Series in one sentence:
God wastes His time granting a psychopathic non-believer intense powers and somehow thinks He's teaching him/her a lesson by doing so.
Series in more sentences:
A heartless businessman gets saved by God right before dying, but as he stays skeptical of His existence, the man gets reincarnated as a cute orphan girl, born into an alternate reality where magic exists and global war has taken over. God hopes to push the rude non-believer into dire situations that'll force him to worship his maker, but this proves quite challenging.
This series was requested to me. It was a good average and average good.
The main problem I had while watching this was the bombardment of strategy explanations, names, terms and titles. It didn't help that I followed some episodes in English and others in Japanese. I found myself often zoning out during these scenes, and everytime something or someone's name was mentioned, I had no idea who they were talking about until the next episode. Afterwards, I had forgotten again.
I hope my inability to focus is to blame for that, but it could very well be because the series simply wants to throw everything at you at once, so they can prepare you for a greater second season. Which is likely to come, if I have to believe the 12th episode.
I'm definitely going to see it when it comes, as this first season gave me a good taste of the story, but left me a bit unsatisfied.
I liked Tanya, but only when she was actually on screen fighting or being a psychopath. I also liked the bits where she was arguing with God, but this intriguing relationship was not in focus all that often; God Himself doesn't appear or speak much. The scenes I craved for the most were lacking, while you'd think they'd dominate the series when you read the general plot.
Tanya was still too likeable most of the time, or acted like a fairly acceptable member of the army. I expected a sneaky backstabber, like she was at the start, going rampage on the power of God at every opportunity, but I guess that doesn't fit her narrative of wanting to properly end the war and live the life of a queen as a revered ex-army major.
This plot, from her side, makes enough sense; as she's a hardcore Atheist who doesn't want to depend on God in any way and tries to work around His plans, despite having been put in a dangerous world.
But the character that is God holds little logic. He argues that Tanya, when she still was a male businessman, needs to know what it's like to suffer. He hopes that forcing her in a bad situation will make her desperate enough to want to abandon her pride and worship Him. In order for Tanya to avoid her reservation in Hell, she either has to become a follower of God or die a natural death, making the war setting hard to achieve the latter and supposedly easy to achieve the first. This is the part that makes enough sense, but what doesn't is that God reincarnates her into a world that inhabits magic, and gives Tanya a high level of the stuff. And if that's not enough, He grants her the ability to become even stronger if she half-heartedly praises His name before shooting someone in the face.
Why? Why would you aid someone like this? How is she suffering, she's pretty much invincible, and You made her that way.
The people in this world that actually believe in God get totally wrecked by her. How does her dishonesty compare to a real prayer? God is a grade A asshole. Making Him quite in-character, I'd say.
Still, this first season qualifies as a nice introduction. I hope to see more Tanya rottenness, large scale attacks, and God in the next.
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