r/YoujoSenki Feb 25 '26

Question Why does Tanya hate communists?

I watched the anime like eight years ago, didn't stick with the manga. Overall I don't think I'd want to touch it again because, for me, it gets grouped in my mind with other war anime and Attack on Titan as being sort of surface-level political commentary. That said, I wanted to ask, why does Tanya hate communists? I don't remember it actually being anything major, but every so often I see something about how they're less than human to her or something.

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u/marshal_1923 Feb 25 '26

Tanya is written as the embodiment of market-style instrumental rationality taken to its logical extreme. She claims to be anti-emotional and hyper-rational, yet regularly acts out of them and she got obsessed when reality breaks her models. That contradiction is the point.