Episode 1

A World Without Books is the first episode of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime series. It aired on 2nd October 2019.

The episode begins with Myne being given a magic tool from the High Priest. Once she puts it on, she goes to sleep. This allows the High Priest to investigate why Myne is so different and where all of her creations and knowledge comes from.

We go back in time to where Urano is revived as Myne after she dies in her own world. Shortly after, her mother Effa enters the room to check on her. Myne's fever is starting to come down, but she is asked to remain in bed until dinner to get her rest. Rather than doing this, Myne decides to go in search for books. Unfortunately, she is unable to find any in her house, or even any written media. This greatly upsets her.

Myne thinks back what happened the last three days. She had many culture shocks but also little achievements. She struggles with her father Gunther, and began to use a wooden hairpin made by Tuuli to keep her hair together.

After Myne is fully recovered, her mother offers to take her to the market. Myne believes this to be her chance to finally get some books, so she excitedly goes with her. After fainting from watching a chicken be beheaded, Myne decides to wait for her mother to finish shopping inside a stall. Inside this stall, she finds a book at long last! However, the shopkeeper won't let her hold it because of how expensive it is and Myne's strange behaviour.

Myne decides that if she can't get books, she'll make her own.


 * Myne
 * High Priest
 * Effa
 * Tuuli
 * Gunther


 * The whole beginning sequence does not appear at the beginning of the light novel.
 * Myne does not walk down the stairs alone.
 * A chicken was beheaded instead of a pig.
 * She isn't woken up forcefully with alcohol.


 * Urano becomes Myne
 * Hairpin invented
 * Learns numbers
 * Decides to make books herself
 * First appearance of Myne's family (Effa, Gunther, Tuuli)

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 * The viewer gets to hear Myne's world's language before the auto-translator begins to work.