Is Toshokan Sensou good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Toshokan Sensou (Library War) is a TV series from Spring 2008 by Production I.G., Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 7.42/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 4.6 hours for the run, 6 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 12
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2008
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production I.G., Inc.
- Score
- 7.42/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, light-novel adaptation, comedy, drama, dystopian, military, politics, romance, seinen, shoujo, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Library Rebellion; Library Revolution.
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More like this: action · light-novel adaptation · comedy · drama · dystopian · military · politics · romance · seinen · shoujo · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Toshokan Sensou?
- About 4.6 hours for all 12 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Toshokan Sensou have?
- 12 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Toshokan Sensou finished?
- Yes, Toshokan Sensou is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Toshokan Sensou good for a group?
- Yes. Toshokan Sensou is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Toshokan Sensou listed?
- Toshokan Sensou is on AniList (id 3613) and MyAnimeList (id 3613); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists