Youjo Senki is one of my favorite works of writing. I wish to clarify this.

I’m not going to waste much time, but to put it simply, the way that Tanya’s character is portrayed aggravates me. To say that the writing mechanics and character points of the original work being are beyond conveyed accurately would be dishonest at best and sacrilegious at worst.

The character of Tanya is twisted in order to fit the author’s plot in such a way that it guts and removes some of the most important features in her personality and plot circumstance. Namely, misunderstandings seen as knowledge far greater than what is actually given, others understanding actions of being “nice” and threatening and vice versa, and more.

To put it simply, I really don’t like this. I don’t normally write reviews, but I felt a compulsory requirement. This writing simply deviates far too much from its original given work.

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Interesting concept, but this Tanya does not fit my perception. Tanya was an interesting MC, which was one of the main reasons I liked youjo senki. However, here she seems too emotional. If you made her transfer after she finished her previous life, maybe it'd make sense if she was calmer, smarter and more calculating than her anime counterpart because of experience. I also do not see her ever falling into romance, especially not with deku, like she did here. I think her corrupting/manipulating him would be more accurate to her character. Tanya wants to live a normal content life (in the face of x, who doesn't let her do it and wants her to pray), doesn't value others' lives and morals, while deku wants to save people and defeat villains. It's just not that compatible. Especially not for romance. Her caring about her parents emotionally is weird, it'd make more sense if she got worried economically. I believe the romance tag should be added to this novel. Tanya is only about 15% "Tanya" here, so I really can't give a high rating.

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I loved this fanfic, simple as that.

It's been a great work so far, clearly a well done work. The writing is clean and the characters don't feel artificial. Barely no grammatical errors and very well polished work. It somehow follows the original MHA plot and yet it's something completely different - imagine a world where Midoriya kept training, improving himself and using his brain instead of breaking his limbs every time he used his powers.

It's obvious that some will say the usual "BuT ThAt'S NoT HoW ThE ChARaCter iS oRIgInALlY", and they're right, this is a fanfic, not canon, you can't read a fanfic and expect all characters to be copy pasted from their original series - characters with the author's touch is to be expected. Do not expect the author to bend to your will and create a history that fits your specific tastes, if you want that, do it yourself.

Fanfics are the author's view of already existing characters, we should respect their creative views and go with the flow. Giving one star to a fanfic just because the character isn't exactly like canon is kinda lame, not gonna lie.

I had to control myself to not post every single chapter, it's a really nice and well balanced history. There are some points that I disagree but that's not worthy of being pointed out.

I just really, REALLY, hope the author doesn't drop it.

Really good fanfic, easily top 5 fanfics I've read so far, admirable work by the author, 10/10 would recommend it to everyone.

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I want to write an essay about this story, but who would read it?  For background, I found my hero academia frustrating for reasons that are too numerous to count.  I did get through one season, so I feel I gave it a fair shot.  Tanya the Evil is one, if not, my favorite antihero. 

The beginning setup for this story makes logical sense.  In the Tanya story, she is an church orphan and an outsider in the church, due to her eisdain for Being X.  Her personality, logically, develops from there.  While she had been reincarnated, Tanya still held on to her original ideals and was placed in a situation meant to challenge those.  In the end, as noted at the beginning of this story, she won and made peace with her life decisions and ending.  Only for Being X to send her into her current situation.

Her new reality was entirely different from the beginning.  This third go at it, has loving and understanding parents who share some of Tanya's old traits.  Her Mom pushing her body to the limit and being opportunistic, in a way, with Tanya's quirk growth that stimulate her own abilities.  The Father being cunning about how Tanya's future should look and preparing accordingly.  Their relationship made Tanya grow another layer and more depth that wasn't shown in Tanya the Evil.

Before some of you run away from this because 'Tanya's changed', this story is logical in addressing the changes and manages to not lose the traits that made her fascinating. Tanya is herself.  There are times in this story where the things she does or says could easily have come from the source material.  If anything I could argue that this story fills gaps in Tanya's personality that the Tanya series wouldn't be able to explore due to keeping a tight storyline. 

The two shows being mashed together is actually ideal because Tanya's personality fills a gap in My Hero, by showing consequences.  For the sake of spoilers, I won't go too in detail but let's just say Tanya helps make the My Hero world make sense.  Heros don't get a free pass for everything and that control makes this story better.  They also are more practical in quirk application.  

After all this, why did I give it 4 stars?  I haven't finished it yet.  The story is in process.  If it devolves into some harem nonsense, I will admittedly leave it at a 4/5 if it is a good one or if awful, though it would pain me, give a 2.  Overall, give it 5 chapters, ideally even 10 to see what I mean.

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This novel is pretty good and has a wholesome romance for an MHA fanfic instead of the normal harem mess. I find it a rare kind of Youjo Senki story that has a more emotionally evolved Tanya, instead of the copy-paste Tanya from original work that has not changed after many years of life. I would understand the copy-paste type people were looking for if say this story Tanya died at say 14 instead of the middle of her 2nd life.  But some readers who are anime only may find the evolution of 20 years of life a bit jarring from the 11-year-old from the anime plus the random nazi loli meme that also have warped the image of the character a bit for some people.

I think a few minor things that could be added or should be addressed are that she lacks a lot of the trauma the type -95 orb inflicted on her by the end of the war that she would never be fully overcome with how bad it was by the end of the war. I also think she is a bit too strong physically even with her current skillset. But please keep up this badass Deku you are molding, he is like a 200% improvement over the cannon Deku.

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This is a really great story, the author is highly skilled and knows how to entice the readers, and the characters are very well developed. In fact I liked this more than the OG My Hero Academia (though to be fair I didn't like the OG that much at all). The only complaint I have is how Tanya's personality is different from how it was in the OG, but that can be explained by the decades she spent in that world after canon, and her growing up in this new world. All in all a great novel and you should give it a read.

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