Girls Und Panzer

Well, how on earth did I miss this?

Oh, Japan, don’t ever change…

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6 Responses to “Girls Und Panzer”

  1. BigGator5 says:

    Yeah, Japan is awesome.

  2. Ingot9455 says:

    It’s supposed to be very good. Steven Den Beste reviewed it on his anime blog, chuzimatic.mee.nu.

  3. Petercat says:

    It is a very good, entertaining series. The attention to detail of the armor, the movement of the tracks, even the accurate interiors is amazing, and the story is fun. There’s even a “Kelly’s Heros” cameo in it, plus mentions of MREs and other military gear.
    Add in an operational German Maus and a Porsche Tiger… What more could you want? (Besides cute Anime girls!)
    The only glaring flaw is that in the show, all tanks have the same top speed.
    Other than that, it’s a good, fun series that won’t be a watch-me-once shelf queen.

  4. Lawrence Person says:

    An operating Maus tank? Well, now I have to see it.

    By Porsche Tiger, you mean the VK 45.01prototype? Because I saw the Tiger II with the “Porsche” turret at the Bovington Tank Museum in 2014…

  5. Petercat says:

    The Porsche Tiger in the series is the electric drive prototype Panzer VI with the quad drive sprockets and the sloped deck. The series even mentions the overheating problems that were seen during trials, and the cause, which shows the attention to detail in the writing. I believe that there were two made that saw combat as command tanks in Russia…
    Girls und Panzer is enjoyable on many levels, just for example it is sprinkled with trivia in conversations the girls have, like two Pravda High students making an offhand comment about the difficulty of rotating the (manual) turret of the KV-1 if it was on a slope.
    One slight disappointment is that in the Japanese release, there is a scene where the Pravda High team is riding into battle singing “Katusha” that was replaced with generic music in the USA release because someone still owns the copyright on the song! But you can find a clip by searching “Girl und Panzer Katusha” online. I’ve got a downloaded hi-res version I wish I knew how to splice back in.
    Anyway, enjoy the series! It was actually my introduction to the fun of anime.

  6. Lawrence Person says:

    My favorite anime series are FLCL and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

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