Have you ever wanted to join the military forces? Become a soldier and fight against all those people who threaten the freedom of your country and the lives of the ones who love? Well then men Prepare for War Saga of Tanya the Evil Youjo Senki is an anime based on Carlo Zens light novel series 12 volumes currenlty illustrated by Shinobu Shinotsuki. The anime series has got 12 episodes and a movie together they catch until novel volume 3 this hints a possible season 2 sadly not announced yet. 200https://www.animeclick.it/prove/tmp/201801/Youjo20Senki20Movie.jpg 180https://www.animeclick.it/images/manga/YoujoSenkiNovel/YoujoSenkiNovel1.jpg This review has a lot of spoilers be sure to watch the anime first. STORY: 75/100 Tanya Degurechaff is a very young girl with a great ability known in her world as magic. People with this power the wizards must join the army. Her only goal is to live a peacefully without risking her life. But as Destiny wanted she has to fight at the forefront. Do not be fooled by her seemingly loli aspect inside her she hides a ruthless heart and an irrepressible thirst for war. https://i.pin.com/originals/01/c3/89/01c3897019775f0e1ad53099fb64374b.gif https://media1.tenor.com/images/a6af5ebff5281b1354e0b4807f4abc0b/tenor.gif?itemid=16329821 The story makes us remember something as the II World War but of course this is a different war still fought in our same planet with the same countries and cities. When war starts only an army can win but human emotions as rage fear and revenge make every single decision and event unpredictable. The only sore point of the plot is its complexity. You have to follow every step every plan every dialogue in order to better understand what is going to happen. Its like being in a war you cant afford distractions unless you want everything you fought for to be thrown in the trash. For this reason this series may not be very appreciated by the public. ANIMATION: 85/100 The colors remain apparently static tending to green and carmine red colors typical of the war. As for the animations we go from quiet moments with the variation of the light of day and night to exciting actions of war in the middle of a shooting between explosions and spells. The smooth animation really fills our heart with anxiety and mistery wondering who would win and who would lose. https://www.sbs.com.au/popasia/sites/sbs.com.au.popasia/files/styles/full/public/sagaoftanyatheevilfilmheader.gif?itok=J9xXsPCymtime=1515465536 CHARACTER DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT: 60/100 I have to say this but this masterpiece has an enormous lack of character design and developing apart from the protagonist Tanya. The other characters all have similar hair color hair cut and most of them arent even that fundamental for the story. The only person who can do something that can change everything is apparently Tanya this makes the whole story focused on her persona. And almost all of the characters Tanya partially included have very long and hardtoremember names german or russian mostly Even the characters who seem to be more important like Viktoriya Ivanovna Serebryakov still has no delevopment. Truly a big disappointment. https://media1.tenor.com/images/a4429db0901579a0132c78f05656b2cf/tenor.gif?itemid=14421385 MUSIC: 100/100 If we think of war we think of a national anthem something that can get easily stucked in peoples mind and that they can easily remember and sing. Well then the opening and the ending of this series are the perfect examples. When we listen to them the first thing that comes out of our mind is surely Tanyas sadist smile OP: JINGLE JUNGLE MYTH ROID https://youtu.be/fggISqEyuew ED: Los Los Los Aoi Yuki https://youtu.be/ow0bCrmr1Q LAST THOUGHS As a fan I really wish for a season 2. After the movie aired in 2019 there is still so much that we dont know. Waiting for that I hope Ill have time one day to read all 12 novels. Wish me luck