While cast, staff and schedule are still to be announced, a first preview has been published for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki's gender-swap military strategy light novel series Youjo Senki.

Plans for the animation were first announced in January, followed by a teaser visual in August.

Baka Updates describes the series:

On the front line of the war, there's a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan's most elite salary-men, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself "God." And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army...

Volume 6, "Nil admirari" was released July 30th.

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