Audience reviews
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AngeVNs
As someone who read (most) of the original visual novel it was based on and wasn't a huge fan... this anime adaptation of Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai was... mildly better, but barely?
Anime adaptations of visual novels (and well adaptations of anything) tend to mostly be used for advertising the original visual novel, and at least for me this anime was mostly better for one thing: actual good pacing. (if a bit fast at times)
The main problems I had with the visual novel were that it too slow paced, even for a slice of life heavy visual novel, AND most of the characters were boring. I could take maybe one of these issues if a VN eventually gets good but having both made the original VN a struggle.
Thankfully the anime had the decency to skim past a lot of the cringe stuff of the original v…
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Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai was a good story that showed different types of characters and was more or less a stereotypical harem anime. The difference in this was one was that it gave a little something more on the harem plot and it was an interesting story.
Story: The story about all of the characters wanting to find themselves and become someone they want to be proud of is nice. Adding the romance on top of it helps it all go together quite nicely and gives something that was enjoyable.
Art: The art for this anime was good, I liked the designs of the characters a good amount and thought everything was visually appealing.
Sound: If anything this was the worst part about this anime, the sound quality was not the best, especially at the parts where Misono is singing, the audio seemed t…
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tl;dr: A really good story that's a slice of life with interesting mechanics, but one that feels like it was only partially told in a rushed manner.
This anime is based off of a visual novel. At the end of the day, adapting a visual novel into an anime is a game of compromises. One of the advantages of a VN is that they're such a slow burn, building up characters and plot lines slowly in ways that feel natural and that get you really invested in the characters. It's pretty much impossible for an anime to have everything from a VN due to time constraints as well as a lot of things not translating that well to animation such as the structure or routes. Hence, adaptation comes down heavily to picking what to put in and what to leave out, with more than not generally left out. How these compr…
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Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai (A good librarian like a good shepherd) falls under a category I can only describe as "visual novel-y" (VNy). Within the first few minutes, I somehow knew there must be a VN of this somewhere (prior to writing this, I checked, and lo, there it was). You'll get the same feeling from "Shukufuku no Campanella" or "Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate", for instance. Anyway, this class of anime tends to be largely slice-of-life, with a comedic harem romance being the main attraction. Some kind of mystery is hinted at throughout the show, and in the last few episodes, some major plot events occur, and the hinted conflict is resolved.
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai is, I think, a standard yet high quality addition to this category. It's a fairly calm and peaceful slice-of-life, with…
Read at the sourceAshiya-chan
Even if the Sepherd thing spices up the story, there was no good connection between this and the realife those students follow.
Maybe that happened because the anime is 12 ep long, and the only option was to cram it all up and make it shallow.
Pros:
The harem it was, I expected girls with a variety of personalities, just flirting with the main character, not evolving. Most of them learnt something with their interaction with him, and developed.
The main character wasn't a wuss, but a normal intellectual, although after the 3rd episode he started behaving like a typical boring, clueless, harem protagonist.
Cons:
The library environment was warm and cute, but there wasn't enough screen time to feel like you were there with them, even if the place was precious to them. So it ended up being j…
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a story simply curious but in the end a rather big disappointment, from a neutral point of view if the story had risen what it raised in the end would have been more interesting, the story begins with a fairly common development but progressing begins little by little to improve good until the chapter 7 where we put that lighting with such mediocre results that I hurt to see it, the series has enough decency in animation as soundtrack I find it very good people are quite direct but as they fall in love with our protagonist I found it easily bad, in conclusion a series of romance with comedy with an acceptable but demagrated story in my opinion would say that it has been a series of the heap
Read at the sourceTheRealNormie
Story- Had potential but, the characters never get developed. The romance is terrible. All the girls like the MC but, are to pansy to say it. They try to give them compelling stories that i didn't care for. You feel like it's going to turn into a harem but, we don't even get that. The real story is barely explained and can be completely ignored. The ending is very cheap and unsatisfying. 4/10
Art: Meh, slightly below average not amazing, but nothing to cry over. 4/10
Sound: Don't remember a single track (Just finished it 7 minutes ago) Sound effects were average. Great voice acting. 4/10
Characters: The only character's I found interesting were Nagi Kodachi,(Really funny and with a interesting past and Kyoutarou Kakei (Same) Every one else is to cookie cutter. Same boring tropes x10! MC…
Read at the sourceSlivko
In my anime List I rated 9 but overall objectivly I think its an 8.
