Light Novel 'Honzuki no Gekokujou' Receives TV Anime Adaptation

by Vindstot
Mar 7, 2019 8:34 PM | 46 Comments

Happinet Pictures opened an official website for a TV anime adaptation of Miya Kazuki and You Shiina's Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen (Ascendance of a Bookworm: Stop at Nothing to be a Librarian) light novel series on Friday.

Synopsis
Motosu Urano, a book-loving college student who just got her Librarian certification and was supposed to enter the job of her dreams after graduation, was killed during a massive earthquake crushing her underneath a pile of her own massive collection of books.

Wishing for reincarnation in order to read even more, she got reincarnated to a world with a low literacy level and very few books, limited only to the nobility of the world. As she reincarnated as 5-year-old daughter of a lowly soldier, Maine, no matter how much she wants to read, there is no way there are any books around. If there are no books then what do you do? You make them yourself of course... What her goal is, to become a librarian no matter what, and to live a life surrounded by books. For starters she begins from making them. (Source: MU, edited)

Staff
Director: Mitsuru Hongou (World Trigger)
Assistant Director: Yoshiki Kawasaki (Shuumatsu no Izetta episode director)
Series Composition: Mariko Kunisawa (Shinryaku! Ika Musume script)
Character Design: Yoshiaki Yanagida (Genshiken 2), Toshihisa Kaiya (Robotics;Notes animation director)
Studio: Ajia-Do

Cast
Maine: Yuka Iguchi (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
Ferdinand: Show Hayami (Trigun)

Kazuki launched the fantasy slice of life novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in September 2013 and ended it with 677 chapters in March 2017. TO Books began publishing the series with illustrations by Shiina in January 2015. The 17th volume was published last December, with the 18th volume scheduled for release on Wednesday. Honzuki no Gekokujou has a cumulative 1 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Suzuka's manga adaptation of the novel's first part launched on the Nico Nico Seiga website in October 2015. The seventh and last compiled volume went on sale in August 2018. The first volume of the second part is planned for an April 25 release. J-Novel Club licensed the manga for digital release this past November.

Honzuki no Gekokujou placed fifth in the 2017 edition and consecutively first in the 2018 and 2019 editions of the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! rankings' Book category.

Teaser PV

Official site: http://booklove-anime.jp/
Official Twitter: @anime_booklove

Source: PR Times

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

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I mostly know Nakajima Megumi for her role as Kasukabe You (Mondaiji) so I'm a bit surprised by the choice with just that, as both characters don't have the same kind of vibes. But maybe the seiyuu has enough range to cover that, as hearing only one of her role isn't enough to conclude anything~

oh my gosh my favourite seiyuu (Orikasa Fumiko) is doubling Effa, that's so cool <3.

Tamura Mutsumi for Lutz sounds like a pretty good pick.
Koyama Tsuyoshi (Gunter here) was Youhei in Mahou no sho, and I think the vibes of those two characters are quite a bit similar so again, pretty satisfying pick.

So far we're getting experienced seiyuu, and imo having good seiyuu will really make or break this anime as character banters are primordial for enjoying it, so looking pretty good. Especially Orikasa Fumiko, not gonna lie, she's top level for me. I kind of wish she was cast as someone with more lines than Effa on the long run though, but that's better than nothing.

Jun 6, 2019 8:29 AM by Zefyris

4 additional cast and music composer announced.
Premieres This Fall
https://moca-news.net/article/20190606/2019060612000b_/01/

Jun 5, 2019 8:02 PM by tsubasalover

Considering that AFAIk opening singers who are also seiyuu are often part of the seiyuu cast for that anime, and that she's a fairly experienced seiyuu, wondering if that means she's part of the cast herself.
->For Tuuri maybe?

