I need help identifying a screenshot from an anime that I don't know the name of
Hello friends, I'm not much of an anime watcher, but my good friend has this screenshot he claims is from an anime he watched when he was a kid. He has this as a discord profile picture which spurred on the mystery, but he won't tell us where it's from. All I know is the anime released in the winter of 2008 in January, has 2 seasons with 13 episodes, and the image provided is apparently background art from a scene briefly shown for a few seconds. Could anyone help me identify this? It's been driving me nuts.
https://preview.redd.it/0075keupbveg1.png?width=210&format=png&auto=webp&s=47098376f409dc60af0178923d02a489fb37a323
https://preview.redd.it/0075keupbveg1.png?width=210&format=png&auto=webp&s=47098376f409dc60af0178923d02a489fb37a323
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If the information you have is accurate, it should be one of the handful of shows on this page that has 26 episodes and started airing in winter. There's only a few of them so get watching!
First off, if it's correct that this is an anime that started airing in January 2008 and has two seasons of 13 episodes each (which presumably means two non-consecutive 1-cour seasons, rather than a single 2-cour season that aired serially from winter to the end of spring), then that actually only leaves two options: either Rosario + Vampire, or Spice and Wolf.
The image itself seems like it's either the cover of a book or an advert in a train or something, and the words say "Kesu [erase] Note", which is a parody of Death Note. It feels like it would be totally out of place for something like that to be in Spice and Wolf, which is set in a fantasy version of Medieval Europe, but would make total sense for Rosario, which is a comedy series in modern-day Japan with supernatural themes.
If you're curious, I would scan through the episodes for scenes where the characters are in a bookshop or on a train, since I think that's pretty possibly where this would be from.
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