Talk:Tanya von Degurechaff/@comment-94.114.200.15-20170611202607/@comment-95.88.22.88-20190121025055

I understand what you mean. Tanya thinks of herelf in the manga as a grown man, haven´t read the LN though but assume it´s the same judging from the book summaries.

As a previous poster said, it seems comparable to trans people, but well, I am not trans so no idea if it is similar.

But the thing bothering is rather in a different direction. Anime and manga largely gloss over the fact that Tanya lived in this world for 9+ years when the story takes place. In this time she was an orphan, lived in an orphanage (which is not the nicest way to grow up) in a different country, suffered from malnutrition and probably had to get into quite a few fights just to get something to eat. But she always draws on her social skills from salarymen time, which are a decade in the past and depending on his age and time on the job shorter than her current lifetime.

It often feels a bit like the manga treats the transition from japanese salarymen to Tanya not as reincarnation, but as "and then he sprung fully formed as a 9year old girl into this world."

I get the criticism with the total personality change after reincarnation, but well, in this case it seems more the oppositie case.

In short many people in the fandom see her as the loli girl, which clashes with her sekf perception, OTOH the writer(s) seem to treat her too much as a man that bodyjumped into this world into a little girl.