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Drachnon · 05-20-2008, 11:03 AM

Time for Drachnon-sama to give his ordeal over the series:

After watching the first couple of episodes I still haven't figured out what this series wants to be. At first I was thought (hoped) it would be like 1984 after reading that the big thing in the show was that the goverment was taking control of information "for the sake of the people".
Shame that while instead of the distopia I hope to see we just got Japan and no one seems to mind the goverments media control with the exception of a few book lovers.

So I got disappointed by the fact it was not what I expected it to be, shouldn't be that much of a problem right? However after learning more about the setting it was instead about a private armed force that protects libraries against the goverment's media control guys. Who though they have geverment backing and are not affraid to attack heavily fortified libraries instead of just bombing the place.

However though this is a part of it it's not really about that either, it seems to be about one of the library defence force's members who's a girl called Kasahara Iku who, while in the defence force even though her obvious incompentence in all fields except running, seems to spend more time arguing with her commander who's she obviously in love with and he with her though their relation still has less progress then a 386 trying to install vista.
Now because they still have gun fights I'll have to label it as action but at the same time it's suposed to be a romantic comedy.

Still it's not the worst anime out there, it's not like combining a romantic comedy with an action heavy setting, example Full Metal Panic, and considering there's few other series worth watching this season I guess I'll stick with it and hope it turns around.

05-20-2008, 11:03 AM	#2
Drachnon Ifrit Join Date: May 2008 Gender : Location: Netherlands Posts: 90	Re: Toshokan Sensou - 01 Time for Drachnon-sama to give his ordeal over the series: After watching the first couple of episodes I still haven't figured out what this series wants to be. At first I was thought (hoped) it would be like 1984 after reading that the big thing in the show was that the goverment was taking control of information "for the sake of the people". Shame that while instead of the distopia I hope to see we just got Japan and no one seems to mind the goverments media control with the exception of a few book lovers. So I got disappointed by the fact it was not what I expected it to be, shouldn't be that much of a problem right? However after learning more about the setting it was instead about a private armed force that protects libraries against the goverment's media control guys. Who though they have geverment backing and are not affraid to attack heavily fortified libraries instead of just bombing the place. However though this is a part of it it's not really about that either, it seems to be about one of the library defence force's members who's a girl called Kasahara Iku who, while in the defence force even though her obvious incompentence in all fields except running, seems to spend more time arguing with her commander who's she obviously in love with and he with her though their relation still has less progress then a 386 trying to install vista. Now because they still have gun fights I'll have to label it as action but at the same time it's suposed to be a romantic comedy. Still it's not the worst anime out there, it's not like combining a romantic comedy with an action heavy setting, example Full Metal Panic, and considering there's few other series worth watching this season I guess I'll stick with it and hope it turns around.