Apr 6, 2017
Let's play the Youjo Senki question game™, everyone!
1.Name two characters not including main loli and meant-to-be-relatable-to-the-viewer-but-not-really? newcomer girl.
Why, you may think, that is just not important in this kind of story! Character development and such is non-important! And I completely agree. This anime was meant to be nothing more than an insane loli being crazy all over WW1 with magic. And that would have been completely fine. Yet they screwed that up, of course they did.
Rather than just being an insane loli Tanya is early on revealed to have been reincarnated from our world. However, the whole plot point about Tanya being actually a middle
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aged Japanese man seems to exist merely so that the anime can do absolutely nothing with it and make you wonder what the whole point is. In the end, it all comes up to some encounters between Tanya and God, who is angry that this one particular person does not believe in him. This kind of makes me wish that they had a plot twist revealing that He has actually done this to millions of people, each with his own alternate WW1 reality, but that is sadly not the case.
Anyways, this all seems to lead to a completely unearned and out of place philosophical moment in the last chapter, albeit it is presented with interesting visuals. All of this is completely unnecessary, no one is watching this to find out how pragmatically evil Tanya will trump the equally amoral God.
Oh, it also does that thing where it keeps telling you how bad war is while portraying it as something completely awesome and practically harmless, since, inexplicably, none of the main cast dies nor suffers any major injury at any point.
Ok, you say, the plot is broken and the characters are uninteresting, so what? I watch this for the amazing battle scenes. Yeah, well...it doesn't really have much going for it in that regard. Fights are little more than things moving fast and light flashing in front of your face. There is little to no tension since, as I mentioned before, we are not given any reason to believe that these guys can even die, Tanya even survives a full-on explosion all Nappa-style. And the CGI that always appears at the worst moments is so bad I actually recommend watching those particular scenes if you're in need of some cheap laughs.
Still, when it tries it can provide some really visually entertaining scenes and it ocasionally gets into the so-bad-it's-good territory to make it somewhat bearable if you have a lot of free time. Not recommended though. 5/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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