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Oct 9, 2012 11:46 AM

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LOL i actually really loved this one! it reminds me of upotte ( which i dropped like half an episode in due to feeling more like a podoefile than i usually do when watching anime) but it isnt psuedo-hentai ( at least not yet) and i actually find it funny. The subs made it so much better as well. Does anyone know what sub group put in all the German words?

I have a feeling this is going to be one of those that i watch until it settles down and gets a little boring then pick up when its finished.

p.s
*Starts ending establishing shot*
oh well that was a nice anim-"
*Shows aircraft carrier town*
"WHAT THE SH!T!!! I-I-IT... It's the size of a mainland city...Well that just makes it ten times better..."
Oct 9, 2012 11:55 AM

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i got some Saki vibe from that episode.
Oct 9, 2012 12:48 PM

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Jesus Commie's subs practically ruined this episode.

Anyone who feeds off that crap....

Fun serious.
Oct 9, 2012 2:10 PM
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lamest series this season (from the ones i've seen so far)
don't like the propaganda thing with woman driving tanks and bla,
actually there isn't anything that entertains me...
though i speak german the subs from commie were quite unnecessary, and only to make fun of germans ( quote=" this is beyond hitler!")
guess they could not take such an anime seriously
Oct 9, 2012 2:16 PM

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The subs I watched randomly squeezed in german words and it got really annoying IMO... apart from that, the show was to be expected, nothing new 6/10.
Oct 9, 2012 2:36 PM

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YorozuyaGinSan said:
The subs I watched randomly squeezed in german words and it got really annoying IMO... apart from that, the show was to be expected, nothing new 6/10.


As a German, I found the mixed translations to be funny (most of the words were correctly used as well). And this series is such a load of bs that I can't help but to find it awesome. I mean...Mädchen und Panzer.
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Oct 9, 2012 2:40 PM

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...It's interesting...but...o.o



Oct 9, 2012 2:50 PM

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hrmmmm.... this is one of those shows that can go great or horridly bad, no middle grounds. will stick for a couple eps more to see whats up
Oct 9, 2012 2:58 PM
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Those German Subs gave me a headache. I mean enough Pig Latin T.T
Oct 9, 2012 3:00 PM
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Dat uber framerate in the beginning battle... Did they render it on a hand cranked computer? @_@

Something just made me laugh in that first battle. Maybe it's the pink, red, yellow tanks. Camouflage? We don't need no stinking camouflage! We got schoolgirls in our tanks!

This is probably going to be a train tank wreck. But that's why I'll enjoy it. Slightly less entertaining than Upotte though.
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Oct 9, 2012 3:08 PM
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I felt a bit of discomfort about this episode. The behaviour of the school president and the gang was a bit extreme forcing Miho to sign up the elective that she herself did not want to join in the first place. "Join or be expelled!" It was quite sad and sickening. However, on a positive note, I was quite happy that Miho decided to join to begin the process of overcoming her past.

As for the whole idea of Japan implementing the Panzerfahren program, somehow I feel that there is some kind of hidden agenda other than for the world cup use, but I guess this is just wishful thinking.


harmann said:
Something just made me laugh in that first battle. Maybe it's the pink, red, yellow tanks. Camouflage? We don't need no stinking camouflage! We got schoolgirls in our tanks!


Yeah, that was hilarious. Lol.
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Oct 9, 2012 3:34 PM

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Awful, but Commie made it good for a laugh.

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Jesus Commie's subs practically ruined this episode.

Wrong. They were the only thing that made it worth watching.
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@Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian.
Oct 9, 2012 4:22 PM

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A promising start, it seems better than upotte at least (as if anything wouldn't). If we get some good tank battles it will be enjoyable, but we will see. Some of the character designs look pretty nice too. I like that they included the StuG III, one of my favourites of WWII. And it looked gloriously ridiculous with the banners and the paintjob.

Didn't have a problem with Commie's subs. Even though my german (let alone japanese) is very lacking, I was able to understand what they were talking about, and it did give a nice touch to the show.

as long as the tanks get more screentime than cute girls doing cute stuff, I'll probably keep watching this. Have to see a couple more episodes before I'm decided though.

EDIT: Oh, and I'll be disappointed if we don't see a t-34 in the show.
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Oct 9, 2012 4:34 PM

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entropy13 said:
I wonder when the T-34, M4 Sherman, and the Tiger/King Tiger will make an appearance. Maybe even the Mauser would show up, as well as the Stalin and Pershing.