This will be the most simple review that I will do in any anime I personaly reviewed.
So when I finished this anime wich was a few minutes when Im done with this review my first thoughts on it were "How did I missed this" cause it was just that good IMO. The story is interesting I think it focuses on some Japanese Folklore probably other cultures but lets say its Japanese on something called the Sheperd, and the Sheperd consists on some Transcendent Being that helps people be happy while taking control of theyr fate, cause they can see the future, past and everything a person has done when something is about to go wrong lets say an accident, the Sheperd takes action to save that person. All that Information are in books…
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Its been a while since I wrote another "review". Oh well...
There is nothing wrong or right about this anime. Its another harem where MC is being liked by everyone and is the best because the writers said so. The story is sort of interesting and there is potential here, though I feel its squandered on the harem genre.
I liked the characters though there is nothing special about them. The MC is also nothing special, maybe the whole reading books is kind of cute, in a nerdy way. I like it, its nothing special.
You aren't missing much by not watching this, but its a cushion anime - made to comfortably fit around your fat ass. Its a comfort zone thing, like a bowl of chicken soup. Can't critique a bowl of hot soup for being bland when you got a cold right? I feel this anime is the same way.…
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This series made me realize just how many harem series I've watched, to the point of knowing what the series was gonna end in just a few episodes. But for some reason, I enjoyed it a lot.
This was perhaps because of its concept of "having the ability to see the future" without anything relating to time travel. Also, its idea of becoming a being who can change the fate of a person to create a better world is not something anyone can come up of on the fly. I swear, this series had potential... if only it didn't become a harem series.
The reason why I think harem broke my interest for this series is because it didn't even need to have a harem tag in the first place. It would've been fine as simply "a boy who had the ability to change the fate of humans". But no, they just had to add that ta…
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Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai is a cute slice of life series with a very interesting topic that is unfortunately not expanded on enough.
Story - 7/10
The story doesn't really develop much until the later episodes, and though it felt rushed I quite enjoyed the idea that the plot was trying to create. Unfortunately with as short as the show was, I felt like there wasn't enough time to fully enjoy it.
Art - 5/10
I must say that the artwork for the series did not stand out very much. Had it not been for the PV's I saw I might've skipped over the series without a second glance. There's nothing special about it.
Sound 6/10
The soundtrack also did not standout too much. The opening and ending songs were cute to say the least.
Character - 6/10
I give the characters a 6/10 because they were fai…
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before i start talking about the story i need to clear out something: out of my own experience am sure most of you guys will get the wrong idea of the show when you'll see the anime's cover up there. because the first impression i got of the show when i saw it was another romcom harem that will end up as every harem series. not like it's not true but, there's still a genres tag missing that makes the anime more entertaining. and it is the Supernatural tag.
as most of you may know, the story is set in a prestigious high school academy with over 50000 students. and out of all this huge number, it follows our first main protagonist Kakei Kyoutarou a loner who enjoys reading books as his favorite passion.
however, he has a supernatural ability that lets him see the future of some people arou…
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I watch this anime because I like anime about a bunch of cute schoolgirls with male lead as the center of attention. If you like Grisaia No Kajitsu you might like this but I doubt you will enjoying this because I think some of the episode are so so boring, and its totally different compared to serious Grisaia, this is a not-so-comedy anime. I intend to drop this anime since episode 10 but there is always something interesting happen towards the end so I cancel my decision and give this a try and to be honest its so tiresome. For me, a plot about a bookworm who wants to be a shepherd, a shepherd here mean a person who hold a book of fate of all people in the world and they have a power to change the fate. This is what the MC have here but I think this suppose to be main plot is just a subpl…
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Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai is an anime about Shirasaki, an introvert girl who wants to create the "Happy Project" with the help of Kakei who she met in an inconvenient accident with a boob grab in front of the school. The accident happened due to Kakei's seeing the future power. With Kakei and Shirasaki meeting, the two embark a typical school life journey towards the completion of "Happy Project as they meet new friends. But here's the catch, a mysterious entity called the "Sheppard" stirs things up that either helps them or hinders them along the way.
