
Easy to drop in. Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen OVA (Ascendance of a Bookworm: Side Story One, Ascendance of a Bookworm: Side Story Two) is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 2020 by Ajia-Do, Ajiado Co.,Ltd.: 1 episodes, about 24 minutes in total, finished, 7.72/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 24 minutes for the run, 1 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
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Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Ascendance of a Bookworm Side Story One: Eustachius's Incognito Operation Downtown; Ascendance of a Bookworm Side Story; Ascendance of a Bookworm: Side Story; Ascendance of a Bookworm Side Story Two: Visiting Missus Corinna.
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