History VisualNovel / DaitoshokanNoHitsujikai

* NiceHat: Ureshino sports one. Unfortunately, it's commonly subject to abuse, since one of her common responses whne she is angry is to throw it to the ground.

* AbsenteeClubMEmber: Kakei and his friends are the only active members of the Library Club. The inactive members remain unseen and forgotten until near the climax of the true route when their sudden reappearance causes all kinds of problems for the main cast.

* ACupAngst: Kana and Ureshino both display signs of these.

* AttractiveBentGender: Kyoutarou as Kyouko.
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Usually performed by Kana and Takamine.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Kyoutarou and Tsugumi qualify.
* ButtMonkey: Takamine plays the role well.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most characters have some sort of personal issue, but special mention probably goes to [[spoiler: both Kyoutarou and Kodachi]].

* ItWasAGift: Kyoutarou's bookmark. Doubles as a ChekhovsGun.

* MaleGaze: Plenty in both the visual novel (which occasionally pans up and down character sprites) and the anime.

* MeetCute: Kyoutarou and Tsugumi. Crosses over into a sort-of delayed CrashIntoHello.

* ShoutOut: Ureshino's route is rife with these, with her being an avid gamer. Crosses over with BlandNameProduct.

* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Suzuki]] is one, due to the experiences at her previous school.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The choices required to get to the true route, available during your second playthrough onwards, are clearly marked with a bookmark.

* Bookworm: Perhaps Kyoutarou's most defining trait: much of the walls of his house are covered with bookshelves, and he is often reading, even while walking and during conversations with others.

* Bookworm: Perhaps Kyoutarou's most defining trait: much of the walls of his house are covered with bookshelves, and he is often reading, even during conversations with others.

---> '''???''': I see. So you want a magic book that details everything in the world?

* MatchmakerCrush: Kana and Senri both attempt to matchmake each other with Kyoutarou in their routes.

* Ojou: Sakuraba, being from a family descended from a clan of feudal lords, technically qualifies. She doesn't act like one, though.

* PortalBook: [[spoiler: Shepherds have the ability to warp between any two locations if there is a book at both ends.]] What constitutes a "book" is also relatively loose; [[spoiler: Kodachi uses a dropped porno mag to escape from an alleyway with a dead end.]]

[[caption-width-right:256:The heroines of Shiomi Academy [[note]](Clockwise from center: Shirasaki Tsugumi, Misono Senri, Sakuraba Tamamo, Suzuki Kana, Kodachi Nagi, Mochizuki Maho[[/note]]]]

''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai'' (大図書館の羊飼い: a good librarian like a good shepherd, lit: ''The Shepherd of the Great Library'') is a 2012 Visual Novel released by August. It was later adapted into both a manga and a 12-episode long anime that aired in the Fall 2014 season. It also had a side-story game named ''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai ~Houkago Shippo Days~'' released in 2013 and a fandisc titled ''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai -Dreaming Sheep-'' released in 2014.

!!''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai'', and its related material, contains examples of:

* AkashicRecords: [[spoiler: The true nature of the magical library that Kyoutarou has been dreaming of since his childhood. It houses one book for every person, in which is contained their past and all of the their possible futures.]]

* MagicLibrarian: [[What a Shepherd actually is.]]

* Teleportation: Shepherds have the ability to use books as portals.

* FriendshipTrinket: Senri's tuning fork, which is one of a pair. The story behind it, as well as who own the other, is a central part to her route.

''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai'' (大図書館の羊飼い: a good librarian like a good shepherd, lit: ''The Shepherd of the Great Library'') is a 2021 Visual Novel released by August. It was later adapted into both a manga and a 12-episode long anime that aired in the Fall 2014 season.

!!''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai'' contains examples of:

* AkashicRecords: [[spoiler: The true nature of the magical library that Kyotaro has been dreaming of since his childhood. It houses one book for every person, in which is contained their past and all of the their possible futures.]]
* AnimalMotifs: With shepherds come sheep. Each member of the Library Club also has their corresponding animal on the pillows made by Tsugumi.

* ChekhovsGun: Kyotaro being the only ''active'' member of the Library Club comes back to haunt the main characters during the climax of the true route.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most characters have some sort of personal issue, but special mention probably goes to [[spoiler: both Kyotaro and Kodachi]].

* DeusExMachina: The ending of the {{anime}} adaptation veers into this territory. [[spoiler: Kyotaro's book is supposed to have been outright destroyed when he was made a Shepherd, but somehow Nanai/Sevon was able to fully restore it after, though at the cost of Kyotaro's bookmark, an ability not alluded to once in the visual novel.]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Kyotaro posseses the ability to see occasional visions of the future pertaining to other people, which was what allowed him to save Tsugumi from the derailing train in their first encounter. This is later revealed to be a result of [[spoiler: him sending this consciousness to the Library of Prayers and gleaming the information from that person's book.]]

* InformedAbility: Kyotaro is the top of his class. This does not play into the plot except to explain why Mochizuki continually attempts to recruit him to the student council.
* ItWasAGift: Kyotaro's bookmark. Doubles as a ChekhovsGun.

* MatchmakerCrush: Kana and Senri both attempt to matchmake each other with Kyotaro in their routes.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In the True route, [[spoiler: the heroine that Kyotaro is closest to in the Library Club (which depends on your previous choices) will show up at his apartment when he considers becoming a Shepherd to solve the issue of the clubroom.]]

* WhamShot: Accompanied by the corresponding WhamLine in Kyotaro's internal narration, when he finds definite proof of the Shepherd's identity.

"The Shepherd," an urban legend of Shiomi Academy, is said to appear before hardworking students to grant them a wish.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The choices required to get to the True route, available during your second playthrough onwards, are clearly marked with a bookmark.

* ContinuityCameo: The characters from the Cat Photography Club featured in ''Houkago Shippo Days'' appear briefly as one of the groups attending Minafest during episode 12.

''Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai'' (大図書館の羊飼い: a good librarian like a good shepherd, lit: ''The Shepherd of the Great Library'') is a 2021 Visual Novel released by August. It was later adapted into a 12-episode long anime which aired in the Fall 2014 season.

* MaleGaze: Plenty in both the visual novel (which pans up and down character sprites) and the anime.

* ShoutOut: Ureshino's route is rife with these, with her being an avid gamer. Crosses over with BlandNameProduct.

* MaleGaze: Plenty in both the visual novel (which pans up and down character sprites) and the anime.