Dude previous novel was about a man travelled back in times to save communism in fictional Yugoslavia and Youjo Senki's supposedly a (the LN anyways) satire, making fun of the MC who's reincarnated bourgeois manager
Oh wow, I loved this series but it was always a guilty pleasure. I assumed the protagonist's dumbass capitalist greed was a self-insert of the author. What a relief! I guess I'm kinda dumb not to realize it was probably satire, but how often is that true when you encounter a cartoonishly anti-communist character?
Please cry louder 4chan.
Hahaha from the Twitter thread:
Tanya the war mongering, sociopathic, chicago-school of economics obsessed salary-man manager, is not in fact a good, aspirational person. The Youjo Senki LNs own so much.
If you haven't checked out Youjo Senki (The Saga of Tanya the Evil) please do. The anime is great, the manga is great, the LNs are great. Lots of historical and military detail set in an AU where WWI and WWII are kinda smeared together with magic + rifles.
Don't know how to feel about that pedophile fictional Soviet high-level official in the movie (and the depiction of fictional Soviet in general tbh) though, don't know how the LN can make it not look like just pure, genuine attempt at making fun of communists.
Yeah. I got the vibe that it was supposed to be saying something like that, but just wasn't all that good at it. It sent some mixed messages.
