Toshokan Sensou

A [Random] Belated Congratulations to Toshokan Sensou


a taste of what’s to come

This news got past my TS radar, and was brought to my attention by fellow Toshokan Sensou evangelist fan haya5hi of Akiba-Station. Basically, Toshokan Sensou bags the stellar 星雲 (Seiun) award in the recently concluded Japan SF (sci-fi) convention Daicon7, an award whose awesomeness I won’t be able to fathom had I not read haya5hi’s post about it being a semi-illiterate and all lol. Congratulations to ToshoSen and of course, its author Hiro Arikawa, for bringing us this wonderful novel. I promise, I’ll get to reading ALL of it after I finish studying for JLPT1 also because I’m currently sidetracked with speed-reading the Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu novels >.>

And of course, now all my novel pimpings won’t be in vain because of fans with much more BURNING PASSION than I am who generously translated the novel. Credits to the ToshoSen novel translation project staff for the great work. I urge you to gogogo read it. The Chinese ones out there (or at least those who can understand Chinese) can go grab the Chinese version of the novel, volume 1 of which has been recently published (thanks to jinya for the heads up on this one).

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6 comments for “A [Random] Belated Congratulations to Toshokan Sensou”

  1. I’m busy editing other novels, but I’m definitely giving this a read when I can.

    And TS is really stellar. An award well deserved!

    Posted by C.I. SINGAPORE | September 3, 2008, 1:07 am
  2. I’ve now learned there’s no point in disliking Toshokan Sensou due to the BURNING PASSION of so many of it’s fans. It’s time for neutrality and a polite clap at the series winning an award. *polite, quiet claps*

    Posted by Omisyth UNITED KINGDOM | September 3, 2008, 2:37 am
  3. Ooh yey~ ^^
    Congrats ToshoSen! -applause- x’]

    Posted by Wija-chan | September 3, 2008, 3:51 am
  4. @C.I.: yeah, the novel is both entertaining and rich with insights ^-^

    @Omisyth: I’d appreciate it more if you read the manga and actually get to enjoy it xD

    Posted by usagijen PHILIPPINES | September 3, 2008, 10:10 pm
  5. I saw this a week or two ago and was ecstatic.

    I was also pretty impressed by 20th Century Boys snagging an award, too, as well as Dennou Coil. I think the Seiun convention has better taste than the Hugo and Nebula Awards combined.

    Posted by OGT UNITED STATES | September 4, 2008, 10:50 am
  6. @OGT: Not necessarily better, but their tastes are more aligned with ours, and that’s a great thing of course XD

    Posted by usagijen JAPAN | September 8, 2008, 7:54 pm

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