Library Task Force
Series title: Library War
- Studio
- Mediaworks, Library War Production Committee
- Animation studio
- Production I.G
- Distributor
- Fuji Television Network
Synopsis
Iku was placed in the Library Task Force with her rival Tezuka. A bear attacks her during the field combat training and she realizes she doesn't have the appropriate knowledge while working in the library. Meanwhile, Shibasaki, Iku's roomie and colleague at the office work section, notices a Media Betterment Squad that is acting in a very disturbing way...
Characters
Iku Kasahara, Atsushi Dojo, Mikihisa Komaki, Hikaru Tezuka, Asako Shibasaki, Ryusuke Genda, Kazuichi Inamine
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Akiko Honda
- Series Director
- Takayuki Hamana
Writing
- Writer
- Fumiyo Sakai
Animation
- Animator
- Hiroyuki Shimizu (Animation Director)
Voices
- Voice
- Marina Inoue (Iku Kasahara), Tomoaki Maeno (Atsushi Dojo), Akira Ishida (Mikihisa Komaki), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Hikaru Tezuka), Miyuki Sawashiro (Asako Shibasaki), Kanji Suzumori (Ryusuke Genda), Haruo Sato (Kazuichi Inamine)
Music
- Music
- Yugo Kanno
Crew
- Based on the original novels "Library War, " "Library Civil Strife" and "Library
- Hiro Arikawa
- Art Director
- Shigemi Ikeda
- Art Setting
- Naoki Arakawa
- Color Design
- Yumiko Katayama
- Character Design
- Satoru Nakamura
- Original Character Design
- Sukumo Adabana
- 3D Director
- Makoto Endo
- Key Animators
- Hideyuki Hamada, Mariko Ishikawa, Sachiko Iwamura, Shinpei Kamada, Kumiko Kawana, Mayumi Kitamura, Sadatoshi Matsusaka, Yasunori Miyazawa, Ayako Oonuma, Kazumasa Orii, Jouji Sawada, Katsura Tsushima, Masaharu Uemura, Naoko Yukida
- Inbetween Animators
- Shinya Inoue, Mika Kinoshita, Kengo Matsumoto, Daiki Nishikawa, Asuka Suzuki, Yasuko Takahashi
- Director of Photography
- Koji Tanaka
- Series Composition
- Kenji Konuta
- Sound Director
- Takuya Hiramitsu
- Music
- Yugo Kanno
Production notes
Based on the immensely popular action and romantic comedy novel series "Library War" by Hiro Arikawa, whose five volumes sold a record breaking 700,000 copies.
Aired on Fuji Television's noitaminA block.
Production I.G's Studio 9, known for "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" series and "Guardian of the Spirit," produced this unusual romantic comedy. The series was directed by Takayuki Hamana, of "The Prince of Tennis" and "Sisters of Wellber" fame.
The story of Library War is set in a dystopian Japan in 2019 - thirty years after the enactment of the infamous Media Betterment Act. The militarized Betterment Secret Agency now controls the entire media, but extralegal censorship is tenaciously opposed by libraries all around the country.
Iku Kasahara has realized her dream of becoming a member of the Library Militia. Now she has volunteered to the self-defense unit and is undergoing tough military training. When she was still at high school, a member of the Library Militia rescued her when a Media Betterment Squad officer tried to seize her book. Iku was swept away by the profound love for justice demonstrated by his saviour, and she started to adore him as her prince even though she couldn't even remember his face. Thus she decided to join the Library Militia and protect books.
Gradually, her passion and exceeding athletic capability leads her to become a member of the elite unit, the Library Task Force, but...
Aired on Fuji Television's noitaminA block.
Production I.G's Studio 9, known for "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" series and "Guardian of the Spirit," produced this unusual romantic comedy. The series was directed by Takayuki Hamana, of "The Prince of Tennis" and "Sisters of Wellber" fame.
The story of Library War is set in a dystopian Japan in 2019 - thirty years after the enactment of the infamous Media Betterment Act. The militarized Betterment Secret Agency now controls the entire media, but extralegal censorship is tenaciously opposed by libraries all around the country.
Iku Kasahara has realized her dream of becoming a member of the Library Militia. Now she has volunteered to the self-defense unit and is undergoing tough military training. When she was still at high school, a member of the Library Militia rescued her when a Media Betterment Squad officer tried to seize her book. Iku was swept away by the profound love for justice demonstrated by his saviour, and she started to adore him as her prince even though she couldn't even remember his face. Thus she decided to join the Library Militia and protect books.
Gradually, her passion and exceeding athletic capability leads her to become a member of the elite unit, the Library Task Force, but...