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幼女戦記 [Youjo Senki] Manga #7
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Comic MILF 7b Imperial army, start the winter offensive! The Imperial Army, The keywords are "buoy" and "landing back" We make a blow to the front line! 7th manga electric manga which magic and bullet goes and goes!
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January 30, 2024
Re-adding the "LGBTQ" tag since it starts with a flashback to "Tanya's" past life, from his very male perspective, which I thought was interesting in that he seemed to momentarily dream about his would-have-been future marrying 2nd Lieutenant Serebryakov(?) and having a daughter who looked exactly like Tanya.
Naturally, this part was cut from the anime, since it's just a bit too controversial flagrantly showing "God" to be so petty as to deliberately mess with this ONE GUY to get him to believe in Him. (Arguably, it's not "God" but is definitely drawn in a way that most people think of as THAT God, even if it's "Being X" to Tanya.)
I probably also like that part since at the very least it doesn't take five re-reads and extensive research to understand what's going on, like with the specific missions of the main story.
On that, though—okay, I finally *sort of* understand the push for the winter initiative in the prior volume: it's some weird hyperdimensional chess that military enthusiasts understand a little better than I do, since I haven't played Risk or any particularly accurate military strategy-type games (closest was Populous, and that was a crapshoot). I guess I could either re-watch the anime to understand better, but essentially there's some specific positioning of the army that the Empire could take advantage of in the same manner of the Battle of Inchon (per the notes), which Tanya knows through apparent extensive memorisation of world history from all that competitive past-life scholastic cramming, only to end up in... HR? A curious choice, but I guess the whole isekai had to be set up SOMEhow, and a disgruntled fired worker would do it.
I don't know.
I almost like this volume, until I got back to the end where . Seriously? I don't know.
Naturally, this part was cut from the anime, since it's just a bit too controversial flagrantly showing "God" to be so petty as to deliberately mess with this ONE GUY to get him to believe in Him. (Arguably, it's not "God" but is definitely drawn in a way that most people think of as THAT God, even if it's "Being X" to Tanya.)
I probably also like that part since at the very least it doesn't take five re-reads and extensive research to understand what's going on, like with the specific missions of the main story.
On that, though—okay, I finally *sort of* understand the push for the winter initiative in the prior volume: it's some weird hyperdimensional chess that military enthusiasts understand a little better than I do, since I haven't played Risk or any particularly accurate military strategy-type games (closest was Populous, and that was a crapshoot). I guess I could either re-watch the anime to understand better, but essentially there's some specific positioning of the army that the Empire could take advantage of in the same manner of the Battle of Inchon (per the notes), which Tanya knows through apparent extensive memorisation of world history from all that competitive past-life scholastic cramming, only to end up in... HR? A curious choice, but I guess the whole isekai had to be set up SOMEhow, and a disgruntled fired worker would do it.
I don't know.
I almost like this volume, until I got back to the end where . Seriously? I don't know.
December 8, 2023
Pretty good
October 23, 2019
In Summary
General Staff chooses to make a winter offensive on Norden! But before the fight begins, the narrative delves into the strategic nitty gritty of what the higher ups really have in mind for this seemingly foolish attack. While we don’t get any combat scenes till the very end of the volume, the lead-up to the fighting plus a glimpse into Tanya’s previous life keeps things engaging.
The Review
I commented in my review of Volume 6 that Being X has been absent a while. Well, apparently he doesn’t want us to forget him because he pops in at the opening of Volume 7. Although the chapter is titled “Norden VI,” nearly half of it is Tanya’s reflections on her previous world and the philosophies and events that formed her character. In the midst of this walk down memory lane, Being X interrupts with images of a life the Japanese salaryman could’ve had. The interaction between divine and mortal is brief, but in addition to the usual spite and venom that reaffirms our main character’s disgust toward his creator, we also see a rare instant of vulnerability.
