Part 1 Chapter 1

A New Life (新しい生活, Atarashii Seikatsu) is the first chapter of the Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 1 manga adaptation.

Cover Characters

 * Urano
 * Myne
 * Tuuli
 * Effa
 * Gunther
 * Benno
 * Otto

Synopsis
Motosu Urano gets reincarnated as the 5 year old Myne after dying buried under books during an earthquake. She awakes in another world where she starts her new life retaining her memories of her past life.

Summary
Urano hears the voice of a young girl suffering which slowy fades away. She wakes up in an unknown room with an unknown body. A woman enters the room and calls her "Myne". Being unable to understand her at first she finds herself confused. In a matter of seconds her consciousness is flooded with memories of seemingly someone else. In that moment Urano realises that she became Myne. She identified the woman who was concerned about her well-being to be her mother Effa and later meets her older sister Tuuli.

Nobody seemed to understand when she asked for a "book". So, Myne begins exploring the house for books whenever she had a chance believing there has to be some kind of written literature in there apartment, just to end up devastated.

Appearances

 * Urano (first appearance)
 * Myne (first appearance)
 * Effa (first appearance)
 * Tuuli (first appearance)

Differences from Light Novel

 * Contents of the light novel prologue was put into this chapter.

Highlights of the Chapter

 * Myne dies and Urano becomes Myne
 * Myne awakens in a new world

Trivia

 * The new world has another language than Japanese. Words that Myne didn't know don't get auto-translated and come out as japanese words.
 * Myne's non-auto-translated words: book, picture book