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

Bandai Namco Filmworks revealed a teaser promotional video on Saturday for the television anime of Shikiso Utsuzawa‘s Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! (Shin no Seijo de Aru Watashi wa Tsuihō Saremashita. Dakara Kono Kuni wa Mō Owari Desu) light novel series. The video reveals the anime will debut in January 2027. The  video also reveals that Kanako Hara (Blue Orchestra TV 2, A Destructive God Sits Next to Me) is composing the music.

The anime will star Masumi Tazawa as Elian and Taku Yashiro as Nigel.

Tsukasa Sakurai (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Golden Time, Little Witch Academia episode animation director) is directing the anime at Tsumugi Akita Anime Lab. Naoki Tozuka (I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince two seasons, Meiji Gekken: 1874) is in charge of series scripts, and Naru Nishikōri (I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince two seasons, Meiji Gekken: 1874) is designing the characters.

Kodansha USA Publishing started releasing Matsu’s manga adaptation in English digitally in 2024. Kodansha USA describes the story:

Ever since she was a child, Eliane has been the saint and protector of the Kingdom of Belkheim, warding off monsters and ensuring bountiful harvests with her prayers. But when a pretender saint beguiles the foolish prince—to whom she is engaged—into believing she is nothing but a fraud, he calls off the marriage and banishes her from the kingdom. Homeless and penniless but free to chart her own course for the first time in her life, Eliane decides to make for the neighboring kingdom, where she hopes to blend in as a commoner and lead a quiet life…but a chance encounter on the road will totally upend her modest plans.

Utsuzawa launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in June 2020. Kodansha began publishing the light novels with illustrations by Pukyunosuke in January 2021. The seventh volume shipped in Japan in December 2024.

Mokuba Matsu‘s manga adaptation debuted April 2021 in Kodansha‘s Palcy app. Kodansha released the manga’s 13th compiled book volume on July 30. K MANGA is also publishing the manga in English.

Source: Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! anime’s website

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