Anime - Girls und Panzer (2012) [/]
Jul 15 2020
Girls und Panzer is a 12-episode half hour anime.
Miho Nishizumi (Meg McDonald) arrives at Ooarai Girls High School and is immediately recruited into the newly revived Tankery class, where girls operate WW2 vintage tanks in contests against each other and other schools. Since she's from an esteemed Tankery family school president Anzu Kadotani (Rozie Curtis) appoints Miho as squadron leader when Ooarai's team enters the annual Tankery high school tournament. Miho battles through her insecurities and her classmates' inexperience to lead her team to the championship battle...
It's a bit of an alternate world where girls' academies are hosted on decommissioned but functioning aircraft carriers and tank combat uses real rounds but nobody is seriously injured. Ooarai HS eventually fields eight different tanks from various nationalities. They face schools who are themed after various countries and their tanks: Britain (an exhibition match), Italy (the only match that is not shown on screen), United States, Russia and finally Germany.
The matches take place over two episodes and each match is quite different with a variety of tactics used. The tanks have some amount of detail and the combat is video gamey -- realistic statistics but with video game results.
I was a bit disappointed with the series. There are a lot of characters -- the Ooarai team alone is about 8 tanks x 4 crew = 32 people and each of the opposing teams has a couple of notable characters. You just don't get any deep character development in 12 episodes even for Miho, the main character. So at the end where in other series I'd be sad saying goodby this time I was "eh".
Miho Nishizumi (Meg McDonald) arrives at Ooarai Girls High School and is immediately recruited into the newly revived Tankery class, where girls operate WW2 vintage tanks in contests against each other and other schools. Since she's from an esteemed Tankery family school president Anzu Kadotani (Rozie Curtis) appoints Miho as squadron leader when Ooarai's team enters the annual Tankery high school tournament. Miho battles through her insecurities and her classmates' inexperience to lead her team to the championship battle...
It's a bit of an alternate world where girls' academies are hosted on decommissioned but functioning aircraft carriers and tank combat uses real rounds but nobody is seriously injured. Ooarai HS eventually fields eight different tanks from various nationalities. They face schools who are themed after various countries and their tanks: Britain (an exhibition match), Italy (the only match that is not shown on screen), United States, Russia and finally Germany.
The matches take place over two episodes and each match is quite different with a variety of tactics used. The tanks have some amount of detail and the combat is video gamey -- realistic statistics but with video game results.
I was a bit disappointed with the series. There are a lot of characters -- the Ooarai team alone is about 8 tanks x 4 crew = 32 people and each of the opposing teams has a couple of notable characters. You just don't get any deep character development in 12 episodes even for Miho, the main character. So at the end where in other series I'd be sad saying goodby this time I was "eh".