If you loved Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1, try Book Girl

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Book Girl has roughly 3.1× fewer votes than Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1 — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Shunsuke Tada, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Book Girl is

Here's a film that really wants you to know literature is important. A boy with writer's block gets drawn into the orbit of a book-obsessed girl with a strange eating habit. It's all very high school, and settles exactly where you think it will.

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