Saga of Tanya the Evil (Youjo Senki) | GR Anime Review

A Glass Reflection Review of Saga of Tanya the Evil (Youjo Senki)
Originally Released: June 4th 2017
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Saga of Tanya the Evil
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Alderamin on the Sky
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[@HansHammertime]

Historical inaccuracy doesn't apply to youjo senki, because it is it's own world not tied to ours. Even despite that, there are a lot of small historical easter eggs in the series, just look it up

[@leviathan5207]

on one map it said vhterlhnd or so, put a instead of h and u get vaterland = fatherland

[@kevinalonso6338]

Like Hans said it's a different world, why should the authors stick to what happened historically in our reality?

[@iriswaters]

I got the impression that things like the trenches were a sign of the enemy just not successfully adapting to what amounted to a massive technology jump. Similar to trenches appearing in the first half of WWII before tanks slowly made them largely obsolete. One gets the impression that no one is accustomed to dealing with the level of aerial firepower Tanya's team brings to the battlefield, and it totally wrecks havoc on their strategy.

[@lorettabes4553]

I mean: All those weapons. Come on!

[@Touching_Zone]

Agree. These things never bothered me because the show didn't advertise itself as being historically accurate and the fact that magic is being involved also just proves this.

[@illdie314]

she's not a Nazi, she was never a Nazi, this is alternate ww1 not ww2 why do people keep messing this up? rule of thumb: if there are ever trenches, its probably ww1

[@JackRendar]

GAH this drives me up the fucking wall. Does Tanya at any point go on a rant about superior or inferior human beings? NO. NOT A NAZI.

[@lizarraga-9759]

He literally said that she wasn’t a nazi

[@HER3411]

If you refer to a German as a Nazi, they will most likely slap you.

[@quitmarck]

King Shoot its not interwar period since there hasnt been a first war yet even. It is essentially just ww1 but starting a decade later. Interwar implies it takes place AFTER a war, and before another.

[@quitmarck]

+King Shoot you forget that most of the culture, mindset, technology and atmosphere were CAUSED by the first world war. If no first world has happened yet then essentially the interwar period doesn't exist yet either.

[@nvalidwerdz1078]

At the beginning of World War I the French tried to use cavalry like that was still a thing. The Belgians tried to use castles. Nobody knew what they were doing. That's what Youjo Senki is doing with the mages. Tanya gives a speech about it when they invade Dacia. The armies are using outdated military tactics. 'The Empire' comes to understand how to use mages effectively first via Tanya (because she knows history), which mirrors historical Germany, and that's how they start suddenly winning the war - again mirroring history.

[@anzack2551]

nvalid werdz So...she's basically invented Hutier infiltration tactics in this universe, meaning she's mirrored what German Shocktroops did in 1918

[@katamariroller2837]

There are a few more things that mirror WWII operations. Won´t spoil it, but it is there.

[@VitalSigns1288]

Hitler didn't know the first thing about military tactics, the credit to inventing how to use planes, tanks, and infantry in unison in a mobile war a.k.a. blitzkreig goes to a man by the name of Heinz Guderian.

[@jameshay7247]

"mirrored what German Shocktroops did in 1918"... Lose? ;)

[@LeonGun8]

Win actually. Germany lost because of reasons outside their own military superiority. In WWII Germany lost due to bigger errors in judgements. But in terms of military might they still boasted superiority for a large chunk of the war. It's a similar situation to the Pacific Theater where Japan's plans to invade America were almost scarily close to coming to pass and even when they were put on the defensive the US was so scared of the projected losess of invading Japan that they just decided to bomb two civilian cities to scare them into giving up.

[@nelsonchereta816]

I absolutely loved Youjo Senki, and yes, every single time Tanya said things were going her way I knew she was going to suffer for it. Any series that can make you cheer on a character who is, lets face it, the clinical definition of a sociopath is doing something right.

[@maidenofthelight]

IT'S HER OWN FAULT!

[@ryvrdrgn15]

Maybe god here symbolizes socialism and the welfare state.

[@ShadowKueken]

It's fact that tanya/the salaryman "suffer" from most of the social complexes one can have

[@dragoncat3499]

Too true! Cheers to the show for making us root for an evil character!

[@panosfasoul699]

Same. And I personally LOVED the last episode. I mean even the title is absolutely epic.

