Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
titty_bear
A short summary for this anime will be:
A grown ass woman(reincarnated in a child's body) behaves and throws tantrums just like a child and actual children around her are more mature than her. Grown ass woman got so angry on mere children when they trampled on her clay tablets, her magic activated. Grown ass woman crying because her clay tablets got destroyed in rain. So immature.
I don't think the author even knows what a "bookworm" is. She must have asked a self proclaimed bookworm how much they love books, they must've replied with "Books are like drugs to me" and she went on and gave the protagonist Myne the exact same behaviour andd symptoms a coke addict has, just with books instead.
Animation is nice, storyline is actually good. But the protagonist's weird, almost "kink" like obs…
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My Thoughts on This Anime:
The world-building is impressively believable – the cities, customs, trade systems, and religious elements are all well-explained. The characters also feel authentic, especially how the story revolves around the main character (MC).
However, the core premise strains credibility. While book lovers exist, the MC's extreme obsession with books feels unrealistic. Books are just others' writings – why worship them? But I understand this obsession drives the plot.
Power balance is another issue:
Overpowered MC = Good Realistic MC = Better
Pathetically weak MC = Bad
Final Verdict:
🗳️ Characters: 6 (would be 7 without the book obsession)
📖 Story: 7
🎨 Art: 8
🎧 Audio: 6
🎞️ Animation: 6
Score: 6/10
Recommendation? Hard pass – but it’s decent time-killer filler i…
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Never felt like writing a review but seeing this anime score so high compelled me to write this one.
The premise is very bland, the script is awful and full of plotholes, main character is annoying, extremely childish (she's in the body of a child, but was supposed be an adult), episodes dwell on the most trivial, boring and mundane details and characters. Many praise it's world building but it's all very flat and basic, and the way things work is always conveniently suited to the Myne's objectives. Like the world building, the magic system serves purely as deus ex machina plot device.
One of the earlier plots is she's worrying people might discover she's not the child bc of all the knowledge from earth, but at some point they completely ignore this and everyone simply glosses over when…
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This is real "Anime". I am surprised to have found this masterpiece after so much time of starting to watch anime, it is certainly not something normal that you would see, and it is not at all what we are used to seeing in current works.
Each episode of this play makes you want more, in some, it makes you cry and in others it makes you excited and excited because that is what will happen.
This is not a review, nor is it a recommendation, it is a call from the universe for you to see this masterpiece.
This is Anime.
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No spoilers:
I recommend this if youre okay with slow pace and slice of life. The world building is wonderful and I really enjoy watching the MC overcome her hurdles as she gets closer to her dream of reading more books.
Its not all about books though, the overall story is pretty interesting but like I said before its slow, theres not a lot of fighting or anything like that.
I teared up a few times watching it, its not your typical isekai, but it does have common isekai elements like magic and knights. But i say gice it a try, if you want to drop it by the end os season 1 its prob not for you.
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Like many others I picked up this series due to the high score and many good reviews. I generally like fantasy isekai so it was going to make it on my list eventually, but the good reviews pushed it up the "watch asap" list. I don't usually write reviews for things I watch, anime or otherwise, so excuse the lack of structure. However, I just felt the need to express my opinion for this one because I have some pretty strong mixed feelings about it after watching all 3 seasons. This series can be summed up as having an interesting premise, a good story but terrible characters.
I won't be commenting on the quality of the animation or soundtrack because I don't care or know enough about drawing and music to be able to responsibly critique it. What matters to me most when I watch an anime is w…
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Well... this was both boring and intellectually insulting.
Another Isekai but the hook here is that it's a girl and she's a bookworm reincarnated in an era where literacy takes a backseat to everything else.