Minor nit pick, but if we're going to go for that kind of thing, I think you mean the Mauss. German tanks were named after large felines, not people who designed firearms :P

As for those looking for some nice vehicle identification:
Yellow: Czech-designed but German-used Pz.38(t)
Pink: US M3 Grant/Lee
With the flags: German StuG III Ausf F or G assault gun
Now for a REALLY tough one: Japanese Type 89 I-Go
Miho's tank: Panzer IVC/D

The opposing tanks in the opening were already identified as a Churchill leading 4 Matilda II's.

Some fun facts about the tanks depicted:
-The Churchill was the replacement for the Matilda II, which was woefully undergunned even at the start of the war (37mm 2 pounder) and could not be up-gunned.
-The Matilda and Churchill series were infantry support tanks, and thus had no need of being any faster than men on foot. Miho's Panzer IV is almost twice as fast as them
-The StuG III would typically not be operating alongside tanks. They were employed by the artillery arm
-The Panzer IV was designed primarily to provide fire support, not for tank-VS-tank engagement. However, in 1940, its short 75mm gun was the only German tank cannon that could take out a Matilda II (albeit at close range). However, it had better growth potential than the Panzer III, and long-barreled versions entered service in 1942 to counter the T-34.
-The M3 was a stopgap measure as they were designing the turret for the M4 Sherman. It was basically an enlarged M3 Stuart light tank with a 75mm gun stuck into the hull. It was extremely successful in North Africa because it had better range and firepower than the tanks Rommel had access to - he never got appreciable numbers of the long-barreled Panzer IVF-2 or G.
-The Type 89, like almost all Japanese tanks, was a support vehicle intended for use against poorly equipped infantry. It would not be effective against even light tanks from most other nations, and was quite vulnerable to antitank weapons. Of course, the Chinese kind of lacked both of those.
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Oct 9, 2012 4:45 PM

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They use panzer because it sound like pantsu :O
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Oct 9, 2012 4:54 PM

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City on an enormous aircraft carrier. Didn't expect that.

And whoever subbed this should just stick to English. I know it has "und Panzer" in the title but that does not mean you can just shove random German up the ENGLISH subtitles' ass. So STOP IT.




Oct 9, 2012 5:06 PM

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Akamitsu said:
City on an enormous aircraft carrier. Didn't expect that.

And whoever subbed this should just stick to English. I know it has "und Panzer" in the title but that does not mean you can just shove random German up the ENGLISH subtitles' ass. So STOP IT.

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Oct 9, 2012 5:34 PM

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This is easily one of the dumber things I've seen.
Oct 9, 2012 5:56 PM
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and they live on a HUGE AIRCRAFT CARRIER danm..... more like a CITY Carrier
Oct 9, 2012 6:05 PM

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cute girls and tanks and troll ass subs?! glad this is out early in the week when there's barely anything to watch seems better then Upotte! though,story :S being a panzer = being a ideal women whaa??..

gonna watch this seeing as it seems to be a show you have to into with the right mindset lol let's just tag this as another *WTF Japan!* plus dat city is on the ship!.
Oct 9, 2012 6:16 PM

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It was an Ok episode, the animation was really good the tanks look nice
Oct 9, 2012 6:19 PM

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Although, seeing the ending, the mainland city is still many times bigger than the carrier.
symbv said:
My guess is that this show is deep down light-hearted so I think we will not see death in this anime, kind of like the other anime which has a large ensemble of female cast doing military thing i.e. Strike Witches. But some kind of injury or shock resulted from some action / mission may be involved, again like Strike Witches. This may cause the trauma we see in Miho. According to what was shown, my guess is that she by mistake bumped into a Tiger at close distance and was hurt/shocked quite badly as a result.
Hope so. There's anough share of emotional anime this season.

Just worried because the story in that manga about Miho's elementary school years.
Oct 9, 2012 6:44 PM

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I got as far as the first 20 seconds or so (when the horribly-camouflaged unit on the cliff moved out and stopped watching as soon as I saw the tanks:
-A pink Lee
-A gold Panzer 38(t)
-A red, white, blue, and gold StuG III covered in flags.
-A tan Type 89, probably the closest thing to an actual combat-ready tank, except for it being a Type 89.

