Yōjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil Anime's Staff, More of Cast Revealed

The "Overlord x Yōjo Senki Joint Press Conference" announced on Thursday the main staff and more of the voice cast for Yōjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil, the television anime of Carlo Zen's Yōjo Senki (The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl) light novel series.

The show's cast, including the previously announced Aoi Yūki as the lead voice actress, includes:

Aoi Yūki as Tanya Degurechov, the Imperial Military's aviation mage officer

Saori Hayami as Visha, the Imperial Military's aviation mage officer

Shinichiro Miki as Relgen, the Imperial Military General Staff Headquarters' service corps staff officer

Tesshō Genda as Ludeldorf, the Imperial Military General Staff Headquarters' tactical staff deputy director

Houchu Ohtsuka as Seetour, the Imperial Military General Staff Headquarters' service corps vice Chief of Staff

Yutaka Uemura (The Mystic Archives of Dantalian) is directing the anime as the first major project of the relatively new Studio NuT. Yuji Hosogoe (Kiddy Grade) is adapting Shinobu Shinotsuki's original novel character designs for animation, and also serving as chief animation director with assistant director Kana Harufuji. Kenta Ihara (Ajin) is supervising and writing the series scripts, and Shūji Katayama (Overlord, Popin Q, Super Lovers 2) is composing the music.

The sub character designers are Hiromi Taniguchi, Takao Maki, and Haruhito Takada. Taniguchi also designed the clothes. Ryouma Ebata designed the mages' items, You Moriyama designed the props, and Denforword Hiyori Akishino and Nao Otsu designed the guns.

Other staff members include:
Key animators: Shōsuke Ishibashi, Shinichi Kurita, Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Effect animation director: Takashi Hashimoto
Military researcher: Reiichirō Ōfuji
Art director: Satoru Hirayanagi
Color design: Chiho Nakamura
Director of photography: Shinji Tonsho
3D CGI director: Masato Takahashi
Editing: Yumi Jinguji
Sound director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

The novel series centers on a young girl who fights on the frontlines in war. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, and nearly transparent white skin, and she flies through the air and mercilessly strikes down her opponents. Her name is Tanya Degurechov, and she speaks with a young girl's lisp and commands the army. Tanya used to be one of Japan's elite office workers, but because of a wrathful god, was reborn as a little girl. Tanya prioritizes optimization and career advancement above all, and she will become the most dangerous entity among the Imperial Army's mages.

The musical group MYTH&ROID is performing the opening theme song "JINGO JUNGLE." The song's CD single will ship on February 8. Yūki is also performing the anime's ending theme song "Los! Los! Los!" The song's CD single will ship on February 22.

The anime will premiere on AT-X on January 6 at 10:00 p.m. The series will also air on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, and BS11. AbemaTV will stream the series on Japan.

Zen and Shinotsuki launched the novel series in 2013. Kadokawa's Enterbrain brand published the sixth novel on June 30. Chika Tōjō (Code Geass: Oz the Reflection 02) is serializing a manga version in Kadokawa's Monthly Comp Ace magazine.​