[Anime] GIRLS und PANZER!

PEOPLE'S VERDICT:
(based on this thread)
Episode 01: Surprisingly Good! (+1)
Episode 02: No Verdict. (Cute, Low-Key) (0)
Episode 03: No Verdict. (Fun Battle, Low-Key) (0)
Episode 04: Exciting Tactical Battle! Awesome Ending! (+1)
Episode 05: Adorable with Cliffhanger! (+1)
Episode 06: Interesting Tactics. (+1)
Episode 07: Incomplete but Decent. (+½)
Episode 08: For the Motherland! (+1)
Episode 09: ????

GIRLS und PANZER:



Sensha-do (The Tank-Way):
"The art of operating combat tanks, a national sport for females."

Same military history adviser as SW and Upotte.

I don't care about the irresponsible socio-political implication of moe girls dressed up like Waffen-SS, cheerfully operating war machines before adoring crowds...

My body is ready.

I love animes like this, hopefully it can fill the void Upotte left, 10 episodes just isnt right.

what do SW and Upotte have in common? I didn't watch Upotte.

Upotte had high school moe girls as the spiritual representations of automatic weapons. They could summon and dismiss their guns spontaneously and were technically immortal. (Although I suppose you could explode them and then scatter the pieces.) They also can't kill unless under human command.

Besides that, to quote myself:



So the same tastes, knowledge and judgment of this one guy carries over between all three.

... what a lucky history buff he is... T.T

im expecting an island as the whole school. otherwise it's ridiculous since they practice tanks. i wouldn't expect town battles tho - too destructive

There are many ways they could get around the collateral damage. One would be to set the urban fighting in an uninhabited city-replica. Or they could fight in real cities but deal minimal damage via plot magic.

I don't think the series will be this clever, but it would be funny for the girls to destroy public property and natural treasures like a bunch of idiots, racking up mountains of debt, and have people cheer as their own shops, homes and temples are destroyed, like "--look, my house is on TV!" (what's left of it)

"Isn't sensha-do great?!" (mount Fuji explodes)

Fuck yeah.

I'm lookin' forward to this.

I haven't caught up with it yet, but if it's shit then I don't wanna watch it, is it good?

I enjoyed it, its definitely worth the watch.

I found it underdeveloped, slow and tame. Even for a mere 10 episodes, they really had to stretch the source material, and they didn't add much original content. Its strongest element was the premise.

It probably would have been better as a few OVAs.

I don't expect anything better from Girls und Panzer, but I love tanks so much I'm willing to put up with a weak story.

or they could have tournaments with collateral damage on the side with misfired salvos and such

Well... yes, that goes without saying. I don't see why they would intentionally cause collateral damage. That would be stupid.

sounds like upotte for some reason. property damage-wise at least. those rounds could raise all dogs into barking yet no police siren even after blowing up the bus, they were still a no show. i just hope that doesn't happen to this series.

I'm gonna do a compare and contrast...

Strike Witches


Upotte



These anthromorphic gun/aircraft anime have a bad to mediocre standing with me. But I'm gonna give this a try, with the hope I can be proven wrong.

Yeah. I'm sure a few writerly anime fans could write better stories themselves, given a week or so to do it.

Since these are real girls and not fanservice vehicles, I have somewhat higher hopes than the previous two moe-military shows. However the main reason I care is because omg tanks.

I'm also curious to see what other tanks appear. I wonder if Sensha-do is restricted to just WWII era, or if we'll be seeing the historical breadth of AFV development.

im with you on tanks but don't expect too much detail on them. rather, expect slice of life be more of a major theme than tanks. upotte pulled it since it has modern uses, but tanks aren't as much on the scenes. it's more of a drone thing nowadays

That's terrible logic.

There's more potential to explore with tanks as not only can you examine the machine itself, but also the teamwork dynamic with the crew.

yeah but i can't help but feel that tanks are just a part to pull in viewers. they would cater to both tank otakus and non-tank otakus. in that case my thought is that they won't go too into the specifics on their parts of the machine. i'd prefer that they would so i can figure out a suggestion for our country's army.

Episode 1 is out, and it's great. Looking forward for the other episodes.

Man all that CG, also the first person perspective was kind of disorienting.