[@user-bi8cr8kq2f]

Actually the show is *_insanely_* historically accurate and it really surprised me. For the 1920's the war actually takes place in, the military tech outside the mages magical flying equipment itself is damn accurate. For instance the rifle the mages use is a Mondragón M1908. These guns were actually not that great when used in the trenches of WW1 but proved very effective among the German Imperial flying corps, Luftstreitkräfte, as the they worked perfectly in high altitude conditions. A great rifle to use if you're a mage who fights almost entirely in the sky. Also the counter for the mages in the show are the Air Force which they constantly say reach higher altitudes than mages can fly. In the Show mages largely operate at 6,000 feet, while the planes in the show have a max altitude of roughly 17,000 if their capabilities match those of the WW1 planes they're based off of. It's only Tanya and the soldiers under her command that can reach comparable altitudes of exceeding that of 12,000 feet to do battle against bombers. Additionally The Empire is very interesting in how historically accurate it is to Germany. The flag for instance has a double headed dragon on it that looks very similar to the Imperial Banner of the Holy Roman Empire, the nation that Germans regard as the First Reich. The borders of the Empire also mirror the German Empire's greatest extent which pushes into land that was historically Slavic. In fact both Tanya and Viktoriya's names are Slavic. The occupation of Tanya's world's version of Norway also mimicked the real world occupation of Norway. The ending of the show also places her in a theater that is essentially the North African campaign.

[@EdgeR2]

The empire did asspull V1 buzzbombs and Panzer IIs (or was it Pz. III?) straight out of WW2 tho

[@witherking97]

@@EdgeR2 It's Panzer III

[@deju5302]

Not to mention, Tanya's goal is probably based on Erwin Rommels goal to reach a high ranking position as fast as he can in order to get away from the front lines.

[@drksideofthewal]

In a world of magic, where the first world war starts in the 20's, when the creator of the V1 *literally* has "divine inspiration" there's leeway for blending WW1 and 2 a bit.

[@MaximSupernov]

Well said👍

[@bobdrenan4402]

Want a second season so bad

[@rocket_1288]

In the last episode, if you don't skip the Ending credits, you will see a clip that might indicate a season two, go see for yourself

[@spencerokeefe438]

To me the final after credits scene represented finality. It showed how neither Tanya nor Being X was going to give up anytime soon and both would continue their little disagreement until the bitter end. As such, the battle that Tanya was about to fight was going to be just one more out of many, many more to come. The scene didn't end the show or plot necessarily, but I do think it very clearly showcased the situation Tanya was in; it was never going to end. A second season, in my opinion, would almost seem gratuitous.

[@SashaSlvt]

bob drenan read the light novel.. i gave up on waiting

[@Ace-kk4dm]

bob drenan me too. also a lot of other shows.

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Yes, I felt the same. If a second season happens, we will certainly have Sioux's daughter playing the same role her father played, since she also was empowered by X. Perhaps she will be an opponent that will take Tanya longer to defeat, but, basically, we'll have the first season all over again. And so on and so forth, as the LN is on it's seventh installment, with no ending in sight (a sadly repetitive case with LNs, as the author is pressured by the publisher to keep churning up new volumes as long as the series is successful, instead of writing a good, well-thought up and planned series, causing most of it to be painful amounts of filler text upon filler text. I'm reading Overlord, and should the author focus on the story instead of the filler material (long-winded pointless descriptions, excessively detailed scene descriptions, constant huge loads of exposition material, and so on), the story would be far more pleasant to read and last only four or five volumes, instead of the current eleven (with more to come).

[@rainick]

Mages are the defense against mages really. There isn't really anything non mages can do. It is just that there don't seem to be enough mages to really hold and control territory. It also doesn't help the commanders do not know how to fight effectively with the power of these mages. It is the first big war with them after all. We see the same kind of learning curve with WWI.

[@antgrkh588]

what is strange, i gues mags where in middle ages as knights

[@ZanathKariashi]

Magic has only existed since Tanya was born. About ~10 years before the start of the story. Being X added it as one of the parameters when It initially designed the scenario for the experiment, since it wanted to stack the deck against Tanya a little bit and force them into the conflict.

[@tylergoodyear9797]

Despite it being alternate history, the show is extremely accurate in setting and design. It's based in an alternate First World War and the architecture, set design and even the paintings in the background are all based on real world art and design from the time frame of wwI. The weapons and vehicles while based on real world equivalents do get a little mixed up, some pieces are actually WWII era and not WWI era, for example while tanks where introduced near the end of WWI, just like in the show, the tank designs featured in the show are actually early WWII models of tanks. As a history buff I was pulled into this show initially by its ability to show an alternate yet still visually accurate First World War, I then proceeded to stay because of how interesting a character Tanya was so over all I really enjoyed the show, I just wish there where more shows with this kind of respect for historical accuracy, and possibly one that does it better

[@AusSP]

Late response but... If you've seen the manga or light novels, you'll notice that there are many, many references to real-life combat and logistics concepts. Basically, the author knows exactly what's what. If anything, the anime is a poor, poor version of those much more fleshed out works, and the anime's English title makes absolutely no sense considering her character in the source.

