Oct 18, 2023
everything else about the show is palpable. the context of the library wars, the conflicting ideologies producing this type of war to begin with and the consequences of a society full of literary censorship. the BIGGEST problem I see in this show is the persona of the MC and how it devalues the nature of the story going on around here. while library wars is meant to encapsulate the circumstances surrounding a society fighting over censorship of texts, all this gets completely lost upon us when the motivating factor for the MC's decision to join the defense force is a romantic one and a self
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centered one rather than a noble one. she wants the officer who saved her and her book to notice her. more so than protecting the value of books, this MC is only interested in garnering the attention of her supervising officer. how am i supposed to take the plot seriously when the author forcefully injects a teen romance into all of this? the MC has nothing endearing about her. she is incredibly cocky about her physical ability all because she used to run track and field. she refuses to acknowledge why the instructor is going hard on her. she lacks the objective ego to realize her own shortcomings and turns into a watered down asuka type character when trying to confront these shortcomings. this story would have been a million times better if the MC was a mature woman and not a literal middle schooling fawning over an adult man. this reads like a sick romantic fantasy devised by an author who has no understanding of conflict and narrative tension.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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