May 30, 2019 11:56 PM by Zefyris

OP: "Masshiro (真っ白)" by Sumire Moroboshi, who will artist debut via this song.
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1559011079

ED: "Kamikazari no Tenshi (髪飾りの天使)" by Megumi Nakajima
Announced via Line Live commemorating her b-day and best album release.
https://twitter.com/mamegu_staff/status/1136269677829603328
https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1136259629837455360

May 30, 2019 8:07 PM by tsubasalover

caio_brb said:

Fede_5000 said:

you must have sawdust in the brain to compare this quality work with the other garbage like the idiot of the shield or the neet that becomes demon king

You don't even read novels man, what are you talking about? Your only references are anime, so how you're so sure about this being good or others when you only know those works when they get adaptations?

I know enough of them to know that they are wrong from their concept.
Naofumi it's a manchild who just had a false accusation thrown their way and uses that as an excuse to justify being horrible, the story always acts like he's actually a really good person while making everyone who is against him either an idiot or evil. A good adaptation would change much of the story to improve was by not giving the reason to the protagonist or not demonizing their rivals.

May 20, 2019 5:48 AM by Fede_5000

First ep. will be included in novel vol. 4-8 releasing on September 10 (releasing prior to TV anime broadcast).
https://twitter.com/anime_booklove/status/1130307319173005313
https://twitter.com/TOBOOKS/status/1130307439427956736
https://twitter.com/miyakazuki01/status/1130321408574119938
https://moca-news.net/article/20190520/2019052012000a_/01/

May 19, 2019 11:26 PM by tsubasalover

Fede_5000 said:

Eh.. your standard is pretty low if you think this is the best isekai novel. This is so meh for me. The MC is dumb, spoiled, selfish, so unlikeable. This isekai is the same with others. Treating the other world only consists of idiots. Truly, I don’t get why this got an anime when there are a lot of much better isekai stories out there.

you must have sawdust in the brain to compare this quality work with the other garbage like the idiot of the shield or the neet that becomes demon king

May 19, 2019 9:55 PM by brzzcode

Since I've read some comments here and there about Honzuki, I decided to give it a try. The manga had me hooked, then I switched to the translated web novel and now I've bought all available light novel volumes. It's been a damn long time since I've read a light novel, but I'm really enjoying this one so far.

Not expecting too much of the anime though.

Mar 20, 2019 12:30 PM by Kami-Koto

I've not read the novel seeing that it was not my cup of tea. Now that it is getting an anime adaptation I do want to check it out... Is it worth the read though??

Mar 20, 2019 3:56 AM by TwinBlaze1213

Although I am happy to see it's have got so much popularity. As a light novel reader, I actually disagree about making honzuki into an anime. Not everything should be made into anime it just does not work that way. Honzuki is sth you need to slowly progress, it doesn't have a lot of action /fighting scenes like most of the isekai anime does. It has an amazing character plot slowly progress and def one of the best isekai novels out there. I don't think a few episodes of animation will ever build up to the level what a light novel can do, it is also the reason why a lot of criticism on a slice of life anime (that requires building up connections) adapted from the light novel on how plain it is. Not to mention its animation :/

Mar 17, 2019 3:00 PM by KonnoYuukiSenpai

You're welcome.

And J-novel club just announced the licensing of the original Honzuki no Gekokujou novel as well.
source: https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1107199877895913472

Mar 17, 2019 2:08 AM by Zefyris

Zefyris said:

ThreadFazer said:

okey..but after the 17 Volumes? So what fetish/immoral stuf happened in the 17 volumes, Can you tell me? (just put a spoiler tag)

And i dont really mind the incest that much, its The Loli X Adult that i Hate.

You quoted me before I could edit , so putting it back there
"there's some form of pedophilia for a while I think, IIRC the girl is like 14 or something, it's a topic for a while in arc 2 but it's not with the main characters and it's frown upon by pretty much everyone else for the time it lasted.".
I'd like to point out that it's a medieval world, so criteria are a bit different in there than they are in our world for what is immoral or not.
Nobles being able to get commoners killed on a simple word from their part because nobles are always right in a commoner vs noble dispute and stuff like that is a thing for example.

