/lit/ - Literature

>>11017389
No, I'm clearly stating what would make it your run off the mill weebshit, and saying that while that much is true, it goes beyond that
And while the anime is fun enough, it loses a lot when compared to the novel. Not just plot points (for example, if you've watched the show, Grantz is not part of the squad she trained. The one she actually kicked there was Weiss. Grantz comes on as a second batallion of mages straight out of magic academy where they were poorly trained, and thrown into Tanya's squad after the salaryman stupidly explains to a general how casualties would be minimized if young mages were given war experience as part of the training, so they throw a squad of novices on her to train while she's fighting in the Rhine. And after a couple of missions training the newfags by killing republicans, and losing some of those newfags in the process, the whole Arene thing happens, where she makes Grantz fire at the enemy mages protecting civs - the characters are much more fleshed out, is what I'm trying to say, I think), but the whole internal monologue of the salaryman makes for a fantastic character-driven comedy of misunderstandings stemming from him being so autistic, he even refers to Tanya in the third person. There's also a lot of more context (and battles) in the novel. For example, for the whole Arene thing, the author dedicates the beginning of the arc to a documentary decades after the war explaining what happened during that battle, and then it goes back to the salaryman's perspective to fill in the gaps. And that's another thing: the novel is always changing narrators. From the salaryman (the main narrator) to Visha to the generals to journalists researching the war decades later. It's much more solid than your typical light novel, even if it does share some elements.