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Originally Posted by Tak
The concept of GuP is actually not very original. I give the production team props for bringing the concept to TV, but this theme with girls & German tanks had been in existence amongst Japanese doujin circles for as long as I can remember. Though this is one of the few series that made sense...  |
Marina2 was referring to Girls und Panzer as original in the sense of "original animation" rather than "original story". The risk here is financial as Actas is a very small studio trying to make a brand new show, and it's likely that they had to fund much of the project themselves. Making the show effectively the first tank anime as a risk is part of the premise.
With better financial backing, they could have made it a 2-cour show, and they wouldn't have underproduced Blu-rays by this much. Incidentally, this increases the chance for a sequel. With the first show a bonafide hit, it'd be a lot easier to secure funding, and there'd be a lot of incentive to do so as well.
On a different note, I've always liked tanks, but I still wasn't sure about Girls und Panzer until a couple of episodes in. The main source of trepidation was the title: anime loves Nazi fetishization in general, and a German title hinted that the show would lean in that direction. I'm really glad that the show itself doesn't do this, and I give all the credit for this to Mizushima's strong direction. Just a quick glance at the fanart reveals that the fandom would have loved to go in this direction.