While it doesn’t do anything explicitly wrong (no obvious plot holes or random points that make no sense), it also doesn’t do anything well enough to warrant any level of praise.
It’s just so…. Bland.
Starting off with a premise about a girl who literally eats words was a great idea, yet the movie fails to do anything noteworthy with that promising concept. Why does she eat the books? How did she start? Does she eat anything else, or is she a magical entity only requiring literature for sustenance?
I’d love to know, but unfortunately, we don’t get this information. Yes, I am aware there are OVAs attached to this, but this review is talking solely about the movie on its own, and after being this disappointed I can’t be bothered to watch the other connected media.
So yeah, Bungaku Shoujo is the epitome of mediocre- truly boring, but not so bad that I can justify rating it any lower than a 6.
