(L) Girls und Panzer

[Qikz]

Finally got around to watching episode 11-12 this morning. Loved them <3

I completely forgot I hadn't seem them due to that large break in the middle haha.

[Brother Coa]

I wanted to ask a question regarding manga, the one that is written from Yukari's PoW...

I was reading some news about movie and future Anzio OVA and the author of the text mentioned that manga is not considered canon.

Is this true?

[LoweGear]

Obviously the manga isn't canon. For one, while it follows the anime as far as the general plot is concerned, many of the specific events it depicts are completely different from the anime. Also, what they said about the OVA is that the Anzio battle will play out differently from the manga.

[Tak]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Also, what they said about the OVA is that the Anzio battle will play out differently from the manga.

There was another way it played out other than Anzio being completely and utterly curbstomped?

- Tak

[tomexe]

Originally Posted by Tak

There was another way it played out other than Anzio being completely and utterly curbstomped?

- Tak

You know, I think finding out that they were NOT the worst team in the competition was a big revelation and a big relief for the Oorai team. It allowed them to think it was not all just luck and miracles.

I would still like to know if Anzio is now the school that is going to have to close since Oorai saved itself.

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

It's a marching song, it needs to be catchy, and keep to a good 4-beat. ;D If soldiers are singing, they don't feel so tired.

Well duh.

Originally Posted by tomexe

I would still like to know if Anzio is now the school that is going to have to close since Oorai saved itself.

No pizza for anyone!

Endless "Denied" Soul

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Tak

There was another way it played out other than Anzio being completely and utterly curbstomped?

- Tak

Well for one, in the anime the Char B1 was first used in the Pravda match, as it apparently wasn't ready in time for the Anzio match, where in the manga the B1 is crewed by Yukari (as commander), Aya and Erwin for the Anzio battle.

[Ithekro]

The newly ready Char B1 does a lot in that fight. Mostly blocking the weaker Italian shots with its heavy armor to defend the flag tank...the StuG III. Also they introduce the longer barrel 75mm cannon on Miho's Panzer IV, which also didn't show up until th Pravda match.

[arkhangelsk]

Personally, I wonder whether the manga is supposed to be canon in the sense it is a figment of Akiyama's imagination. Nishizumi-dono generally looks cooler. She herself gets to be a tank commander ... just the kind of things Yukari would dream about

[Tak]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Well for one, in the anime the Char B1 was first used in the Pravda match, as it apparently wasn't ready in time for the Anzio match, where in the manga the B1 is crewed by Yukari (as commander), Aya and Erwin for the Anzio battle.

Since this is an OVA, we don't know what route it will take. Though my guts tell me they will take the anime approach.

Regardless, can you name another match where an enemy team to Oorai was completely and utterly defeated in the way that Anzio was?

- Tak

[MeisterBabylon]

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

Personally, I wonder whether the manga is supposed to be canon in the sense it is a figment of Akiyama's imagination. Nishizumi-dono generally looks cooler. She herself gets to be a tank commander ... just the kind of things Yukari would dream about

Then, her Mousou Power would be off the charts.

[Chiu_fan]

Well #&^%. I don't have that kind of money.
Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf H -Anko Team Ver.- Expert Set *Miyazawa Limited (Plastic model)
Tiger I -Kuromorimine Girls High School Ver.- Expert Set *Miyazawa Limited (Plastic model)

[Tak]

Originally Posted by Chiu_fan

Well #&^%. I don't have that kind of money.
Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf H -Anko Team Ver.- Expert Set *Miyazawa Limited (Plastic model)
Tiger I -Kuromorimine Girls High School Ver.- Expert Set *Miyazawa Limited (Plastic model)

Miho says rob a bank and take her home.

I'll hook you up, lets go!

- Tak

[Sister Princess]

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/articl...torial-dispute

Spoiler for long paragraph:

Over the clatter of helicopter rotor blades and the powerful engines of tanks and self-propelled guns, an occasional "oooh" and "aaah" could be heard from the crowds of civilians in the stands at the Self-Defence Forces' training grounds on the flanks of Mount Fuji.

The annual drills, which started last Tuesday, are designed to demonstrate Japan's commitment to defending its territory and have become an increasingly important showcase of the military's abilities.

With Japan and China still locked in a dispute over the sovereignty of a crop of islands China calls the Diaoyus and Japan calls the Senkakus, it will not have been lost on the onlookers that the premise of the drill was an attack on Japan from the sea.

The exercises have also become more popular among aficionados of military hardware, which has found a growing following in a nation that has in recent decades been more keen to emphasise its pacifist and purely defensive credentials.

And anime characters - inevitably, in Japan - appear to be fuelling that fascination.

Spectators watch Self-Defence Forces' tanks during annual exercises near Mt Fuji. Photo: EPA

This year, a record 110,000 people applied for the approximately 6,000 places at the military exercises, with some suggesting the sudden sexiness of howitzers and squealing tank tracks is partly thanks to Girls und Panzer.

The animated show revolves around a group of girls - all of whom wear short-skirted school uniforms and have outsize doe-eyes - studying "the way of the tank," as if it were a martial art.

Sales of companion DVDs have been huge and the online game World of Tanks is a collaboration between the creators of the series and a computer game developer in Belorussia.

Plastic models of the girls' tanks have also been selling out at toy stores in Japan, while the town of Oarai, in Ibaraki prefecture, where the story is set, in March held a Girls und Panzer event as part of its annual spring festival.

Poster of Thunderbirds. Photo: SCMPSome even more well-known television characters have been used in recent months to promote careers in Japan's military, with the puppets from the cult British television show Thunderbirds being enlisted to encourage people to join up.

A series of posters were released in the spring that underlined the similarities in the tasks that face Japan's Self-Defence Forces and International Rescue Organisation.

One of the SDF recruitment posters features the five sons of Jeff Tracy in their matching blue uniforms, sashes and hats, along with Prince Pickles, the cuddly cartoon character who has been used by the SDF in previous campaigns, in his three guises as pilot, soldier and sailor.

Against a background of the five familiar craft that International Rescue use in their missions, a slogan reads, "Join the Self-Defence Forces and help the public!"

"The campaign has been effective and the collaboration on the Thunderbirds posters really helped to raise the profile of careers in the military," said a spokeswoman for the Defence Ministry in Tokyo.

In the last fiscal year, around 50,000 people applied to join the Self-Defence Forces, up from 47,000 the year before, and 43,000 applicants the previous year.

There are other factors, however, including a sense among young people after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that joining the armed forces would enable them to help the public in the event of another major natural disaster.

There was comparable motivation among people who applied to join Japan's coastguard last year.

Applications for places at the Japan Coastguard Academy in Kure, Hiroshima prefecture, were up 50 per cent on the previous year to 16,783, with young people increasingly seeing the work of the service as glamorous and exciting.

We are know this will happen sooner or later.

[Tak]

Its funny how cuteness sells in Japan so much that it can even find resounding success in military recruitment. It overrides bloodshed and loss of lives. Works even better than some of our own recruiting centers with reputation for altering truths!

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

- Tak

[Gravitas Free Zone]

Hmm, this guy's avatar wasn't Ooarai before, I think...

[Ithekro]

The allure of a Roman-Japanese Stug III got to a lot of people.

[MeisterBabylon]

I was skeptical...

But when I saw her face, now I'm a believer!

[LoweGear]

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[arkhangelsk]

Is the latter a preview from the OVA?