| A Winter 2017 Surprise - Youjo Senki [message #335825] |
Sat, 14 January 2017 13:59  |
Dave Baranyi
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Well, I received a pleasant surprise with the first 2017 anime that I tried from my “hopeless” list - “Youjo Senki”. What we have here appeared at first glance to be yet another “cute girl” show but in reality is a very cynical and quite funny black comedy.
In an alternate world in the mid-1920s, a pre-WWI type of political situation in Europe has evolved into a war in which the Germany-type central power is under attack by all of its neighbours, similar to the situation of Prussia during the 7 Years War. While most of the technology of the war is at WWI level, there is no aviation but there is a militarized combat magic in its place. Parallel to the use of aviation at the start of WWI, the militarized magic is used mainly for observation and reconnaissance, but both sides are starting to learn how to use magic weapons for ground support as well as for anti-airmagic recon. Into this situation we are introduced to a very particular second lieutenant in the German Magic Air Corps, Tanya, who happens to be a 9 year old girl with exceptional powers. Tanya also has anything but a 9 year old's attitude and is much, much more than meets the eye.
The anime is adapted from a light novel which is also being adapted into a manga. The anime has taken an “in media res” approach to telling the story, which has bothered a number of light novel and manga readers, but I think that it worked quite well for the first episode. So I'm looking forward to the second episode and hoping that the animation team can keep up the good work.
Dave Baranyi
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| Re: A Winter 2017 Surprise - Youjo Senki [message #336035 is a reply to message #335925] |
Wed, 18 January 2017 16:52  |
Dave Baranyi
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On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 6:29:51 AM UTC-5, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 1/14/17 1:59 PM, Dave Baranyi wrote:
>> Well, I received a pleasant surprise with the first 2017 anime that I tried from my “hopeless” list - “Youjo Senki”. What we have here appeared at first glance to be yet another “cute girl” show but in reality is a very cynical and quite funny black comedy.
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More appropriately, Loli Tojo... lol
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| Re: A Winter 2017 Surprise - Youjo Senki [message #337279 is a reply to message #335825] |
Mon, 13 February 2017 04:47 |
GeoffC
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On 14/01/2017 18:59, Dave Baranyi wrote:
> Well, I received a pleasant surprise with the first 2017 anime that I tried from my “hopeless” list - “Youjo Senki”. What we have here appeared at first glance to be yet another “cute girl” show but in reality is a very cynical and quite funny black comedy.
I quite enjoyed the first episode of this.
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