Ok, I'll bite. How does she prove herself? How does she use the knowledge she has? What hurdles will she face? Will she find it hard as an adult to be treated like child that nobody takes seriously and detective conan this?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Plot/story = 1/10
This was horribly written. It's character driven but not really, their are certain points the plot wants the characters to reach so they do even if it doesn't make sense for a 5 or 7 year old to act this way. Also considering the main character is 20+ on the inside it makes no sense for her to think like a child unles…
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I really, really wanted to like this show, but I honestly could not name one thing that makes it anything more than oppressively bland. The premise has so much possibility, but the writing consistently feels like the bare minimum and the art is unexpressive and simplistic. The characters each have exactly one personality trait (if that, I swear most of them just exist to fill space), the dialogue is painfully basic and drags on without meaning, and the story has no underlying sense of... Anything, really. There is no depth, emotion, or even a sense of discovery after the first episode. The main character doesn't even seem to care about learning the details of the world she's in if it isn't relevant to bookmaking, and consistently just accepts the existence of things like weird plants, enig…
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Never have I been so baffled about the popularity of an intellectual property.
And that's not to say I "just don't get it," because I believe I do get this show. And I'm NOT HERE to tell those who enjoy 'Ascendance' that their opinion is wrong and mine is right, because that's pompous as all hell first and foremost. All of us have our own tastes and priorities when it comes to what a story "should be" about what it "should" focus on, and by proxy, what it does right by our personal standards' measure.
Now, with my "everyone's taste is valid" disclaimer out of the way, let me briefly tell you why this show is kinda garbage - that's right, "briefly." There's almost nothing to talk about in regards to this show. People will tell you that this is "not your average Isekai" because it's not…
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This anime is not as good as the rating. I have no idea why people are giving it 10/10, because it is clearly not that good. For one, a 10/10 implies a perfect show, and this show has flaws and errors all over the place, specifically, the show fails in animation, art, characters, and story. While at least art and animation can be chalked up to a low budget, it's really bad sometimes, especially those fire sprites. I swear, a Youtuber could make a animated fire better than what they use, it atrocious and tears you out of any semblance of immersion the show builds whenever it appears.This review contains minor spoilers, not that it really matters, as most of this story is pretty irrelevant and nothing much actually happens. There is no real conflict to speak of, so there is nothing to really…
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The isekai genre in recent years has done exceedingly well. Especially when we look at the more popular ones like Rezero, No game no life, and konosubarash, being mindful of the fact that none of these anime are not typically what you'd call "happy go lucky" animes in the sense that they don't give the audience a feeling of infancy. Honestly I have nothing against making an isekai into a slice of life; well, I didn't at first. Honzuki no Gekokujou is one of those anime types that you see on forum sites, become intrigued by positive reviews, and then go on to stream the entire season--only for you to end up regretting it.
((Before I continue, this review is for those who have watched the anime, but if you haven't and still need better clarity then you've come to the right place.))
I mean…
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*contains spoilers up to episode 21 when I dropped it. I've seen beyond this one season.*
I was wondering why the ratings were so high as the previews looked like an isekai slice of life show meant for kids. That's exactly what you are getting and not much more. It's something you can turn on when you are wasted on a Saturday night and your mind can't form basic words, and it has its "cute" moments, but it definitely does not deserve an 8 with how childish, nonsensical and slow the plot is.
Let's start off with some of the good things before I start rambling with a long diatribe. There can (initially) be some good moments of familial bonding and emotional interaction as the MC comes to accept her new family. The constant buildup of suspicion and the ultimate reveal when one of her friend…
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The premise of the anime, at least in the Synopsis section made it feel like it was going to be something interesting and out of the ordinary. Turned out to be one whiny anime riddled with plot holes and plot armor left and right.
Even in the first episode when the protagonist gets the memories of the body it now inhabits, she doesn't get all of them and starts looking through the house for books as if she doesn't already have the memory of the body that there are no books there.
This trend of things not making any sense continues as the anime develops. The most striking of all is all other characters, like her sister, her friend and his brothers, all act too mature for their age. These kids are supposed to be ages 5 and 7 and yet they act like they are 25-27 all the time. When you make…
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If you don't like Business Studies, then Myne would prove you wrong with her inventions and her intellectual brain she brought to an unfamiliar world! You can hate the isekai genre all you want. But Ascendance of a Bookworm will surely imprint a question mark above your head and make you think otherwise.
Ascendance of a Bookworm is the closest thing we'll get for another season of Spice and Wolf. And of course, the closest thing we'll get for an isekai that doesn't actually suck.
