ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM TV TROPES PLUS

If this sounds like a really stupid leap in logic, get used to it because it’s going to keep happening every few episodes and by the end of the second season the objective will have moved and changed so many times and the initial premise will not matter in the least. Because the most logical thing you can do when you can’t read books, is to print your own books, so you can read… your own books (wut?).

Thus she sets forth to… print her own books (wut?). Thus we spend the first few episodes in her trying to find books to read only to find out books are very expensive and very rare and there are no public libraries because the setting is medieval. Something a bookworm like her finds to be super important, although it isn’t, but we need her to have an obsession over something, so we can also have an objective. Or so it was at first, because that is no longer true by the end of the second season.Anyways, since we need a plot so that the show won’t be a slice of nothing happens, the heroine sets forth to read books.

Thus everything she does is seemingly harder than what it would be in our world and thus every little victory she achieves comes off as rewarding despite being mundane as hell for the rest of us. They still have slavery and public executions and women wish to be sex toys for men. Plus, because the setting is medieval it lacks even the most basic luxuries and services we take for granted in our contemporary society.

ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM TV TROPES PLUS

Plus she can’t even openly say she is from a different world, because the church is going to execute her as a witch. On top of that she is not exceptionally powerful just because she got isekaied, since she has a very frail body that can kill her if she works hard or if an incurable disease kicks in. It had a heroine who was struggling to achieve small victories in an almost mundane setting with not much to struggle towards. Every story need to give the viewer reasons for keeping up with it, and this one offered a down to earth isekai. Or so it was at first, because that is no longer true by the end of the second season. It’s a simple coming of age, about a simple girl, in a simple medieval setting. This show is better because the protagonist is a girl, there are no videogames, no harem, no demon lord, and no superpowers. What matters is the execution, which for this show was supposed to be how it’s not a power fantasy about a male loser getting reincarnated into a videogame where he is overpowered and forms a harem while fighting the demon lord with his broken superpowers. Something which the fanboys say for every isekai there is, therefore this statement means nothing. Ascendance of a Bookworm was hailed as one of the best isekai ever made.

Ascendance of a bookworm tv tropes