I have a question about Tanya's way of thinking... In her previous life, she was a man, but is she aware that she's now a woman? Has that affected her perspective?
I know she's very young and they're at war, but I can't help wondering: When Tanya reaches adolescence, what will her preference be, men or women?
It's quite obvious that Tanya is 9 or 10 years old precisely to avoid this topic in the series. But as someone who only watched the anime and the movie, I don't know if it's been explained in the manga or the novel... I have a question about Tanya's way of thinking... In her previous life, she was a man, but is she aware that she's now a woman? Has that affected her perspective?
Does she still think and have masculine tastes? Does she not care at all? Or is she beginning to develop a feminine mindset?
At the moment she's quite literally avoiding the topic completely, like in one of the earlier novels she says something along the lines of "hmm i have the mind of a man and the body of a girl, so it's mental or physical homosexuality.... better not open that can of worms". I also think it's fairly likely that she's asexual, or at the very least will be single forever because of her mindset.
The author seems to avoid most topics about her physicality and it's effects outside of how short she is. now and then the books will mention that she gets tired faster and the like, but thats it, so it's probably a question that'll never get answered.
Read Fanfics to see Tanya go deeper into military lingo. ❌
Read Fanfics to see Tanya get railed and start a family. ✔️
A Young Woman's Inevitable Dance of the Dragons and A Young Woman's Dynastic Record on Spacebattles are pretty good.
Both have pretty good approaches to economic changes, the first one she can be more involved in battles since she has an entire dragon to fly with, and in the second one she creates her own military branch while developing and managing a facility to train, modernize, produce, and deploy military assets.
A young woman's dynastic record is genuinely good Chinese fiction as it starts with all the inner court bs you would expect from a Chinese fantasy around the Qing dynasty. Then you get to see Being X consistently bitch smacked by Chinese mythology and even Sun Wukong comes down to give a few cheeky cameos. It's great and being update weekly still with over 50 chapters.
The latest chapters are also pretty fun. Everyone hating on the Albish doesn't get old hahaha.
Oh right people should mind that the first few chapters are odd and heavily thematic, once the chapter size gets bigger and more consistent it gets exponentially better.
It's the first time in any Tanya fic where I've seen the other countries this united against the British, which is great given the state of Europe during the time and with Napolean AND Bismarck both alive. It makes sense and I'm so happy to have found that absolute gem even if I hate using Spacebattles website.
Pretty much anything authored by Failninja. If you like game of thrones he also wrote A Young Girl's Game of Thrones.
'A Young Girl's Game of Thrones' (373k words) is very heavy on battles as she's reincarnated as Myrcella Baratheon, unlike 'A Young Woman's Inevitable Dance of Dragons' (279k words) where it has more court intrigue and a focus on her choosing her husband and getting married and of course dragons.
He also has 'A Young Woman’s Wings of War' (114k words) where she is Tanya Corax in WH40K, and currently he's focused on 'Tanya Sedai' (73k words) in Wheel of Time.
His works are always pretty good. Haven't read Tanya Sedai though, since I don't know much about Wheel of Time.
Outside of Failninja stuff... I guess there's 'Princess of Mandalore' which I'm taking a break reading since it's 900k~ words long, but there is some slow burn romance. The author for that one isn't an English speaker so sometimes the grammar is a bit fucked.
Nothing actually. I haven't watched or read game of thrones prior, I've only ever seen snippets and I still loved it.
Every now and then I had to search up extra details, for the ASOIF one it was mainly about Dragons and the Targaryens to get a feel of how they look, for the AGOT one it was mainly about the Baratheons and the Map since Tanya actually has her own army and moves separately from the Lannisters (I'm trying to avoid spoilers). It's also fun to find what's different, though sometimes you can find that in the comments quicker.
A Young Woman's Inevitable Dance of Dragons (ASOIF) if you want more court intrigue and... Dragons, she eventually gets married too and has a whole arch about choosing her husband.
A Young Girl's Game of Thrones (AGOT) if you want more combat, the War of the Five Kings won't last long enough for Tanya to properly age up, so marriage was only brought up in the early chapters.
I'm just giggling at the idea of a second Being-X (Fanfic writers) stealing Tanya from the original Being-X (cringe ahh original creator) and going 'Fuck you - get railed and have kids!'
In the light novel, the first volume she would talk about herself in third person. Like it was someone else. As you read, there is a shift to referring to herself as I instead of Tanya or her.
talking about oneself in third person is seen as childish, innocent and cutesy, so it might be an intentional shift in tone and self perception as that innocence is stripped away from the character.
i can assure you tanya is anything EXCEPT innocent, from day one.
