‘Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo’ Gets Sequel TV Anime

The 24th and final episode of Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen: Ryoushu no Youjo (Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke) ended with an announcement on Saturday that a sequel television anime adaptation is in production. The sequel anime, which adapts the fourth part of Miya Kazuki‘s Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen (Ascendance of a Bookworm: I’ll do Anything to Become a Librarian!) light novel, subtitled Kizoku-in no Jishou Tosho Iin, is being produced by WIT Studio.

The anime series produced by Ajia-Do aired across three seasons in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, and Spring 2022. A side story original video anime was bundled with the 22nd volume in March 2020. The fourth season was produced by WIT Studio and aired on April 4. Crunchyroll simulcast the show with subtitles and subsequently began streaming an English dub. Sentai Filmworks licensed the first two seasons and released them on home video in January 2021.

Honzuki no Gekokujou adapts Miya Kazuki’s fantasy slice of life light novel series, which she penned on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website from September 2013 to March 2017. TO Books began publishing the novel featuring illustrations by You Shiina (Sakurada Reset) in January 2015. The 33rd volume shipped in December 2023.

Suzuka serialized a manga adaptation of the light novel’s first part on the Comic Corona web magazine from October 2015 to July 2018. The second part began in the same magazine in September of that year and had thirteen volumes in print as of September 2025.

Ryou Namino launched the third part in April 2018, and Hikaru Katsuki began drawing the fourth part in December 2020. he 12th volume of the fourth part of the manga was published on April 15.

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Source: Comic Natalie