[@5at5una]

@let us prey why cant all of you just accept that author take both or many type of war and make his OWN twist? hes own setting.. just stop it with no its ww1.. nah its ww2? or asking for why it can be historically accurate when the author doesnt even want to be accurate.. again.. his OWN kind of war... his own liberty of work.. jeez.. really sad people arguing about something about something that wasnt even the author intention...does magic/mages happen to be in any kind of war.. or does somehow an adult male reincarnated as loli to ANOTHER world making any sense? no?

[@TheWanderer1000000]

"That's someone's fetish." I hear that too often

[@elijahaitaok8624]

and that too is someone's fetish

[@albioncia]

well im agreed to you about the historical technological achievement but if you have the watch some of the great war videos we can conclude that in the world war 1 every nation didn't really understand how war is being fought, they build trenches ala american civil war but with the invention of machine gun the infantry is going to be mowed down by it, and the cavalry isn't​ really that much useful in trench warfare , with the invention of the tanks in ww1, barb wire and enemy fortification is becoming useless. so in this anime, the warring nation have the same mindset as our own timeline, they didnt really know how to fight the war in the age of technological achievement with magical elements to it, so i think the historical aspect of the war is pretty accurate, the writer really capture the mindset of the warring nation during world war 1

[@counterstructure4908]

Especially that it is in a time of research in industrial speed. Were 2-3 years difference can mean vastly different equipment. They showed that even the old guard that did adapt wasn't prepared for everything.

[@Hanomai]

Agreed, it's very clear that this is supposed to be World War I and I honestly don't see that many connections to the second World War. You've already made some points and I won't beat a dead horse but there are a lot of other connections including the way that nations interacted with the superpower Germany and how they united against them. It's so similar to World War I and honestly there weren't that many historical inaccuracies when looked at strictly through that lens. Of course there are some such as tank technology and it's advancements we it doesn't seem like we're that deep into the war yet but I'm willing to give it some leeway.

[@counterstructure4908]

Something to add: Tanias Squadron (Battalion?) was an innovation to them. And not even on technological ground, but in doctrines. In their training and operation.

[@albioncia]

Konstantin Urich yeah kinda like german storm trooper at world war 1

[@-DeScruff]

Can't agree more, It feels like this was a "What if WWI started a few years later." So technologically these nations are a fair bit advanced then where they were, (I'd say somewhere in the middle of WWI and WWII?). But because of the lack of a major modern war most haven't learned the what these technological advancements can actually bring, Why they need to update, or how to counter them.

[@RavenShugo]

"This is an alternative universe" "But but historian accuracy, chonological order..." Really GR??? You said yourself, that this world is moving in it's own pace and then complained, that it doesn't follow OUR history???? Btw you question about why they didn't use mages differently and didn't have defense against them, or have trenches can be explained quite simple: 1)Magic tech was developed not that long ago - so as any tech, or invention it takes time to think of the ways to use it. 2)They didn't have any big wars and the last one was a trench one and without any mage units, so they just started with what they knew best 3)Do WE have defense system from flying mages? no, since we were never been attacked by them and we don't have such tech. They didn't have any defense, since this tech was quite new, so the best/fastest way was just fight fire with fire (mage vs mage)

[@5at5una]

finally people with some sense.. really sad people arguing about something about something that wasnt even the author intention about whether its is ww1 or ww2...does magic/mages happen to be in any kind of war.. or does somehow an adult male reincarnated as loli to ANOTHER world making any sense? no? so it is the author own liberty of work on what he want to put in.. why cant just enjoy his own twist and not being an war elitist like you were there in any of that war.

[@RavenShugo]

@@5at5una wow 2 years went fast)) Btw the author can take liberties and create his own world, BUT he must follow his own rules and laws.

[@icewolf026]

what the hell he didn't do a" lets jam *finger snap*" O_O life is a lie

[@akiamendoza8859]

icewolf026 😂😂😂

[@albireotheredguard1599]

icewolf026 You'll live.

[@eamon9989]

@@akiamendoza8859 ok dude calm down

[@MrSolus-ls6us]

No no no, it's not that she doesn't believe in god. She doesn't believe that he is a "Benevolent being" as he says he is And she's pissed that he threw her into a Waring world without her consent just so that she will "worship" him

[@Ajay-pj2hv]

Well said

[@Avtarangel]

I'll probably get flamed for this but I'll point out that Tanya is 'religious' She just doesn't Worship a God. That's something Being X doesn't understand himself (this is interpreted from part of the Manga but I'd have to go back through to find the volume/page that it's explained)

[@Spazzfrom.1989]

show was dog shit..all the concepts are dog shit..characters are dog shit..nothing significant happened..no consqeunces..terrible

[@CrimsonReaper189]

i watched the sub and dub and personally they are amazing the only difference i found was tanya sounds more like a kid in sub and more like a evil person in dub

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

Most are. It's mostly a problem when it comes to moe, though.

