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Yōjo Senki Anime Series In The Works


A new military chronicle is about to set forth into the anime world.

Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki’s Yōjo Senki (The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl) light novels will receive an anime adaptation. The news was revealed on the wrap-around band of the series’s fifth volume, which hits Japanese retailers on Saturday.

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Yōjo Senki made its début on October 31, 2013 under Kadokawa’s Enterbrain label. Volume 4 of the series hit stores on June 29, 2015.

The series received a drama CD, which cast Hiromi Igarashi (Durarara!! ×2 The Second Arc, Amagi Brilliant Park) as main character Tanya Degurechaff.

Database site Baka Updates describes the series as follows:

On the front line of the war, there’s a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan’s most elite salarymen, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself “God.” And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army…

Source: Twitter (IEEE80211)

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