thomasmorus

The title says it all. The whole charm of the franchise is gone, they're just milking it for money. The jokes are the stale jokes you'd expect from a Disney flic, not a Pixar one. But alas, now that Disney owns everything, we can't escape the re-canned tropes, over and over, just like it managed to do the same princess movie a thousand times before.

I hope they can back off and give Pixar some room to breathe again, they'd actually make more money in the end (if they can ever think long term).

It seems my review is too short, but that's it, now I need more chars to be able to post this......

If you liked the series, chances are you'll like this one too. You'll get more of the war action with cutesy anime girls. But this anime makes some curious choices. It could have created a proper magical world, mahou shoujo even. But instead you get this bizarre reenactment of the world wars where you get to cheer for empire squadrons as you follow Tanya. Gone are all the atrocities the Japanese and the Nazi committed, which would make them very repulsive, now they are very minor adjustments of humanitarian law, kept in the heart of the military. Gone, as well, are the atrocities the Allies, esp. The French, the British and the Americans, have committed countless times (but this is to be expected, after all they are the shiny paladins of the world). Some obligatory nod is sent their way when it shows that their leaders more or less equally don't care about their own population. The soviets are the only ones who get the short end of the stick, but we still look to the Americans to save us and end the war -- not to the Russians Untermenschen, who, ravaged by the Nazis and fighting for their lives, were the real ones responsible for ending WW2. They are the mandatory Hollywoodian buffoons. Of course, you'll never see an anime apologizing for the horrors the Japanese committed, but it wouldn't hurt to at least stop pretending they were following any laws. You just get more rewriting of our history so you don't think about it. Presented by Tanya, a cute anime face with an evil Russian name.

Although the very ending is rushed and not fair to the audience that waited so long for a splashing ending, this anime is cute and will bring warm fuzzy feelings to your heart.

The problem is that it will only do that in the last episodes. It's way too dragged out. The slice of life moments used as fillers are boring and not really required. That time is dearly missed towards the ending that becomes way too rushed and fairly illogical. The last episode should be redone, then the rating would for sure go up. Till there's an ONA of sorts doing that, what we have here is a high-school romance anime with some potential and that is cute, but isn't by any means special and whose character development is cut short. When they begin to become interesting, it ends. And it doesn't compensate for all the wasted time in the first episodes (I recommend watching it at 2x speed even), the positive points come too little, too late.