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Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 Anime Casts Kaede Hondo, Reveals Climax Promo Video

The staff 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) light novel series, announced on Saturday that Kaede Hondo will join the cast as the character Charlotte. The anime's website revealed a climax promotional video for the anime.

The anime premiered on April 4 on the Yomiuri TV and NTV channels at 5:30 p.m. JST (4:30 a.m. EDT). The anime is airing across two consecutive cours for a half-year run. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with English subtitles and an English dub. adieu (actress Moka Kamishiraishi's singing stage name) performs the new ending theme song for the anime's second cours (quarters of the year) titled "Wanna me."  Kana Nishino performs the anime's opening theme song "Power of Love."  

Yuka Iguchi and Show Hayami return in the new series as Rozemyne (previously Myne) and Ferdinand, respectively. The anime's 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 franchise's previous 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 first part's opening theme song "Pages." Nogizaka46 member Erika Ikuta performs the first part'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.

Sources: Ascendance of a Bookworm's website, Comic Natalie