Ascendance Of A Bookworm 2019 Genres: Anime, Hand-Drawn Animation, Isekai, Slice Of Life, Sword & Sorcery, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Country: Japan Director: Mitsuru Hongô, Takahide Ogata Duration: Episodes Vary 30 Min Year: 2019 Actors: Yuka Iguchi, Show Hayami, Mutsumi Tamura, Megumi Nakajima, Fumiko Orikasa, Takehito Koyasu, Tsuyoshi Koyama, Armen Taylor, Reba Buhr, Lizzie Freeman, Sho Karino, Tomoaki Maeno, Chiyo Tomaru, Brian Timothy Anderson, Yûko Sanpei, Satoshi Hino, Kirsten Day, Katsunori Okai Storyline: Urano, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian, dies in an earthquake. She is reincarnated in another world as a young girl named Mayne, but learns books are scarce and only provided to prestigious elites.