#ibraries

[allo-frouto]

Hopeless romantic who is also violently obsessed with you (mutually of course & with consent)

Want to take you to a bookstore, buy you some coffee and then eat you out while asking you to focus on your book. Every time you stutter, I delay your orgasm by taking you to the edge and bringing you back down in the most sadistic ways possible.

I am obsessed with this concept now.

[historyhermann]

Behind the Screen: Japanese voice actors who bring fictional librarians to life!

Top row, from left to right: Sanae Kobayashi, Kaori Nazuka, Yumi Ichihara, Miyuki Sawashiro, Chiwa Saitō, and Marina Inoue. Bottom row, from left to right: Tomoaki Maeno, Akira Ishida, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Kanji Suzumori, Haruo Satō, and Takahiro Sakurai.

Part of understanding fictional librarians is understanding those behind the screen, specifically when it comes to those who voice animated characters. Part 1 of this series focused on Black voice actors, Part 2 on Asian and Latin American voice actors, and Part 3 on Indian voice actors.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review where this post was published on Nov. 15, 2022.

In this fourth part of this series, I am profiling the over 12 Japanese voice actors, men and women, who have voiced librarian characters over the years, in various anime.

About the voice actors

There are 12 Japanese voice actors which I'm describing here who voice librarians. One of the first I saw was Sanae Kobayashi, who voices Lilith in Yamibou and is a seasoned voice actress. Most recently, I was acquainted with Kaori Nazuka, as she voiced Fumio Murakumi in Girl Friend Beta. She has voiced over 200 other roles in shows like Restaurant to Another World 2, Revue Starlight, Akame Ga Kill, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Fairy Tail, and RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne. 

There's also the three voice actresses who have roles in Kokoro Toshokan, otherwise known as Kokoro Library: Yumi Ichihara who voices Aruto, Miyuki Sawashiro who voices Iina, and Chiwa Saitō, who voices Kokoro, the main protagonist. Sawashiro also voices Asako Shibasaki in Library War and Mirepoc Finedel in Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra, perhaps the only person on this list who is shown as voicing three librarian characters. Miyuki, on other hand, is also a seasoned voice actress, even voicing a character in My Little Pony. The final actor I'd like to mention is Marina Inoue who voices Iku Kasahara in Library War. She has voiced many anime characters over the years.

There were five other Japanese actors, all in Library War. This included Tomoaki Maeno (who voiced Atsushi Dojo), Akira Ishida (who voiced Mikihisa Komaki), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (who voiced Hikaru Tezuka), Kanji Suzumori (who voiced Ryusuke Genda), and Haruo Satō (who voiced Kazuichi Inamine). Meano voiced characters in well-known anime series while Sato voiced characters in anime too, but also Western animations like the Powerpuff Girls and Totally Spies.

There is also Takahiro Sakurai as Riichi Miura in The Ancient Magus Bride: Those Awaiting a Star. [1] He is known for he voicing of characters in Le Chevalier D'Eon, Naruto Shippūden, Ace of Diamond, and many other series, like Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra where he voiced Ruruta Coozancoona. Ishida also voiced a character in the same series, Mokkania Fluru. There are undoubtedly many more, so this is only scratching the surface when it comes to these characters.

About the characters

top row, left to right: Lilith, Fumio Murakumi, Riichi Miura, Aruto, Kokoro, Iina, Asako Shibasaki, and Iku Kasahara. Bottom row: Atsushi Dojo, Hikaru Tezuka, Ryusuke Genda, Mikihisa Komaki, Kazuichi Inamine, Ruruta Coozancoona, Mokkania Fluru, and Mirepoc Finedel.

Lilith in Yamibou is the library's guardian. She is the third creator of worlds. She is also a lesbian attracted to Hazuki who she flirts with throughout the series. She dislikes Eve, who is the love interest of Hazuki, her adopted sister. She also is considerably wise and has a wide range of knowledge, while wanting to get Eve back to the library.

