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Jan 2, 2020
A lot of shows this season have the similar premise of "Being sent into a primitive world with knowledge of modern technology and introducing the knowledge to your new world" and this one is my favourite of them all, even beating Dr. Stone by a narrow margin.

You have the usual isekai setup of someone dies and is sent to a new world where they have a hidden yet over powered ability which they can use to save the world from... EXCEPT YOU DON'T! You follow a young woman who only ever dreamt of becoming a librarian because she loves reading and learning from books, when she finally achieves her dream she is killed by a falling book shelf, when she is sent to a new world her one and only plea to God is that she can be reborn in a world where she can read lots of good books, and as an answer to that prayer a heartless reincarnation system throws her into a world where books are not only a rare commodity but reading itself is a uncommon skill, especially for a young girl at the very bottom of the social ladder.

But what about the usual special power that isekai protagonists get to make them overpowered with a lot of magic power or something and yeah, you're right, she's got one of those, except not really because magic is basically a curse in this world so what she gets is a severe debilitating illness with no known cure that saps away at her strength and stamina.

Watch the story of a little girl who against all this adversity strives and struggles to achieve something so simple as a single book to read even if she has to make and write it herself. Follow along with her as she achieves so many small victories on her way to her goal and mourns the losses of her work as a cruel world destroys and impedes her progress at every step, but it is not the destruction of a little girl's work you see but instead a child who will get back up and try again no matter what.

Her main successes are not from a big amazing display of power but instead come from her knowledge of home economics and her book-smarts, she gives us a great insight into how knowledge was written throughout the ages from wooden tablets to clay to papyrus and so on in her quest. and we find out that in a medieval society even knowing simple crafts like crochet and shampoo are astounding to people around her who have yet to discover it.

It's great if you love the isekai genre and just as good if you don't, because this isn't your average isekai show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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