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Having a lot titles in completed means you went from very varied expierences, you can see that some things could be made better.
Your horizont for reviewing is just widen.
With this attitude I've decided to review "Girls und Panzer", my first anime ever.
And I started rewatching at... ending of July 2021 until almost end of February 2022...

Firstly I have to make some introduction - "Girls und Panzer" ("GuP") is so called "Original Anime TV series" what means that it was not based on any manga, it's cornerstone was created by anime studio. These days we don't see often such animes. (Well, in most cases it's ... easier to put money in animating top selling manga.) Also we have to add that "GuP" was created by studio that is known only for our object of interest.

When we put all these together we obtain one conclusion - how this almost anonimous studio, could produce such popular show, while it's necessary to have financial support from investors to create one.
I can't answer but I can say something about "Girls und Panzer"

Firstly let's talk about plot - Girls und Panzer - Girls and Tanks, so it is about girls riding tanks, right? Yes, but actually not.
While everything is about group(s) of girls riding tanks, beside this militaristic site series has also another side - Old, good, wholesome cute girls doing cute things.
So will we be blessed by two glorious types of anime in one?
No.

PLOT - world bulding doesn't exist. You can see this world different from ours, and all you can do about this different world is simply notice - "ahh that's how it is here."
We don't even know how tanks battles ended as a Sport excusively for Girls. (well, actually we got some "Virtues of Women"...)
Like I mentioned before anime has two sides, neither is ok.
Tank battles are simply one scheme repeated dozens of times; it is focusing how our team's tactic can defeat enemies' formulaic stategies.
From beginning it might seem to be interesting, but in longer perspective it is not.
Second side - cute girls doing cute things, this one just seem to be here to cover what's left from 20mins of Episode.


ART - GuP's tanks are animated in 3D, and models themself are prety OK. I can't say anything bad about them. But if we look in battlefields then it doesn't look Ok. If we get scenery of city then it's fine, but if we talk about everything else then we have "copy, paste", blank scenery.

MUSIC - one of the most iconic elements from die Panzermädchen.
I myself found this series from video of singing Soviet Lolis.
Music is indeed glorious. Offcourse by glorious I mean just few tracks. This series poses well performed arrangements of military music and songs. But within it lies wasted potential - series notoriously played this gems of OST only once, while enemy team was introduced, and then was playing in loop main theme.
Opening and Ending seemed to be just generic ones.

CHARACTERS - armored girls has a lot of characters, and most of them are there just to cover spots. Besides Main Characters there was only 5 characters I could recall, but they weren't even close to best written ones.

ENJOYMENT - series is notoriously repeating one scheme over and over.
Like I mentioned before, there is no world building, characters seem blank and also we have some ecchi. (Even soviets could not endure winter without long trousers)

OVERALL - I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. This series might seem nice as one of first anime series, when exposed to many aspects people can just say "it's anime thing" and think that explains some points.
Probably the only one group of people who can rejoice themselves are enthusiasts of Arts with military Anime Girls, because armored Girls is one big source of inspiration for artist.
If you want to watch any kind of militaristic anime then "Black Lagoon" seem to be the best. If you were interested by wholesome side of series then I would recomended "Non Non Biyori" Both are better and longer.

So ToG is series that will take hours of your life to read 500chapters in order to get to know what's going on, but you're ending with lack of that knowledge.

Story and characters are connected. The problem is that story is developing too slow - first chapters are short and laters are long and... empty.

Let me explain what this series is - it is about Boy called 25th Bam who has enterned to mysterious Tower. He has some purpose that forced him entenring there. In first or Second Chapter it was explained that when you enterned a Tower you have to climb on ... it's top where you can :
- find any treaure
- satisfy any need of yours
- find something that transcendents those above

It was said that through time in Tower was created a political system with King and Nobles.
At moment of begining of series there is a Royal Family and 10 Great Families - those guys seem to keep rule in Tower.

So you know something about Tower! Well let's talking about why ToG is empty and characters weren't fully used. That will include also Art of series.

Our main Character - 25th Bam from begining was meeting those guys from 10 Great Families and even has met members of Royal Family. They even became his companions...
What could go wrong? Author has focused on making Shounen from this Series.
I mean there is way too much fights. Author created good universe (Tower) where he can add everything. And here those characters from 10Great Families can help to improve series - Explaining, talking more about the Tower, it's system, rules or whatever they were teached. And not only those guys from Nobility - every character can add something - rumors, own experience.

After 10 years of publishing author keeps doing one thing - you won't know about something until that thing will be involved in MC's way.
One thing was in Season 1, then it was more explained in late Season 2, and after that... still waits to be explained,

Also fights are big problem - they're exist just to cover a website. On begining They're good but in Season2 there is one pattern :
- drawning Character A in left up corner
- drawning Character B in bottom right corner
- they're shouting names of their attacks
- then between them draw a white rays like those on Jesus' portrait or other Deathstar's laser or whatever to cover space between them.

Only because that late chapters are long - few infomation about Tower/world/characters and tons of Lasers/holy rays.

Art of characters - here you can see Authors evolution! While on begining it was not interesting in Season 2 it is absolutely Beautful!!!


At now I'm confused - on the one hand we have got a tons of characters who can be developed and wait what will be done with them. Also same goes with world of Tower where still a lot of things have to be explained.
On the other hand there's tons of unused characters and occasions. Lot of empty chapters and following overused schemes.

However I was still enjoying - these series has given me what I like the most. A new universe where I'm flooded with informations about it, then imagine and whinking about all this World.