Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 3rd Season

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Synonyms: Ascendance of a Bookworm 3rd Season

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～第3期

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Type: TV

Episodes: 10

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 12, 2022 to Jun 14, 2022

Premiered: Spring 2022

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 02:29 (JST)

Producers: WOWOW, KlockWorx, flying DOG, BS Fuji, Yomiuri TV Enterprise, TO Books, JTB Next Creation, MediaNet Pictures, Happinet Phantom Studios

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Ajia-do

Source: Light novel

Genre: Fantasy

Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.07¹ (scored by 74,014 users)

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Ranked: #537²

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Popularity: #1499

Members: 155,097

Favorites: 920

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Winter is approaching, and Myne—now an apprentice priestess—must prepare for her stay at the church and the upcoming Dedication Ceremony. However, due to her immense knowledge and extraordinary amount of mana, she has garnered the attention of many dangerous people, who are willing to do anything to get their hands on Myne.

To keep her safe, the Head Priest assigns Myne a bodyguard and advises her to be adopted by a noble, a decision that will force her to leave her family behind. As Myne is opposed to the idea, the Head Priest gives her an ultimatum: she can be with her family until she turns 10, but if she is deemed too unstable, she will immediately be dealt with.

Placed in a tough position, Myne is uncertain about her future. Despite the twists that may lie ahead, she will do whatever she can to protect those that she loves—even if it means giving up on her dream.

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Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 3rd Season was released on Blu-ray on June 8, 2022 and on DVD from April 20, 2022 to June 8, 2022.

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Adaptation:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
Prequel:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season
Other:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen Recap
Sequel:	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen - Ryoushu no Youjo

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Characters & Voice Actors

Myne

Main

Iguchi, Yuka
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Ferdinand

Main

Hayami, Show
Japanese

Benno

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Lutz

Supporting

Tamura, Mutsumi
Japanese

Sylvester

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Tuuli

Supporting

Nakajima, Megumi
Japanese

Gunther

Supporting

Koyama, Tsuyoshi
Japanese

Frida

Supporting

Uchida, Aya
Japanese

Otto

Supporting

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Fran

Supporting

Karino, Shou
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Cook, Justin

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Ozawa, Fumihiro

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Yaoita, Katsuyuki

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Minegishi, Kai

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Opening Theme

"Ano Hi no Kotoba (あの日のことば)" by Nao Touyama

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Ending Theme

"Kotoba ni Dekinai (言葉にできない)" by Maaya Sakamoto

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Aug 1, 2022

TheRockzSG

Recommended

If you are reading a review for an anime's 3rd season, I am sure you already know what is Ascendance of Bookworm is about. So I will leave out the introductory part of the review. Let's jump straight into this review.

Let's start with the positive part of the review.

As expected, the story is fantastic. Miya Kazuki did a fantastic job writing the story. The characters are the same lovable characters we love from Season 2. Myne still has a crippling addiction to reading. Ferdinand and Benno have a Myne-induced headache every single episode. Lutz desperately tries to keep Myne not working herself to ...

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Jun 13, 2022

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Novelist Miya Kazuki's Isekai Bookworm is one of those hidden gems in the now oversaturated Isekai reincarnation sub-genre which has withstood the test of time, now 2 seasons (or rather parts thereof) circa. 2019 that was pretty enjoyable for a refreshing take on the whole reincarnation phase and leaning on neither demon lords nor power, but on books instead to rebirth time past with a modern twist. Now, come Season 3 a.k.a. Part 3 a.k.a Part 2's 2nd split-cour exactly 2 years later, and Isekai Bookworm has largely stayed the same...except for one thing: there's basically nothing left worth predicting out of the unexpected to ... reinvigorate life into the series.

Obviously, Season 3 is a continuation of Season 2 where both seasons cover the light novel's Part 2: Apprentice Shrine Maiden arc, equalizing with Volumes 4 and 5 (Part 2's Volumes 1 and 2) for Season 2, and Volumes 6 and 7 (Part 2's Volumes 3 and 4) for this season, albeit at a shorter 10 episodes. Focusing on Main and the gang in the pursuit of making books with the foundation of ink, the winter/spring passover, more abandoned orphans with one infant being just like Main, and the perverse "Church is bad" plotline to round things up and finish one of Main's most maligned "beginner" arcs towards the view of the world.

