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Mar 28, 2016

Sailor Fuku to Juusensha (Manga) add

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Preliminary (8/42 chp)

This is a manga about cute girls... doing cute tank things? How about turning back time and fighting zombies? There is that specific type of wacky humour that Takeshi Nogami, the author, is known for and this manga is pretty much his MAGNUM OPUS. It just never stops to surprise you. Almost every new page throws something different at you and the same kind of pace is kept through the chapters themselves - action just keeps escalating with more and more WW2 vehicles and other adversaries coming out. Although the characters actually have a long-term goal and they work towards it (becoming the strongest tank ... riders in their area), it's CUHRAYZEE to the point of being pretty random and that might be a turn off, basically for some people it would just feel too retarded.
The panels are made with lots of love, there are tons of references to other manga (some of them are subtle background parts and some are pretty in-your-face). Derpy hand-drawn tank have certain charm that you just can't replicate with tracing. You can just feel that the dude had a blast drawing it. The characters look good when the author bothers do draw them properly... Which mostly only happens on colored pages and the few select ones. Oh, well. Basically, the art is pretty amateurish.

The manga does a good job fetishizing the weapons (they even pull out the "Vampir" IR sustem for their Panther F) and explains them to readers. But there are factual mistakes in so many places, and you may think "whatever, don't be a nerd" and that's true, but it becomes a real problem when the characters plan their actions according to their poor WW2 trivia knowledge. For example they assume that their Panther has less front armour and weaker gun than the Tiger (which is wrong) and fight accordingly. Basically, the research is sloppy. Nevertheless, the author even bothered to crawl into old WW2 trenches with some historians to tell the readers about them. I guess not all of the effort was spread equally.

We follow the adventures of the Panther's team and some of their friends. At least for the main trio it seems that they pass the test (I can describe their personalities without going into what kind of tank job they have). You'd think that's not a bid deal, but it's more than I expected from this kind of wacky manga (or just manga about girls doing activities). They also pretty obviously have their own little storylines (Kanon's mysterious tank driver crush, Mutsumi' family problems and Mariko would probably be either her feelings for Kanon or desire to take over the school). Tama-chan, who joins later, is there to be cute (and narrate). I don't want to spoil the others, but the student council president looks like Integra Hellsing (you can even see her with not-Seras and not-Walter) and shoots double Mausers. Because why not. And then they all get drunk and sing Panzerlied.

Basically this manga never fails to entertain and it also has a bit more of substance than you would expect from random panchira everywhere and almost full-frontals. Check it out.

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Nov 7, 2015

Girls & Panzer: Ribbon no Musha (Manga) add

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Preliminary (4/64 chp)

Okay, so this manga clearly doesn't get as much attention as it deserves, so let's try to improve the situation a little. If you watched the original show, you know that before Germans gave every crew member radio, commander were just kicking driver's shoulders to tell him when to turn. So in this manga two girls ride small 2-crew tank, and the commander/shooter (Shizuku) rubs driver's (Rin) back to steer the tank. But unlike Russian tank commander, her nimble feet are bare. And through this foot-fetish adventure girls get more intimate and strive to win in unofficial light tank competitions for Senshadou rejects.
Now, you've ... probably already decided if you should read it or not, but there are still a couple of things I want to talk about.

In terms of artwork 2 things caught my attention. Facial expressions are pretty good, like you can feel Kei's unease when she thinks about Alisa's winning chances that should be obvious; or Shizuku's smile after a fight, that goes from putting up a face for Rin to genuine happiness of resolution.
Secondly, legs. Shizuku wears black pantyhose over legs that Rin describes as "slim and beautiful". They doesn't get much thicker as you go from knees to hips and even her jacket wraps her thin body very tightly, accentuating her surprisingly decent-sized chest. Now Rin's legs have more meat on them, so she has the opposite body type, nice and soft.

The "princess" Shizuka herself may appear stoic, but is very passionate during battles (both tank and word fights). Her maniacal smile is invoked by admired images of horse-riding warriors of Sengoku era. Ever imagined yourself as a samurai fighting ninjas on top of cars while listening to anime music in a bus? I've only read 4 chapters, so I can't say that much about Rin, but she appears to be more of a "normal" girl to play off Shizuku's chuunibyou. She is pretty submissive and sees a dream in which her comrade rides her like a horse into battle. And there are lots of cameos from GuP characters.

Also, Rin wanted to try tanks after Nishizumi Miho "became a legend". This is as far as I know the only spin-off that actually takes place after GuP, so you can learn a lot of interesting stuff. Some of you fellow GuP fans probably disregarded this manga because the sport here is not strictly speaking Senshadou, but don't worry - battles are engaging and small tanks are very cute.

Yeah, this manga is super fun (sorry for using pointless buzzword, but since I actually described why it's engaging, I give myself a pass). If you are Girls und Panzer fan or foot-fetishist with yuri tendencies, definitely give this a try.

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