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casenumber00
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 Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:56 am
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What truly astounded me about the series is the anime is full of economic, social, and military theory and doctrines you would find in a college lecture. I haven't seen an anime do something like that to this extend since Maoyuu Maou Yuusha and Spice and Wolf. As someone who took most intro college courses and watch History Channel documentaries, I found this extremely fun to watch.
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AnimeFlyz
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:28 am
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| Quote: | | What truly astounded me about the series is the anime is full of economic, social, and military theory and doctrines you would find in a college lecture. I haven't seen an anime do something like that to this extend since Maoyuu Maou Yuusha and Spice and Wolf. As someone who took most intro college courses and watch History Channel documentaries, I found this extremely fun to watch. |
Thats even more true in the Light Novels. They are an extremely heavy read and as a huge war history fan, they are fantastic. They don't always focus only on Tanya like the anime seems to do. It switches perspective to different generals and how the war is effecting them, which just makes the world building that much better.
Also I already mentioned this to Kim on Twitter, but the part where she complains that Mary is just a re-skin of Anson is only a problem in the Anime. I don't think this is a spoil since we have all obviously seen the anime, but during Anson's encounter with Tanya over Norden, where he gets stabbed and she steals his gun, he was meant to die. His death is the whole motivation for Mary to join the military and get revenge on Tanya. The anime only let him live so that the Season could have an epic battle near the end. It was a double edged sword cause while like Kim said, they felt way too similar, we got an amazing well animated fight out of it.
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7jaws7
Joined: 17 Aug 2013
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Location: New York State
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:18 am
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Sounds like a fun movie. A shame it’s not as popular stateside, but there’s a clear audience this was intended for (military otaku) and they aren’t really a huge presence here in the West. I hope we get a release soon, because Tanya is quickly becoming one of the best villains in anime and I wanna see how far the story can take her conquest.
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Fluwm
Joined: 28 Jul 2009
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:25 pm
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The level of depth to the LN's musings on political, economic and even religious theory are all pretty shallow... I'm frankly stunned to see someone compare them to college classes. Maybe it's the kind of thing students would discuss during the first week or two of an intro class? Honestly I'd compare it more to superficial skim-through of a Wikipedia article.
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