Audience reviews
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Agent_Redacted
A fateful encounter. Do you cherish it? Do you despise it? These encounters can change your life forever. Though they may not last eternally. "Bungaku Shoujo" is a simple 1 hour 40 minutes movie about a male protagonist who used to be a famous author. However, because of an incident, he vowed never to write again. Until he met a girl who eats book pages as snacks.
The story is as messed up as a girl eating book pages as snacks. Aside from the mysteries that I was unable to understand because I watched this when my brain wasn't fully functioning. The story overall gives us a small life lesson "Don't lose faith." . Other than that, this story is just on the same level as all those romance & shoujo anime I've seen. Mediocre - Satisfactory.
This is from 2010 so I can't really blame the art…
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A review was due for this.
I genuinely thought I wouldn't like this anime movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. This story was... unexpectedly relatable to me as a person and although I held dislike for it in the beginning, at the end, I couldn't help but like it.
Although I rated most of the things a little low, for story and overall, it gets a solid 9. I suppose my reasoning for giving the plot a high score is needed.
My review contains a bit of a spoiler but rest assured -- what matters most in this anime is the details and I cannot simply divulge it with just words. Like a performance, it needs to be experienced by yourself solely to appreciate it.
First and foremost, I urge you to give this a try.
Frankly, I hated the antagonist at the beginning. She was the epitome of the chara…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
There's this saying that goes, "it's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." And there's a lot of truth in that; feeling or experiencing what love has to offer is infinitely more worthwhile than not having done so in one's life whatsoever. It can be difficult, not only in trying to gain that love but also in dealing with the aftereffects it may bring with it. But love itself doesn't have to be some imaginary force that attracts two people. In fact, it can be something as simple as words on a page. For Bungaku Shoujo, while this idea is prevalent, the execution is not.
STORY
Bungaku Shoujo (or "Literature Girl") begins when a girl with the same nickname, Touko, is caught eating a page from a book by a boy named Konoha…
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As I was looking for my next anime to watch I came across a little anime done by I.G simply known as "Book Girl". So I said why not and watched this film. For my 3rd review, I'll be looking at quite possibly my favorite anime film "Bungaku Shoujo".
[SPOILER FREE REVIEW]
STORY: 8/10
*Before I begin Bungaku Shoujo has 4 OVA's that are not entirely necessary to watch but will give you more information on the characters. I do recommend seeing them before the film.*
The story follows Konoha Inoue as he leads a seemingly normal life as a member of the Literary Club with Club President Touko Amano. Touko's only source of food or drink is to eat stories from books. She is not able to eat food or drink anything. Konoha's only job is to write stories for her to eat. I loved the way the story grew…
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When I found Bungaku Shoujo, or rather Literature Girl, I was expecting something completely different. Reading the synopsis really surprised me, and it wasn't anything I'd ever seen in an anime. Someone who ate books. Well, er, that's interesting, was my first thought.
Now I have far too many things to say about this anime, but I can't tell you that I was disappointed. The storyline was quite good at pulling at the heartstrings; though I do admit some actions taken I could not sympathize completely with, I still did enjoy this movie a lot. I do highly recommend you watch Bungaku Shoujo: Memoir first though, this movie will be way less enjoyable without it, in my opinion, as important details are revealed in the prequel, backstories and such you will no doubt require to fully savour this…
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We can't change the fact that we have moments when our feelings do get over our heads and we start to get paranoid about our failures, pasts, and regrets. It's part of growing up and there are even times when our life seemed to be at the edge and we seemed to be waiting for the right time to heal. Bungaku Shoujo takes up a light atmosphere to somewhere deep inside ourselves that we never want to -- our jealousy, depression and our horrible memories.
It's a very deceiving move to watch an anime/movie of a person eating a piece of paper from a book. That was actually what made me want to watch this anime.
"Why was she eating the pages of the book? It's somewhat trivial, isn't it?"