[@ashauntemallory602]

Queen Bitch KaNoMiko "Most are" I feel like that would apply in the 80's and 90's. I still prefer subs but dubs have come a long way; why does this circlejerk exist in 2017?

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

+Saru En Because moe still exists in 2017, and the English language might just be capable of doing moe properly. Most anime are moe anime, hence most dubs suck.

[@youseffema3348]

cerberus189 the English dub is bad imo

[@rocket_1288]

Except Panty and Stocking's dub

[@TheHollowClown]

Agree. This was one of the few anime in recent times that I actually watched from start to finish. A break out of the usual anime monotony of recurring shounen tropes and overused concepts.

[@wesa5565]

Interesting review, adds a new tone to The Pedantic Romantic's and Bessekai's analysis videos. BTW Overlord has multiple ties with Youjo.

[@DTDplays]

They are by the same publisher so they do cross promotion all the time. Like Overlord has many times included ads to promote Youjo Senki in the novel and Vice Versa

[@nooblangpoo]

W Esa You should also see Caffinated Telescopes's cinematography analysis and comparisons.

[@EbullientSMP]

I absolutely blew my top when he threw in an Akibaranger reference, god that show was beautiful.

[@Luinta]

omg someone else that's seen it!! they exist!

[@LuckGG1]

is this the mini Toku club in the comment section?

[@CoronetChris]

Hell's yeah it is.

[@linkersjacken8032]

I really didn't expected about he watched an Akibaranger show

[@TheGoodOne1998]

It was a nice surprise.

[@ronaldpettit3076]

Huge mistake in the first 40 seconds of this video...... They aren't Nazi's they are Imperialist's. Please go back and watch the series again, and take note they refer to the nation as an Empire. This is like the biggest mistake people make about this show. Second yeah "it's also not like world war II" because it's like world war I which is pretty obvious. I mean seriously take a look at the majority technology. Take a look at the first time Tanya leads her newly formed and trained unit against the Dukedom of Dakia. Last, to be Nazi's they would need a racial purity motivation.... and that isn't the case.

[@masterm3487]

Ronald Pettit while you are right they aren't nazi's and this is really alt great war, your reasoning is inaccurate. The nazi's call germany the third reich (the third empire). Still the activites done (particularly towards french civilian in the way of the army) and boarders match ww1. The general fighting stile kinda matches ww1 (most generals in the war did not go in with an understanding of war at all. Being said germans were most prepared due to prewar planning). The tanks are easily ww2 and I THINK the same for battleships. Although in this uni the british didn't use the first tank and it seemed like the majority were german.

[@Zerggodmaster]

@@masterm3487 battle ships are from both wars but the design looks like they did come from ww2 era, planes are from ww1, tanks ww2 (pz 3 design so early 1941 area), ww1 submarines. So yeah you are also correct on the timeline mix of wars

[@eduardofang7300]

1 second later "She's not really a nazi though" cool now boi?

[@Manintoga]

Well the common anti-nazi canard is that they wanted to take over the world. This objectively is of course totally false accusation that is not supported by any known facts or documents. Typical de-nazification and war propaganda. Sort of hard to get people across an ocean fired up to go to war otherwise.

[@paulrasmussen8953]

@@Zerggodmaster nope the bb's are ww1

[@blackfearjays2286]

SPOILERS!: arkada dont you remember the episode where they took on an army with only her unit and came out anscathed? magic is like a weapon in devellopment and most countries did not expect its might/ thought it was a passing military experiment. And with every new weapon countermeasures are half assed at best. Take the atomic bomb for example: it took the world powers a good time to figure out the aftereffects of radiation and even more to start making bunkers built to combat said radiation during the cold war. Now take magic which is in part applied to current technologies as we see many times in the show: how does one defend against something illogical and clearly unscientific in its majority? Someone quoted that advanced technology past a level looks like magic to the common man and what can said common man do but dig holes and throw rocks and stones at this impervious enemy

[@elijahaitaok8624]

well in this series magic is semi-scientific. They have equations and such for it, but the overall mindset of it is "its been around for a long time, it works, lets see how far we can push it, lets just go with that" kind of deal

[@CaseNumber00]

The guy had some problems why they didnt use mages and magic more in the series for a more efficient military tactics. Starting with mages in the military, what is glaring for me is that it seems mages are somewhat uncommon to come across since the country has to actively look for them, thats how Tanya was found. Like any specialized soldier, it takes a long time and a lot of money to train a flight mage, similar to building a tank. However, you can always rebuild a tank while you cant readily make a new mage since their occurrence are rare. GR up there wondered why they didnt use the mages more since they are far more efficient than tanks and aeroplanes its because they are a limited resource and far too valuable as a military strength to use all the time. Also, WW1 was an interesting time in the history of warfare, it set the precedence for wars to come from the 20th century all the way to here. Just before WW1 there were remarkable advances in in technology and sciences, so much so that people and governments could not keep track or really understand how far it had come. Then WW1 happen where government finally consolidated everything from gasses, vehicles and equipment, then evaluated everything and their effectiveness and every situation, and used that knowledge to kill people, the frontlines is where the proving grounds were for much warfare. The same thing is happening with the mages in the anime, in addition why flying mages are utilized more got military tactics, they are still trying to figure things. (Got tired of writing)

