Book Girl

May 1, 2010

1h 42m

★ 6.3

Overview

Konoha Inoue and Tōko Amano, the Literary Girl, as she calls herself, are the sole members of their high school literature club. Their lives will be altered when Konoha's past, forgotten for a long time, reaches the present, involving them in a whirlwind of feelings where love, jealousy, revenge, remorse and forgiveness struggle to prevail.

Genres

Animation

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Production I.G

Enterbrain

Lantis

T.O. Entertainment

Pony Canyon

KADOKAWA

Book Girl Trailers

Cast

Tōko Amano (voice)

Kana Hanazawa

Konoha Inoue (voice)

Miyu Irino

Chia Takeda (voice)

Aki Toyosaki

Kurara Mori (voice)

Asami Shimoda

Miu Asakura (voice)

Aya Hirano

Kazushi Akutagawa (voice)

Daisuke Ono

Ryūto Sakurai (voice)

Mamoru Miyano

Nanase Kotobuki (voice)

Nana Mizuki

Maki Himekura (voice)

Shizuka Itoh

Eri (voice)

Yuka Nishigaki

Maika Inoue (voice)

Minami Tsuda

Miki (voice)

Chika Tamura

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