Joseph Luster
July 7, 2025 
The new season of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime was previously promised for sometime in 2026. That window has been narrowed down to spring 2026, and we also got a new trailer and teaser art for the upcoming continuation.
Ascendance of a Bookworm New Season Teaser
The new anime was first revealed in December 2023, moving studios from Ajiado to WIT Studio to adapt Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke.
The light novel series, which is known as Honzuki no Gekokujō – Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen in Japanese, launched in 2013. In addition to the previous anime adaptation, the series has received a manga. The first season of anime debuted in late 2019, with the second season coming out less than a year later in spring 2020. The third season came out a little later, launching in 2022. There are additionally two OVA installments. People wanting to check out the anime seasons that are already out there can do so on Crunchyroll.
J-Novel Club publishes the original light novels as well as the manga in English, and gave this description for it:
Ascendance of a Bookworm Plot
A certain college girl who’s loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she’s been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don’t exist. She’d have to pay an enormous amounts of money to buy one. Myne resolves herself: If there aren’t any books, she’ll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!
Source: Crunchyroll News
