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Library War (TV)

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[ related to Toshokan Sensō: Spitfire! (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Toshokan Sensō (Japanese)
حرب المكتبة (Arabic)
図書館戦争 (Japanese)
Genres: action, comedy, romance
Themes: military
Based on: "Library War" (novel series) by Hiro Arikawa
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.’
User Ratings: 431 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 35 votes (sub:32, dub:2, ?:1)
 Excellent: 100 votes (sub:94, raw:3, Spa.sub:2, dub:1)
 Very good: 137 votes (sub:131, dub:3, Spa.sub:2, Kor.sub:1)
 Good: 90 votes (sub:85, Spa.sub:1, Kor.sub:1, dub:1, Pol.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 39 votes (sub:37, Pol.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 726 users, rank: #822
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.724 (Very good-.27), std. dev.: 1.5111, rank: #682
Weighted mean: 7.667 (Very good-.33), rank: #642 (seen all: 7.85 / seen some: 6.90 / won't finish: 3.87)
Bayesian estimate: 7.663 (Very good-.33), rank: #456
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-04-10 to 2008-06-26
Opening Theme:
"Atashi no Machi, Ashita no Machi (あたしの街、明日の街)" by Hitomi Takahashi
Ending Theme:
"changes" by Base Ball Bear
Trivia: We have 5
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takayuki Hamana

Series Composition: Takeshi Konuta

Screenplay:
Ikuko Takahashi
Sayaka Harada
Taishirou Tanimura
Takeshi Konuta

Storyboard:
Michiya Katou (OP)
Takayuki Hamana (ep 1)
Takeshi Ando (ep 4)

Episode Director:
Michiya Katou (OP)
Takayuki Hamana (ep 1)
Takeshi Ando (ep 4)

Music: Yuugo Kanno

Original creator: Hiro Arikawa

Original Character Design: Sukumo Adabana

Character Design: Satoru Nakamura

Art director: Shigemi Ikeda

Animation director:
Hiroyuki Shimizu (ep 2)
Jouji Sawada (ep 4)
Masato Numazu (ep 4)
Satoru Nakamura (ep 1)
Yumi Kuroiwa (OP)

Art design: Naoki Arakawa

3D Director: Makoto Endo

Sound director: Takuya Hiramitsu

Director of Photography: Koji Tanaka

2D Work:
Akiko Nakayama
Chie Nishitani
Chieko Ono

2nd Key Animation:
Ayumi Ono (ep 4)
Maiko Suzuki (ep 2)
Maki Takano (ep 4)
Mao Yumoto (ep 4)
Mariko Sasaki (ep 4)
Masami Yamauchi (ep 4)
Mayu Hoshino (ep 4)
Miyuki Arai (ep 4)
Narumi Takahashi (ep 4)
Risa Omomo (ep 4)
Tomoko Kanetani (ep 4)
Yukiko Miyano (ep 2)
Yutaka Sugiura (ep 4)

3D Animation:
Chiori Satou
Hidekatsu Uemura
Manabu Kobayashi
Taiichi Kimura

Background Art:
Akihito Sakamoto (eps 1, 3-4)
Chiharu Kawano (eps 1, 3-4)
Hidekazu Hirata (ED)
Kayoko Tomono (eps 1, 3-4)
Mai Hamako (eps 1, 3-4)
Masami Oota (eps 1, 3)
Masami Ota (ep 4)
Shizuko Kojima (ep 4)
Takuya Ebisawa (ep 4)
Tsurara Yamazaki (ep 4)

Clean-Up Animation:
Ayako Shimagata (ep 4)
Emiko Ueno (eps 1, 3)
Katsumi Oshima (eps 1-2)
Kumiko Sato (eps 1, 3)
Mariko Shimokawa (ep 1)
Nichiko Oomori (ep 3)
Reika Yoneyama (eps 1, 3)
Sayoko Noda (ep 3)
Seiko Kuroda (ep 4)
Takiko Nagaoka (ep 4)
Yuka Taketa (ep 3)
Yuri Okada (eps 1, 3)

Color design:
Yumiko Katayama
Yuuko Fujita (eps 1, 3)

Color setting:
Mika Sugawara
Takiko Nagaoka (ep 4)

Editing:
Hidetoshi Okuno
Junichi Uematsu

In-Between Animation:
Arifumi Imai (eps 1-3)
Asuka Suzuki (ep 1)
Chie Saito (ep 4)
Daiki Nishikawa (ep 1)
Emi Furukawa (ep 4)
Fumi Hirai (ep 4)
Hiroyuki Hojo (ep 4)
Hitomi Miyazaki (ep 1)
Ioriko Ito (ep 4)
Izumi Seguchi (eps 1-2)
Kanako Orikawa (ep 2)
Kantaro Suzuki (ep 4)
Katashi Ishizuka (eps 1, 3)
Kengo Matsumoto (eps 1-2)
Kumiko Hirama (ep 2)
Mai Hikawa (ep 4)
Mika Kinoshita (eps 1, 3)
Misato Furubayashi (eps 1-2)
Nahoko Iiyama (eps 1-2)
Ryogo Shimizu (eps 1, 3)
Seiji Nishida (eps 1, 3)
Shinya Inoue (eps 1-3)
Takuya Saito (eps 1-2)
Yasuko Takahashi (eps 1, 3)
Yuka Nagata (ep 4)
Yuka Tabe (ep 4)
Yukari Umebayashi (ep 1)
Yukimichi Iniwa (ep 4)
Yuu Takizawa (ep 4)
Yuumi Enozawa (ep 1)

In-Between Check:
Emi Nakano (ep 2)
Ioriko Ito (ep 4)
Kanako Orikawa (ep 1)
Yuumi Enozawa (ep 3)

Key Animation:
Akira Hosogaya (ep 8)
Ayako Oonuma (ep 1)
Genichiro Kondo (ep 2)
Hanako Enomoto (ep 2)
Haruyo Nebu (ep 8)
Hideo Amamiya (ep 4)
Hideyuki Hamada (ep 1)
Hiroki Fujiwara (ep 8)
Hiroyuki Horiuchi (ep 2)
Jouji Sawada (ep 1)
Kasumi Ishihashi (ep 1)
Katsura Tsushima (ep 1)
Kazumasa Orii (ep 1)
Kazuyuki Igai (ep 8)
Keiko Tada (ep 8)
Kumiko Kawana (ep 1)
Maiko Suzuki (ep 8)
Mamiko Nakanishi (ep 2)
Mariko Ishikawa (ep 1)
Masaharu Uemura (OP,ED; ep 1)
Mayumi Kitamura (ep 1)
Michio Satô (ep 4)
Mika Shirota (ep 2)
Naoko Yukida (ep 1)
Naoya Furukawa
Nobuhiro Okazaki (ep 2)
Rie Kaneko (ep 2)
Ryota Hayazu (ep 8)
Sachiko Iwamura (ep 1)
Sadatoshi Matsusaka (ep 1)
Shinichi Iimura (ep 8)
Shinpei Kamada (ep 1)
Shinya Kameyama (ep 4)
Shujirou Hamakawa (ep 2)
Tadafumi Yamazaki (ep 4)
Takao Takegami (ep 2)
Takeshi Okada (ep 8)
Takumi Furuyama (ep 8)
Takuo Tominaga (ep 2)
Tetsu Inoue (ep 4)
Tetsuya Ishikawa (ep 8)
Tomoaki Sakiyama (ep 2)
Tomoko Fukui (ep 8)
Yasuharu Kataoka (ep 4)
Yasunori Miyazawa (ep 1)
Yoshiaki Kyougoku (ep 8)
Yoshiharu Kudo (ep 8)
Yu Kozawa (ep 2)
Yukako Tsukushi (ep 1)
Yuki Sato (ep 1)
Yuko Fujii (ep 8)

Photography:
Chisato Asai
Fumio Furukawa
Haruhiko Tsumura
Hiroki Sekido
Hisako Katou
Keiji Tachibanataka
Kenichi Dai
Kenji Kuwabara
Miki Sakuma
Shinya Kobayashi
Shoko Nakata
Takayuki Nakano

Producer Assistant: Aya Saito (Fuji TV)

Production:
Hiroshi Hattori
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Yasuhiko Goto
Yasuhiro Sato
Yukihiro Ito (Fuji TV)

Production manager:
Naoko Koyama
Tetsuya Watanabe
Tsuyoshi Hirano

Publicity:
Mika Saiki
Norimichi Suzuki
Youko Ueda
Yuko Fujimoto
Yuuko Nakamura

Recoding Adjustment: Akira Iida

Recoding Assistant: Michihiko Iwana

Sound Production: Kisuke Koizumi

Theme Song Arrangement:
Base Ball Bear (ED)
Satoru Hirade (OP)

Theme Song Composition:
Satoru Hirade (OP)
Yusuke Koide (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Hitomi Takahashi (OP)
Yusuke Koide (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Base Ball Bear (ED)
Hitomi Takahashi (OP)

Title Logo: Tsuyoshi Kusano

 

Marina Inoue as Iku Kasahara

Akira Ishida as Mikihisa Komaki

Miyuki Sawashiro as Asako Shibasaki

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Hikaru Tezuka

Tomoaki Maeno as Atsushi Dōjō

Aki Kanada as Child (ep 1)

Atsushi Kouzaka as Ryouka member A (ep 1)

Daisuke Ono as Hikaru Asahina (ep 7)

Haruo Satou as Kazuichi Inamine

Hideki Takanishi as Ryouka member B (ep 1)

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Satoshi Tezuka

Kanji Suzumori as Ryūsuke Genda

Kaori Nazuka as Shizuka Nonomiya (eps 10-11)

Mayu Hayakawa as Female member (ep 1)

Rie Tanaka as Maki Origuchi

Ryouta Akazawa as Ryouka member C (ep 1)

Unshou Ishizuka as Library Defense Force officer

Japanese companies 

2nd Key Animation:
Dogakobo
GAINAX
Nakamura Production
Studio Zain
Synod
Wish

Animation Production: Production I.G

Backgrounds: Atelier Musa

Broadcaster:
Fuji TV (2008-04-10)
Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2008-04-27)
Kansai TV (2008-04-22)
Niigata Sogo Television Inc.
Television Nishinippon Corporation
Tokai TV (2008-04-17)

Clean-Up Animation:
A-Line
Buyu
cube A motion
Frontline
MSC
R.I.C
Studio Eru
Studio Rod
Studio Step
Sunshine Digital
Synod
Wish

DVD Distribution: Asmik-Ace Entertainment

In-Between Animation:
A-Line
CODE
cube A motion
Doumu
Frontline
Nakamura Production
R.I.C
Raising Force
Studio Cockpit
Studio Eru
Studio Gimlet
Studio Kuma
Studio Mu
Synod
TNK
Trans Arts Co.
ufotable
UNION-CHO
Xebec
Yuhodo
Yumeta Company

Key Animation:
Angle
Nippon Animation
Prime
Tokyo Animation Centre

Production:
ASMIK
Dentsu Inc.
Fuji TV
Production I.G

 
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