If This Is A Movie

My first anime review.

Library War (also known as Toshokan Sensou) is all about idiots, guns and books. How these 3 components come together in an anime series? Well, you have an idiotic teenage girl who joins the army to follow the footsteps of her Prince Charming. Then you have a male protagonist works hard to make sure his subordinate does not be an idiot as he used to be in the past. More importantly, this army company that the protagonists go to arms in order to protect the books that they love.

Yup, books.

To be more precise, the theme of this anime's plot is the will to protect what they believe in. In this case, the anime characters protect books. So yea, this anime reminded us to protect our knowledge, our freedom and everything else that we appreciate. But I'm definitely not asking you to revolt against the (Malaysian) government!

In the anime setting, there is no freedom in the media (somewhat reflects the situation of Malaysia). Thus in such a situation, armed companies are set up in libraries by the local government to defend literature pieces from being confiscated by the federal government. For Malaysians like myself, it's easy for us to relate the anime setting to our daily lives where our freedom of speech and other rights are at jeopardy and being violated all the time.

Toshokan Sensou pratically reminded my of my years as a librarian during my secondary school life. If being librarian means you have to call to arms to guard books in a library, I bet that my past secondary school life would have been a blast indeed!

So if you could relate yourself to the theme of this anime, you would definitely enjoy this anime series!