[@kosmosXcannon]

CaseNumber00 if the enemy was using mage you would think they would have gotten snipped but not sure if that crossed people's minds or they were flying out of their range.

[@CaseNumber00]

Huh? I am not following. Anyway, they have those magic projected barriers to stop bullets.

[@michaelanderson3672]

Tanya: No Visas? Get 'em out of here Trump (Edit: The reference is from a video called "Tanya makes anime great again")

[@artfire28]

Michael Anderson I liked that abridged video when they sub the subtitles with their own version.

[@Nyxcha]

vimeo.com/210083740 the expanded version of that parody xD

[@danielsjohnson]

Tomoko Tanue A Vimeo link from KZbin comments? That's a first for me.

[@Nyxcha]

yeah but there are groups of people who spam report the video on youtube because they don't like it. and youtube's copyright system being so abusable......

[@stijnjue530]

danielsjohnson A az Zsazsa~,

[@edifier74]

I really want a season 2, if it follow the LN then shit will go down.

[@jekmx3441]

it could start off by changing those duck lips -.-

[@foxley95]

my guess is that the british will come and rekt german empire? then probably some another major power like austria-hungary/italy gonna join the war siding with the german and turns into world war just like tanya predicted?

[@edifier74]

Nope, totally wrong. Spoiler: Russia attacked the empire, but the empire rekt them at a high cost. Britain is being annoying and US is sending volunteers. Tanya slowly becomes depressed due to the war and her battalion keeps losing people. Tanya got promoted to Lt.Col and now leading a Kampfgruppe on the eastern front.

[@theblindlucario5093]

I really want the empire to win XD

[@maidenofthelight]

Even more SPOILERS: the Empire lost the war and rumor has it Tanya fled to the Unified States. There are Flash Forwards of 40 Years after the Great War.

[@ODDnanref]

I know it is late as half life 3, but I have to mention this. Unfortunately never mentioned in the anime because it would take too much unnecessary time, already cutting a ton of references to strategies, philosophy and psychology, but magic used like pseudo technology in this world is a new thing. Magic and magicians were like the old tales in stories in our world. Grab a chicken kill it under specific conditions and magic will happen. Or leave milk for little helpers with rules and certain things used and done to make something happen. In this world people investigated those complicated and completely inconvenient methods to produce the little crystals they wear. Calculation gems, which allow people to cast spells like they do in video games. Chant, use mana, effect happens. Instead of the old way of doing specific things for long periods of time and waiting to see if it worked or not. To summarize until recently magic was like "The ancient magus bride" magic and it is until recently that it has become industrialized enough to be used in direct warfare. Hence why there is a kingdom who is all, herp derp, air superiority? Whas that? Herp derp. Anti-aircraft formations means we makes squares.

[@kellharris2491]

The sound effects were amazing. The guns and explosions sounded so realistic the fight scene were supper fun and impressive.

[@whammycheng3758]

If anything I learned, from Youjo Senki, it's that even though we live in a society where humans are expected to value reason over immediate emotional impulse, that doesn't mean that everyone is willing to comply to such norms otherwise our world would have a much less crime rate. In Tanya's case, in her first life, she had underestimated the type of reaction when people get fired.

[@JumbaJumby]

When I was watching this weekly, reading the r/anime thread added a lot to the series. There are actually a ton of historical references in this show, but they're all pretty obscure (or at least I didn't notice them at first.) A lot of the tactical decisions and mistakes of the armies that happen in Tanya actually align really well with real maneuvers and blunders that happened in WWI.

[@TheZorch]

Damn that's one evil loli.

[@supremepatriarchbalthasarg474]

I think he/she is more natrueal lawful rather than "evil"

[@stuffandthangs9893]

I have been waiting for your review of this anime for a while!

[@croydd]

Hello! Could you please consider returning to your old thumbnail style like the one used for the Sailor Moon Review? It is a lot more crisp, unique and eye-catching!

[@isillor529]

loli mouth 10/10. your argument is invalid.

[@sterlingmuse5808]

Equiton I agree, I really like that style, both brings all the reviews together under a common theme while still showing off how unique each show is.

