As you should already know, this post only contains my thoughts. This episode started off quite decently, but the beginning was full of flashbacks so it really wasn’t anything surprising. I didn’t think the replay was useful, but I guess since there is a *cough cough* long time span between episodes, the recaps help us [...]
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The face of regret. (Hah! In your face! Look down on Kasahara will you!) I wish I could say that I've been slacking on my anime watching/blogging these past few days because I've been out spending a superbly fun Golden Week holiday doing embarassingly gaijin-like things in overcrowded tourist spots... Only the furthest I've been to is a few blocks away for nabe at a senpai's place and the
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Summary: Although Hikaru is very talented and well-connected (his dad is the chairman of the Library Commission), Iku asks for more time to consider his confession. At the same time, bigwig Nobeyama Sohachi passes away and the books from his private Museum of Information History are to be transferred to the Kanto Library. The [...]
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What do you THINK? I OVERSLEPT! Oh well, here you go: Toshokan Sensou 4 We increased the font size a bit and added karaoke. Played around with encoding settings and until now I’m still not sure whether the setting is good enough. Please comment on it. *edit* Darn, we noticed we typed Kasahara’s name wrongly in one line. Darn. Bad [...]
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Iku starts her training with the Library Task Force (which also seems to mean she spends all her time in the stacks of the library when she’s not defending it; one wonders what work she was actually doing before?) alongside the “perfect” new recruit Tezuka (who nonetheless is afraid of heights). We run through [...]
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I spent a total of 2 hours tracking down subs for this series. (Finally found them at Fansub.tv.) And you know what? It was totally worth it. Despite its mildly unfeasible premise, Library War is one of the hidden gems of the Spring ‘08 season, much like Shion no Ou was last fall. The premise of [...]
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The feature that everyone expected to be dead - probably including myself - returns for a second edition of quick ramblings about nothing in particular. It’s pretty much as the title says in terms of the three topics - a call to arms about the upcoming anime convention in San Jose, new enlistments in the integrated [...]
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Kasahara is told that she is not GOOD ENOUGH to be involved in the defense of Odawara Archival Center. She is hence assigned to protect Inamine for a funeral procession by the willful decision of Dojo. She is down due to the hurtful words of Dojo, but she decided to take this security job seriously. She [...]
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Summary: Iku and super-rookie Tezuka Hikaru are added to the Library Task Force, and right away Hikaru is very critical of Iku’s lack of basic library knowledge. Iku struggles in several of the exercises, and only shows an aptitude for rappelling; ironically, Hikaru’s only weakness seems to be his slight fear of heights. The [...]
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Summary: 22-year-old Kasahara Iku (170 cm) is a trainee in the Kanto Library Force, under the stern instruction of 27-year-old Dojo Atsushi (165 cm). Japan is in a sort of Civil War with the central government using the Media Betterment Act to censor tons of books. However, local governments have fought back by forming [...]
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Smoking is bad. Okay so gooooooooooooo super-short and sweet summary with key points because I'm really tired and lazy and feel like just doing what blissmo did for Toshokan 2. That is, be silly on the screencaps I take. For those who wanted to use my screencaps for something, I'm sorry. :( Nobeyama [...]
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Toshokan no Sensou / Library wars is a story about defending media freedom in books and the right to read.
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I want to be sleeping too ._. Hiking to the task force training center, Iku is already at odds with her co-trainee, Tezuka Hikaru. Both were inducted into the Library Task Force at the same time. Tezuka is almost the complete polar opposite of Iku, though, he's a veritable 'Mr. Perfect'. Iku's image [...]
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All I heard was a lot of 'baka's' The Media Improvement Act is a law that seeks to control creative expression that disrupts public peace or infringes on human rights. In short, lololol media censorship. Implemented in the Seika era, the Media Improvement Act carried out censorship through armed intervention. At the same time, [...]
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Pic unrelated to title, but the expression on Iku’s fact there perfectly represents the feeling I get on a day when work is getting slammed with patrons who all want to find that one special book that got stolen two years ago and, not finding it, pick another book with an embarassing cover (which is [...]
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Title: Toshokan Sensou Studio: Production I.G Genre: Comedy/Drama Ratings (out of 5): Story: ♥♥♥
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Looks like Toshokan Sensou isn’t receiving much love from the fansubbing community (expect for Ocha!, but we’re not really fansubbers). Before I start, I just want everyone to know that I really like this anime. It would easily be one of the best ( if not THE best) anime of this season if not for [...]
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Summary will come up soon! (including more snapshots) Thoughts: Awesome. I somewhat felt that Tezuka was going to die when she told him that she’d reply to his confession “next time,” or that she was going to end up severely injured. The next episode looks really interesting and I just hate cliff-hanger [...]
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I watched the raw for Toshokan Sensou 3 yesterday at least twice and though each time my brain duly noted the brand of the beer Doujou was drinking without much registration since it wasn't a pun on any actual real life brand as you'd usually find in anime (my personal favourite, Kyouya's Pineapple laptop in Ouran XD). I still can't believe that after my last post on Prince Charmings it still
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Summary will come up soon! Nice ass = nose bleed! Body Slam! Hug me! No, YOU hug ME! The image above has been censored for your own good. Trust me. Woops, I forgot to zip my fly up :3 Say “ahhh!” Smell my stinky breath, damnit! It owns!! What? What’s my reflection doing here? You can’t see me~~ Thoughts: This episode [...]
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