6 Responses to “Girls Und Panzer”

1. BigGator5 says:

   July 23, 2017 at 8:32 AM

   Yeah, Japan is awesome.

2. Ingot9455 says:

   July 24, 2017 at 10:06 AM

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

3. Petercat says:

   July 24, 2017 at 9:05 PM

   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:

   July 24, 2017 at 11:10 PM

   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:

   July 25, 2017 at 12:49 AM

   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:

   July 25, 2017 at 1:54 PM

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