Fumio Murakumi is a main character in Girl Friend Beta, and third year student. She was once introverted and lonely, but Erena becomes one of her closest friends and she likely has a crush on her. She is often carrying a book and has a strong inner personality, while she can speak politely when needed, from time to time.

Riichi Miura in The Ancient Magus Bride: Those Awaiting a Star is a librarian of a library within a forest. He can be nurturing and gentle, even if a bit awkward at times. He helps out Chise Hatori, who took refuge from evil spirits in the library. Riichi later gets Chise a library card, lets her explore around the library, but she accidentally leaves the door open letting in monsters which eat all the books and seem to put him at death's door. In the final episode, Chise watches as the monster swallows up the library and Riichi while she gives the book back to the person she intended to go to. She tries to go back there later and the library is gone, with no evidence of it being there. Her mentor later tells her the library is like something out of a legend, and she bonds with her mentor, and others over the story.

Aruto in Kokoro Library is one of the protagonists and is a quiet girl. She works at the small library located on an unpopulated mountain, with a strong-minded girl named Iina and a girl who has the same name as the library, Kokoro. All three are sisters.

Asako Shibasaki, Iku Kasahara, Atsushi Dojo, Hikaru Tezuka, Ryusuke Genda, Mikihisa Komaki, and Kazuichi Inamine are all characters in Library War. Asako is a library clerk supervisor who is an intelligence specialist and helps Iku study the catalogs. She also tries to give Iku advice and later falls in love with Hikaru, another library clerk supervisor. Iku, the protagonist, is a new member of the Library Defense Force who struggles in training. Atsushi is another librarian who is part of the defense force and develops romantic feelings for Iku, with both later marrying. Ryusuke is a supervising librarian and veteran field commander. Kazuichi commands the Library Defense Force and is a big part on the battle with the Media Betterment Committee. Mikihisa is another librarian who is often  smiling or laughing at his coworkers, and pushed Iku to join the task force.

Some of the many characters in Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra, also known as Armed Librarians include Ruruta Coozancoona, Mokkania Fluru, and Mirepoc Finedel. Ruruta is director and founder of the Bantorra Library, while Mokkania is one of the strongest armed librarians, and Mirepoc is a third-grade armed librarian.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[1] IMDB breaks this up into Part 2, and Part 3 rather than putting them all under one show even though they all part of the same OVA, but doesn't have Part 1, so this ANN page serves as a source here.

[broken-heart-raven-queen]

I just realized that Andrew surely remembers all of the classes that he went to and that explains a lot.

He probably doesn't study for his exams because in college they basically say the same things that are in the text books and also Andrew is very intelligent so he can fill the gaps. I'm sure he is not a straight A student because 1. There's nothing straight in that man, and 2. He gets bored mid exam and starts doodling or something.

I also bet that some of his phrases are just high school literature program based.

[alllonsy]

" Someday, people will listen to me when I say: don't do that, you'll die. And maybe SOMEDAY, they'll live and not lose their life to blatant stupidity. "

[librarycard]

okay ignore everything. everything ive posted in the past hour i have therapy now

[missmickiescorner]

The Libraries That Made Me | Margaret K. Troke Branch Library

While the Troke Library isn’t the first library I ever stepped foot in, it was the first library I truly felt was my own. It was a library that I, like Matilda, grew up in. I remember being dropped off in younger elementary school (say third and fourth grade) and I would spend hours on the bright-colored carpet reading Powerpuff Girl and Scooby Doo chapter books; eventually I would be brave enough to venture into the adult and teen sections and discover authors like Sarah Mlyknowski, Meg Cabot, Melissa de la Cruz, and Terry McMillian.

I know many people wouldn’t think of the library as a place to blossom into tweenhood, but to me, the freedom I was offered by a library card—that freedom that allowed me to check out picture books, chapter books, romance novels, manga—whatever I wanted.

