History Anime / LibraryWar

''Library War'' (図書館戦争, ''Toshokan Sensō'' in Japanese) is a [[LightNovel light novel]]/[[TwelveEpisodeAnime 12-episode anime]]/ongoing manga series set in 2019, during an alternate timeline where the Japanese government has issued the Media Betterment Act to prevent the spread of supposedly dangerous information by allowing censorship. In response, local governments have set up the Library Defense Force to fight against the Media Betterment Committee, who frequently raid libraries. The story itself centers around Iku Kasahara, a recruit in the Force, who joined after being inspired by a mysterious Defense Force member who protected her and a book she was trying to buy that was being targeted for censorship. However, she quickly learns how demanding the Defense Force can be, mainly from her demanding instructor, Atsushi Dojo. Despite making several huge mistakes at first, Kasahara is promoted to her base's Library Task Force, which is essentially the most elite branch of the Defense Force. As the series goes on, she begins to improve in her duties, and she even finds out more about the mysterious "princely" figure that inspired her all those years ago...

* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Kasahara and Dojo, by the end of the anime series at least.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Kasahara and Dojo, naturally.
* {{Bishounen}}: Dojo, Tezuka and Komaki, especially in their manga designs.

* TheChampion: Kasahara became a librarian to emulate her "prince," the unknown Library Force member who saved both her and her precious book from the Media Improvement Committee when she was in high school. [[spoiler: It's Dojo.]]

* TheNapoleon: Dojo.

* NotSoDifferent: Kasahara is a HotBlooded WideEyedIdealist protector of books, which causes her to repeatedly butt heads with [[TheStoic Dojo]]'s by the book approach. Turns out both of them are pretty similar. [[spoiler: Dojo turns out to be TheChampion who inspired Kasahara.]]
* OneHeadTaller: Inverted: Dojo is noticeably shorter than Kasahara. Needless to say, he's not exactly happy about this.
* SheCleansUpNicely: A bonus chapter of the manga focuses on Kasahara putting on a PimpedOutDress and not being able to figure out why all the guys are suddenly staring at her.
* ShipTease: Between Kasahara and Dojo at the start (well, a more belligerent version).

* {{Tsundere}}: Dojo is a male version of this.
* UnequalPairing: Kasahara is Dojo's subordinate, after all. Not that they're officially a couple (yet).

* CoolGuns: Both played straight and averted; the MBC soldiers' arsenal is ripped straight from the CoolGuns list and consists of shiny new MP-5[[note]]Well, ''newer''' compared to the Type-64. It's still an older weapon, albeit on the CoolGuns list[[/note]] submachine guns and L96 rifles. The LDF is stuck with using JSDF surplus weapons, namely the decent yet unremarkable Type-64 and Type-89 rifles and the Minebea M9 submachine gun.

* CoolGuns: Both played straight and averted; the MBC soldiers' arsenal is ripped straight from the CoolGuns list and consists of shiny new MP-5[note]]Well, ''newer''' compared to the Type-64. It's still an older weapon, albeit on the CoolGuns list[[/note]] submachine guns and L96 rifles. The LDF is stuck with using JSDF surplus weapons, namely the decent yet unremarkable Type-64 and Type-89 rifles and the Minebea M9 submachine gun.

''LibraryWar'' (図書館戦争, ''Toshokan Sensō'' in Japanese) is a [[LightNovel light novel]]/[[TwelveEpisodeAnime 12-episode anime]]/ongoing manga series set in 2019, during an alternate timeline where the Japanese government has issued the Media Betterment Act to prevent the spread of supposedly dangerous information by allowing censorship. In response, local governments have set up the Library Defense Force to fight against the Media Betterment Committee, who frequently raid libraries. The story itself centers around Iku Kasahara, a recruit in the Force, who joined after being inspired by a mysterious Defense Force member who protected her and a book she was trying to buy that was being targeted for censorship. However, she quickly learns how demanding the Defense Force can be, mainly from her demanding instructor, Atsushi Dojo. Despite making several huge mistakes at first, Kasahara is promoted to her base's Library Task Force, which is essentially the most elite branch of the Defense Force. As the series goes on, she begins to improve in her duties, and she even finds out more about the mysterious "princely" figure that inspired her all those years ago...

** It's actually justified: Both sides wear SWAT/riot police/military-grade body armor[[hottip:*: the MBC appear to be wearing SWAT gear, while the LDF are wearing what appears to be JGSDF-issue]], but both sides have very few high-caliber firearms that can effectively punch through it - most engagements are conducted with 9mm submachineguns[[hottip:*: MP5s for the MBC and Mineaba M9s for the LDF]]. This means that being shot will undoubtedly be painful, but rarely outright lethal. The system implemented for what is and is not kosher in these firefights seems to have been ''designed'' to minimize actual human casualties.

* CoolGuns: Both played straight and averted; the MBC soldiers' arsenal is ripped straight from the CoolGuns list and consists of shiny new MP-5[hottip:*: Well, ''newer''' compared to the Type-64. It's still an older weapon, albeit on the CoolGuns list]] submachine guns and L96 rifles. The LDF is stuck with using JSDF surplus weapons, namely the decent yet unremarkable Type-64 and Type-89 rifles and the Minebea M9 submachine gun.