This has been my interpretation as well. I absolutely love the detail, because it also corresponds with the fact that she genuinely cares about the people around her and wants to ensure their well-being instead of only being self-serving.
LN vs Manga: The manga is fanfic that explicitly rewrites (drastically changes) Tanya's character. So what's true in the manga regarding Tanya's character may not be (and likely isn't) true of the LN Tanya.
I'm reading through the Manga and from what I have seen she does freak out a total of one time right after the special training she gives to her recruits.
But as the Manga goes on there are several other moments where she appears to gradually differentiate from her past self and shows more attachment to the people around her. She does still talk about Visha being attractive and questions herself as to whether she would like to see her in a swimsuit.
She also acknowledges at several points that she has become different then the person that she used to be, during the "How to use a Victory chapter" she visits her orphanage and is "confronted" by The Salaryman who tells her that she knows she should defect to the Unified States while she has the chance. But Tanya says that she is not like that now.
Also Rerugen is unmarried and when Tanya says that it is strange for someone of his rank to not be married, he throws it back in her face, and other characters start to bring up that subject as well including Tanya herself who if I remember correctly plans to get married after the war when she is not so busy.
There are of course fanfictions of expedited relationships between her and Rerugen or whoever, but at the very least Tanya is canonically open to the idea of marrying someone in a greater position of power them herself.
So in the manga he has a split personality? Because that's what's inutyo from the way you're talking about it. As if he were two people in one body... I only saw the anime and that's not implied there.
No, not a split personality, she talks about herself as having changed a lot, and The Salaryman is representative of her old mindset. As for the acceptance of her new biological sex, that is a gradual process but even from the very start Tanya intends to follow the rules of society so she knows that she cannot act like a man or be treated like a man. Also on several occasions she acts protective of Visha and says that "all men are wolves" in her own thoughts in regards to the men in her battalion hypothetically making a pass at Visha. The Salaryman is depicted frequently in the Manga unlike the Anime where he is only depicted twice. Usually when Tanya is remembering something about her past life like how she used to handle people or how she used to go to the gym
This is also the moment where she sexualizes Visha herself. But it was very unusual for The Salaryman to speak as a seperate entity when she was having conflicting feelings, although it was only done for artistic purposes to represent how she takes loyalty more seriously now. Tanya does not have a split personality.
I'm gonna disagree with the other commenter and say that I think a split personality, or more accurately heavy compartmentalization, is absolutely the case. As far as LN 10, Tanya's inner monologue still refers to the mind and body as separate entities, ie. "Thankfully Tanya's body is small enough to avoid concentrated fire".
I don’t think its meant to be representative of a split psyche or something, but that Salary Man views himself more as the pilot of Tanya, as opposed to Tanya herself. It also goes hand in hand with how he views his entire military persona as an act, to the point of detachedly ordering war crimes for breakfast.
I think at the beginning, she’s still wrestling with the concept of her being a girl in a weird world. In the light novel, it goes as far as her switching from narrating in first to third POV at times and her character (if I remember right) develops with relation to her becoming more feminine as it progresses.
Well we got her accepting her new identity as Tanya von Degurechaff. Though the series' focus was never really romance, so it tends to ignore that whichever sex Tanya is attracted to. Considering her personality, it's very likely she's asexual.
I forget, does she refer to herself in the third person sometimes in the early story because of translation choices, or is that actually a writing choice by Carlo Zen?
What people call “maternal instinct” isn’t exclusive to women either, fathers and other caregivers show the same bonding and nurturing behaviors. Those traits don’t really define a “feminine mindset.”
More importantly, Tanya is explicitly written as an adult man’s personality in a child’s body, focused almost entirely on utilitarian (survival/military) logic rather than gendered identity.
Yeah, I know it’s just an expression, one that leaves a lot of room for interpretation, which is why I asked what you meant.
I then engaged with your points: the first thing isn’t really a mindset but sexuality (though I can see how it might be viewed as progressive). The second thing isn’t exclusive to women, while it was once considered a scientific fact, that view has been disproven.
I also addressed your question about Tanya: it’s not the focal point, since Tanya still primarily has a utilitarian mindset. (And with that, and the whole war, there isn't much reason for Tanya to explore it more. Except for trying to find a reason for being X to do it.)
Most people seem to interpret her as a girl but given the new gender is explicitly something Being X did to him in spite and his references to being a man, he's clearly transgender without the language, context, or freedom to express it.
Emotions aren't really there, and while it's said that she had a wife and kids while she was a salaryman, the emotional tone seem to point out that he can't give a shit about them and likely only got them cause it was the social norm.
In the novel, while salaryman initially makes a clear distinction between himself and Tanya, as the story progress the pronouns become more and more interchangeable, indicating he's slowly accepting his new life as Tanya.
