• Director(s)

    Mitsuru Hongo

  • Production Year

    2019

  • Genre(s)

    Animation

  • Cast

    Reba Buhr, Armen Taylor, Jeannie Tirado

TV Show

Ascendance Of A Bookworm

ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Myne is torn between joining the Church for the benefit of her health and staying with her family. …

ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Myne is torn between joining the Church for the benefit of her health and staying with her family.

  • Director(s)

    Mitsuru Hongo

  • Production Year

    2019

  • Genre(s)

    Animation

  • Cast

    Reba Buhr, Armen Taylor, Jeannie Tirado

mild threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A girl becomes distressed when she sees a chicken being slaughtered at a food market. Although the chicken's death is not seen on screen, we do see it being held down and a man lift a knife ready to kill it.
There are moments of very mild threat. A girl is accidentally killed by a tower of falling books but is quickly reborn into a new life. Infrequent use of very mild bad language occurs ('damn').
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is sight of blood spatter when a pig is stabbed with a spear off-screen, followed by the forming of a pool of blood on the floor. A girl has a nosebleed in a simplistically drawn animated sequence.
A pig rushes at a young girl, startling her, but is stopped before it can harm her. Characters talk about a public event which involves pig butchery. There is very mild bad language ('hell').
mild bad language, sex references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
Infrequent use of mild bad language occurs ('crap').
sex
A father implies that his young daughter has a crush on a man who, he reminds her, is married.
References are made to a girl's recent illness in which she 'nearly died'.
infrequent mild bad language
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent use of mild bad language (‘crap’).
There are very mild scenes in which a girl is briefly upset by setbacks in her project or struggles with illness and exhaustion. She is supported by her family and friends, and the overall tone is up-beat and reassuring.
mild threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
There is a scene of mild threat in which a girl is suddenly overcome with a fever, which causes her to glow fantastically and collapse. She eventually recovers from her fever.
A girl is given a knife by her father and is subsequently shown carving wood without any adult supervision. This takes place within a fantastical context and is presented unrealistically. Very mild bad language ('hell') occurs. A character becomes upset when her mother burns one of her possessions by accident.
mild upsetting scenes
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
theme
Upon learning of a young character's illness a man looks concerned and says that it may be condition that will cause her to die.
mild bad language, threat, injury detail
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A girl has a nightmare in which she finds herself surrounded by hands reaching out towards her. There are verbal references to a character potentially dying unless she treats her illness with special items.
language
There is use of mild bad language ('crap').
injury detail
Characters press their cut thumbs onto a magical contract, leaving their bloody thumbprint as a signature. This takes place within a fantastical context.
mild threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A character discovers a mysterious fruit which suddenly sprouts tentacle-like branches. Other characters quickly intervene to destroy the rapidly growing plant. During a flashback scene, a girl is overcome with a fever, which causes her to glow fantastically and clutch her chest.
A young girl and boy are briefly shown using knives to scrape bark from branches as part of the paper making process. This takes place within a fantastical context and is presented as wholly unrealistic.
upsetting scenes
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
theme
Infrequent upsetting references are made to a fantastical illness being incurable. However, these are accompanied by reassuring references to controlling the symptoms.
A girl gets embarrassed when a boy calls her ‘cute’ and subsequently imagines being hit by a large rock.
mild bad language, threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
There is mild threat when a girl is hit with a fantastical fever which gives her a yellow aura and causes her to collapse. 
language
The episode features mild bad language ('crap') and very mild bad language ('damn'). 
mild threat, sex references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
There are scenes of mild threat in which a girl falls sick with a mysterious fever and is told that the illness will eventually prove fatal. Another girl with the same illness confesses that in return for magical medicine she has agreed to become a noble’s concubine when she comes of age. However, the overall tone of the episode is not frightening or distressing.
sex
There are infrequent and undetailed references to ‘concubines’ and ‘mistresses’.
A girl’s family are saddened by bad news about her health during very mild scenes of emotional upset. There is a very mild sequence of slapstick violence, with no resulting injuries. One person refers to another as an ‘old fart’.
very mild upsetting scenes, injury detail, rude humour
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
rude humour
One person refers to another as an 'old fart'.
injury detail
During a fantastical ceremony, children sign a register by having their fingers painlessly pricked with a needle and printing a small mark with their blood. The children are not scared or distressed, and the visual detail is limited to aftermath sight of a tiny red dot on the register.
theme
There are very mild scenes of emotional upset related to a character's terminal illness. However, the character in question accepts her situation while maintaining a positive attitude, and the overall tone is uplifting.
very mild bad language, threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
Undetailed verbal references to a historical coup are illustrated by a brief image of a sword and two reaching hands against a backdrop of flames. There are also scenes of very mild threat related to a character’s illness. The overall tone of the episode is uplifting, however.
language
There is use of very mild bad language (‘moron’, ‘hell’).