[@SwedishGundam]

Well hello there Gundam 00 soundtrack

[@Evil_Chronic]

You got a like and sub just for mentioning Overlord at the end. One of my favorite shows of the past few years aside from Youjo Senki. I can't wait for S2 to come out.

[@Sandybowls_9001]

Most of the countries in that universe didn't have mages or know about magic, so they were fighting with dated tactics. Tanya takes advantage of this many times in the show!

[@user-on7jo8nu2y]

They knew of the existence if mages, but didn't really have a clue of how to make use of them, or train them, or get orbs.

[@mc-dg8ej]

i think he forgott this is an anime set in a parallel universe and doesnt have historical acuracy hence bthe parallel unverse

[@agnesmichaelis2093]

Tanya is the best ANIME twisted little girl. I love rewatch this ANIME😂

[@colerobbert8027]

Well if you look at the historical accuracy it seems to work with the addition of manic if you think of it as a new invention. Because not all the nations have magic abilities or the jewels shows that magic is still being taken into account with tactics and other stuff. So I think it works out well.

[@XAssassinTotX96]

Wow, you actually put an akibaranger clip in this. I'm impressed.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

I've always been confused as to what war this is supposed to represent. Like on one hand it utilizes trench warfare from WWI, but on the other it uses magical flying little girls which we all know didn't come about until the second half of WWII.

[@maggintons]

So basically a story in which Monty Burns is killed and reincarnated as a little girl.

[@StopChangingMyNameYoutube1]

...Excellent *raps fingers together menacingly*

[@MustachioT]

maggintons rip Monty

[@satanlover134]

6:00 the way that trench warfare got maintained was true shrapnell munitions, the shotgun seems to be a refrence to that

[@chaoticvessal]

If I wasn't subscribed to you already, I would have subscribed to you again for the Akibaranger reference. Kudos.

[@peteru18]

Oh hi Gundam 00 OST!

[@MrRikersBeard]

TranslatorPS I AM GUNDAM

[@matteste]

So I wasn't the only one who noticed.

[@gabrielb.2695]

TranslatorPS Which track?

[@YukitoOnline]

MrRikersBeard Ore wa Gundam da

[@3Katapa]

Alderman on the sky is such a good series. Wish there was a s2

[@SlimTony]

Another amazing thing is the sfx, the explosions sound so grand

[@artfire28]

I like the background soundtrack you used in the beginning. the Gundam 00 music was good choice.

[@MrBlackCracker100]

as an atheist myself, the description of "an atheist having a pissing match with god" instantly convinced me to watch this series.

[@kyzenboac7927]

why is there no review of overlord?

[@RaelgunXIII]

guess...

[@kezzamedic]

Saw a bit of your review and saw it. Was enjoyable

[@lessermook7608]

You are majestic af, i love how you convey your points. So classy.

[@justtoolit6051]

Please review Monster ! More people need to see that anime. Its a masterpiece.

[@TotalSpaceCase]

JustTooLit he did already

[@justtoolit6051]

When ? Link ? I can't seem to find it.

[@billwilson7841]

why is everyone assuming just because there are some german aesthetics its Nazis? you do know we have a little more history than 12 years, yes?

[@ottersirotten4290]

show them a Picture of a teutonic Knight and guess the Response, thats right...... NAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!

[@billwilson7841]

@@ottersirotten4290 yup

[@RutraNickers]

@@ottersirotten4290 holy roman empire you say? I think you meant *SUPREMACIST NAZI PROTO-EMPIRE*

[@billjenkins802]

Nice timing. I just finished watching this like two hours before this aired.

[@davidthomson3435]

We do very briefly see a counter to the mages, actually. High-altitude bombers absolutely demolish the standard mages from Not-Germany, and Tanya's squad only dismantles them because they're the equivalent to jet fighters up against propeller planes due to the newly developed tech powering their magic.

[@Tronplex]

Your explosion fix? EXPLOSION!!!

[@connorpickering7165]

Tronplexed thank you for that

[@MrNephthys17]

I think the thing with the mages is that they're supposed to be fairly new and that just like in real WWI most countries simply weren't prepared for how war had changed and only the biggest countries had adapted.

[@ajedelman5481]

OMG YOU USED THE GUNDAM 00 MUSIC. YASSSSSS +Glass Reflection

[@TheSuperNyx]

THANK YOU FOR THE AKIBARANGER REFERENCE

[@Kishuy]

The had a defense, plaines. The bombers could fly much higher than the normal mage and kill them faster, until tanya came :P

[@maattthhhh]

Youjo Senki > all other anime of that season

[@maattthhhh]

just watched season 1. Mostly melodrama, IMO.

[@unholysoldier002]

maattthhhh More like this year

[@XxTurk3ybo1xX]

lol ikr

[@dylanboatner2931]

maattthhhh AGREED

[@roundduck7005]

of all time

[@MrMafiaDog]

I've been waiting for this review!!!

