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If the first episode of Bungaku Shoujo Memoire tasted sweet like gumdrops and the second episode tasted like bitter spice, then the third episode tasted like Zotz. For anyone who hasn’t tried or heard of Zotz, it’s a sweet and sour candy that fizzes in your mouth. It also describes the main character of this episode perfectly, a sweet innocence matched with a sour personality and ending off with a fizzy tension.

Episode 3 was definitely the funniest part of Bungaku Shoujo. The main character, Kotobuki Nanase, has a major crush on Inoue Konoha, but the problem is that he thinks she despises him. Why would Konoha think that, you ask? Simple, he heard Nanase say so herself.

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“What is true happiness?”

This is the question that is posed in the second episode of Bungaku Shoujo Memoire. In stark contrast to the bright, colourful world of Touko Amano in the first episode, here we delve into the dark and lonely past of our second heroine, Asakura Miu. Imagine a little girl parents that are constantly fighting and venting their anger on her. In order to escape her life at home, she escapes into the world of novels and even starts telling her own stories at school. However, all of her classmates call her a liar after hearing her stories and she is left alone.

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Bungaku Shoujo (Literature Girl) was originally a series of light novels written by Mizuki Nomura about a girl that can only eat paper with stories/poem on it, in other words, literature. I remember seeing the Bungaku Shoujo novels and an artbook around in bookstores when I was in Japan so when I heard that there was an anime OVA for it I thought I’d check it out. Bungaku Shoujo Memoire is a 3-part OVA that focuses on the characters Touko Amano, Asakura Miu, and Nanase Kotobuki.

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