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A review by hyebitshines
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 15 by Kiiro Yumi
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*