[@NunsenseStudios2110]

Hey Arkada, First off, I'd like to say that I've always appreciated your work on these anime reviews, and you have always made good points with the series that you choose to review. Thank you for all your hard work! To be honest though, there is one series that I've been hoping you would review for a long time now, and you haven't gotten around to it. When the urge strikes you, I'd love to hear your thoughts on my favorite anime of all time: the Magi series. I can't say whether it would be something that you would particularly enjoy, but if you do get around to watching it, I would absolutely love to see your review on the series. I realize that you're busy, and I know you have lots of people asking to review a number of series, but if there is a way that you might be able to fit it into your schedule, I would be especially grateful. All the best, N

[@tannerfox3612]

Woah, that's a cool Overlord easter egg... still waiting on Season 2 madhouse! >=(

[@Maruun1986]

Its announced since march this year, actually date unknown so far many speculate for the next year. So it is coming! www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-03-10/overlord-tv-anime-gets-2nd-season/.113293

[@tannerfox3612]

Wowza! Thanks for the heads up, gotta' go start saving up for my ticket on the Hype Express! Whoohoo! :D

[@jare3459]

Know else why Nazi don't exist Because Nazi didn't exist in WW1

[@LuisGarcia-nn2cw]

Glass I'm glad you liked this anime too it was great. Also thanks again! their all ways moments when I struggle to find anime I haven't seen. But just strolling through your review list I have found another, just when I think have seen them all another one catches my eye hahaha. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@tlreclipse1126]

This series has some of the Best Sound from any recent anime i've watched in a while.

[@WinTheWarOnPants]

1:47 So let me get this straight... you own a copy of strike witches, yet you have NOT reviewed it!?!?!?

[@UltimaJC]

So she's a Not-zi fighting in World War 1/2

[@sethbudrik8906]

Shadowjc32 Ha. I see what you did there.

[@ericcannon3388]

Shadowjc32 1 it's world war 1 the damned show straight up says that a world war had never happened before.

[@wcthesecret]

Shadowjc32 no, she's German. Therefore nazi.

[@RepublicAgent]

+wcthesecret An Aryan.

[@dayvie9517]

RepublicAgent Her skin is brown. She can not be an Aryan

[@TheLonelyLuneon]

Overlord was fun! I'm excited for season 2 whenever it might happen.

[@steliospasiardes678]

love your reviews. Your previous video got me to watch shinsekai yori, i;m at episode 20 and it's totally worth it! Thanks fro your work for so many years:) (that's why i'm a patron for 2 months, but as you would expect of a musician, i'm in the $1 bracket )

[@narutardandproud7568]

Kuzu no honkai review please

[@kamalcampbell2186]

NarutardAndProud yes asked for the months ago

[@grapeshott]

No plz. I have not seen that. I don't want to hear about it. From it's summary, from 5 min of what I had seen, it was cringeworthy for me.

[@leviathan5207]

no dont do it dont watch bad anime, and you are not allowed to play mario kart and skateboard for a week! props to whoever knows where i stole this from tho its true DO NOT WATCH BAD SHOWS

[@theempoleon78]

NO.

[@lorettabes4553]

It's a good series. I would like to see a review.

[@uchytjes10]

So, Kemono Friends next?

[@RexWort]

He already done that

[@uchytjes10]

Rex Wort He did a first reaction to it, not a full review.

[@MrBlackhawk49]

Tanya's "prayer" in the last episode was just striaght up awesome :D

[@sammiejaysmith1717]

I loved this series it was amazing. Also the theme song is like the best ever. Glad you liked it too.

[@ReklawLah]

Yeah, I can't agree with you about the dub. I usually don't care much one way or the other, but in this case the original japanese is FAR superior.

[@TheBackstreetNets]

Youjo Senki is set during the time of WW1, not WW2.

[@Nyanboii]

hey arkada i heard that youre going to otakuthon this year. glad to see you there

[@iseeyounoobs]

I've been waiting for this!

[@wikibanned4453]

Tanya the evil=just a war arc Tanya the evil 2=STILL JUST A WAR ARC. Tanya the evil 3=Reads the manga*

[@Sturmischer]

My only one complaint against Youjo Senki is the fact that there are Panzerkampfwagen Dreiten (Panzer IIIs) in the 1920s. Yes I am Deutsch, and I know my tanks very well.

[@artfire28]

the reference from a tokusatsu series Akibarangers was nicely done.

[@TylerTisaowa]

from what i understand, there is a Youjo Senki season 2 scheduled, premiere of the new series will be held around April 2018.

[@kevishader3561]

She's a Nazi but technically not and she's fighting in WW1 and not WW2??? Logic

[@uchytjes10]

Essentially, they're doing the atrocities that Nazis committed while relying on the social structure of WW1 Germany. Along with that, the war follows along with the course WW2 took rather than get stuck in the trench warfare of WW1.

