Youjo Senki Movie

With its armies sweeping across the continent, the Empire seems unstoppable. After securing victory over the remnants of the Republic's army, the Empire's ultimate victory is finally within reach. However, dark clouds are gathering in the East. The communist-led Russy Federation is mustering troops on its western border, preparing to enter the war. ed by a detachment of Allied volunteer magicians—among whom is Mary Sioux, the daughter of a soldier killed by Tanya Degurechaff—the Federation is determined to spread the communist creed and bring the Empire to its knees.

Meanwhile, Tanya and her battalion return to the imperial capital from the southern front. Upon their arrival, they are tasked with investigating troop movements on the border with the Federation. Any escalation of violence at this point may lead to new conflicts, plunging the world into a devastating global war.

Will the Empire eventually emerge victorious from its struggle, or will it crumble in the face of superior enemies and radically different ideologies?

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Degurechaff, Tanya Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Serebryakova, Viktoriya Ivanovna Main

Hayami, Saori Japanese

von Zettour, Hans ing

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

von Lergen, Erich ing

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Sioux, Mary ing

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

von Rudersdorf, Kurt ing

Genda, Tesshou Japanese

Weiss, Matheus Johann ing

Hamano, Daiki Japanese

von Schugel, Adelheid ing

Tobita, Nobuo Japanese

Koenig, Wilibald ing

Kasama, Jun Japanese

Grantz, Warren ing

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Kikushima, Kazufumi Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Tsunoki, Takuya Producer

Uemura, Yutaka Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Mar 10, 2019

MadaoPriest

Recommended

The Youjo Senki Movie is a mixture of historical anomalies, self-reflective commentaries on the perpetual cycle of death and war in human history and the persistent yet noble personal battle which our main character Tanya puts up against what's effectively the God of this world (Or Being X, if you will).
All whilst stuck in the body of a young girl. Sounds like your kind of thing? Then welcome, to the "Saga of Tanya the Evil" (movie)!

Tanya as a series was made by Studio NUT, a relatively new studio comprised of ionate individuals willing to work their ass of for their craft. I recently ... had the pleasure of visiting Japan to see this movie and on the trip I took a detour to visit the official Youjo Senki café (a 1-floor detour). Lots and lots of memorabilia from the series could be found, including a functional suit of battle gear which Tanya wears in the series & movie. Slick, gritty & beautiful key-art littered the area, and it made me even more stoked to see the movie. The ion in each frame could be seen before I even entered cinema and my anticipation and excitement was met with a bombastic balls-to-the-walls historical action-adventure with the same cast of characters we all fell in love with back in season 1. This time... introducing the communists!

As an enemy to Tanya and the "Eternal Empire" they were far more fearsome than the psuedo-French of last season. Not that they didn't do their job back then (and they do show up in the movie), but in comparison the size and scope of the Russian federation could be felt thanks to a combination of striking visual symbolism & an attentive composer doing his best to ease you into an underlying feeling of dread which permeated throughout the entire movie. Similar musical motifs are used from season 1, but they're given a real "Hans Zimmer" treatment (Hans Zimmer of 10 years ago that is) Calm piano pieces, high octane trumpets & an ill-boding pipe organ are all examples of instruments used to help elevate the score to greater cinematic heights.

In the end this was worth waiting for. The animation still looks crisp and beautiful, even more so with a movie budget. The characters and VA's all work perfectly, some of the new ones give off more of an impression thanks to their VA's (All veterans, like Cho & Toshiyuki Morikawa)

I'm not going to go into spoilers, but the ending gave me shivers. In what way I won't tell, but they make fine use of directing choices to present a suggestion to both the audience and characters... that is very interesting.

Myth & Roid's new song is pretty great too, more subdued & ominous.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 11, 2023

Skerza

Recommended

Spoiler-Free Review!

The long-awaited sequel is here and oh boy was it good, overall the movie was action-packed and had some character development for our new characters. More importantly, we see the continuation of the saga of Tanya. The movie explains the next involvement of characters like our new anti-protagonist Aka Mary Sue, the daughter of Anson Sioux (Aka the guy who had the fucking trench shotgun in season 1).

It takes a turn and goes ahead into the story but introduces her "upbringing" and what type of character she is. The movie also shows what we can expect from the next season(which is going to ... be a thing) which I'm excited about. The quality was overall great like other films that were movie based. I was lucky to watch it in theatres and would recommend anyone to watch the movie first if that wasn't obvious then the second season due to the fact its canon.

The movie did leave me unsatisfied due to the short introduction of how are characters met but that's cause I wanted more but I can respect the hour and a half for the time to introduce the next characters and what they did to meet our current MC.Studio NUT did a fantastic job with the new Battle OST which was pretty awesome to hear and the overall art of the show. Yuuki Aoi did a good job as well the new voice actors, especially the VA that played Mary Sue.

In between shots they did use CGI and as an eyesore its now the normal sadly for many studios but that was only a quick scene, easily ignorable. Back to the OST is a mix of new and old which come from the anime. Like I said it was good but also the action-packed scenes in the movies with that music really made me immersed in the theatre and brought back feelings of hearing it again for the first time during S1, it made me so hyped. No spoilers :3. The movie was overall good and it filled that hole that wanted more of our loli "nazi".

As the day of this review, it was a one day premier so it might take a while for you guys to see it but it'll be something to look forward to definitely.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 1, 2022

jonas1015119

Mixed Feelings

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I've got the vague feeling that the author *really* hates Russia, leading to some scenes generously described as "historically insensitive".

The animation and aerial battles in particular look better than in the series, though there's also more mediocre CGI. Theres clearly a bigger focus on flashy combat scenes rather than elaborate tactics.



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Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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