Character profile

Iku Kasahara

笠原郁

Biography

Iku Kasahara is a twenty-two-year-old member of the Kantō Library Defense Force whose strong sense of justice centers on freedom of expression and protecting books from censorship. Inspired by a senior officer who once saved a book she wanted to buy, she joins the force despite finding recruit training difficult. Her track-and-field background gives her strong stamina.

Story spoilers

Despite beginning as an error-prone recruit, she is selected for the elite Library Task Force.

Kasahara is eventually promoted from Librarian First Class to Chief Librarian. She later discovers that Atsushi Dojo is the officer she had idealized as her “prince,” and she admits she might have fallen in love with him even if he were not her prince. The movie's ending implies that the two eventually marry.

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