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


Ascendance of a Bookworm

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Japanese: 本好きの下剋上 ~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~
English: Ascendance of a Bookworm
German: Ascendance of a Bookworm
Spanish: Ascendance of a Bookworm
French: Ascendance of a Bookworm
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Type: TV
Episodes: 14
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 3, 2019 to Dec 26, 2019
Premiered: Fall 2019
Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:30 (JST)
Studios: Ajia-do
Genre: FantasyFantasy
Themes: IsekaiIsekai, ReincarnationReincarnation
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Ranked: #7142
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Popularity: #757
Members: 344,243
Favorites: 3,364

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Animeby Chiorashi

Source: AniDB

See also:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20987
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/21319
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/32204

50 Entries · Mar 19, 2024 3:08 AM

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Animeby Ssnowyy

Mainly historical with some fantasy with royalty or a historical feeling fantasy.

More:
Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master
The Elusive Samurai
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
Blue Miburo
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

50 Entries · Oct 5, 2024 6:58 PM

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Animeby Normieish

I find anime that gives me insight into a topic oddly compelling: hobbies, science, cities, food, lifestyles, etc...

24 Entries · Oct 7, 2024 9:06 AM

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Animeby boywaifu

anime with little to no oversexualization/hypersexualization of female characters. no harems regardless of horniness because it's still weird & misogynistic. i tried to avoid shows that simply have little to no girls at all. i'm tired of feeling grossed out by every anime/manga !!

P2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25490
P3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25491
P4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25500

** i have watched very few of these. this list was compiled based on the recommendations of others. please hmu if you see something that doesn't belong on this list. more recommendations are also welcome ♡ **

50 Entries · Mar 28, 2023 7:41 PM

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Animeby slayra

Because most OP characters are male, this list is for variety's sake. This is just stuff I've seen, feel free to suggest!

49 Entries · Mar 29, 2:05 PM

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Animeby Anime_Guy_2

These are anime which either talk about or show you what it is like to do something irl.
Well thats what they try to do at least.

18 Entries · Mar 25, 9:09 PM

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The Arts are made up of three types: Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Theater, Cosplaying, Acting, etc.), Visual Arts (Painting, Drawing, Film Making, Animation, Video Game Creation, Photography, etc.) and Literary Arts (Novel/Light Novel Writing, Manga/Doujin Writing, Lyric Writing, Journalism, Magazines, Editing, Dictionary Writing, Ghost Writing, etc.). While Performing Arts and Visual Arts have tags on MyAnimeList, Literary Arts do not, so this interest stack is rectifying that. Literary Arts have a long history with anime like the other two art forms, so this includes a wide variety of them. It may also include some that are about being passionate for literature rather than writing itself. Some series are excluded if they lean more towards Performing Arts or Visual Arts than Literary Arts, such as Kodocha, Saekano or The Pet Girl of Sakurasou. While some series may have major characters who are novelists, it needs to have Literary Arts be an important aspect of the plot in order for it to be included. Also, there will only be one series per franchise for the sake of variety.

39 Entries · Nov 13, 2024 5:59 PM

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Animeby SnoopyInOrbit

Winter 2024 Update:
- added Cid, Neema, Yumiella, Elise, Desir, Mia, Kaoru
- stacked newest to oldest
- more from FtT: https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=902503

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There are a lot of interest stacks related to isekai. This is yet another one with a hopefully worthwhile twist.

It all started with an amusing comment I saw on Crunchyroll, Sweet Reincarnation, episode 1, by user "FranktheTriviaman".

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“Wow, killed by a falling candy sculpture; that’s new. Usually they get killed by a truck”
. Ryoma- “not me; I sneezed in bed and apparently my head hit the floor too hard so I died of a hemorrhage”
. Naofumi- “same; I opened a book in a library that started glowing and next thing I knew I was in another world”
. Myne- “I was crushed by a huge pile of books during an earthquake”
. Ainz- “All I know is one second the game I was playing shut down and the next I was stuck in the body of my character”
. Touya- “apparently God was throwing lightning bolts and one hit me by mistake”
. Rimiru- “I was walking down the street minding my own business and next thing I knew someone ran up and stabbed me”
. Tanya- “I was pushed in front of a train”
. Azusa- “I worked myself to death”
. Haruto- “I was on a bus that was hit by a train
. Spider- “I think I was in a classroom that exploded”
. Hiraku- I died in a hospital bed
. Kazuma- “And I died of shock when I thought a slow moving tractor was a truck that was about to hit me”
“Wait; so has ANYONE actually been hit by truck and Isekai’d?”
*Adele, Rudeus and Shin raise their hands*
“That’s… fewer than I expected”

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Made me wonder just where the notion of truck-kun came from. As an isekai fan myself, I started trying to track down as many (how did I get here?)-kun as I could. This stack is the result. Apologies to FranktheTriviaman: I know I'm ruining the preceding joke, but I just can't seem to stop myself.

In general, truck-kun's job is not easy. According to an article at Collider, there are two subgenres of isekai:

* isekai tenni - transported to another world; includes summoning and traveling through gateways
* isekai tensei - reincarnated in another world; requires dying in the original world

When summoned or traveling to another world, the MC usually retains his or her body, memories, and name.

When reincarnated, there are several possibilities:

* The MC can be newborn while retaining memories of the original world.
* The MC can be newborn without memories, and recover or wake up to memories of the original world at some point.
* The MC can reincarnate into the body of an existing person in the other world. This raises some thorny ethical questions.
* The MC can reincarnate into the body of a terminally ill or recently deceased person in the other world.
* The MC can simply appear as a version of theirself in the other world.