But then again, I just thought of this eating a piece of a page is just a symbol of her way getting to know,…
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For whatever interest Bungaku Shoujo's premise had for me, this movie proved to be quite the mixed bag. The movie is focused on male lead Konoha meeting with the titular heroine of the movie, Touko, who has an unusual interest in eating pages from books with the girl helping out Konoha in dealing with the strained relationship he has with former girlfriend, Miu, related to his past in submitting for a writer's contest. The strained relationship negatively effected Konoha's interest in writing and much of the movie is focused on trying to have the young man regain his confidence to write by moving past whatever problems he had with Miu. It is this element to Bungaku Shoujo's storyline that is the mixed bag for me. The movie makes comparisons of the relationship with Miu and Konoha to Kenji…
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There are very few things in my life that rarely leave me having to decipher, or solve. This anime is one of them, it feels too rushed and i would have like to of seen this in the standard 12 episode format. This anime isn't something that everyone will get, most people that watch this won't be able to hardly understand it all for that matter.
Story- The story is something that is alot more complex than i had originally thought going into this. To me there seemed like there was alot of symbolism in here, which some people have alot of trouble figuring out. To me the reason, or meaning behind touko eating books or stories was symbolism for her love. What i mean by this is that i think she always knew that her and inoue had a strong bond going beyond just being just friends. She would alway…
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I picked up Book Girl and The Suicidal Mime on a whim and was shocked at how quickly I fell in love with the story. So of course half way through the book I started to research any info I could find and ran across the fact that Production I.G. did a movie based on the series. After finishing the first light novel I decided to give the movie a spin.
Having only read the fist light novel I can tell you this much. The movie it’s self has only a tiny small nod here and there at the first novel so if you think going into it that it’s based on the Suicidal Mime I will let you know now you are wrong.
With that being said I enjoyed the movie. I do feel I spoiled story aspects and character development that defiantly occurs later on passed the first novel but it can’t be helped given that the ser…
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I first watched the Bungaku Shoujo movie sometime in September 2010, and I thought it was a confusing but still good movie. I rated it a 7/10.
After a while I found out that Yen Press had licensed the original novels (named Book Girl) and that the first 2 novels were released already. I finished the first novel a while ago and I'm currently reading the second one. I'm really loving the novels up until now. A few days ago I asked myself "If I love the novels this much, why didn't I enjoy the movie as much as the novels?"
That's why, after 8-9 months, I decided to re-watch the Bungaku Shoujo film and I can tell you that I enjoyed the movie a LOT more. It was way less confusing and it was fun to see and hear the characters you've met while reading the original source material.
Bungaku Shoujo…
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Bungaku Shoujo is an animated feature adaptation of a light-novel series by Mizuki Nomura. It starts off feeling like a typical high school story with a peculiar female lead at its core, but actually accomplishes quite a bit with its deceptively simple plot. As the movie continues it builds on itself more and more, eventually resulting in a satisfying experience. Admittedly, you might need some patience and a tolerance for melodrama, but the movie provides a lot to enjoy, even for those completely unfamiliar with the light-novels (such as myself).
Konoha Inoue is a high school student who joins the literature club at his school under odd circumstances, to say the least. After seeing the literature club president (and only other member), Tohko Amano, ripping paper out of a book and eating…
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First to say, i liked Bungaku Shoujo 1st OVA. i liked the idea of a cute, pure love between a (yokai???) girl who eats the stories and a boy who writes stories for girls.
But, despite of the name of the movie and despite of our expectations, the movie isn't about this love. It is even not about that Literature Girl, but about an insane, egoistic bitch who blames every person in her troubles, and during the whole movie all the characters try to calm her, but they fail. The most bad thing is that the protagonist believes her and thereby doesn't notice other people's feelings. He is like a milksop.
Normal girl's reaction on that would be jelousness, but the Literature Girl behaves like Jesus Christ and helps the characters. That pisses me off.
The story has good art, innoticable music and rea…
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I do not even know what to say to make a convincing argument since people just like things sometimes, and it seems completely incompatible with everything good about anime. The manga had a bit of a cute appeal with an okay story, but all of that is buried in this movie.
The art, average to slightly good in the manga, is replaced with triangle faced characters whose eyes may or may not pop out of their heads depending on the moment. The shading is completely random, often covering exactly one half of the face, which might make sense (and still be incompatible with how shading works in real life) in a horror anime, but this is a drama. Movement is usually incredibly minimal, since no one involved knew how to animate. After being a weird warped round shape, suddenly the eyes turn into Skip B…
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-- Bungaku Shoujo - Literature Girl --
This movie is about a boy and a girl. His name is Konoha Inoue and her name is Touko Amano. She is the Literature Girl and he was a writer.
The Literature Girl eats books. She does, because she loves reading books so much she wants to taste them. She can't eat anything normal.
