Just finished the first episode of Bungaku Shoujo Memoir. Really good stuff, and adds a lot more of an over-arching story to the title than obviously was apparent with the first ‘Kyou no Oyatsu’ OVA awhile back. Makes sense, since that one was released as a ‘preview’ of the series rather than a part of it, as far as I can tell at least (I wrote a few comments on that too if you’ll remember, here’s the link).

The scene near the beginning where Touko-chan is eating a banana parfait was awesome, as well as the flashback showing that she had her peculiar ‘disposition’ toward books as food from the beginning, and why she hides it from others <3.

This first ep was really neat, but unfortunately, like the ‘Kyou no Oyatsu’ OVA, there’s no subbers yet and likely won’t be for awhile- so I can’t exactly tell everyone to follow suit and go watch the RAWs. It took half a year for the previous one to get subbed I think, if that’s any indicator. Even being from a big production company like Production IG, since it isn’t an ‘action’ or ‘comedy’ per-se, and it being an OVA, it looks like the chance for it to be overlooked entirely is pretty big until it gets more notice in the community.

It looks like the actual Bungaku Shoujo movie (for which these two function as a preview and backstory/side-story from my understanding) won’t get any RAWs or subs for another few months when it hits DVD btw. My Japanese isn’t perfect though, so any comments on any of these ‘facts’ would be welcome and helpful ^_^ I’ll end this with a question-mark so that you can respond to it directly.

By the way, it looks like I’m the first person to watch this and list it on AniDB, so that’s awesome in itself ^_^.

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