Bungaku Shoujo

Bungaku Shoujo (文学少女) or Literary Girl is a collection of light novels by Mizuki Nomura where a manga adaptation by Rito Kosaka started serialization in Square Enix’s shounen manga magazine. A theatrical release has been confirmed for a May 1st 2010 launch.

I am not sure about you guys but the trailer and the artwork on the official site is pure love to me. While I have never read the novels before, a quote for the story summary from ANN is as follows:

The “mysterious school comedy” centers on the unusual members of a high school literary club. Tōko Amano, a high school senior who calls herself the “literary girl” as the club president, is actually a supernatural creature (yōkai) that devours stories — she tears pages from books to munch on them. Her club subordinate is Konoha Inoue, a second-year high school boy who writes stories every day for Amano to eat. He once wrote an award-winning novel, but he wrote it under the penname Miu Inoue so readers thought the author was a mysterious 14-year-old bishōjo novelist. The stress from the novel’s fame and its movie and television drama plans turned Inoue in an introverted recluse.

A girl spirit? that munches on stories, sounds interesting. Toko is voiced by Kana Hanazawa, you will prolly have heard her voice as she is the seiyuu for several lead roles such as Sora in Sketchbook~full color’S~, Kobato Hanato in Kobato.

Animation production is by Production IG, lets hope somehow this movie will retail here when it launches on Blu-ray or DVD.

piano music is simply awesome!

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