ISBN 978-1421534886 $9.99 200 pages Rated: Older Teen
Genre: manga, action, romance, sci-fi, military
Summary:
In the near future, the government creates a committee to "protect" society from books considered harmful to its society. To counteract this, the libraries swore to protect their own and patron's rights as stated in The Library Freedom Act including guaranteeing patron's privacy, opposition of censorship, and freedom to circulate material. To circumvent the government, the libraries created the Library Defense Force. It was a member of this very team that saved Iku Kasahara's treasured book when she was younger. She's doing her best to train as an elite member of the department and meet her hero.
Graphic Form & open ended:
When she was younger, Iru Kasahara waited patiently for 10 years for the newest volume of her favorite fairy tale to be released. Because of the recent government censorship, books were rare and problematic to have but Iru loved to read.[shameless library plug and other book talk tie-in here] On the same day she picked up her book agents of the Media Betterment Act raided the bookstore. Furious and in tears, Iru did everything she could to save her book from being confiscated and was suddenly saved by a sergeant of the library forces. Iru couldn't remember his face but she never forgot what he did that day or his heroic actions. After years of training she is finally a recruit of the elite Library Defense Force, a special branch of the Library Forces, but will she ever find her mysterious savior? [flip random pages (lots of action sequences in this book)] Will her strict and sometimes brutal instructor, Dojo, ever approve of her? [flip to premarked pages] How can she become more like her hero?
Some additional info: this series has been made into an anime and here's a preview for the movie (in Japanese). Find out more about the anime here!
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