So for starters, truck-kun is not the instigator in any isekai tenni story since there's no dying involved.

Normally, the original world is "our" reality - the real world. The other world is most often a fantasy world with culture and economy roughly equivalent to Medieval or early Renaissance Europe. The other world almost always has magic and monsters.

One twist on the normal pattern is the reverse isekai, in which the MC originates in the fantasy world and travels to or reincarnates in "our" world. If the original world is a fantasy world, there probably aren't any truck-kun so the poor MC has to make other arrangements.

Another variation involves an original world and other world that are separated by time, not space. Our MC can start in our current world and travel to or reincarnate into our world in the distant future. Similarly, the MC can start in a fantasy world then travel or reincarnate into that same world in that world's future. If the original world is our present world, truck-kun has a chance. If not, the same issue arises: it's sad for truck-kun but they probably don't exist in any fantasy worlds no matter what the time frame.

In addition to the other world differing in space or time, it can also be a world from a fictional setting: a book or a game. Game worlds are often Dungeons and Dragons-style role playing fantasy worlds. Otome game worlds are also possible and are also usually fantasy worlds.

In summary: isekai tenni -> no truck-kun; reverse isekai -> (most likely) no truck-kun; isekai tensei -> truck-kun has a shot.

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For each show in this stack, I tried to capture the MCs original and other world name (sometimes, the MC retains their original world name). I also tried to capture the means by which he or she got from their original world to the other world. In some cases, this information is never spelled out, at least as far as I could discover. For shows with multiple seasons or MAL entries, I've only included the first season. There are mild spoilers since the reincarnation mechanism is revealed.

So far, the tally is:

6 Unknown-kun xxxx xx

1 Book-kun x
1 Confection-kun x
1 Dragon-kun x
1 Embarassment-kun x
1 Fire-kun x
1 Guillotine-kun x
1 Gun-kun x
1 Old-age-kun x
1 Power-failure-kun x
1 Ritual-kun x
1 Stairs-kun x
1 Wall-kun x

2 Illness-kun xx
2 Knife-kun xx
2 Negligent-god-kun xx
2 Plane-kun xx
2 Train-kun xx

3 Spell-kun xxx

4 Car-kun xxxx

6 Karoshi-kun xxxx xx (overwork-related death)
6 Truck-kun xxxx xx

I always welcome feedback, but specifically in this case, corrections and additions.

45 Entries · Jan 14, 2024 4:17 PM

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Animeby ZXKW

Fantasy & Isekai I've watched that is probably worth your time, at least to some degree (especially the stuff I rate a 7 or higher). Sequels implied unless otherwise stated.

37 Entries · Mar 7, 2:15 PM

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Anime where theres a strong lead female character
no fanservice, no moe or no lesbian stuff

40 Entries · Sep 19, 2022 12:11 AM

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Animeby gakuendo

Some of the best known age gap stories. what interesting anime may I missing. dont hesitate to let me know.

28 Entries · Dec 25, 2024 5:07 PM

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Animeby lKinol

Female mc/protagonist in another world

Isekai/Some are Pseudo Isekai
- No risk Vrmmo(Just a game) where you can enter or leave the game anytime.
- Isekai where you can travel between worlds.
- Isekai subgenre(e.g. reincarnation, etc.)

24 Entries · Oct 20, 2024 2:46 AM

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Animeby MyAnimeList

Anisata (アニサタ) was a late night anime programming block on Saturdays aired on TV Asahi from April 3, 2016 to September 2020. It has been now rebranded under the name ANiMAZiNG2!!!.

13 Entries · Apr 8, 2022 2:47 AM

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Animeby AnnaSartin

A selection of shows that have a child (or child-like being) as part of the main cast.

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Tags for searchability: Children, Cute Kids, Child Protagonists, Child Main Characters, Child MCs

28 Entries · Sep 19, 2022 2:46 PM

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Animeby beelyfreely

Sometimes romance is just everywhere and we need a little platonic hug from a good show. These all are comfy shows that have no romance, and if its there its minimal enough that I can't remember it :b

16 Entries · Jul 26, 2024 2:25 PM

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Animeby ireneballz

Anime that you can put on in the background while your doing something else.

Requirements:
1. Dubbed, So you don't need to look at the screen the whole time

2. Slice of life/Chill Anime, Relatively simple plots that you don't need to focus too much on

3. Average looking art/animation, And not a lot of action and more dialogue, So you don't need to look at the screen the whole time

41 Entries · Nov 3, 2024 9:22 PM

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Animeby paqster

Here you will find isekais that break the cliche that they always have, completely changing the isekai world in addition to being entertaining and to pass the time

27 Entries · Mar 20, 2023 10:52 PM

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Animeby Windsonge

These are anime shows where finding the right person(s) allows one to rise above and go beyond anything one could alone. These "right ones" often come at critical, dark points and turn everything on its head.

Negativity is overcome, abysses crawled out of, and the odds defeated.


None of these are just about the struggle for physical power or pushing beyond physical limits.

All anime listed here are ones that I have watched.

50 Entries · Oct 18, 2022 4:31 AM

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Animeby Gravity

Anime where the main character is particularly intelligent compared to the other characters and their cleverness and strategy plays a large role in the plot of the story, especially if they put their plans into action off-screen.

9 Entries · Apr 13, 2022 10:16 PM

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