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In the crossover anime, Isekai Quartet, Tanya becomes friends with the demons from Overlord. Do with that information what you will.

so, the international name of this show is a bit of a misnomer, it's real name, youjo senki, translates to something like "a young girl's war record". tanya herself isn't evil

The sound design in this show is god tier. Every explosion, every gun shot, every spell cast just booms the bass just right and sends chills down the spine. The art style is very unique, and while it can get ugly at times, it's never really out of place. The animation quality, in general, is high tier, flowing well when we get airborne. It's just a very well-made anime and one of my favorites. Glad to see you watching it.

Yeah lets gooo!! By the way, this anime suffers from a poor translation or localization of the original title, Youjo Senki, which means "The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl", changing it to The Saga of Tanya the Evil predisposes you to see the protagonist as evil when in reality Tanya is just a pragmatic person who will do what is necessary to achieve a goal. After the 12 episodes of the series there is an OVA and a Movie, are you going to react to these too?

You recognize the voice of Tanya probably because she's one of the most famous and most talented current Japanese voice actor. She's done Maomao, Madoka, Victorique(gosick), Kumoko (So I'm a spider so what), Tsuyu (my hero aca), lucy (cyberpunk edgerunner, Kino (kino no tabi), Tatsumaki (One punch man), etc etc (the list of main characters alone is way too long, she's always voicing several characters per season). And don't worry you'll get the explanations :). Ah btw while I'm at it, the CR translation is making a mistake with the altitude numbers. They're given without units in the original language, and it's pretty obvious after a while that they're in a unit closer of the feet rather than meters. So whenever you'll see in the sub "meters" for the altitude, I suggest you divide by 3 :) Also, I'll explain the pillbox because it's never explained (you have to put back the different information the episode gave you to understand what she did) but it's quite genius : She sent them in a pillbox on the rear. Normally, artillery wouldn't target that. And normally, if not in a pillbox, the mages, who can fly and shield, wouldn't fear very much artillery. However, as we see in the episode, the frontline has been ordered to move back in order to reduced the size of the western front. Which means that the soldiers not in pillboxes will move back in trench lines further back, abandoning the frontline, while being covered in their retreat by their artillery, pillboxes and mages. In this situation, the pillbox that they were sent in will stay manned, so those two will stay in it, but since the front is moving, it goes from backline to frontline, where it becomes a hindrance to the enemy which is trying to pursue the retreating soldiers. So suddenly, it is a priority target for the enemy artillery, and mages who would normally not fear artillery, get buried by the enemy artillery inside it just like any normal soldier. Because she punished them by sending them to the rear, what remains in her records is that she punished them without being harsh. And therefore, their death, which was calculated, do not actually get associated with her initial punishment. Even though Tanya had understood very well that the orders of retreating would be coming soon.

My second favorite anime the smirk at the just seals the deal. Well, to be honest in times of war disobeying orders would result in a court martial followed by firing squad so she just carried out the sentence in a way where they might have had a slim chance to survive.

Great choice. I can't wait to watch your reactions. PS: Keep in mind that this series usually has a post-credits scene after each episode starting from the second episode.

1:25 Did you not remember the famous mage battalions of world war 1.5? 2:50 in this world, world war one happened 10 years later, so the technology levels are higher 9:50 10,000 meters is a mistranslation, should be 10,000 feet 14:00 They have innate power, but not enough to be able to fly etc. So they wear the boosters to amplify their magic power.

Been waiting for this one since you've watched Overlord. This series is a banger. Without spoiling anything, there will be a LOT of references related to our world in a pre-ww1 sense. Also, if an episode has a post-credits scene, I'd suggest to pay attention to them. A lot of said Easter eggs are in there. Also, there's a reason Tanya is "religious", but that's also a spoiler.

good observation on the fact she couldn't breathe well that high up in the air. She is casting several spells at the same time and one of the spells she is silent casting is an oxygen spell to be able to breathe up there. Alot of people have already told you who Tanya's voice actor is but I didn't see a comment mentioning the fact that the voice actor als o voiced Clementine in Overlord in Season 1

The character of Tanya is loosely based on WWI German ace pilot Baron Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron. He is most noted for having the highest aviation kill count of WWI at 80 confirmed enemy pilots downed.

Oh man, i've been waiting for you to react for this,..

The anime plays up her viciousness, but there was reason. Tanya hates what she terms “wage thieves”. Those who do subpar work and disrupt the work place and the like. And those two knuckleheads were slated to eventually move up to officer training. Bad for everyone and gonna get more folk killed. She did the army a favor by letting them get “achievements” like this, instead of. Also, mild note, the crazy look on her face when she fights is due to magical stimulants, similar to the practice of using certain drugs during… I think it was WW1? Perception, strength, reaction speed, ect boosts.