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[MarinaInoue Kasahara]] and [[MiyukiSawashiro Shibasaki]] will later fend off[[HighSchoolOfTheDead hordes of zombies]].

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: [[HotLibrarian Hot librarians]] with guns.

** It's actually justified: Both sides wear SWAT/riot police-grade body armor, but both sides have very few high-caliber firearms that can effectively punch through it. This means that being shot will undoubtedly be painful, but rarely outright lethal. The system implemented for what is and is not kosher in these firefights seems to have been ''designed'' to minimize actual human casualties.

* TheChampion: Kasahara became a librarian to emulate her "prince," the unknown Library Force member who saved both her and her precious book from the Media Improvement Committee when she was in high school.

* CoolGuns: Both played straight and averted; the MBC soldiers' arsenal is ripped straight from the CoolGuns list and consists of shiny new MP-5s submachine guns and L96 rifles. The LDF is stuck with using JSDF surplus weapons, namely the decent yet unremarkable Type-64 and Type-89 rifles and the Minebea M9 submachine gun.

* EverybodyLives

* KaijuDefenseForce: The JSDF is said to be staying out of the conflict, and some Library Task Force members remark they have more range and combat time than the JSDF. There are implications, however, that the JSDF is sympathetic to the LTF, given that the LTF's equipment is almost identical to the JSDF.

* NoblewomansLaugh: Kasahara in Tezuka's ImagineSpot.
* NonLethalWarfare: Appears to be justified, given the average armour and bullet calibre of the MPC and the Librarians. Still, it's a wonder more people don't get hurt.

** In movie Eiga Toshokan Sensou: From Dojo remarked: "[[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Absurdity of this world has thrown me into despair]]

* ThisIsReality

* AffectionateGesturetotheHead: Dojo's usual method of comforting Kasahara.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Shibasaki is not this to those who know her, but she puts on this persona in her professional role.

* Bishounen: Dojo, Tezuka and Komaki, especially in their manga designs.

* HotLibrarian: The novels indicate that TallDarkAndBishoujo Shibasaki has quite a following among the library's male employees -- and [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask though she hates the attention]] (and the jealousy it provokes in some of her female colleagues), she'll [[TheChessmaster take advantage of it]] when she needs to gather information.

* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Shibasaki.

* FridgeLogic: The world simply does not hang together. In the era of the internet, book censoring is not going to work; the first thing the task force should do with the books is scan them and mirror internationally.
** The Media Betterment Committee probably filters internet traffic to prevent anyone from accessing such content.
** Another bothersome inconsistency is that both the Media Betterment Committee and the Library Defense Force are completely legal government agencies who are apparently allowed to shoot each other up on a fairly regular basis.
*** This is repeatedly expounded upon in the light novels, and I thought at least touched upon in the anime – one is a national government agency, the other is tied to local government. So the fight is cast as one between local and national governments. If the Library were nationalised, then the military conflict would have to end. Wasn't the cause of [[TheAmericanCivilWar]] a conflict between federal and states' rights?

* HotBlooded: Kasahara, big time. [[spoiler:Dojo used to be like this, as well, but it got him in trouble.]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Kasahara and Dojo, naturally.

''LibraryWar'' (''Toshokan Sensō'' in Japanese) is a [[LightNovel light novel]]/[[TwelveEpisodeAnime 12-episode anime]] series set in 2019, during an alternate timeline where the Japanese government has issued the Media Betterment Act to prevent the spread of supposedly dangerous information by allowing censorship. In response, local governments have set up the Library Defense Force to fight against the Media Betterment Committee, who frequently raid libraries. The story itself centers around Iku Kasahara, a recruit in the Force, who joined after being inspired by a mysterious Defense Force member who protected her and a book she was trying to buy that was being targeted for censorship. However, she quickly learns how demanding the Defense Force can be, mainly from her demanding instructor, Atsushi Dojo. Despite making several huge mistakes at first, Kasahara is promoted to her base's Library Task Force, which is essentially the most elite branch of the Defense Force. As the series goes on, she begins to improve in her duties, and she even finds out more about the mysterious "princely" figure that inspired her all those years ago...

* CleansUpNicely: A bonus chapter of the manga focuses on Kasahara putting on a PimpedOutDress and not being able to figure out why all the guys are suddenly staring at her.

* [=~Noblewoman's Laugh~=]: Kasahara in Tezuka's ImagineSpot.

** The Media Cleansing Committee probably filters internet traffic to prevent anyone from accessing such content.

** In movie Eiga Toshokan Sensou: From Dojo came this: "[[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Absurdity of this world has thrown me into despair]]

* ShoutOut: In the {{Anvilicious}} Episode 6, several members of the Defense Force are tasked with retrieving a copy of a heavily-censored book. While the title of the book is ''505K'', the description is quite obviously that of ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}''. Considering that the book in their world is referred to as the ''Book of Prophecy'', perhaps {{Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped}}.
** [[DontExplainTheJoke 505K is ~ 451 °F]]
** [[spoiler:505K is ~ 446°F. 506K = 451.4°F]]