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A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd is a classic harem anime series with a not-so-interesting asocial main male protagonist and lots of girls who lust after the main character. The only other male character plays a completely minor role, and it is actually as if he were not even there. From what I have seen, the characters are not very fleshed out; it is quite maudlin and emotionally overwrought in places. The main female protagonist is slightly blasé and comes across as rather odd. None of the other girls extremely interested me either. Not until episodes five and six did I first feel mildly optimistic because the anime's creators finally addressed what I was wondering about (the mystery of what/who the "Shepherd" is) and gave a fairly plausible explanation. However, I thought that for me to be more interested and to rate it better, the anime's creators would have to bring some very unexpected twists, and the characters would have to go through some radical character changes. SPOILER ALERT. There is a surprising twist, and I have to say it is nice of the anime's creators to give the main male protagonist his first serious romantic scene in episode seven. I doubted if I wanted to continue watching this drama because I waited for his mentor to say something like "Kyoutarou, I am your father." The level of stupidity and madness would be completed. It is a real shame that it did not happen. I think it would have been fun. END OF SPOILERS. I lasted until the end, and everything turned out pretty much as I expected, so the last few episodes did not add any new dimension, and it is not worth more than two stars. 2.6/10. (29.10.2014)