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 ====== Youjo Senki ======
-{{ :img:bnr:r:youjo-senki.png?460 |Youjo Senki}}
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 **{{ruby|幼女|ようじょ}}{{ruby|戦記|せんき}}**(Little Girl's War Chronicle), known as the ‘Saga of Tanya the Evil’ in English, is an [[lb:isekai]] series about a HR employee who dies and gets reincarnated as a little girl, **Tanya**, in an alternate //magical// World War 1/2. With a premise like that, it can’t possibly be bad.\\
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 ==== Anime ====
-The anime is a bit of a weird adaptation, but might be more faithful to the LN than the manga is. This is mostly because Tanya's prettiness is turned way up in the manga. In the anime...\\  Well, I won't comment on that too much. Another (possible) change from the LN is that Tanya is obviously evil/sadistic in the anime. In the manga Tanya is not a sadistic person by nature. She does a lot of her ‘evil’ mostly because it's the most efficient way of doing things (efficient in the short/long term). Tanya is a bit like me when playing [[lb:senvaru]], [[lb:gfl#girlsfrontline2exilium|GFL2]] or [[lb:warcraft#rtsgames|Warcraft 3]]: the solution to every problem is to kill everything. Once they're dead, they can’t bother you anymore.\\  That's at least the impression I get. In the anime, however, she specifically transfers two people away so they would die and then snickers about it later.
+The anime is a bit of a weird adaptation, but might be more faithful to the LN than the manga is. This is mostly because Tanya's prettiness is turned way up in the manga. In the anime...\\  Well, I won't comment on that too much. Another (possible) change from the LN is that Tanya is obviously evil/sadistic in the anime. In the manga Tanya is not a sadistic person by nature. She does a lot of her ‘evil’ mostly because it's the most efficient way of doing things (efficient in the short/long term). Tanya is a bit like me when playing [[lb:senvaru]], [[lb:gfl#girlsfrontline2exilium|GFL2]] or [[lb:warcraft#rtsgames|Warcraft 3]]: the solution to every problem is to kill everything. Once they're dead, they can’t bother you anymore.\\  That's at least the impression I get. In the anime, however, she specifically transfers two people away so they would die and then snickers about it after she learns they did.
 ===== Speculah & Analysis =====
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 However, this is all built on the assumption that wealth/prosperity = faithlessness. This is also sometimes argued in the primary world...but, yeah, no.\\
 The large-scale decline in religiosity didn't really happen until World War 1...particularly in Europe. In America the decline can be attributed to Boomers and their support of Post-Modernism. And, well, depending on how you look at it, the Boomers //were// a result of prosperity, though it's perhaps more accurate to say the Boomers were the result of catastrophically bad parenting advice based on bad understandings of psychology.\\
-The idea that wealth/prosperity = faithlessness is largely a myth.((:fn:>I think this myth is favored by the irreligious since it gives them a sense of superiority over the ‘backward’ and ‘poor’ religious.)) I mean, the Victorian Era is mostly remembered as ‘steampunk’, but it was also a super religious time period. In fact, Americans stuck to religion as official justification until, at least, the end of WW2...since MacArthur specifically promised to convert Japan to Christianity by pumping them full of missionaries. That was also a thing the European powers did in their colonies: promote Christianity by encouraging missionaries to move in.\\
+The idea that wealth/prosperity = faithlessness is largely a myth.((:fn:>I think this myth is favored by the irreligious since it gives them a sense of superiority over the ‘backward’ and ‘poor’ religious.)) I mean, the Victorian Era is mostly remembered as ‘steampunk’, but it was also a super religious time period. In fact, Americans stuck to religion as official justification until, at least, the end of WW2...since MacArthur specifically promised to convert Japan to Christianity by pumping them full of missionaries.((:fn:>This isn't 100% related and my memory is fuzzy, but I believe the reasoning was that Japan became imperialist and nationalist and whatnot because they were non-Christian, so it was reasoned they would become more pacifist by converting them. The reasoning is kinda dumb, but this isn't the place to argue with MacArthur.)) That was also a thing the European powers did in their colonies: promote Christianity by encouraging missionaries to move in.\\
 I'm pointing to the Victorian Era specifically because that was a period in time where Science was viewed with a lot of prestige and people (particularly the British) were getting significantly wealthier...yet it didn't seem to erode their spiritual beliefs at all. Even Darwin remained religious after discovering evolution.\\
 Youjo Senki is actually, probably, depicting a fairly accurate version of the First World War (and prior), spiritually speaking.\\