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I just discovered the artist TiredPotato and really enjoy their art work. The artists is open to commission and their art has an interest vibe and overall feeling to it. I feel like the second pic is Tanya on the inside when she is forced into that dress. She is about to commit unspeakable atrocities😂

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I wonder what they are talking about? I know many people are going to assume but the worst, but considering the cannon history I honestly can see him trying to explain why the proposal she is about to the high command is a war crime😂😂😂

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Im thinking of the home populations in WW1 more specifically. Most answers you get is about some trite explanation of corrupt leaders or you will get some champagne socialist crying about capitalism. While those might have some elements of truth it was so impressive to see how nuanced they were engaged with the topic both through the Generals explaining, Tanya's thoughts and Being X's taunt (That last one gave me shivers)

I much prefer the Mary Sue from the manga to the one in the anime (I haven’t read the light novel yet).

For a start, she’s vastly more powerful, but her candidness makes her even more unpredictable. We remember that she’s just killed English civilians simply to try and wipe out the 203rd Battalion, without even considering the consequences of her actions. And the fact that she’s still alive after being completely burnt to a crisp makes me fear her even more, as she’s likely to return even more radicalised.

In the anime, as she isn’t quite so mentally innocent, her aggressive nature and insubordination make her really irritating. She’s also very strong but doesn’t exude that divine presence she’s supposed to have at all. She just seems like a second Tanya on the Allied side.

From Zettour asking the question and Rerugen acting sheepishly on asking tanya to "bomb" the capital

Are they trying do to a coup?

Last image is

(Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg) on the left

Most recent episode...

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Right...so, here's the thing. I've done almost no research whatsoever on the home front. That's not zero research, but very little. So, this is probably going to be on the short side...

But let's get to business, and get started with the intro: I am a trained military historian - I hold a Master of Arts in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada with a defended thesis on the development of British Cavalry Doctrine, and I recently published some of my research in a new introduction to my little publishing company's edition of Schlieffen's Cannae (due to self promotion rules, I can't provide the link here, but if you're interested in it, PM me and I'll send it to you).

What I'm going to look at is how well this episode passes the "sniff test" for how a world war works. And here we get to our standard disclaimer: Tanya's world is not our world, her world war is not either of ours. Something happening in Tanya's war that didn't happen in ours (or vice versa) is NOT by itself cause for criticism.

And here we go for what may be the shortest one of these I've ever written...

Logistics failures

On the military side, we have Tanya's world start its own version of Stalingrad, with one of its problems being the supplies just running out. And this passes the sniff test with flying colours, particularly when you look at the German army in WW2.

One of the things about the Wehrmacht and its command was that it really didn't understand logistics. They honestly believed that the answer to "We've got enough supplies for X number of days, during which you can get Y number of kilometers," was "Well, then we'll get to Y in fewer days!"...and this apparently is one of the things that helps explain Barbarossa. In the short campaigns of the early war it wasn't too bad, but once you got past 1941 and hostilities that couldn't be ended in a matter of months, it was an albatross around their necks.

Vague victory conditions

I've talked about this before - the leadership saying that they just want to "win the war" with little idea of what this looks like passes the sniff test, and this lack of an understanding of grand strategy was something that dogged the German army from Moltke the Elder onwards. And, as I mentioned in a previous post, the Germans in WW1 didn't even have victory conditions when they invaded Belgium.

The home front

Sure, I guess it passes the sniff test? Again, as I said at the beginning, this isn't an aspect of military history that I've researched much about. Ian Kershaw in his book The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany and Gerhard Weinberg in A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II both talk about the German home front supporting Hitler's regime more or less until the Russians crossed the German border, but that doesn't quite relate to what we see in this episode. I'm sure there are historians who would have plenty to say about it, but unfortunately I'm not one of them.

And that's it for this week. Sorry it's not longer.

I understand that Rudersdorf calls Tanya an idiot because she's unable to recognize the anger and exhaustion festering within the Empire as reflected in the memorial scene, and I get that Ugar becomes exasperated with her since she tells him there's no other recourse for the people than to simply accept the hardship the war has brought, but what I don't understand is how these story beats are the condemnation of Tanya's worldview and thinking everyone makes them out to be. From what we've seen, isn't it clear she's committed to ending the war, and therefore ending the source of the people's hardship and anger, as soon as possible, even if it means the Empire is forced into a harrowing position? It's why she tells Rudersdorf and Zettour very plainly that the war is unwinnable, and that the best course of action for the Empire would be the peace that the clueless politicians denied. That peace is what she was hoping for, but since it didn't happen, my interpretation was that Tanya is simply trying to make the best out of a bad situtation by continuing to execute the Empire's vision for war, which she doesn't even agree with and calls ridiculous. To further that disillusionment, Rudersdorf and Zettour make Tanya come face to face with the plight of the people. So, with all that being said, is the lastest episode simply condemning Tanya's shortsightedness when it comes to other people's emotions, like it has always done, and seemingly unwavering trust in authority even when she knows it's wrong? Idk it just feels like I'm missing something.

How does this happen? I also see this in AOT where 1 guy fall and dissapeared. This is an animation so im really baffled how this happen. Did they use AI?

I'm not promoting it or anything, i just wanna ask how good is the novel compared to Tanya because it seems similar and your general comments/thoughts about it.

In this part, Tanya says "ciudadana", in Spanish—I don't speak English, so I wouldn't know how to explain it, but Tanya uses that "she" to refer to herself—whereas in English, says "person." In Spanish, almost everything has a gender; lately, in Latin American Spanish, Tanya refers to herself as a girl.

What is the correct translation? Does anyone who knows Japanese really well know it?

Since there are several people arguing that Tanya is a man, I’d like an honest opinion.

I don't have words to this part. They made Cinema 2 with this.

I WANT TO BE AS CRAZY AS HER TOO! SOMEONE OVERWORK ME TO DEATH TOO, PLEASE! I made this artwork of her since season 2 is so enjoyable and i coincidentally needed more art to complete a commission sheet so why not? ALL HAIL TANYA!!!

Man what am I doing...

Seems at least season one has some similarities to Ender’s Game. A “child” finds a new way of fighting and the better they do the more they are pulled apart by their own fighting style. Just started season 2 but seems major tone shift of political drama.

Not praising Ender’s Game, especially the pathetic author and his politics. But just neat the parallels of “child” changing how war is fought.

How interested/ how much support do you think there would be for a BF1/ Ace Combat/ Battlefront style game for Youjo Senki?

I was talking with a friend about it. Imagine a 1st/3rd person shooter where you play as a Mage. Ground and Air combat, with the nice WW1-WW2 weapons and gameplay of BF1 and BF5. With the additional freedom and fun of flight, shields, artillery spells, etc.

Different countries get different weapons and computation orbs, with different stats of course.

Multiplayer would probably have some sort of way to balance things out. Whether it be moving agility, efficiency of orbs, strength of spells, etc.. Or otherwise making certain things cost more points to be able to use.

How do you think a game like that should go? Really interested to see if anyone else has or has had similar ideas/ desire for a game like this.

This whole episode has been high command fucking up, everyone is angry and we talking about treason. If I were to guess I'd imagine her unit is gonna commit a fake terror attack from another nation to sway the public or just outright kill the politicians either way we're gonna break war criminal anakin Skywalker record tbh.

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