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If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll know that I absolutely loved the Bungaku Shoujo OVA and the Bungaku Shoujo movie, so there was no way I could pass up a chance to get this nendoroid of Touko Amano, the title character of the series. Touko is described in the Bungaku Shoujo light novel series as both a beautiful, delicate high school girl, and as a book-eating goblin. In order to capture both aspects of her, GSC has included quite a few accessories, making her box slightly larger than most nendoroids’ boxes.

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After what seems like forever waiting for Bungaku Shoujo Memoire to come out, I finally got a chance to watch the Bungaku Shoujo (a.k.a. Book/Literature Girl) movie a few weeks ago. The movie brings back all of the characters from Memoire, including Konoha, Touko, and Nanase. One of the things I liked about the movie was that they redid the scene where Konoha meets Touko for the first time and put it at the very beginning.

This was great for anyone who had read the novels but hadn’t seen the Memoire series. Touko was depicted as a beautiful girl sitting under a tree with sparkly things floating around her and everything, then she chomps down on a piece of the book she’s reading, totally ruining Konoha’s initial impression of her. Touko’s real personality shows through soon after when she conscripts Konoha into the literature club.

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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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