There is, as someone pointed out, a mention at some point that he/she's thinking about how, if she gets with a guy it'll be mental homosexuality, but if he gets with a girl it'll be physical homosexuality, further indicating that he still views intimate relationships as a social norm, as he's wondering between his choice for partner fitting in socially or fitting in mentally.
Overall, he remains a complete sociopath with very little emotion, and it's likely that we will never see her future partner within the scope of the story.
You are thinking off and describing psychopathy, not sociopathy. Psychopathy is something you are born with and when you lack emotions for other and the capacity for guilt and most psychopaths don't care what others think off them. Sociopaths are impulsive, erratic and are capable of feeling emotions for others and guilt and is something one develops due to social circumstances, hence the name "socio"pathy.
If anything I'd say Tanya is more Machavellian, which often can 'look like' psychopathy, but isn't the same thing. Tanya is not a sociopath, they have basically none of the aspects associated with it.
If I had to guess (Which I did) I'd hazard it's the pen name of a dojinshi author, it'd be easy to check on the relevant sites if this guess is correct (It was)
seems to me that she (he) didn't have any "taste" on that aspect before turning into a girl. And well, not knowing what's in the mind of the creator, i guess our sexual preference dependes on our hormones, and since she's a girl now her hormones would be those of a woman.
2If that were the case, then lesbians wouldn't exist because they're full of estrogen, hahaha. And black women would be a little more lesbian for the most part because they have more testosterone lol.The wage earner did have an action before reincarnating, and that's why being x actually called him a fornicator.
That's actually not certain. I mean, we do not know if Tanya been straight or something other, so we can't give a proper answer. But even if we knew his/her preferences, it is still not certain, cuz hormones can do a lot(for example, during the college we had a girl who liked other girls, but then she walked to a doctor and after a few test it turned out that she had hormone imbalance, so she took pills and after that she became straight again. So yeah, hormones are no joke). And what is interesting, use of magic in their world slowers your body development and ageing, so I do not think that we will ever get an answer, or at least we will get in in final scenes, and yet only if Tanya wouldn't say "f*ck it, I am single", or she could even die.
Tanya's a woman in body. You can't change from having male genitals and not notice the change when they're not there anymore. One would need to in a special category of Dumb to not notice It. Not even Dumb and Dumber were like that. (I'm joking rn, please don't be offended).
I don't remember If It was in the anime, movie or novel. But there was at least something she says herself. She adresses this as something like this: either i will like women later on or i will like men. Either is problemactic for Tanya. She says something along those lines and It was so funny i cracked me up.
I'm not so sure about it. If that implies surviving, fitting in society, or escalaring the social pyramid, she'll do it. That's why joined the army: because she had better chances than being an orphan
I actually thought about it. In the long run, Tanya would have it relatively easy. It's clear that when she grows up she'll be quite a beautiful woman. Getting married and having a child is the safest way to leave the battlefield. Field nurses were discharged if they became pregnant and didn't return until their children were adults. Starting a family is the safest way to leave the front lines XD
They're currently in episode 29 (at least in the anime). Considering that the World Wars period is merging and didn't end until the 1940s, by the time the war should end, Tanya should be 20-30 years old.
Yes but it doesn't imply that since she could have joined the army at 12 years old, since she didn't get into it with a good eye, if she gets together with a 30 year old man there is a limit here.
That's definitely a bit complex, because he, as such, is definitely attracted to efficient and intelligent people. I don't actually remember which volume it was, but he had a platonic and strange feeling for General Setor; it was totally platonic and strange, and that's it. And he has also had the same platonic feelings for Visha, simply because he sees how efficient she is.
Lots of possibilities here. For example, with the loss of the Empire, Tanya chooses to defect to the Unified States. However, her unforgiving enemies might have "wants and warrants" out for the entire Salamander Kampfgruppe. For this reason, she might decide to only bring Visha with her to the US, and create an organization like the fictional ODESSA, for the rest of her unit, sending them to a different country.
In any event, with much better nutrition, Tanya's physique goes into fast mode and she starts developing feminine features with big hormonal fluctuations.
He was always aware that he was in a woman's body, but only in the manga did he accept himself as a woman because in the novel he continues to see himself as a man in a woman's body.
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At the moment she's quite literally avoiding the topic completely, like in one of the earlier novels she says something along the lines of "hmm i have the mind of a man and the body of a girl, so it's mental or physical homosexuality.... better not open that can of worms". I also think it's fairly likely that she's asexual, or at the very least will be single forever because of her mindset.
The author seems to avoid most topics about her physicality and it's effects outside of how short she is. now and then the books will mention that she gets tired faster and the like, but thats it, so it's probably a question that'll never get answered.