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Onean posted:Honestly, that seems like a highly unlikely possibility. I haven't read the books, but Tanya is entirely focused on following the rules on the quickest path to an easy life. Being a militant, conquering dictator is not an easy life. Also not a book reader but I don't think she wants to become a militant dictator. I'm pretty sure she is aiming to climb the ranks of the not-Prussian Officer Corps and become just a part of the General Staff which is "easy" in that she won't get shot anytime soon and her high level of intelligence and competence from her previous life guarantees success and job safety. Her original goal as a salaryman was to be a department chief so basically a difficult to replace cog in the bureaucratic machine. She was reincarnated as an orphan with high magical aptitude in a country that drafted kids with high magical aptitude so God was setting her up to be shot at. I'm not sure where this show is going but I'm on board if it's just Tanya constantly getting sabotaged by either God or herself for being unable to compensate for other people's "irrational" behaviour. Aoi Yuuki is a treat and it's fun to hear her lovely salaryman voice. Also I think the animation style is perfectly fine even though they clearly spend more time on Tanya's face than on like the rest of the characters combined.
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Namtab posted:What I'm slightly interested in is the world's history. We know that its Earth because of the geography and the fact that there's a book on Hannibals battle at Cannes. We know that magic is done through technology (the man-made gems). We also know that its 1921 and world war 1 hasn't happened yet. Well it looks like alt-A-H hasn't declared on alt-Serbia yet because alt-Russia isn't in the fray. As far as know there's been a border skirmish with alt-Denmark and an all out war with alt-France so that aspect of the Schlieffen plan is still there. The place isn't run by facists so there's no Nazis running around looking for Lebensraum so I think it's fair to say that the conflict is basically Franco-Prussian War 2 that spirals out of control and sucks the world into WW1.
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Jan 28, 2017 21:24
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:I'm kinda confused now. Wasn't the whole 'Plan 315' a delaying action on different fronts and shifting troops to conquer each front respectively? But if they're only fighting Not-France, they only have the one front to fight on the continent. So the border skirmish in not-Denmark (actually looking at the map again it's actually in not-Sweden and it looks like Prussia ate into Swedish land after the not-Schleswig War part 2) happens in 1923 and episode 1's narration is in 1924 (while the actual action is in 1923) so in a year's timespan the Not-Franco Prussian War 2 sucks in Not-England and Not-Russia (and maybe also Not-Austria too?) and Plan 315 takes place and also fails. At least, that's what I'm getting out of it.
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Jan 28, 2017 22:07
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I don't know how much of it is the original author's POV and how much of it is Tanya's character (although at some point she did make mention to the Chicago school so I wonder...) but the idea that people are rational actors is a fairly modern one and she keeps trying to apply cold hard corporate logic leading to unexpected factors plus the "irrationality" of the people in this period throwing her plans off course. If it really is supposed to be Being X influencing other nations to become more belligerent it's not really a necessary plot point for the writer to include because nations even nowadays do not act completely "rationally" as uh, highlighted by very recent events. It's a big weakness of modern fiction writing about the past where for some reason the writer always assumes that people in power are rational actors exploiting this and that to achieve their goals when for the vast majority of human history no, leaders really did believe that God wanted them to go and kill millions of unbelievers and that they weren't just coldly manipulating religion to their ends and so forth.
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Jan 29, 2017 03:18
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hoobajoo posted:The first episode was a pretty bold choice; if you watch the second episode it works great as a package, but just the first episode gives you none of Tanya's inner life, which is to me what makes the show stand out. I can totally imagine someone watching just the first episode, not getting what the fuss is about, and missing out. It was a pretty dumb choice and I'm sure it might have lost a lot of viewers at the cost of... well, they didn't really get anything by showing it aside from essentially war porn. Also I don't see what's wrong with just saying "she" for Tanya. It's reincarnation, it's supposed to happen all the time and you don't carry your gender with you when you are reborn. Unless her past life suddenly gets thrust back into the focus (I hope not).
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Jan 30, 2017 19:50
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48 mages are going to get whittled down so hard once not-England and not-Russia get into the fray.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:06
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Being X is just bitching about how lovely his job has become and dumbass salaryman puts on his fedora triggering that most powerful of cosmic forces: spite
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Feb 7, 2017 13:48
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Poil posted:Tanya knows the only acceptable outcome is to paint the map with your own colors. Please avoid coalitions when doing so though as it will make it harder to avoid border gore.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:46
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She'll be in trouble once not-England steps into the fray with not-Sopwith Camels.
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Feb 13, 2017 01:40
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God's kind of a dick to ignore everyone else's prayers just to convert one believer
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The dad's name in the last episode was Anson Sue and this episode he's Anson Sioux so who knows but I guess he's supposed to be an American expat?
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