No thanks.
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Oct 9, 2012 6:46 PM

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Show of the season.
Oct 9, 2012 6:50 PM

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Shachou said:
They use panzer because it sound like pantsu :O
It all makes sense now!
Oct 9, 2012 6:58 PM

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Troll subs were actually pretty funny, plus I kinda learned some German from it. Kinda.

As for the anime itself, pretty average so far. I admit, that floating fortress town completely caught me off guard.
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Oct 9, 2012 7:00 PM

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I always love to watch something stupid but new and fun rather than your generic shounnen, ecchi, harem etc....So I found this anime is amusement.
BTW, recently I have read a manga with the setting: " girl and battleship", make me lolz so hard.
Oct 9, 2012 7:14 PM

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Kurano said:
Troll subs were actually pretty funny, plus I kinda learned some German from it. Kinda.

As for the anime itself, pretty average so far. I admit, that floating fortress town completely caught me off guard.


Lol commie? I used Hiryuu's subs.

As for the show lolwut. Looks like Miho has some bad history in the tanks from her past. Judging by the tank falling in the water, etc.
Oct 9, 2012 7:55 PM

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ill give this 2 more episode to see if this goes anywhere, and did they mess up that girls glasses? for some reason that really bother me.
Oct 9, 2012 8:01 PM

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Wtf's with the subs... streamed it so I didn't know which group was it.

A nice episode :D Kept me entertained since I'm not doing anything at the time.
Good OP theme too~ I'm guessing that ED is the OP theme for the rest of the eps.
Oct 9, 2012 8:11 PM
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This show in okay. I was nice seeing the different tanks and the entire school being on top an aircraft carrier was completely unexpected. I didn't enjoy the MC being bullied into joining the tank club, but there wouldn't be this show if that didn't happen, so I forgive it.

The German in the subs was completely unexpected. If I didn't recognize some of the Nihongo (Japanese) from watching lots of anime, I probably would have been really annoyed since I wouldn't know what they said some of the times.
Oct 9, 2012 8:40 PM
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God, Commie, I love you for taking the effort for the German inclusion...but it's not working well.

As for the series...well...
1) Apparently the student council has the authority to expel anyone => automatic plot drama/tension => ??? => profit
2) They use a paraphrase of the *US MARINE CORPS HYMN* in a German-focused series.

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Oct 9, 2012 9:07 PM

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Did anyone other then me suddenly think, Jesus someone played wayy too much World of Tanks? Lol
Oct 9, 2012 9:08 PM

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HibiChouchou said:
Nasty001 said:


What's wrong with this stuff?

Ans: the tank commander should be inside the tank for safety reasons.

Guten-da! F**K what's with the German subtitle?


No, you're wrong, girls in school uniform shouldn't be there in the first place.
They should not have the uniform but more a military one indeed.

There were young girls driving thanks in WW2 I think at some points but never mentioned really.

And Kudos to the tank infos. It's all pretty much spot on. The threads shall be gun indeed. I need my KINGTIGER tank.

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Oct 9, 2012 9:48 PM

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Shachou said:
They use panzer because it sound like pantsu :O

In fact the nickname used in Japan is GirlPan LOL LOL LOL

Many seem to be taken aback by how the tanks are operated wrongly from history but let's not forget that it is "senshado" not really tank battles. As I said before the idea seems to come from Naginata-do (a halberd-like pole-knife weapon) where the martial arts are formalized in different rules and the use of the Naginata is not the same as how it was historically used in real combat. So all those no-nos like colored tanks, uniforms, lack of combined arms like infantry or artillery, or mixing self-propelled guns with tanks are not really a problem in Senshado.

BTW, here is a cropping of the tournament rules of Senshado
http://blog-imgs-51.fc2.com/y/a/r/yaraon/pp_20121009224436.jpg
So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old?

I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them?

I wonder how long people would put up with this.

As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series.
Oct 9, 2012 10:53 PM

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Interesting RoE

So the tank, parts, ammunition and armours must all be approved by the consortium.
Tanks used must be manufactured or designed before the end of WW2.

