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Yōjo Senki TV Anime Premieres in January, Casts Aoi Yūki in Lead Role (Updated)
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official Twitter account of the Tsutaya media store chain revealed on Sunday the lead voice actress, theme song artists, and January premiere of Yōjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil, the television anime adaptation of author Carlo Zen and illustrator Shinobu Shinotsuki's Yōjo Senki (The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl) light novel series.
The show's official website additionally confirmed on Monday that the series will premiere on AT-X on January 6 at 10:00 p.m. The series will also air on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, and BS11. AbemaTV will stream the series.
Aoi Yūki (Puella Magi Madoka Magica's Madoka, Sword Art Online II's Yuuki) will play main character Tanya Degurechov (seen in visual below). Yūki will also perform the anime's ending theme song "Los! Los! Los!" The song's CD single will ship on February 22.
MYTH&ROID will perform the opening theme song "JINGO JUNGLE." The song's CD single will ship on February 8.
The show's characters include:
Tanya, the Imperial Military's aviation mage officer
Relgen, the Imperial Military General Staff Headquarters' service corps staff officer
Seetour, the Imperial Military General Staff Headquarters' service corps vice Chief of Staff
Visha, the Imperial Military's aviation mage officer
Ludeldorf, the Imperial Military General Staff Headquarters' tactical staff deputy director
The site streamed a teaser video for the anime last month.
The novel series centers on a young girl who fights on the frontlines in war. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, and nearly transparent white skin, and she flies through the air and mercilessly strikes down her opponents. Her name is Tanya Degurechov, and she speaks with a young girl's lisp and commands the army. Tanya used to be one of Japan's elite office workers, but because of a wrathful god, was reborn as a little girl. Tanya prioritizes optimization and career advancement above all, and she will become the most dangerous entity among the Imperial Army's MAGES.
Zen and Shinotsuki launched the novel series in 2013. Kadokawa's Enterbrain brand published the sixth novel on June 30. Chika Tōjō (Code Geass: Oz The Reflection 02) is serializing a manga version in Kadokawa's Monthly Comp Ace magazine.
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