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antisocial_auntie's review against another edition
5.0
One of those typical-yet-slightly-different series endings. I really enjoyed this, and will visit it again later on.
heyjudy's review against another edition
4.0
~4.5/5
(Contains light spoilers.)
Iku finishes her solo mission of getting the author to a safe place. She’s smart, and she’s careful, and she does her best. And when she finally completes it and gets to go back home, she’s too afraid to visit Dojo in the hospital.
She finally builds up the courage after some insisting, and ugh this scene! He has to push her to actually say what she promised she would say, and it’s so sweet. It’s adorable and heartwarming and just everything I wanted it to be. It was perfect.
The ending jumps forward, giving us a glimpse of what happens to them in the future, and it’s sweet. It’s nice to see that everyone is doing okay. Komaki and Marie I like seeing more of, and I’m not surprised by Tezuka and Shibazaki’s status.
There is mention of extra side volumes, and I seriously want those to be licensed extremely badly. I just want more of these characters, and would love to see more released over here. Otherwise, it was a pretty fantastic series and I loved it.
[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]
(Contains light spoilers.)
Iku finishes her solo mission of getting the author to a safe place. She’s smart, and she’s careful, and she does her best. And when she finally completes it and gets to go back home, she’s too afraid to visit Dojo in the hospital.
She finally builds up the courage after some insisting, and ugh this scene! He has to push her to actually say what she promised she would say, and it’s so sweet. It’s adorable and heartwarming and just everything I wanted it to be. It was perfect.
The ending jumps forward, giving us a glimpse of what happens to them in the future, and it’s sweet. It’s nice to see that everyone is doing okay. Komaki and Marie I like seeing more of, and I’m not surprised by Tezuka and Shibazaki’s status.
There is mention of extra side volumes, and I seriously want those to be licensed extremely badly. I just want more of these characters, and would love to see more released over here. Otherwise, it was a pretty fantastic series and I loved it.
[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]
outro_ddaeng's review against another edition
5.0
Eep! This series was so amazing and I am so sad it is over. I just want to see more if Iku and Dojo together.
I must say as someone who works at a library it was really interesting to see this alternate world's version of a library and that made me enjoy it even more.
I must say as someone who works at a library it was really interesting to see this alternate world's version of a library and that made me enjoy it even more.
jac12's review against another edition
5.0
I am whimpering like a little kid because I just don't want it to ever end! I need more like yesterday and I need all the cuteness that is Iku and Dojo <3
spiffysarahruby's review against another edition
5.0
(So much time awake at night unwell, I was able to read the last two graphic novels in the series in one night. Yea/Ugh.)
This series was one of my first few forays into manga. It was a fun series to read. I wish we had more time to see Kasahara and Dojo together as a couple though, but I don't really have any other complaints.
I really enjoyed reading this series, and working for a public library system myself, this will likely always have a special place in my heart, because we also fight censorship and for the right and ability for patrons to read what they want freely.
This series was one of my first few forays into manga. It was a fun series to read. I wish we had more time to see Kasahara and Dojo together as a couple though, but I don't really have any other complaints.
I really enjoyed reading this series, and working for a public library system myself, this will likely always have a special place in my heart, because we also fight censorship and for the right and ability for patrons to read what they want freely.
joanarcherknight's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
hyebitshines's review against another edition
5.0
I love this series so much <3 When you hear about the series' premise for the first time, it's almost laughable for its seeming over-dramatics: books and libraries heightened to the tension of being protected by armed Library Forces. However, the more you read into the volumes, the more plausible this fictitious reality becomes, borne out of people simple not caring, no longer noticing. They didn't care as their liberties and freedom of expression were gradually stripped away because it didn't feel important. [b: Library Wars: Love & War|7338243|Library Wars Love & War, Vol. 1 (Library Wars Love & War, #1)|Kiiro Yumi|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388253404s/7338243.jpg|9025043] was about love, yes--Iku and Dojo as one of my top fav bickering romances-- but also, the war of fighting peoples' apathy and preserving our right to expression and feeling.
While googling the series, I belatedly found out that this is a manga adaptation of a light novel series *wishes I could read Japanese* and for that fact, I have to commend this series for making such a vivid adaptation that felt like its own, not just some flat illustrated version of an already existing story.
On a minor unhappy note, a part of me was sad about how Iku in the epilogue practically became Dojo, beyond the name thing. I know it was supposed to represent Iku's maturity, now fully grown out of her brashness that Dojo once had too when he saved her at the bookstore. Yet, I don't know, just a chapter before, Iku had been screaming down the road in her bad driving and sending her uniquely coded messages.
On an even more minor, not relevant note, I read this on the floor of my university library after taking my accounting midterm. There is a vivid emptiness to reading a happy ending when you've failed your accounting midterm and as far from love confessions or saving the world OUO
*all my complicated feelings about this series ending*
While googling the series, I belatedly found out that this is a manga adaptation of a light novel series *wishes I could read Japanese* and for that fact, I have to commend this series for making such a vivid adaptation that felt like its own, not just some flat illustrated version of an already existing story.
On a minor unhappy note, a part of me was sad about how Iku in the epilogue practically became Dojo, beyond the name thing. I know it was supposed to represent Iku's maturity, now fully grown out of her brashness that Dojo once had too when he saved her at the bookstore. Yet, I don't know, just a chapter before, Iku had been screaming down the road in her bad driving and sending her uniquely coded messages.
On an even more minor, not relevant note, I read this on the floor of my university library after taking my accounting midterm. There is a vivid emptiness to reading a happy ending when you've failed your accounting midterm and as far from love confessions or saving the world OUO
*all my complicated feelings about this series ending*
jay_mack9712's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I am just …. So so pleased with the series!! Inside I’m ferally screaming about how I want more but what a gorgeous send off !! I love how they wrapped things up!! I loved each and every character !! It was just so fabulous !!!
schnoebs13's review against another edition
4.0
Iku has been training for over 3 years to be successful in the mission she’s taking on solo on behalf of the Library. An author’s freedom of speech is so important and having to take him undercover in a highly funny way is wonderful even when the risks are so high and you don’t know what might happen. This was such a wonderful way to end this series. You start this series with Iku questioning if she can do this job and men questioning if a women is meant for this position and ends with her being the only one who can continue on and finish this mission through. I absolutely loved this and the ending just got me. I loved the bonus manga at the end and it pulled on my heartstrings so hard.
I really hope that the additional side stories get translated into English because I would love to learn more about where many of these relationships have gone. It’s sad that the main story is over but I enjoyed myself so much.
I really hope that the additional side stories get translated into English because I would love to learn more about where many of these relationships have gone. It’s sad that the main story is over but I enjoyed myself so much.