Myne

Myne (マイン, Main) is the protagonist of Ascendance of a Bookworm.

Myne is a cute little girl that looks out-of-place with her commoner background. Her skin is sickly pale and clean. Her eyes are deep gold, like the moon, and very expressive. Myne has long dark-blue hair resembling the night sky reaching to her back, which she tied to a half updo bun with a wooden hairpin. Due to her suffering from the Devouring, she looks several years younger than her actual age.

Urano Motosu was a young 22 years old recent college graduate, who had just landed her dream job as a librarian. She lived with her widowed mother; her father died in an accident when she was young. Her only known friend is Shuu.

Urano died by being buried by an avalanche of books during an earthquake. Her last memory is praying desperately that she can still read books even in her next life.

Before the start of the story, Myne was a very sick girl that rarely ever left her house. Myne had barely ever participated in neighborhood social events, so the local children considered her a rare monster with a low encounter rate. She felt often unhappy besides the time she spent "dreaming of another world". Due to the Devouring, her personality and most of her memories were eventually completely eroded and replaced with that of her previous life as Urano Motosu; the series follows the new Myne from Urano's full emergence onward.

Effa describes Myne before her "death" as childish, because she throws needless tantrums due to being jealous of Tuuli. After her memories were combined with Urano's memories, her mind became a hybrid of Urano and her original self. Urano, now Myne, developed an energetic and optimistic personality, while retaining her book-obsessed side from her Urano days, bemusing the other villagers for both her odd obsession with literacy (for anyone even a peasant) and inventiveness (for her own needs). Each time she sees blood or death-related situations, she feels sick or faints. Effa thinks that Myne looked like Effa on the outside but has her father's personality on the inside. Both would charge head-on without considering their surroundings or consequences, and feel frustrated if they don't reach their goal.

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During her time in Ehrenfest, Myne "invented" a number of amazing products and dishes. In reality, she is actually just recreating things from the world she lived in during her previous life as Urano.

Myne was able to recreate most things because of Urano's mother's passion for a variety of things which resulted in dragging Urano along to those activities more often then not. Urano would often finish her mother's work who usually gives up half way through.

When Myne starts to make the printing press, she starts to honor the people around her, who help her make the printing press, by titling them Gutenbergs.

マイン is directly translated as Main, pronounced as Mine. The Light Novel translator uses Myne to avoid confusion among the English readers. The official anime translation has used both Main and Myne in different episodes. However, her name is written as "Main" on the slate using the new world's letters as well in both manga and anime.


 * Due to her stunted growth, people sometimes mistake her to be around 3, and her sister Tuuli to be around 7 or 8, but their age difference is only one year (5 & 6 at the beginning of the story).
 * Myne's final memories before being subsumed by Urano were "...It's so hot. It hurts. I hate thiiis..."
 * Myne had dreams of Urano's world, where she could run and play and eat all she wanted. She wanted to sleep forever so she could stay in the other world.
 * Urano has remarked that Myne exceptional, close to perfect pitch, hearing.
 * Myne's favorite fruit are raffles.
 * Effa is convinced that Myne's behavior is because of Gunther.