Library wars 1 Love and War

Library wars 1 love & war / story and art by Kiiro Yumi ; original concept by Hiro Arikawa.—San Francisco : VIZ Media, 2010.
[166] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
(Library wars; Volume 1)
Shojo Beat edition
English translation and adaptation Kinami Watabe
ISBN: 9781421534886

1. Censorship -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Graphic novels -- Japan. 3. Libraries -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc. 4. Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.

741.5952


For years Iku Kasahara has dreamed about joining the Library Forces. But now that she’s been accepted, the young soldier thinks that drill instructor Sergeant Dojo is making her training unnecessarily hard. Her friends tell her that’s because he has high hopes for her, but Iku isn’t so sure. After finishing a strenuous run weighed down with a rifle, she finished twelfth out of fifty trainees and first among the women, he snapped at her and made her do push-ups because she collapsing after she crossed the finish line.

Thirty years ago the Central Government passed the Media Betterment Act and the Media Betterment Committee began raiding bookstores and libraries. In response the Provincial Governments created the Library Forces to fight the censorship and protect their libraries. In this near future Manga the struggle for freedom of the press and the rights of readers to read what they want is no longer fought by lawyers and librarians using court cases; it’s fought with fists and automatic weapons. It gives a new dimension to the Unshelved® T-shirt that reads Intellectual Freedom Fighter.