Yōjo Senki
| Yōjo Senki | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 幼女 戦 記 |
| transcription | Yōjo Senki |
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| genre | Action, fantasy |
| Light novel | |
| author | Carlo Zen |
| illustrator | Shinobu Shinotsuki |
| publishing company | Enterbrain |
| First publication | October 31, 2013 - … |
| expenditure | 12 |
| Manga | |
| title | Tanya the Evil |
| Original title | 幼女 戦 記 |
| transcription | Yōjo Senki |
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Chika Tōjō |
| publishing company | Kadokawa |
| magazine | Comp Ace |
| First publication | April 26, 2016 - ... |
| expenditure | 18th |
| Anime television series | |
| title | Saga of Tanya the Evil |
| Original title | 幼女 戦 記 |
| transcription | Yōjo Senki |
| Country of production |
Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2017 |
| Studio | Studio NUT |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Director | Yutaka Uemura |
| music | Shūji Katayama |
| First broadcast | January 6 - March 31, 2017 on AT-X , BS11 , KBS Kyōto , Sun TV , Tokyo MX , TV Aichi |
First publication in German |
August 1, 2018 on Crunchyroll |
Yōjo Senki ( Japanese 幼女 戦 記 ) is a light novel by the Japanese author Carlo Zen with illustrations by Shinobu Shinotsuki , which has been published in Japan since 2013. It was later implemented as a manga and anime , which are marketed internationally as Tanya the Evil and Saga of Tanya the Evil , respectively. The plot follows a Japanese employee who was reborn as a magically gifted girl in a parallel world and who is now trying to survive as a soldier in the world war taking place there. The work can be classified into the genres of action and fantasy .
content
When a Japanese businessman is murdered, an almighty being appears to him. The man refuses to recognize this as God and is reborn as a punishment in another world - as a poor girl in an environment similar to Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The man, now as the girl Tanya Degurechaff, resolves to survive as well as possible and continues to refuse to believe in God. He calls the one to whom he owes all of this "being X". After a while, it is discovered that Tanya has magical abilities. She is trained by the military and is particularly powerful. She wants to use this to achieve her goal of a good and safe life.
But a great war breaks out between your country and its neighboring country. As part of the mage units, Tanya now has to go to the front, even if she is only ten years old. She will soon be recognized for her skill and will work on a research project. However, contrary to their hopes, this turns out to be even more dangerous than the front. With the intervention of being X, the project becomes a success against Tanya's will. Her life will only be saved by praying to God so that her newly developed magic crystal will work. With this it is quickly used as an all-purpose weapon of the army and wherever the enemy threatens to gain the upper hand. She treats her comrades and subordinates roughly and is so soon notorious and feared, even though she is so young. When she is ordered back to the capital, she only recommends her subordinate Viktoriya Ivanovna “Visha” Serebryakov for the officer career that now follows her away from the front.
The first location of Tanya's new magician unit is the principality of Dakia, which attacks the empire without knowledge of modern warfare and without magicians and is destroyed by Tanya within a very short time. Next up is the Northern Front against the Legdonian Alliance. In a daring landing operation, the Empire succeeds in landing in the rear of the enemy front and thus forcing the Alliance to surrender. After the fall of Dakia and the alliance, only the western republic remains as an opponent of the empire. When a rebellion breaks out in a city occupied by the Empire, Tanya is used to direct artillery fire on the city. She issues an evacuation order beforehand in order not to commit a war crime from a legal point of view. The city is then set on fire by imperial artillery. She then supports a surprise attack by the empire through operations in the hinterland, thus contributing to the defeat of the republic.
The end of the war is a long way off, however, as the remnants of the Republican armies flee to their overseas colonies to continue the war as an army in exile. The disillusioned empire is forced to send troops on. But during the fighting the Eastern Union also declares war on the Empire and Tanya and the Empire stumble straight into the next total war. The longer the war lasts, the more unlikely the Empire will win and the more dull Tanya and her followers become.
The plot in the light novel and the manga is interrupted by the research of a journalist from the "United Kingdom" who, years later, wants to write a book about the war. Although not explicitly mentioned, the scenes suggest that the Empire lost the war.
Publications
Books
The light novel, written by Carlo Zen and illustrated by Shinobu Shinotsuki , first appeared on the Arcadia website. It has been published as a book by Enterbrain since October 31, 2013 . Twelve volumes have appeared so far.
An adaptation of the series has been published as a manga in Comp Ace magazine by Kadokawa Shoten since April 2016 . Author and draftsman is Chika Tōjō . So far, 18 edited volumes have appeared. After the anime television series started in January 2017, the first two volumes were again sold strongly and sold around 85,000 and 73,000 copies respectively. In April, the fourth volume sold over 22,000 copies in the first week after its release. By the end of April 2018, the series, including the manga, had sold more than 3 million copies.
A German translation has been published as Tanya the Evil by Egmont Manga since May 2018, with 13 volumes so far.
Anime implementation
When Studio NuT was directed by Yutaka Uemura an anime adaptation of the Japanese television. The script was written by Kenta Ihara and the character design was done by Yuji Hosogoe . The artistic direction was with Satoru Hirayanagi . The 12 episodes of the series were broadcast from January 6 to March 31, 2017 by Aichi Television Broadcasting , AT-X , KBS Kyoto , Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation , Sun TV and Tokyo MX in Japan. At the same time, the anime was published by streaming on the Crunchyroll platform , including with German subtitles and, since September 26, 2018, with German synchronization.
Voice actor
| role | Japanese voice ( seiyū ) | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| Tanya Degurechaff | Aoi Yūki | Mayke Dähn |
| Viktoriya Ivanovna "Visha" Serebryakov | Saori Hayami | Catherine of Daake |
| Hans von Zettour | Hōchu Ōtsuka | Dirk Hardegen |
| Erich von Rerugen | Shinichiro Miki | Tobias Brecklinghaus |
| Kurt von Rudersdorf | Tesshō Genda | Torsten Münchow |
music
The music in the series was composed by Shūji Katayama . The opening credits are underlaid with Jingo Jungle by Myth & Roid and the two credits are on the loose! Come on! Come on! by Aoi Yūki and Sensen no Realism ( 戦 線 の リ ア リ ズ ム ) by Mako Niina. The latter is also played during the 9th episode.
radio play
With the third volume of the light novel, a radio play CD on Yōjo Senki was released on November 29, 2014 .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Anime series at Crunchyroll
- Entry on the light novel and the adaptations on Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, January 23-29. Anime News Network, February 1, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, April 3-9. Anime News Network, April 12, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Crystalyn Hodgkins: Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series (March - May 2018). In: Anime News Network. May 7, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018 .
- ↑ List of speakers. Crunchyroll, accessed January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ 『幼女 戦 記』 第 3 巻 の 帯 に 五十 嵐 裕美 さ ん 、 後 藤 ヒ ロ キ さ ん 、 石 塚 運 昇 さ ん ん 、 金元寿 子 さ ん が 出演 す る サ ウ ン 記載 URL の Times from April 13, 2017 in Japan .