Pros:
- Slice of life and Supernatural genre blended well in the plot
- fun characters (even the cat, which I think is the most interesting lol)
- minimal fanservice
- story pacing is smooth, not confusing
- a happy anime, you will always f…
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Initially, I'd written a review halfway through the show, now that I've completed it, here's an updated version.
Firstly, this is very much a slice of life show. If you're not a big fan of those, you may not want to watch this one. I enjoy slice of life, romance, comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, and other light-sided genre, so it appealed to me.
This show also incorporates a fantasy element - a magic library. I won't go into a lot of detail, so as not to ruin the story, but this library (while only briefly and periodically mentioned) is a theme that is important to every character in the show (but two, specifically). Your Main Character, Kakei, is seen having premonitions right from the get-go. He has this strange, but imperfected, ability - which he uses mostly to save people. The First girl he s…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
During high school, it's a time to really start thinking about one's future: pursuing higher education, finding a part-time job, volunteer work, and extracurricular activities are all in the realm of setting one up for a successful life later down the road. Along the way, friends are made and decisions are chosen. Sometimes, though, teenagers need that tiny extra "push" to get them going down the right path. Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai will most definitely "be telling this with a sigh" that the path they took was "the one less traveled by."
**STORY**
Daitoshokan follows the life of Kakei, a young high school boy who, one day, saves Shirasaki from a fatal accident. Their newfound friendship causes them to form a group known as the Library Club.…
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Ah, harems. One of the most subjective anime genres that exists, as well as one of those that can be both hit or miss. On this review, I'll b talking about Daitohokan no Hitsujikai which...falls into the latter.
Story (5.11/10): The story of Daitoshokan, or "A good librarian like a good shepherd", a boy by the name of Kakei Kyotaro enters a prestigious school with the thought of going to school and sort of delving into the crowd, spending his time in his books. However, one day, he meets a girl by the name of Shirasaki Tsugumi, and gets invited to her little plan called the "Shiomi Happy Project", in attempt to make the school a wonderful place.
I'll be blunt here. The story is shit. And that's kinda putting it lightly. Like a lot of anime, the show does have a bit of a decent start to i…
Read at the sourceMcRib
The idea in which equating popularity to greatness is disappointingly common in our modern world. Many people will claim that 50 Shades of Gray is high quality literature and many others will consider Drake to be a great rapper. They are blinded by the delusion that something being popular automatically makes it good. Obviously those people have never looked further into the media that they claim to be an aficionado of and have never read Infinite Jest or listened to Yung Lean before. This leads to Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, an unfortunately overlooked show in the Fall 2014 season. It did not stand out and the publicity was nearly nonexistent. However, if you were one of the people who decided to give the show a try, you were in for quite a treat. You would have experienced a coherent plot…
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Feliz Navidad, muchachos! You know the moment I've watched this.................thing, well, I could say plot wise it was good. It kinda have some similarities with the movie "The Adjustment Bureau" where shepherds does the job of guys with hats and that instead of a door to another portal , in this anime it was books. Here the main protagonist Kakei is a just a regular guy who is just another one of those bookworm characters who somehow got involve with Shirasaki's "Happy Project" and where his simple and ordinary life starts to go upside-down and he and his club members/ harem wonders about the mystery behind the messages left by a certain individual called the "Shepherd," thought Kakei doesn't know yet, he is an unwilling player of the 'Shepherd" which is also initiated by his half sist…
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everything about this anime was fine, just fine. the story was fine, the characters were fine, the art was fine. truly mediocre and the genre of this mediocre anime is school/harem/magic/slice of life.
story: kakei(the main character) reads books to not be scared of anything and his goal is to find the magic library. sounds somewhat interesting. nope it is not.
art: average just average.
sound: average.
characters: typical harem.....their looks are average. also the MC is boring.
enjoyment: average. i know i used that word a lot, but it perfectly describes this anime. never really laughed hard or smiled much or thought i cant wait till next episode.
overall: do not recommend. its boring.
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