Ascendance of a Bookworm vs Common Side Effects
Common Side Effects has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 8.1/10 for Ascendance of a Bookworm). Ascendance of a Bookworm is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are animation, drama shows, so they suit a similar mood.
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Common Side Effects| Ascendance of a Bookworm | Common Side Effects | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 8.5/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2025 |
| Seasons | 2 | 1 |
| Genres | Animation, Drama | Animation, Comedy, Drama |
| Country | JP | – |
| Creator / director | – | Joseph Bennett, Steve Hely |
| Main cast | Fumiko Orikasa, Yuuichirou Umehara, Nao Toyama, Yuka Iguchi, Asami Seto | Dave King, Emily Pendergast, Mike Judge, Martha Kelly, Joseph Lee Anderson |
Synopsis
Ascendance of a Bookworm
When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. "What has gotten into Myne?" they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a "What" but a "Who": Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the…
Common Side Effects
Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.
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