TS Eiseihei-san no Senjou Nikki - Ch. 22.1

[Polaflame]

touri genuinely feels so broken here in a very scary way...
i wonder how it feels for the adults to see a child talk about the horrors of war and what she had to do just to save even more lives even if it was so cruel

 

[BentusiII]

Traumamaxxing

 

[Senko112]

War is scary

 

[Tavero]

In a way, I like this over Youjo Senki. Touri has a reason to become a jaded pragmatist. The world she lives in is just that vile.
Tanya was an ass before being sent to a comparatively less dangerous scenario. Say what you want about Being X, he makes Tanya's world challenging but manageable. Touri has to make do with whatever God-forsaken hand she's dealt at any moment.

Tanya from Youjo Senki is a completely different Charakter in the Novels. Not only does she look totally different in the novels, she was a Nihilist there. In the anime she goes out of her way to cause suffering. She gives herself additional work just to kill off Charakters she has a grudge against. While smiling and loving every second of it. A pragmatist doesnt do that. Only an evil person does. Probably the reason why they renamed the adaptation to "Tanya the evil"
In retrospect the anime was quite bad and overrated. Its only liked because it has a very unique setting. Historic WW + magic + isekai is quite rare. Only other adaptation I can think of was Drifters.

 

[DanJADO]

Another difference is that, for the most part, Youjo Senki treats deaths a bit differently. If you notice, Tanya has never experienced major casualties. All of her close confidants and second-in-commands are all alive. Any death around her are either nameless mooks (even within her own unit), distant allies, or just straight up enemies. Every time any one of them is close to death, they somehow survive it.

This manga introduces you to characters and makes them interact with Touri JUST long enough for them to plant some seed of relationship/security and then puts their heads on gunpoint. You dont know when they will pull the trigger, but they WILL pull the trigger.

If anything, Groundless is a closer reading experience.

Groundless is great. I did wish the protagonist were more independent, but given her backstory, her current personality makes sense