Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion
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@Ingraman said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
TO Books announced on Thursday that the new anime from Wit Studio of Miya Kazuki's Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujō - Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen) "biblia fantasy" light novel series, adapting Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke, will premiere in 2026. TO Books also revealed the new anime's television series format. Along with the announcement, the light novels' third volume of short story collection (featured in posted image below) will release on December 10.
Considering how many volumes part 3 has, hopefully the series format has a bunch more episodes. 8-)
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Season 4 now officially confirmed for spring 2026.
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@Angelus said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:
Season 4 now officially confirmed for spring 2026.
Yay! And thanks for telling us.
Before season 3 was announced, I was told that it would be unusual to have more than two seasons, but it got more. Also in my fairly limited experience, if a season n+1 happens, it gets announced near or after the end of season n. (For example, we've just recently had an announcement of season 3 of Apothecary Diaries just as season 2 finishes.)
Can those who understand things better comment on whether this announcement is unusual, as it seems to me? Is the anime doing particularly well in Japan, in terms of viewers and DVD sales and/or driving sales of the light novels?
For this work, it would leave story lines very incomplete to abandon it mid "adopted daughter" arc, so that may have something to do with it. I do hope they're going to give us 3 seasons (30-39 episodes) for "adopted daughter", as it would be very cramped in 26 or fewer.
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@Libri-Liberorum
Not that unusual. Hataraku Maou-sama was a much more extreme case, with S2 happening 9 years after S1.Or Full Metal Panic, with S3 happening 13 years after S2.As for the rationale behind it... Search me. Anime adaptations are usually ads for the manga or LN rather than attempts to actually make money (or so I hear), but sometimes stuff just happens. Like that Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer adaptation, years after the manga concluded. Or that remake of LoGH.