Also, no targeting human or already disabled tank.
Oct 9, 2012 10:54 PM

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When will people realize that you're supposed to completely turn your brain off for this? xD
Oct 10, 2012 12:43 AM

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Im sorry but there's a limit on my brain for the amount of garbage intake for the period of my life 50% rl stuff, 5% anime, 5% on family,35% my better half and 5% useless stuff. This exceeds my 5% useless stuff by 25% and as such have corrupted brain cells. Commie version of this hurt my brain so much they made a horrible choice using german terms for a japanese anime translation. It was just too retarded to read and understand that certain words should have remained in english and omg the spelling of those german words were just horrid. No reason to be surprised for me to continue watching this because I've been corrupted by how bad it was that you just can't stop watching. Sorry if this comes as a hurt to FBs of this show but i hope all the characters would all take cannons to the guts and die. Then maybe I can recommend to my friends that it was awesome. 'Sigh' so many things wrong with this anime on many different levels. BTW the fan-service SUCKS!
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orbbie said:
Im sorry but there's a limit on my brain for the amount of garbage intake for the period of my life 50% rl stuff, 5% anime, 5% on family,35% my better half and 5% useless stuff. This exceeds my 5% useless stuff by 25% and as such have corrupted brain cells. Commie version of this hurt my brain so much they made a horrible choice using german terms for a japanese anime translation. It was just too retarded to read and understand that certain words should have remained in english and omg the spelling of those german words were just horrid. No reason to be surprised for me to continue watching this because I've been corrupted by how bad it was that you just can't stop watching. Sorry if this comes as a hurt to FBs of this show but i hope all the characters would all take cannons to the guts and die. Then maybe I can recommend to my friends that it was awesome. 'Sigh' so many things wrong with this anime on many different levels. BTW the fan-service SUCKS!


You can't expect there to be either a huge amount of fanservice or quality fanservice straight off episode one. It's not Xebec or Shaft, for chrissakes.
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Oct 10, 2012 1:45 AM
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Girls und Shit.
DROPPED!

I doubt this will get any better. Heck, it may even get worse. This was so mind numbingly stupid, that it was on par with last seasons Kono Naka Imouto.
Oct 10, 2012 1:54 AM

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Lolimancer said:
LOLIS + Military = AWESOME !


What the he said!!!
I need less german in my subs tho...
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Oct 10, 2012 2:07 AM

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Am i the only one that didn't mind the german subs? O.O Like they were pretty annoying but you can easily figure out what they meant by the context and/or the japanese audio. I'd imagine by now most of us can understand most of the common phrases, just through reading other subs in anime :/. (I haven't taken any japanese courses btw).
Oct 10, 2012 2:33 AM

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I was really worried there for Miho-chan, I was expecting her to have a mental breakdown and go Nice Tank on the class. From the flashback it seems she has every reason to have PTSD. A pity this show doesn't look like one to delve into it further, I actually want to see someone going off the deep end for a change.

5/5 loved every minute of the episode, the girls are nice, I don't really mind the CGI, and the social commentary was enjoyable (girls forced/mindwashed into doing things because of tradition? Good thing we never had something like this in our world! / sarcasm). I hope this keeps up, one of the more entertaining shows of the season.
Oct 10, 2012 2:39 AM

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I had my own girls und panzers earlier:
Garage crew icons + name changing mods


+ in-game crew voices like this one:



The whole setting is hilarious, but that's the point heheh. + additional lolz from occasional german in subs.
Oct 10, 2012 3:12 AM

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after rewatching the op there are so many god damn random look characters now i see why people say it reminds them of saki.
Oct 10, 2012 3:13 AM

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Am I the only one who is wondering about this?
The girls are going to shoot each other with the tanks. Well...they're gonna be dead then.
Maybe I am missing something, like they don't use "real" ammunition?
Please help me XD
Oct 10, 2012 3:47 AM

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I seriously dislike this sort of behavior.
What's more, it's being shown in the first episode.
How the hell can you not drop this kind of Nazism promoting shit?
Seriously.

Dropped.
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Oct 10, 2012 3:58 AM

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Synoptic said:
I seriously dislike this sort of behavior.
What's more, it's being shown in the first episode.
How the hell can you not drop this kind of Nazism promoting shit?
Seriously.

Dropped.

Not sure if joking, or just retarded.
Oct 10, 2012 4:15 AM

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You know, I don't know what are your guys' expectations were when you decided to watch a show called, "Girls und Panzers". I personally didn't expect much other than girls and tank porn.
Oct 10, 2012 5:02 AM

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The CGI is pretty good. The tanks are well detailed.
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