Konoha was a writer. He stopped writing, because his childhood friend, Miu Asakura, got into a accident 2 years ago. He's blaming himself so much that he promised to write never again. But than he meat the Literature Girl.
Touko loves Konoha's story's and want to help him across his trauma so he can write again!
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The protagonist of this movie is Konoha.
I recommend to watch the OVA first, called: 'Bungaku Shoujo Memoire', because yo…
Read at the sourceKurogashi
As I conjure up thoughts on what to write for this review, I tend to find myself with mind blocks left and right, probably the same as Miu. It definitely frustrates me and I can see why Miu felt so helpless in the movie. Well where shall I begin? It's about two childhood lovers who inspire and care for one another. One day, the girl decided to write a story for a competition, while she couldn't come up with a single idea, her beloved Konoha submitted his draft in secret and later won 1st place. This saddened the girl which lead to her attempted suicide and then from there on is where the movie really starts.
I don't want to make it this review as much as a summary but it seems like I already have. But to truly enjoy this story, you need to have at least a slight understanding of where ea…
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Bungaku Shoujo (Literature Girl)
This movie for me has been a wonderful ride. At first I did not want to watch this movie as it seemed to be uninteresting. However, after careful consideration I decided to watch this movie. I am amazed by the storyline and the emotions that run through this movie adaption. The character designs are similar to Tsubasa Chronicle which made me jump on my seat even more. The voice actors were perfect for each character. An each character showed a side to them. I really liked this movie because I feel that what was in this movie is in each of us. I love to read books, not so much as Amano Touko, but I love books nonetheless. I like to create fanfiction and entertain people with my creation. This movie was a real inspiration for me and ills me to go and make my…
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When the teaser preview special for Bungaku Shoujo was released earlier this year I was a bit tepid in my enthusiasm for this project. It looked quite lovely and it featured several of my favorite seiyuu talents, so I made a point to give this a try when it finally became available. As someone without any knowledge of the original light novels, I found this film to be mostly directionless and confusing and in the end only a very average experience.
Bungaku Shoujo or Literature Girl is about a young girl, Touka Amano who eats books. Yes she literally eats books. She can’t eat normal food apparently. Of course it would have been really nice of the story to actually tell us WHY she eats books but unfortunately we have to divine that answer for ourselves. Perhaps I could have slit open a goat…
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At the end of the movie, I sat in my chair slack-jawed and thought “I was robbed.” Although other reviews will probably also labour this point I find it necessary that I do to. The reason I felt robbed was that I’m sure like many others I downloaded the film expecting the plot to be orientated around Amano Touko the “Bungaku Shoujo” herself. To my disappointment, it wasn’t. The fact that she ate books was, to put it bluntly, irrelevant. So be warned, if you haven’t seen this movie and are planning to download it because of the misleading trailer, you’re not going to get what you’re looking for.
Forgetting all preconceptions, this was a fantastic movie by itself. The intricate unraveling of the plot was nothing less than beautiful. The story starts off with a typical soft-spoken boy meets…
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In this review I want to use Bungaku Shōjo’s style of associating stories with various tastes. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in my country there are vitamin C pills sold at the chemist’s. Those pills consist of sweet coat to prepare you for bad thing, bitter middle layer, where the actual medicine is located, and honeyed core to wash away the after-taste. Bungaku Shōjo has that kind of a story.
The first OVA has Japanese girl talking about some story written by the Russian classic author. I was impressed, not by the story, but by the whole concept. That cute and unusual scenario was standing out against a background of the latest anime shows, so I enthusiastically waited for the film. And here it came.
The plot revolves around Inoue Konoha, a high school student who once…
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A good piece of literature can be food for the soul. Or so they say.
For one particular schoolgirl, this has a whole new meaning to it. Amano Touko, a self-proclaimed “Literature Girl”, loves her stories. Not just reading them, she also eats them. This is not done on a whim as Touko practically depends on literary pieces as her main source of sustenance.
What a novel idea! Or so I thought.
Well, this newly discovered diet has little to do with the real story here. There’s also no explanation given as to why eating books are sufficient nourishment for the body. But that doesn’t matter anyway. Enough procrastination and let’s get on with the real story.
Inoue Konoha is just another normal schoolboy. However, little do people know, he actually used to be a popular romance author. Konoha…
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