This series is in a kind of World War 1.5 . For their world it's the first world war, but as you noticed from the date, it's happening only in what in the real world was the inter war period. Between this and the existence of magic and different national borders shuffling their technological development compared to the real world, things are different than our 1924 still. So you'll see for example early WW2 technology for tanks, but the ships we see are early dreadnoughts that look like Nassau and Helgoland classes (in the manga, the anime doesn't give us a good enough view to tell the class), which became semi-outdated during WW1. The attachment to the leg in the anime is what enables them to fly. In the manga and novel they can fly with only their computation orbs, leading to the novel not having them at all and the manga bringing it in later as upgraded equipment meant to improve their flight capabilities. The devices with which they flight is a quick way to identify a mage's country of origin, since each country has their own distinct flying gear, that plays into their culture. The Empire (a superstate consisting of what in our world was Germany and most of Austria Hungary) has a boot + backpack setup, the Republic (essentially France) has these horse-like things, the Albion Commonwealth (quasi UK) has things that look like a cross between a broom and a motercycle and the forces of the Legadonia Tripple Alliance (Norway+Sweden+Finland united into a single country) use something that looks like skis. The thing with Tanya sending her two insubordinate subordinates to their death is really misleading in the anime. Those two guys disobeyed orders by their superior and their superior's superior multiple times in live combat. Her first choice of punishment is sending them back home without punishment, which is exceptionally lenient. But rather than accept it, they add yet another disobeying of a direct order by a superior to their tally. By the military law of the Empire, Tanya would have been well within her right to summerily execute them on the spot (and might even have done exactly that, when she started to draw her sword, if not for Victoria calling out to her), or put them in front of a war tribunal, which would most likely have sentenced them to death, both of which would have been "dishonorable" deathes that would see their families get no compensation and likly being scorned by the patriotic parts of their neighborhood for raising such "traitors." By sending them to a bunker to be killed by the enemy, she made sure they would die "honorably in the line of duty," meaning a posthumous 2 rank promotion, their families getting monetarily compensated and being admired for being the relatives of "heroes" by the patriots and nationalists. So ironically, setting up their deathes like this is Tanya going out of her way to provide those idiots with the best outcome they could have hoped for. That smile is also anime-only. In the novel and manga she showed absolutely zero emotion over their deathes. But even within the anime that smile is rather uncharacteristic for her considering the situation, so I strongly suspect it was just put there as a hook, to help retain the interest of viewers more attached to combat, despite all the talking and setup the second episode has to get through, before the next fight.

I've been waiting for this

If I remember right, Visha is from Russia, so she have to work harder to get respect.

As far as the date goes, this isn't the same world as ours (I mean...magic, right?). In this one, the "Great War" is still ongoing.

While this series is based on a Light Novel there is a lot of things that are left out. The manga also explains a number of things the LN and anime don't get into either so the three compliment each other well.

Love this anime!

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The English title is quite misleading about Tanya leading many people to think she is Nazi whwn she isn't. For sure she isn't good person but she isn't Nazi.The actual title is closer to military chronicles of little girl / little girl's war and similar but they made the English one more catching and more misleading

Voice is from Maomao- Apothecary, Tsuyu-MHA, Tatsumaki-OPM, Diane-7DS, Hibiki-Sympho, Yuki- SAO......probably hear it from one of those, I don't think you have watched all others animes she shows up.😅

Welcome to an alternate world.... WW1 Proper never kicked off as we know it, and the border tensions and skirmishes remained at a high boil until the 1920's. This is Imperial "Not-Germany" surrounded on all sides by itchy trigger fingers.🫡 Oh, and Magic. There is Combat Magic. 🤪👍 (More on that momentarily) Tanya isn't "Evil"... she is a very driven Lawful Neutral, with a job to do. 🤘😎👌 (Disobedience to Orders will not be tolerated.)

This is one of my favorite Anime of all times. But, afther the genocide in Gaza this anime feels diferent.

Too bad the rest of the story doesn't live up to the final moment of this episode. She isn't evil, she is just a hard-ass that demands excellence.

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Tanya ist die Beste! Lang lebe das Imperium. 😏

I am sorry to say this but i consider you to family friendly to watch this show. Like how you were angry at Ketil in Vinland Saga for beating Arnheid. Youjo Senki/Saga of Tanya the Evil is masterpiece, but it is brutal show. I believe you will fold under brutality and disturbing actions of Tanya. Except your pinned comment makes me think that you finished it already and uploading now. Then good job.

Saga of Tanya the not so nice person

Tbh, i found the anime entertaining enough to watch but nothing i would recommend. The best of it imho, is the ED "Los los los" song by the VA, which happened to be one of my fav. female VA. (obviously im not the target audience, it's more of a guy power fantasy thing) With that said, if u enjoy the themes/vibe of this anime, I recommend "Dies Irae" as a "if you watch this you might also like..." xd I hope you enjoy tho! 4:12 i think i've never heard someone to use "gray" tinge, instead of a color. Usually one would call it muted colors x: 5:02 she is voiced by Yuuki Aoi Characters u might know: Maomao (Apothecary Diaries), Froppy (HeroAca), Diane (Nanatsu no Taizai) to name a few (not sure what else you might have seen)