moderate violence, threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man repels attackers with kicks, punches and a headbutt that causes a blood spurt.
threat and horror
When her parents are threatened with execution, a young girl’s emotions cause her to lose control of a magical force within her and she acts in a sinister way. The force causes a man to struggle with his breathing and another character to be paralysed, with blood dripping from his mouth. There is a reassuring outcome.
There is emotional upset centred on a young girl’s fantastical, potentially fatal illness. There is mild bad language (‘crap’), as well as very mild terms (‘hell’).
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references to sexually abusive behaviour
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
sexual violence and sexual threat
A child expresses her ambition to be the concubine of a high priest, at which the protagonist states her disapproval.
mild sex references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
sex
People question the relationship between a teacher and his student but both quickly dismiss any idea that it might be inappropriate. There are brief references to ‘concubines’ and ‘lovers’.
There are very mild and comic scenes of characters boxing. A young girl faints and there are undetailed references to her having an illness. Very mild threat occurs. Very mild bad language includes 'hell', 'damn' and 'moron'.
mild violence, sex references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A boy attacks a girl prompting another character to push him off, pin him down and threaten him with violence.
sex
A female character flirts with her master but her advances are quickly rebuffed. A girl is told that she should not change into her robes in front of males as this could 'ruin her' because it is an 'immodest' thing to do.
A character repeatedly breaks down in tears and begs not to be returned to an orphanage; she quickly stops crying when others question her motives. There are moments of very mild threat. Very mild bad language occurs ('hell', 'moron' and 'jerk').
mild upsetting scenes, language
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent use of mild bad language (‘crap’).
theme
Scenes set at an orphanage show bedraggled, downcast children being kept in a dingy cellar. There are undetailed verbal references to orphans starving to death in these conditions. The main character is distressed by the orphans’ plight but initially feels powerless to help; however, she and her friends soon develop a plan of action, and the episode has a happy ending.
very mild bad language
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is very mild bad language ('hell', 'heck').
infrequent mild bad language, violence
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
We see a boy fall to the floor during an argument with his father. It is implied his father struck or pushed him, but the blow itself is kept off screen and does not result in visible injury.
language
There is infrequent use of mild bad language (‘crap’), in addition to very mild terms (‘hell’, ‘damn’).
There are very mild scenes of emotional upset related to a family argument, but the episode ends reassuringly.
brief child sexual abuse references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are veiled references child sexual abuse in the past of a young female character, who is afraid of men after being forced to offer 'her flower' to an older male priest in the past.
There is a mild sex reference in which a girl describes how that noblemen, in order to produce an heir, will come looking for once she comes of age.
brief child sexual abuse references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman is triggered when a child grabs at her wrist resulting in a brief flashbacks to an implied sexual assault when she was a child. References are made to her being afraid of men.
very mild bad language, threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
In a short comic sequence, the main character loses her temper and imagines creating a ‘bloody carnival’ of revenge, envisioning herself with glowing red eyes and a necklace of skulls, brandishing mediaeval weapons. The image is silly rather than scary, and it is clear she does not really intend to harm anyone.
language
There is use of very mild bad language (‘jerk’, ‘jerkface’, ‘hell’).
very mild threat
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
There are scenes of very mild threat in which fearless soldiers prepare to fight a magical tree that has flailing tentacular branches. The outcome of the battle is not revealed in this episode.
There are very mild references to a person’s long-term illness and resulting fevers. A short sequence shows farmers chasing a pig, followed by a discreet partial image of the pig (now implied to be dead) hanging up by its trotters; the sequence is not upsetting and contains no visible injury detail.
moderate threat, violence
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A soldier grabs a young girl by her hair, throws her to the ground and threatens her with a knife. As she reaches out for help the knife accidentally cuts her hand, resulting in a thin stream of blood. Another person is punched in the face. Soldiers use arrows and bladed weapons to attack magical trees in scenes of very mild fantasy violence.
threat and horror
A villain brandishes a knife at a scared child and threatens to ‘gouge [her] eyes out’. A magical plant attacks a girl and wraps her in vines, but she is rescued soon afterwards.
An unlikeable character refers to the heroine as a ‘dirty commoner’ and addresses her as ‘street rat’ and ‘worm’, but such attitudes are clearly criticised. There is infrequent use of very mild bad language (e.g. ‘imbecile’).
brief moderate violence
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
The recap of the previous episode shows a villain cutting the back of a child’s hand with a knife, resulting in brief bloody detail.
There is a mild upsetting scene in which a reincarnated character becomes distressed by visions of her mother from her previous life, whom she will never see again; however, the character is subsequently comforted by the relationships she has forged in her new life. Other issues include infrequent very mild bad language (e.g. ‘hell’).
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  • Classified date

    15/11/2023

  • Distributor

    Anime Ltd

  • Language

    English