Oh thank you very much, atlest the Pedo stuff is not with the Main Cast (that's a Relief)

Ill instantly watch this when the Anime comes up, for now ill add this to Plan to watch. thank you again.

Mar 16, 2019 3:49 AM by NotTrying2BLazy

ThreadFazer said:

Zefyris said:

No, none of those two after 17 volumes, that's not this type of story.

You quoted me before I could edit , so putting it back there
"there's some form of pedophilia for a while I think, IIRC the girl is like 14 or something, it's a topic for a while in arc 2 but it's not with the main characters and it's frown upon by pretty much everyone else for the time it lasted." We also don't see it directly happening, we know it's happening and other characters are not happy about it happening.
I'd like to point out that it's a medieval world, so criteria are a bit different in there than they are in our world for what is immoral or not.
Nobles being able to get commoners killed on a simple word from their part because nobles are always right in a commoner vs noble dispute and stuff like that is a thing for example.

Mar 16, 2019 3:40 AM by Zefyris

Zefyris said:

ThreadFazer said:
Can i ask something before putting this as plan to watch.

Are there Any Immoral sh!t in this Light Novel? (Like Loli's x Adults and Incest)

Cause i HATE THOSE STUFF VERY MUCH! pls just put a Spoiler Tag.

No, none of those two after 17 volumes, that's not this type of story.

Mar 16, 2019 3:35 AM by NotTrying2BLazy

No, none of those two after 17 volumes, that's not this type of story. peoples can't even mary before they're 16 in there IIRC, and even peoples like royalty and nobles(who in our world had quite the amount of incest in history) are going for wedding with someone out of the family (or at worst barely related, like having the same great grand father or something).

EDIT : aahh.. wait, there's some form of pedophilia for a while I think, IIRC the girl is like 14 or something, it's a topic for a while in arc 2 but it's not with the main characters and it's frown upon by pretty much everyone else for the time it lasted.

Mar 16, 2019 3:32 AM by Zefyris

Can i ask something before putting this as plan to watch.

Are there Any Immoral sh!t in this Light Novel? (Like Loli's x Adults and Incest)

Cause i HATE THOSE STUFF VERY MUCH! pls just put a Spoiler Tag.

Mar 16, 2019 3:23 AM by NotTrying2BLazy

I am going to declare this here and now, if in the end it would result in a great anime, it will not matter to the people if this is an isekai

Mar 11, 2019 1:56 PM by Fede_5000

this looks interesting. hope it comes out soon

Mar 9, 2019 12:51 PM by Stardew

@fabris I think people do not care if the protagonist is OP or not always if the protagonist is not a boy, as shown here with another isekai of a girl with goddess powers https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1709777

Mar 9, 2019 12:47 PM by RayReynolds

iamadragonrawrrr said:
Eh.. your standard is pretty low if you think this is the best isekai novel. This is so meh for me. The MC is dumb, spoiled, selfish, so unlikeable. This isekai is the same with others. Treating the other world only consists of idiots. Truly, I don’t get why this got an anime when there are a lot of much better isekai stories out there.

>modern LN isekai
>high standards

Pick one, and just one, dude.

At least the protag of this one does not get 48759475897696 cheat habilities and max level in episode 1 (why TF the japanese think this makes a compelling premisse?), neitheir is a NEET loser who gets an harem.
Sound solidly above average to me. What "much better isekais" you talking about. They are almost all the same.

What really bothers me is the excessive condescension that it has only because of the fact that the protagonist is a girl, if it were a boy everybody would be throwing shit and saying that it is just another absurd self-insertion story of a loser Neet and blah blah ... in their day rimuru and satou told them the same thing since none of them was a loser since both had jobs, people do not give their opinion only invents lies

Most people welcoming this are readers of the novel themselves. Or just happy is a isekai without OP protag who gets an harem.

Mar 9, 2019 11:54 AM by Fabris

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