The anime adaptation of Ascendance of a Bookworm has returned for a fourth season almost four years to the day after the April 2022 beginning of season 3. The fantasy isekai anime is now being handled by Attack on Titan and The Ancient Magus' Bride studio Wit rather than Ajiado, the studio behind Izetta: The Last Witch and Kakushigoto. It is, bar none, my favorite isekai anime, and it's looking better than ever.
Ascendance of a Bookworm stars a young peasant girl named Myne. Internally, the girl is Motosu Urano, an early-20s Japanese college student who died in an earthquake and was reincarnated in a fantasy world of magic, feudalism, and, horrifyingly, next to no books. Unable to accept a world without books, Myne uses the knowledge of her past life and help from some lower-city muscle to develop printing methods and promote literacy in her new, medieval world while struggling with the chronic health problems of her new body.