Despite of the fact that Ascendance of a Bookworm's MAL thumbnail looks like some kind of rip-off of Kenja no Mago's MAL thumbnail. Giving the first bad impression of "Wise Man's Loli". Ascendance of a Bookworm doesn't have a single trace of the MMORPG trash unlike the majority of other isekai shows out there.…
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*NO SPOILERS*
I watched this anime due to the high ratings it has been receiving on this website and I can say that it most certainly did not live up to them. Honzuki no Gekokujou is an isekai in which a japanese bookworm gets reincarnated into a sick five year old's body and lives as Myne/Main, the daughter of peasants. One of my primary gripes with this anime is the MCs mental age. Myne is meant to be at least a young adult, but instead acts and thinks like a child with the knowledge of an encyclopedia. Subsequently, she fumbles around social interaction with the emotional intelligence of a child, not knowing how to handle her own position.
People are praising this show for changing the isekai formula, but there isn't much substance past that. It's a slice of life show where the MC inv…
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Welcome to my review of Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen! This review contains minor spoilers!!
The story is the biggest problem in my opinion! It has an awful start and just keeps failing as it moves along!!
Motosu Urano is a Librarian and writes books for children. She lives in a distant world and she loves books in all their forms! Fiction to mathematics philosophy and everything in between. She is the definition of a bookworm and literature is her love in life! And she surrounded herself with books! But the books was not happy at all!! They were angry and took their revenge on the tyrant who imprison them!!! What? Really? Well, all the fucking information I got here is " But then" followed by an ugly animation of falling books!! Then the text…
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Bookworm is a perfect example of why preliminary reviews should not be allowed on this website and allowing them only lowers the credibility of MAL reviews.
I truly must apologise to this series for writing it off when I first started watching it. When I made my first review for this show, I gave it a 6/10 after 4 episodes and felt that there was little to no substance here. I could not have been more wrong. It wasn't the show that had issues, it was me. It was the fact I wasn't appreciating the little things that make good storytelling and instead of substance, I prioritised style. I'm more than happy to admit I was wrong and that Bookworm is one of the best anime I have ever seen.
Bookworm is an isekai, which may initially turn some people off, however, I promise you, it is not your ty…
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Isekai Bookworm: the Isekai we needed but didn't deserve, and furthermore, the most underrated and least watched Isekai of the season, that's at least getting a continuation in Spring 2020 for its 2nd cour...like how great is that! It's almost like in the slew of all-too-familiar Isekai LNs that purge the same formula as if that's the ONLY way to make it interesting, that Ascendance of a Bookworm FINALLY saw the change towards that formula to forge and become its very own thing.
*Spoilers be warned*
In the sense of realism, Isekai Bookworm retains the fantasy that the genre is all but known for, but with the twist that this is actually more of a slice-of-life than the fantastical elements it bargains at the beginning, and all but perishes it right from the start, as evident from the MC M…
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To round off this year of abysmal drops in the bucket from the rusty spigot tapped into the vast ocean of low-effort isekai anime still waiting down the pipeline, “Ascendance of a Bookworm” hit me like a brief mouthful of ambrosia that I desperately desired.
There are only so many ways to frame an isekai anime nowadays, it’s like when Fox announces they’ve renewed The Simpsons for another 3 seasons and realizes, “Haven’t we already done everything?” In this regard, Bookworm isn’t exactly novel when you think about how it recontextualizes this tired concept. It’s not an original concept, but it’s one that recognizes the charming beauty of its simplicity.
To put it simply, Bookworm is a tight and focused character-piece that neither preoccupies itself with empty flash or needless frills.…
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You’ve probably heard the phrase “knowledge is power”. One of the fundamental elements of power comes from books and even in our modern world today, that phrase remains as true as ever. Ascendance of a Bookworm attributes to a bookworm named “Myne” who is reincarnated into another world as she hopes to regain her ability to read.
With the amount of isekai anime coming out in recent years, it’s easy to paint this show as another clone. However, you should actually take a careful look into this anime and see it more of as a slice of life isekai. What does that mean? In some ways, Ascendance of a Bookworm contains fantasy elements but also relies a lot more on realism than what people will realize. The first episode drops main protagonist Myne into a world of uncertainty. It doesn’t take lon…
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