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Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 Anime's 2nd 'Special' Video Previews Lessy

The official X/Twitter account for Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke, the new television anime of Miya Kazuki's Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujō - Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen) "biblia fantasy" light novel series, revealed the second "special video" in a series of four weekly special videos on Saturday, themed "Fantasy." The video highlights Rozemyne's and Ferdinand's highbeasts, with Rozemyne's newly created Lessy.

The third video, "Bookbinding," will debut on March 21, and the fourth video on March 28 is the anime's second full promotional video, which will feature the opening and ending themes.

The anime will premiere on April 4 on Yomiuri TV and NTV at 5:30 p.m. JST. It will then air on the Tokyo MX channel on April 6 at 9:25 p.m. JST.  The anime will air for two consecutive cours (quarter of a year) for a half-year run. Yuka Iguchi and Show Hayami return in the new series as Rozemyne (previously Myne) and Ferdinand, respectively.

New cast members include:

• Yukari Tamura as Georgine
• Mami Koyama as Veronica
• Minami Takayama as Florencia
• Kazuhiro Yamaji as Bonifatius
• Nao Tōyama as Angelica
• Asami Seto as Brigitte
• Katsumi Fukuhara as Zack

Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Kowloon Generic Romance, Hayate the Combat Butler, We Never Learn: BOKUBEN) is directing the new series at Wit Studio, replacing the anime's three seasons director Mitsuru Hongō. Mariko Kunisawa returns to write the series scripts, and Aiko Minowa (After the Rain, The Ancient Magus' Bride in-between animation) is the new character designer. MICHIRU returns to compose the music.

Little Glee Monster performs the anime's opening theme song "Pages," and Nogizaka46 member Erika Ikuta performs the anime's ending theme song "Ima mo, Arigatō" (Even Now, I Thank You).

The first anime season premiered in October 2019, and ended in December 2019 with 14 episodes. The second season premiered in Japan in April 2020. The anime's third season premiered in April 2022. Crunchyroll streamed all three seasons as they aired.

Kazuki began the original novels on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" website in 2013, and ended the web novel in 2017. You Shiina illustrates the print edition. The main series ended with its 33rd volume (volume 12 of part 5) in December 2023. The novel series now has over 13 million copies in circulation (including digital copies).

J-Novel Club is releasing both the light novels and some of the various manga adaptations in English.

Source: Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 anime's X/Twitter account via Ota-Suke