Saga of Tanya the Evil

"Dues lo Vult"

Saga of Tanya the Evil is a light novel written by Carlo Zen and illustrated by Shinobu Shinotsuki. The work has with manga and anime adaptations. In Japan it's called “Yōjo Senki”, which translates to "The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl". The anime is dubbed by FUNimation.

God is annoyed an atheist japanese salary man refuses to admit “Being X's” divinity. So, how do you make an atheist faithful? With a (proverbial) fox hole!... in a world with magic, going through it's first World War. A world war, by the way that has many obvious similarities with our first World War. Also as a little girl. Dues lo Vult.


 * Deicide:Tanya isn’t fond of Being X, and aspires to kill him.
 * Gone Horribly Right: Tanya proposed the formation of a special military unit to impress the higher ups and get promoted. They decided to make that military unit, and put her in charge of it, of course. "How did this happen? How did this all go so well?"


 * Instant Runes: Some spells involve this. Other spells seem to not involve runes at all.
 * Oddly Visible Eyebrows: In the anime at least.
 * Reassigned to Antarctica: In episode 1, Tanya assigns a couple of soldiers she wasn't happy with to garrison a cramped pillbox not right up on the front lines.
 * Uriah Gambit: