc33

Mixed Feelings

Like many others I picked up this series due to the high score and many good reviews. I generally like fantasy isekai so it was going to make it on my list eventually, but the good reviews pushed it up the "watch asap" list. I don't usually write reviews for things I watch, anime or otherwise, so excuse the lack of structure. However, I just felt the need to express my opinion for this one because I have some pretty strong mixed feelings about it after watching all 3 seasons. This series can be summed up as having an interesting premise, a good story but ... terrible characters.

I won't be commenting on the quality of the animation or soundtrack because I don't care or know enough about drawing and music to be able to responsibly critique it. What matters to me most when I watch an anime is whether it tells a good story and whether i enjoy it overall.

Story:

We of course have a lot of the usual isekai stuff, MC dies and gets reincarnated with powers and quirks etc. Here the MC's power is largely her retained knowledge from her previous life and her quirk is her obsession with books and reading them. That is not to say the MC isn't OP cos it's pretty obvious that she'll only get more OP as the series goes along, it is just not presented in the typical isekai-OP-MC way. The entire series pretty much revolves around the MC using her knowledge to build and change the new world to feed her obsession with books. The world presented is an interesting one and world building is good. We get to see the MC gradually progress through the world, gaining power and influence both economically and politically, the pacing was good in my opinion. There were also no stupid romances or unnecessary fanservice and I came out of it feeling like I enjoyed it overall.

Unfortunately, that is the biggest strength of this series and this is where my mixed feelings come in.

Characters:

The MC is annoying, borderline frustrating. Her personality is extremely inconsistent throughout the series, at times behaving like a child and at times behaving like the adult she is supposed to be(mentally). One could argue that it is to be expected since she is an adult who reincarnated as a child but the personality switches often make no sense. It is hard to express this clearly without spoiling it so I'll just say that a lot of the drama in the series tends to be of her own doing. She doesn't seem to learn from her mistakes, or rather, she learns only from insignificant mistakes but doesn't learn from the meaningful ones that would drive her growth as a character. This results in a lot of time spent setting her up for growth but ultimately ending up with her not growing much at all. She works hard for her goals and they do show her working for it, but she very often proceeds to screw everything up on her own because "I'm suddenly a child", and now others have to fix it for her cos "you'll fix it for me, won't you?" and while she attains the goal eventually, this makes a lot of her achievements feel undeserved and that is a source of frustration for me.

As for the other characters, the series does a good job building a pretty diverse bunch of supporting characters around the MC with some interesting and very wholesome ones, but overall most of the characters are pretty one dimensional and show little growth throughout the series. Most of the cast's core motivations are overly simplistic and sometimes illogical, with many of the key supporting characters clearly existing simply to help the MC "fix" all the stupid unnecessary mistakes she makes.

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All that said, as mentioned before, I enjoyed it overall, which is the most important thing to me when watching anything and I'd watch the next season if there is one.

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Jul 11, 2023

Panda_Roll

Not Recommended

Funny

Well... this was both boring and intellectually insulting.

Another Isekai but the hook here is that it's a girl and she's a bookworm reincarnated in an era where literacy takes a backseat to everything else.

Ok, I'll bite. How does she prove herself? How does she use the knowledge she has? What hurdles will she face? Will she find it hard as an adult to be treated like child that nobody takes seriously and detective conan this?

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Plot/story = 1/10

This was horribly written. It's character driven but not really, their are certain points the plot wants the characters to reach so they do even if it doesn't make ... sense for a 5 or 7 year old to act this way. Also considering the main character is 20+ on the inside it makes no sense for her to think like a child unless plot.

Characters = Negative one million / 10

So you're a working adult that suddenly woke up in a strange place and in a strange body, you know nothing about your surrounds and it looks like you live barely above the poverty line. Your first thought is not to explore your surroundings and figure out what's going on. it's "BRING ME A BOOK, WAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAH! BOOK BOOK BOOK GIMME WAAAAAAH!"
... yeah. These characters are weird. Nobody here acts like an actual human let alone their age. You have 5 & 7 year olds acting and talking like someone in his mid twenties, then the one actually in her twenties acting like a mentally deficient toddler with plot armour so thick it doubles as a wall. She does the inner me thing like "reincarnated as villainess" only her inner self is actually more of child than her outer self and her outer self is 5 that keeps reminding you that she's actually 20+!

Art and animation = 4/10

The animation isn't too bad but it's too stiff. The characters often look forward their face frozen in a smile and their large soulless eyes threaten to steal yours, It's off putting. To add to the soulless aspect there is never any background activity or art. Everything is focused on whatever is front and center screen only.

Fun Factor = 0/10

This was really boring. 90% of the screen time is just whine whine whine. 10% of it is plot holes and "this is happening because the plot says so". Who is this for? It's not for people that enjoy reading because they actually want a clever plot, it's not for people into Isekai, it's not for pre-schoolers as the characters ages seem to suggest, it's not for my cat that was judging me for watching it. I'm running out of demographics here!

Overall = 3/ 10

It's my policy to never go below 3/10 unless it's something bottom of the barrel or offensive. While this one came close to being both that was mostly due to my irritation with all the whining and stupidity on screen.

Summery

This is a hard pass from me. The show sets up something but does nothing with the premise. Instead all you get is stupidity, nonsensical behavior and whine, whine, WHINE! I honestly watched it just for 2023 stack challenge, no other reason what so ever.

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