Bookworm Light Novels Get Stage Musical Treatment
The wait is almost over for fans of the beloved light novel series, “Ascendance of a Bookworm”! TO Books has announced that the first musical stage play adaptation, titled “Honzuki no Gekokujō ~Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erande Iraremasen” (Ascendance of a Bookworm: You Can’t Choose the Means to Become a Librarian), is set to hit the stage!
TO Books has brought us the exciting news that the stage play will run at the Stellar Ball at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel from October 4-14, and at the TT Hall in Cool Japan Park Osaka from November 2-3.
The star-studded cast includes:
- Aoi Ikemura and Akari Miura as Myne
- Hosei Misaki and Seira Ina as Lutz
- Sakura Mikami and Yuzuha Ikuta as Tuuli
- Kento Tsuji as Ferdinand
The light novel series, written by Miya Kazuki and illustrated by You Shiina, follows the journey of Myne, a college girl who’s reborn in a new world with a low literacy rate and few books. Her goal? To become a librarian and surround herself with her beloved books!
The series has inspired several adaptations, including a television anime, which premiered in 2019 and has since been streaming on Crunchyroll with English dub. A new anime series is also in the works, adapting the latest part of the light novel series!
Sources: TO Books’ X/Twitter account, Ascendance of a Bookworm stage play’s website