It was at this library that I truly learned what it meant to be an uncensored patron with access to the world.

[ilaw-at-panitik]

[L]ibraries in the Philippines have been traditionally low in number, appallingly so in proportion to the population of the country. In the 1930s, for example, when the population was at around fifteen million, the estimated number of public libraries was no more than seventy-five. [And] while the public library system saw some growth in the succeeding decades, there still remained a shortage of libraries for the rapidly increasing Philippine population. In 1999, there were 545 public libraries in the country; the population was well over seventy million. The lack of libraries in the Philippines has not allowed for such institutions to play a part in the life of towns and cities. Or perhaps it is just well to say that the life in towns and cities did not allow a part for libraries. Filipinos generally associate libraries with formal education, as institutions where students and scholars go to further their learning rather than as centers where any person can visit to gain some enlightenment and recreation.

Patricia Jurilla, from "Tagalog Best Sellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines" (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008)

[pandoraroid]

GRAAAAAAHHHH guy & honey ibrary au wherein honey is the librarian and guy is a regular at the library but they dont recognize that he's author(?) of the book(?) that they're currently reading

[allisas]

“Sponsored by EA”

Howdy y'all!

I was lucky to be granted the opportunity to play The Sims 4 Horse Ranch during an early access period from July 5th - July 18th. A separate game appeared in my EA app l ibrary which had the Base Game and Horse Ranch installed. In this build my username was hopping around on the screen at all times and that will be seen on the coming screenshots. 😊

The coming days I'll be posting screenshots and share some thoughts I've had when exploring the pack. There will be a little bit of everything: CAS, Gameplay and World Overview!🐎🌵

In case you don't want to see any of this you might want to block the following hashtags #EACreatorNetwork #SponsoredByEA #Sims 4 Horse Ranch

[eternityhistoria]

TW FOR L///IBRARY SPOILERS. DO NOT OPEN IF YOU (THE WRITER) CANNOT HANDLE GORE.

"What is this.... What is this......" Kal'tsit stands still, heels digging onto the ground, material ruining bricks. Pulling out a baton, breathing becoming inrregular. Panic will cloud your judgement, getting into position.

[lowcallyfruity]

lgbt

Yeah I’m part of the lgbt

L- ibrary

G- arden

B- akery

T- rain station

[ninjastar107]

hada dream where my tumblr account was lost and I had to find it in a ever-shifting ibrary warehouse. I didnt find it but there was a lot of accounts. I couldnt find my way out either

[colouritlater]

There are a few posts going around on my dash about indie authors, ibraries, and the like. I agree with the general sentiment of the thing, and I am sympathetic to authors trying to get attention, get published, and get eyes on their work.

That said , I am also a petty hater, and if you are "exclusive" to any platform, I am not even going to read your bio on your web page. My wishlist is a mile long, and I will prioritize publishers and authors who sell their e-books free of DRM.

[transcarcinization]

i went to add all systems red to that drive this morning and i was going to add pdfs of the other books (i am aware my all-encompassing love for epubs is not universal) and apparently z/ibrary has had copyright strikes on all the other books? so lack of access. makes sense now

[trolloled]

Portec, where do you like to go on dates? Your matesprit wants to know.

Where don't I!? The /ibrary -BZT- that's where -BZT- haha!

They don't /ike me bein' so /oud in there -BZT- you know?

I /ike goin' to concerts -BZT- doing some sports shit together -BZT- he// -BZT- even goin' out to see a big storm or huge natura/ wonder sounds pretty sick!

You think anyone offers coup/es' bungee jumping?

[maki-uzu-haru]

For the first time in a while,

I went to the ibrary the other day.

I skimmed the dusty shelves,

and I checked out a book.

I read every page.

It was somewhat entertaining,

but it wasn't thrilling as my favorite

that leaves me hanging onto every line,

every word.

It wasn't you.