“Three sisters run a quiet mountaintop library where mysterious visitors reveal its magical, miracle-filled history.”
Kokoro Toshokan
ココロ図書館
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Synopsis
Three sisters run a quiet mountaintop library where mysterious visitors reveal its magical, miracle-filled history.
Hidden away on a remote mountaintop, the Kokoro Library struggles to attract many visitors. Nevertheless, it is the home of sisters Iina, Aruto, and Kokoro, who consider it their mission to keep the library running in their parents' stead. Kokoro has long dreamed of becoming a librarian at the library with the same name as her, and tries her best to keep up with her older sisters. Due to the lack of patrons, the girls mainly spend their time sipping tea, chatting, and reading. However, as the number of mysterious visitors progressively increases, Kokoro begins to learn about the strange history of Kokoro Library—a place where small miracles seem to blossom.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.79 · split reception
7.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 1.0
↓ 2.80
Running avg · Nov 2007 → Jun 2025
- 8 “Kokoro Library basically revolves around Kokoro who is named after the library she works in. Together with her two sisters, they work to maintain the library their parents left them even if hardly...”
- 8 “Once more my passion for "oddness" rears its super-deformed head, this time bringing me a bemusing, yet slightly surreal, take on libraries. Kokoro Toshokan originally began as a manga by Takagi...”
- 1 “Overall No, no, no... Cuteness and good background music is nowhere near enough to save an anime where meaninglessness is allowed to run amok to this extreme degree. Many anime are slow paced, but...”
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- Format 13 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 12m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2001 – Feb 2002 Fall 2001
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-0727 catalog
Produced by
- Victor Entertainment Producer