Toshokan Sensou

Plot Summary: In a slightly different timeline than ours, the explosion of information and misinformation came to be considered a direct threat to society. In a daring decision, it was decided to create a new government agency dedicated solely to information management. Some thirty years later, in 2019, the government still monitors and controls information, suppressing anything they find undesirable, but standing against their abuses of power are the libraries, with their special agents called ‘the book soldiers'.

Genres: action, comedy, romance
Themes: Military
Number of episodes: 12

source: ANN

a nice Spring series has just ended a few days ago with a total of 12 episodes. This series is originally based on Japanese light novel series by Hiro Arikawa, with illustrations by Sukumo Adabana. In a way the concept of this show is unique. A very strict act is enforced to control the influence the media (Media Enhancement Act) and they would even resort use aggressive/military action, while the opposing force (Library Corp) which tries to stop them in any possible way in order to protect the treasure contained in the writing/arts, and of course they did it by abiding the law. The aim of the MEA is simple - to make the society "be free of any discrimination and be politically correct" by oppressing the freedom of speech and writing, but in truth, sometimes they overdid their by indiscriminately disposed any suspicious literature, and even to a point of endangering the neighbourhood in order to accomplish their mission.
Quoting the speec of one of the character; "If we were observed by people whose world has no MEA or LFA, we would have looked absolutely ridiculous" - that was absolutely right. We as the watcher of this series were intrigued by that fact, and this is what makes this series interesting.

The animation quality is smooth with the great use of cell-shading without neglecting the quality of the character design and settings. Talk about the main female lead Kasahara Iku, sometimes she looks too tall that she doesn't seem to feminine (well she's physically strong in the first place anyway). The character have great personality development, which mainly focused on the 2 leads Kasahara and Doujou. Kasahara with her stubbornness/short temper, yet a caring person, resembles so much with Doujou and both are indeed a nice couple in the first place. The OP/ED songs are also good, albeit not quite memorable.

And of course, great series won't be great if the ending suck, and Toshokan Sensou didn't failed me with its ending. It's all started since the Ibaraki battle between Media Enhancement and Library Corp during the inspection for the exhibition. They need to endure a series of troubles before they came to the rightful ending.

Overall Toshokan Sensou has been great all season, I'm really enjoying this show since the first episode