Ascendance of a Bookworm Novels’ Part 4 Gets TV Anime From Wit Studio – News

The staff for the anime of Miya Kazuki‘s Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujō – Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen) light novel series announced on Saturday that the novels’ part 4, Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee (Kizoku-in no Jishō Tosho Iin), will receive a television anime. Wit Studio is once again animating for Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 4: Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee.

The Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke anime premiered on April 4 on the Yomiuri TV and NTV channels at 5:30 p.m. JST (4:30 a.m. EDT), and ended on Saturday. The anime aired across two consecutive cours for a half-year run. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with English subtitles and an English dub.

Yuka Iguchi and Show Hayami returned in the Part 3 anime as Rozemyne (previously Myne) and Ferdinand, respectively. The anime’s new cast members included:

Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Kowloon Generic Romance, Hayate the Combat Butler, We Never Learn: BOKUBEN) directed the Part 3 anime at Wit Studio, replacing the franchise‘s previous director Mitsuru Hongō. Mariko Kunisawa returned to write the series scripts, and Aiko Minowa (After the Rain, The Ancient Magus’ Bride in-between animation) was the new character designer. MICHIRU returned to compose the music.

The first anime season premiered in October 2019, and ended in December 2019 with 14 episodes. The second season premiered in Japan in April 2020. The anime’s third season premiered in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed all three seasons as they aired.

Kazuki began the original novels on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” website in 2013, and ended the web novel in 2017. You Shiina illustrates the print edition. The main series ended with its 33rd volume (volume 12 of part 5) in December 2023. The novel series now has over 13 million copies in circulation (including digital copies).

J-Novel Club is releasing both the light novels and some of the various manga adaptations in English.

Sources: Ascendance of a Bookworm‘s website, Comic Natalie