Then it’s back to Norden and the winter offensive so hotly debated in the previous volume. Tanya calculated that such a push would only wear down the Empire’s already ragged resources, but General Staff is treating the Northern Army’s offense as part of a larger plan to subdue the Regadonia Alliance. Tanya piecing together the top-secret attack through her conversation with von Rudersdorf is covered in all three incarnations of this story, and as usual, the manga provides the clearest version. Whereas the anime breezes through the massive pincer plan too quickly and the novel’s narrative is a bit hard to comprehend, the manga’s depiction of the von Rudersdorf interchange followed by a cartoon outline spells out the operation in understandable terms. Granted, the outline is somewhat dense, but that’s only because so many elements are involved in the multipronged attack.
Having explained what the imperial forces are about to do, preparing to execute it is the next order of business. Thus far, we’ve only seen Army forces at work, and in “Norden VII” we get a first glimpse of the Navy. Despite the tension of the impending fight, these scenes are good for giggles. In addition to the usual contrast between Tanya’s train of thought and those of the adults around her, Tojo-sensei has fun with the character designs of the imperial sailors. (Battleship Yamato anyone?)
The volume concludes with the start of the strike on Os. While the illustrations deliver excitement with clarity per usual, they also included an artistic choice that made me really uncomfortable. Not to say that getting one’s clothes shredded is an impossibility in combat, but it just seems wrong when Tanya’s the only one fighting naked in a zone filled almost entirely with adult men. I really wish Tojo-sensei had let her stay clothed or leveled the field by making everyone naked.
Extras include battle log thus far, character introductions and detailed glossary of terms between chapters.
For more manga and book reviews, drop by my blog Keeping It In Canon!
General Staff chooses to make a winter offensive on Norden! But before the fight begins, the narrative delves into the strategic nitty gritty of what the higher ups really have in mind for this seemingly foolish attack. While we don’t get any combat scenes till the very end of the volume, the lead-up to the fighting plus a glimpse into Tanya’s previous life keeps things engaging.
The Review
I commented in my review of Volume 6 that Being X has been absent a while. Well, apparently he doesn’t want us to forget him because he pops in at the opening of Volume 7. Although the chapter is titled “Norden VI,” nearly half of it is Tanya’s reflections on her previous world and the philosophies and events that formed her character. In the midst of this walk down memory lane, Being X interrupts with images of a life the Japanese salaryman could’ve had. The interaction between divine and mortal is brief, but in addition to the usual spite and venom that reaffirms our main character’s disgust toward his creator, we also see a rare instant of vulnerability.
Then it’s back to Norden and the winter offensive so hotly debated in the previous volume. Tanya calculated that such a push would only wear down the Empire’s already ragged resources, but General Staff is treating the Northern Army’s offense as part of a larger plan to subdue the Regadonia Alliance. Tanya piecing together the top-secret attack through her conversation with von Rudersdorf is covered in all three incarnations of this story, and as usual, the manga provides the clearest version. Whereas the anime breezes through the massive pincer plan too quickly and the novel’s narrative is a bit hard to comprehend, the manga’s depiction of the von Rudersdorf interchange followed by a cartoon outline spells out the operation in understandable terms. Granted, the outline is somewhat dense, but that’s only because so many elements are involved in the multipronged attack.
Having explained what the imperial forces are about to do, preparing to execute it is the next order of business. Thus far, we’ve only seen Army forces at work, and in “Norden VII” we get a first glimpse of the Navy. Despite the tension of the impending fight, these scenes are good for giggles. In addition to the usual contrast between Tanya’s train of thought and those of the adults around her, Tojo-sensei has fun with the character designs of the imperial sailors. (Battleship Yamato anyone?)
The volume concludes with the start of the strike on Os. While the illustrations deliver excitement with clarity per usual, they also included an artistic choice that made me really uncomfortable. Not to say that getting one’s clothes shredded is an impossibility in combat, but it just seems wrong when Tanya’s the only one fighting naked in a zone filled almost entirely with adult men. I really wish Tojo-sensei had let her stay clothed or leveled the field by making everyone naked.
Extras include battle log thus far, character introductions and detailed glossary of terms between chapters.
For more manga and book reviews, drop by my blog Keeping It In Canon!
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