The souls of dead authors locked in a library, forced to live out the stories they wrote, that's not just a premise, it's a philosophical trap that the show actually believes in. Every character fights because they have to understand what their own words meant, what they were really saying when they put pen to paper, and that search for meaning is the entire battle. The second half loses its footing and the pacing implodes, but by then you've already met Dostoevsky, Poe, and Wilde as people, not names in a textbook, and that changes how you read them forever.

A sprawling library holds the souls of famous writers from history, brought back to life by a mysterious, unseen being called the Alchemist. From there, the revived authors are sent into books to cleanse their pages of monsters known as Taints, an evil force out to ruin the stories. Along the way they must also free fellow writers caught inside the very works those writers produced. The authors gain new and powerful forms for the task, yet some keep a sense of who they were while others struggle to recall their pasts and their own books. The authors must rely on one another to stop the Taints, and they stay committed to a mission with no clear end, hoping to learn why they were revived and to settle questions left over from their former lives. Adapted from a DMM Games browser and mobile title, the series combines action, adventure and fantasy, with a cast drawn from real historical writers.