Toshokan Sensou


Library Wars

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Library War, Toshokan Kakumei, Library Revolution, Library Rebellion, Library Crisis
Japanese: 図書館戦争
English: Library Wars
Spanish: Library Wars
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 11, 2008 to Jun 27, 2008
Premiered: Spring 2008
Broadcast: Fridays at 00:45 (JST)
Licensors: Discotek Media
Studios: Production I.G
Source: Novel
Genres: ActionAction, ComedyComedy, RomanceRomance
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, MilitaryMilitary
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.421 (scored by 2800628,006 users)
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Ranked: #22822
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2617
Members: 77,132
Favorites: 413

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Synopsis

In the year 1989, the Japanese government passed the Media Betterment Act, allowing a group of soldiers known as the Media Betterment Committee (MBC) to destroy and censor any "problematic" media under the guise of protecting public morals. As a response, regional governments established the Library Defense Force (LDF), whose members take up arms and put their lives on the line to protect freedom of expression. At the top of the Kanto branch of the LDF stands the Library Task Force (LTF): an elite squad consisting of only the most exceptional fighters.

As a high schooler, Iku Kasahara experienced the terror of censorship first-hand when she refused to surrender the newest volume of her favorite series to MBC agents. She only came out unscathed thanks to a lone member of the LDF, who protected her and her beloved book. Now in her 20s and still unable to forget the man who saved her, Kasahara joins the LDF in the hope of becoming just like her prince.

But LDF training turns out to be far more rigorous than she could have imagined, and her instructor, LTF member Atsushi Doujou, seems fixated on making her life a living hell. Given her struggles, Kasahara is shocked when she is selected as one of the two new LTF recruits as a result of Doujou's recommendation. As Kasahara does all she can to become worthy of the LTF and unravel her enigmatic superior's motivations, she wages war—both on the battlefield and in her personal life.

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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Takeuchi, Fumie
Producer
Hamana, Takayuki
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard


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"Atashi no Machi, Asu no Machi (あたしの街、明日の街)" by Hitomi Takahashi
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Ending Theme

"changes" by Base Ball Bear

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Reviews

Feb 5, 2025
This anime is very relaxing to current events. If you know, you know. While tackling a serious subject, like censorship, they manage to have light hearted and funny moments, and they squeeze in a well written romance. The cast was actually likable, while being believably flawed. This was a great anime!

Except, the censorship. It's ironic, isn't it? The premise of this anime is that censorship is bad, and that we must fight against it, yet this anime was censored. The censorship of this anime was not only disgusting morally, but it also made parts of the anime confusing. ...
Oct 18, 2023
Mixed Feelings
everything else about the show is palpable. the context of the library wars, the conflicting ideologies producing this type of war to begin with and the consequences of a society full of literary censorship. the BIGGEST problem I see in this show is the persona of the MC and how it devalues the nature of the story going on around here. while library wars is meant to encapsulate the circumstances surrounding a society fighting over censorship of texts, all this gets completely lost upon us when the motivating factor for the MC's decision to join the defense force is a romantic one and a self ...
Nov 28, 2022
If Ray Bradbury had an anime.

The concept is fun, pitting two sides against each other on the side of censorship or preservation, hence a "Library War". To think that books would cause a war, right? With shooting and bullets and guns and boot camp. Even with "war", it keeps a semi-light hearted tone, it's kind of hard to describe but to me "stringy" sounds good. It doesn't get gritty or bloody and it's not a rom-com, but it has slapstick moments, an in-betweener, I suppose.

It's been said before with a handful of anime (I know Kuroko's Basketball had this problem) but it applies ...

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