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Saga of Tanya the Evil Movie (2019)
More action packed continuation
This story is about this nice and sweet young girl, who had to run away from her country as it was conquered by advancing empire. Her father was killed by one of empire's most ruthless officer who commands battalion of powerful mages. She swore to defeat the empire so no one else will suffer again and joined military group of volunteers from all around the world.
She finds friends there, and tutor in form of older officer who is trying to teach her about duty of soldier. This somewhat quirky girl may be lacking in military training and can't really hit a target during training session, but she is full of resolve and blessed by powerful magic.
She comes to aid foreign country under attack when ... what? ... Are you sure? ... OK, I was informed that was our antagonist. Our protagonist is that ruthless officer of the empire. Tanya hates war, she wants to live far away in the rear where she doesn't have to risk her life. And yet she is dragged through every front line possible as she is victim of her own military successes. She wants to end campaign in the east with swift victory, but there is this crazy girl with overpowered magic powers bent on some revenge against her. So Tanya and her battalion have to survive onslaught of limitless armies on the ground, fighter planes in the air and on top of that foreign mages in visually stunning air battle of epic proportions.
This movie was awesome ride.
Yojo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil (2017)
strategy in war and competent protagonist, it's rare these days
I had a blast with this series. And that's because this is an example of genre "stuck in another world" done right. No gamer/comic reader/underachieving student/dreamer/unemployed/etc. as main character who would pander to us audience. Yeah, I'm boring guy who watches anime, I don't need such uninteresting character to go on adventure where he usually just gains harem of various anime girls and then saves the world to show how awesome he was all along.
Main protagonist of this anime is heartless businessman who doesn't care about other human beings and his only goal is climbing corporate ladder to the top. Almost sounds like antagonist, right? He is punished for his lack of faith to absolute bottom. Stuck as poor orphan girl in a world on brink of world war.
And it's endearing to watch this essence of "I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me" in a form of small girl. Tanya as a character is main asset of this show. Her main goal is to get to the top and safety far away from frontlines in a world that is specifically design for her not to get it. She is perfect mix of defiance and frustration slowly boiling as she faces unending hurdles in her way.
In animation department it has some really nice air battles. Everything else is pretty much good standard. With one exception. Faces of Tanya and second female in her unit. Tanya is drawn differently from rest of anime and so it was kind of unsettling in first episode. I guess it was intended as contrast for her being partly psychopath. But I got used to it rather quickly since she has whole palette of facial expressions which were just fun to watch. Second female looks just weird. And even after whole series, she looks weird. It just doesn't fit the style for me.
If we talk about sound. Guns, explosions, battles just sound engaging.
In summary, this anime is worth a watch. If you don't have a problem with the fact that main character isn't good person.