Saga of Tanya the Evil II: Second Trailer Drops After a 9-Year Wait

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 744)

• After years of complete silence, I'm so happy Season 2 of Saga of Tanya the Evil is finally confirmed

  数年間も音沙汰がなかった幼女戦記の2期の放送が決定したのは非常に嬉しい

  — @榎本滋-b7y1,022 likes

• Now if only we could get a new light novel volume too...

  そろそろ原作のほうも新刊欲しいわ…

  — @汚い高音-t6t36 likes

• And from what I can see, the animation looks movie-quality

  しかも見る限り映画並みの作画

  — @Aヘッド18 likes

• Even just from the trailer, you can see the Empire's limits, and it hurts

  予告だけでも帝国の限界見えてて辛い

  — @sound-hydrogen687 likes

• How hard it is to actually end a war hits even harder given how things are right now in the real world

  戦争の終わらせ方の難しさは今のご時世だと余計に刺さりますね

  — @やる気行方不明展22 likes

• Watching real wars, you realize just how difficult it actually is to end one

  現実の戦争を見ても終わらせるのが何と難しい事か

  — @mikiable257175 likes

• This is the start of a hellish Eastern Front

  地獄の独ソ戦の始まりです

  — @piko4745381 likes

• And from the west, there's definitely going to be a landing operation on the Republic's northern coast by the Federation and the Commonwealth

  そして西からは間違いなく合衆国と連合王国による共和国北部海岸への上陸作戦がある

  — @功-d7y17 likes

• I really need to see Zettour losing his mind on the Eastern Front

  ゼートゥーアが東部の戦場で発狂してる姿が見たすぎる

  — @水海-j7n64 likes

• The old man who got demoted by his own friend, only to go on a rampage from his new post and wreck the Federation lol

  友に更迭されたのに更迭先で無双して連邦をボコボコにするお爺ちゃん😮

  — @功-d7y7 likes

• Lergen's stomachache is about to break through its limit

  レルゲンの腹痛が限界突破しそう

  — @mugi-neko33591 likes

• And the overtime too

  残業もね

  — @汚い高音-t6t20 likes

• If sacrificing Lergen is the price for getting a season 2 of a masterpiece, that's a bargain and then some lol

  レルゲンを生け贄に名作の2期が観れるのならトントンどころかお釣りが来まっせ😂

  — @名畑真樹-k5i12 likes

• Great to see Gendou Tesshou still doing well

  玄田哲章元気そうでなにより

  — @ぺイ-c4w201 likes

• This is an anime for listening to hot old-man voices. So glad the Gendou Tesshou and Otsuka Houchu combo is still going strong 9 years later

  おじさん達のイケボを聴くアニメ。9年後も玄田哲章&大塚芳忠コンビが健在で本当に良かった。

  — @hamhamday22 likes

• Sorry, but honestly, Otsuka Houchu's voice is huskier and hotter. I won't budge on this

  すまん、大塚芳忠のほうが渋くてイケボだ。これは譲れん

  — @hamhamday2 likes

• 'Good'? Try 'the best'

  良い？最高だろ

  — @BB-df1bf2 likes

• So happy MYTH & ROID is back for the OP and Aoi Yuki is back for the ED

  オープニングMYTH & ROIDとエンディング悠木碧さん続投で嬉しい

  — @リフトss329 likes

• Though the vocalist changed — the new one is really good too

  ボーカルは変わってるけどね ２代目も凄く良い

  — @genjiro-n4z5 likes

• Both the OP and ED are continuing!!! Thank you, thank you...! I loved Tanya's ED song so much, I'm way too happy right now!!!!

  OPED続行！！！！！ありがとうありがとう……！！ターニャの歌うED大好きだったからめちゃくちゃ嬉しすぎる〜〜〜〜〜！！

  — @luminance340858 likes

• I started watching the anime, and my husband got so into it he read the entire light novel series. He passed away from illness, but I'm going to watch this and go tell him all about it at the family altar 😊

  アニメで見始めて、夫がハマり原作小説全部読むほどハマりまくってました。夫は病死したけど、私が観て仏壇に感想を語りまくろうと思います😊

  — @user-uf3eq9vj9d104 likes

• The model otaku wife, honestly 😂

  ヲタ妻の鑑😂

  — @masuuNEKOsuki10 likes

• Honestly, when it's already a foregone conclusion they're going to lose, that's when your imagination really runs wild theorizing — that's what makes it fun to watch

  どのみち負けるのは確定してる作品ほど考察する想像力が働いて見ていて面白いんよな。

  — @太陽系-v8t49 likes

• As always, this PV is ridiculously cool! I'm way too hyped!

  毎度の事ながらPVくそ格好良い！ 楽しみ過ぎるッ！

  — @守棗珠莉39 likes

• That thumbnail looks like it doesn't have a single human emotion in it lol

  人の心とか無さそうなサムネで草

  — @藍藍-s8c54 likes

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