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Format: TV
Episodes: 12
Episode length: 25 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Jul 16, 2011
Until: Oct 1, 2011
Season: Summer 2011
Source: Light novel
Average score: 69%
Mean score: 69%
Popularity: 30,336
Favorites: 304
Studio: Gainax
Producers: TV Tokyo, Funimation, Kadokawa Pictures Japan, Kadokawa Shoten, KLOCKWORX, Dwango, NTT Docomo
Genres: Action, Mystery, Supernatural
Romaji: Dantalian no Shoka
English: The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
Native: ダンタリアンの書架
Synonyms: Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian Dantalian's Bookshelf

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The Mystic Archives of Dantalian

★ 6.9 30,336 members

Hugh Anthony Disward inherits an old mansion and a personal library from his grandfather. In the basement of the mansion, he meets a mysterious girl, Dalian. She is a Dantalian and a gateway to "Dantalian's bookshelf", which stores the prohibited books of the demons.

"Gensho (Illusory Books)", the prohibited books, endanger the balance of the world, but people are fascinated by the taboo. Hugh and Dalian solve the cases involving Gensho with their ability to access the Dantalian bookshelf.