Main is still the same happy-go-lucky but naive girl whom has to be watched by everyone else alongside her (including the High Priest Ferdinand which constantly supervises her in the cathedral) being at a young age with a childlike mentality, which at this stage, doesn't discount that her presence is pretty much a liability towards the other nobles looking to use her as a bargain tool from the Ink Guild to the cathedral's Head Priest for both her wonderous skills and power respectively. Main is truly in danger in this section of the light novel, and it was a case of "knowledge is power" warped within the wrong hands. Given that Main is pretty much at the age where for her Devouring to be coarsely controlled, her adoption to a noble is a much-needed necessity to alleviate the insanity of OP-bound magic power that could stand in anyone's way. Everyone and everything else from the visuals to the music is just the same as they have been if you've kept up to Isekai Bookworm up until Season 2, and still loved, lived and breathed the immense beauty and dynamics that this series has to offer.

And thus says the narrative for Main's character shift that's leaning onto the remainder part of the light novel, which is great in the original source, but this part of the adaptation just somehow couldn't match the same feelings of what I felt when watching the prior seasons of the similar Disney-like magic and wonder. I'd guess the sentiment is that Season 2 a.k.a Part 2 ended in such an amicable way that there wouldn't be another season in the run coming in the future, and for a time, it sure felt that way too that anyone (including myself). But alas, at some point in the future (which is now that) it is renewed for another season, and it was such a stark comparison to see that the adaptation felt like it had to wedge into our throats instead of doing what the series used to do: trade the same exact beauty to push content at a lower episode count. As a result, Ajia-Do's visuals felt somewhat lackluster, and the OST is dare I say, probably the worst of the 3 seasons (yes, even with Nao Touyama and Maaya Sakamoto's decent OP/ED songs), to the point of being very forgettable.

Overall, Isekai Bookworm could've continued in the vast enjoyment legacy of the prior seasons it came before with the same staff team helming the anime adaptation, but there's bound to be a black sheep somewhere, and this season has to earn that title. Such a bummer to end on a somewhat notable change in the series to date. It's good, but decent at best IMO.

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Jul 14, 2022

RudolfTostarrica

Not Recommended

This review doesn’t include details, just a general comment on the plot of the season and it’s delivery.

I loved the first season, I was quite alright with the second one (although it felt inferior) and I went through this 3rd season with struggle and wishing it was even shorter.

I’m not sure what’s the main thing in this season, really. At the start it seems it will be about the menace of a ridiculous “enemy”, but it was smoke. The enemy is gone in no time. Then it was that the real enemy was someone else, but it barely matters because when they actually “attack” it’s ... quite ridiculous. And this kind of thing keeps happening through all the season. “Oh no, there is THIS problem, Myne!”, next scene, the problem is solved. Sometimes even off screen.

That, together with the recurrent uses of dead spaces with useless pauses and, especially, over explaining of facts, makes the season painful to watch. What is over explaining you say? We SEE something, a character EXPLAINS the fact to some other character, and then that character EXPLAINS the same thing to a third one. Why? No idea, but that’s how you finish an episode with barely any content. Do that 10 times and you have this season.
It’s a shame that (in my opinion) the show rapidly declined from a quite entertaining and fun to watch anime to a dull, uninteresting, pain in the ass thing to watch.

The surprises and twists of this season are so evident and the same as always that had the same impact on me as the specific food the characters had for lunch. The delivery of this reveals, together with most of everything that happens here, is poor, uninspired, and takes away every spark of interest of the scene. I’m not sure if the directing of the other 2 seasons was so bland, but here it shines as much as a pile of dust. The empty script of the season doesn’t work on it’s favor either, so a fancy directing wouldn’t turn it into gold.
Maybe I didn’t understand how the world works, maybe I missed some particular detail of how the magic works, I don’t understand where all the money goes when Myne is selling so much expensive stuff, I don’t understand why the characters don’t just go live some other country. I can’t understand the decisions that the characters make in this season at all…
It’s like all the “problems” are fake problems just to make it look like there is some obstacle to struggle with, when in reality Myne is a super powerful character with a great professional and social life, just with some minor health issues that don’t matter at all if all she wants to do is sit down and read (Plus, highly powerful magic).

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