Japanese transcription
だいたい３分で分かる！アニメ「幼女戦記」。
航空魔導士が空をかけ、国同士が血で血を洗う狂気の世界。終わりの見えない戦火の中、敵兵から「ラインの悪魔」と恐れられる存在がいる。その名はターニャ・デグレチャフ、金髪碧眼の愛らしい幼女。だが、その皮を被った中身は冷徹なまでの合理主義を貫く日本の元エリートサラリーマンだ。
自らを神と語る存在Ｘ、その理不尽な力によってこの戦乱の世へ落とされる。そこで帝国軍の魔導士官となった彼女の望みはただ一つ。死と隣合わせの最前線を避け、安全で平穏な後方勤務を手に入れること。
だが、運命はひどく悪趣味だ。
初陣となった北方のノルデン戦区で生き延び、戦果を上げたターニャ。命懸けの新型演算宝珠のテストを耐え抜き、軍大学での平穏な日々を手に入れたのも束の間。共和国軍の猛攻に参謀本部は彼女のささやかな願いを無情にも握り潰した。
本人の意思とは裏腹に、彼女は参謀本部直属の第203航空魔導大隊を率いることとなり、自らの手で地獄の訓練を課し、鍛え上げた部下たちと共に共和国との総力戦へ身を投じていく。
やがて帝国軍は大胆な包囲殲滅戦を完遂し、共和国の首都を制圧した。帝都が勝利の美酒に酔いしれ、誰もが戦争の終わりを疑わなかった時、彼女だけは真実を見据えていた。戦争はまだ終わっていないと。
戦火は南方大陸へ。終わりの見えない泥沼の戦場で彼女の前に、一人の少女が立ちふがる。父親を奪われた憎悪を燃やし、復讐の鬼と化したメアリー・スーだ。
死闘の末に再び勝利を掴む帝国軍。だが世界を覆う狂気は止まらない。ただ平穏に生きたいだけなのに、誰よりも苛烈な戦場の中心へと引きずり込まれていく。
運命に抗う幼女ターニャ・デグレチフの血塗られた戦記はここからテレビアニメ、セカンド・シーズンへと続いていく。
English translation
Understand it in about 3 minutes! The anime “The Saga of Tanya the Evil.”
A world of madness where aerial mages soar through the skies and nations wage bloody wars against one another. Amid the endless conflict, there is a figure feared by enemy soldiers as the “Devil of the Rhine.” Her name is Tanya Degurechaff, an adorable little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. But beneath that façade lies a former elite Japanese office worker who adheres to a ruthlessly rational philosophy.
Cast into this war-torn world by the unreasonable power of “Being X”—who claims to be a god—she becomes a mage officer in the Imperial Army. She has only one wish: to avoid the front lines, where death lurks at every turn, and secure a safe, peaceful assignment in the rear.
But fate has a terribly twisted sense of humor.
Tanya survived her first battle in the Northern Norden Theater and achieved notable results. She endured the life-threatening testing of a new computational gem and finally secured peaceful days at the Military Academy—but it was short-lived. Faced with a fierce assault by the Republic’s forces, the General Staff ruthlessly crushed her modest wish.
Against her will, she found herself leading the 203rd Aerial Magic Battalion, directly under the General Staff, and—alongside the subordinates she had personally subjected to hellish training and forged into a formidable force—threw herself into an all-out war against the Republic.
Eventually, the Imperial Army successfully carried out a bold encirclement and annihilation campaign, capturing the Republic’s capital. While the Imperial Capital reveled in the sweet wine of victory and no one doubted that the war was over, she alone saw the truth: the war was not yet over.
The flames of war spread to the Southern Continent. On a quagmire of a battlefield with no end in sight, a young girl stood in her way. It was Mary Sue, consumed by hatred after losing her father and transformed into a demon of vengeance.
After a fierce battle, the Imperial Army secures victory once again. But the madness engulfing the world shows no signs of stopping. Though she simply wants to live in peace, she is dragged into the very heart of the battlefield—a place more brutal than any she has known.
The blood-soaked war chronicles of Tanya Degurechiff, a young girl defying her fate, continue from here into the second season of the TV anime.