Ascendance of a Bookworm vs I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class

I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class 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 2026). Both are animation, drama shows, so they suit a similar mood.

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Ascendance of a BookwormI Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
Audience score★ 8.1/10★ 8.5/10
Year20192026
Seasons21
GenresAnimation, DramaAnimation, Comedy, Drama
CountryJPJP
Creator / director––
Main castFumiko Orikasa, Yuuichirou Umehara, Nao Toyama, Yuka Iguchi, Asami SetoShizuka Itoh, Manaka Iwami, Yuhko Kaida, Haruki Ishiya, Minami Tsuda

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…

I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class

Maki Maehara, the class outcast, finally makes his first friend: Umi Asanagi, the second-prettiest girl in class and the center of everyone’s attention. He’s convinced she’s out of his league, but as their unlikely friendship grows, Maki starts to wonder…could there be more than just friendship between them?

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