[@Canadian_Princess]

Whoah hey now. The atrocities of the Nazis were far more severe than this. What is depicted in the show is pretty standard for WWI. Both the Entente and Allies did some pretty horrific things. The German occupation of Belgium is something you may want to look into.

[@iriswaters]

T Kent: And both sides used chemical warfare extensively in WWI. There was a lot of was nasty stuff. But there are definitely nods to WWII in it, such as surrendering Paris without a fight to save the city from burning. What's wholly missing is the... well... Nazis. There's no major regime change, no racist propaganda, no ethnic cleansing. Civilians are targeted in a Shock and Awe move, but its specifically an enemy city, housing enemy troops, supplying enemy battlelines, which is again in step with WWI.

[@uchytjes10]

For all we know, the empire may be doing just that. Front line soldiers wouldn't know those things are happening, and I honestly expect it to be revealed late into the story that they were doing such things.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

She isn't a Nazi. As Reflection Said, Nazis do not exist in this universe. Nazis are Ethnic Nationalist. We never get even a hint of her politics at a national level, so we can not call her a NAZI, ever. The fact that people link being "Evil" with Nazi is annoying, as it was a political party. Sure the party had some very bad people, but it also had some amazingly awesome and heroic and outstanding people worthy remembering. But you don't have to be a Nazi to do horrifically bad things. =P I often point out that the Nazis made people disappear by turning them into ash, but the Americans made people disappear by turning them into shadows on the wall. War Crimes have little to do with a person's political stance. You can be a Nazi war criminal, a Communist War Criminal, an American War Criminal, etc etc etc. Japanese were not Nazis but they did bad things to. I guess we always think of Nazis first because they're kind of Hollywood's favorite antagonist. Even the most recent Wonder Women film is based in WWI against Germany which is a huge pity. But Nazis didn't exist in WWI? Well ya but most of the future leaders of the Nazi Party, and political movement were former soldiers in WWI so.

[@views-pe7ze]

my uncle used to touch me when i was a kid

[@paramore7383]

nwissr senpai mine too ;-;

[@camjoziboy]

nwissr senpai big ass anime titties

[@w4hammer]

can I touch you

[@TobagoTyrique]

Wtf was this comment

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

why is your pic allowed on youtube? dont they censor nudity?

[@WTFdoNOTpeeONme]

thank u GR ... i was looking fore something grat ... and u gave it to us

[@ForestofCicadas]

would love to see a review of Overlord, especially considering that a second season is coming out in January 2018

[@DisgustedLumine]

For those wondering, the theme playing from 0:35-1:25 is called Strike from Gundam 00

[@JohnReiher]

According to the manga and light novels, flying combat mages was a recent addition, much like how aircraft were new to OTL WWI.

[@killroy255]

I really can't wait for the strike witches review...

[@megasonicmario640]

Could you do a should you watch of Love Tyrant/Renai Boukun? It's a series I've been seeing come up on KZbin in clips and I don't know how to feel about what I saw.

[@rodney2x48]

Love the Akibaranger scene. Nice one.

[@paocut9018]

To be honest, the setting is WWI with the trench warfare, the guns, the uniforms and the country's at play (thought with some modifications) but it has some WWII era technologys like the closed planes, the V1s and Germany conquering Europe only for the allies to evacuate (though not at dunkerk this time). So it is mostly WWI but has some flavour of WWII mixed in

[@smokyjo5245]

So we're pretty deep into this spring season of anime now. Are "First Reactions" not really a thing anymore?

[@artfire28]

seiyuu Aoi Yuki nailed the main character so well. she gets good roles after another. another seiyuu Saori Hayami did good as well as Tanya's LT.

[@ElleSherbert]

I screamed YES when I saw Akibaranger, love that show!

[@xenothecatboi]

One could only pray for a School-Live! review.

[@aeronothis5420]

Hehe love the Gundam 00 battle bgm in the beginning.

[@averynight1420]

0:00 - 1:23 2:38 - 3:44 Does anyone know where these tracks come from? I couldn’t find them in Yōjo Senki’s OST

[@Maws92]

Ahh love that Gundam 00 OST in the background

[@darklordkageryuu]

Can i get a name of the soundtrack that's at the start of the video please ?

[@KubusSc7]

Gundam 00 soundtrack in background...love it, so fitting!

[@Silvern7552]

Not exactly sure how to request a review, been watching for a while and always enjoyed your stuff. I don't feel too strongly about a lot of anime and the ones I do you usually do a review of, but I was wondering if you would do a review of School Rumble. It is kind of older but I really enjoy the anime and want more people to check it out as it is an anime that you don't see too much nowadays in that it has a bit of everything.