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| This ended up one of my favorite shows... and l don't even like tanks and no nothing about them. This show was just so good |
| Wow, great finale. The way they took out the Maus was incredible and then the flag tank showdown was extremely tense and enjoyable to watch. I was skeptical about this show and this continued throughout most of the series with its 2 recap episodes. No doubt there were some issues encountered in the production but was it worth it for the finale? Very much so. The latter recap really opened my eyes to how technical Senshadou can be and with this knowledge in mind, my enjoyment of GuP significantly increased. No doubt, that's a factor in why I didn't understand this show from an early point where I only saw moe with tanks. I really loved the OP. From the song to the pacing, it was a joy to watch before every episode. The ED less so, however I do admire they varied the tanks frequently. I feel an urge to rewatch this show due to how segmented it's broadcast schedule was. Nevertheless, GuP was a show that surprised me with its pleasant cast of characters and the level of enthusiasm towards the tanks themselves. 7/10. |
| BRAVOOOOO amazing tank fight out at the last moment... good series in general |
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Slictz said: Takuan_Soho said: Slictz said: The Maus struggled with a under-powered Motor and a fancy new problematic electrical gearbox. The Porsche Tiger had a similar system, which is why it had so many problems. But it made one visible difference - the tanks with electrical drivetrains could turn smoothly, instead of having to shift gears for separate left and right side transmissions, or (as on the Sherman) just slip the clutch for one side. The GuP team shows that. Most of the tanks turn in jerks at slow speed. The beautifully detailed ending sequence shows this clearly around 23:20. As a tribute to Oarai, the details in the ending are perfect, down to the vending machines at Oarai Station.  The turn from Oarai Station to the road to the docks. The route they take is real, as are most of the buildings. In the last scene, they're headed straight for the docks. |
oldskoolpunkMar 28, 2013 12:33 AM
| Amazing episode! Damn, and I thought the 11th episode was awesome xD 5/5 episode, 9/10 series |
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| So much wrong in 2 episodes... I don't even know where to start. But it was fun nonetheless... the level of loltastic moments saved the series. |
OVanBruceMar 28, 2013 5:29 AM
| Man, that was so good. Why was it so good? Think about it this way - when was the last time you watched an anime that built up suspense, tension and excitement as well as this series, yet once each episode is over, you literally have zero reason to not want to the next episode immediately. There isn't a shred of discomfort about watching this series. Even masterpieces such as Gankutsuou sometimes radiate some elements that make you want to watch something else after the episode is done. It's very hard to explain, but Girls und Panzer is one of those series that emit none of it. Is it the fact that there isn't any blood? Is it the mixture of moe into something that's supposed to be really serious, yet still kept the excitement and suspense so well? Is it because we know the "good guys" will never lose? Regardless what the reason is, this is a prime example showing what anime is best at. You don't need insanely deep plot or innovation. You just need to do something simple, do it well, and it will turn out to be better than most other things out there. 8/10, and since it's smashing everything on the Japanese charts right now, it'll get a season 2, almost doubtlessly. I look forward to it. |
ImperialX said: Man, that was so good. Why was it so good? Think about it this way - when was the last time you watched an anime that built up suspense, tension and excitement as well as this series, yet once each episode is over, you literally have zero reason to not want to the next episode immediately. There isn't a shred of discomfort about watching this series. Even masterpieces such as Gankutsuou sometimes radiate some elements that make you want to watch something else after the episode is done. It's very hard to explain, but Girls und Panzer is one of those series that emit none of it. Is it the fact that there isn't any blood? Is it the mixture of moe into something that's supposed to be really serious, yet still kept the excitement and suspense so well? Is it because we know the "good guys" will never lose? Regardless what the reason is, this is a prime example showing what anime is best at. You don't need insanely deep plot or innovation. You just need to do something simple, do it well, and it will turn out to be better than most other things out there. 8/10, and since it's smashing everything on the Japanese charts right now, it'll get a season 2, almost doubtlessly. I look forward to it. THIS. This is what I also felt when watching this series. +1 |
Tyrel said: The way it combines tanks with sports with cute girls is what it is really outstanding, and so is the well thought-out battle actions and depiction. Of course the animation of tank battle is just a milestone in itself.Average series, nothing really outstanding about it. And what ImperialX said too. === Anyway, one thing to share: You can actually see the building of Actus, the studio that made GirlPan, in this episode!! Actus is located in Tokyo but it made a cameo appearance in this episode. It is the building to the right.   |
symbvMar 29, 2013 10:01 AM
| 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. |
| Awesome last episode~! I loved watching this anime~! I really hope there will be a season 2 |
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| Very good anime overall! A good example of a how a simple premise can make a great show if well executed. Nothing pretentious nor a Mariana Trench deep argument, just a light-hearted story, but well narrated and with the correct ammounts of tension. Not a single cut was a waste, every piece in this show is in perfect concordance with the rest. Also, very good work by the animation team! Every episode was of very high quality, the attention to detail put into the tanks was superb! A solid 8 so far, and re-thinking if a can give this a 9, because it was a VERY well made show. |
A friend pointed out in the group shot of them jumping up, that saki is slow on the uptake and is just starting to jump when the others have cheered and momo is STILL crying and can only manage to barely raise her arm XD |
Ikuinen said: A friend pointed out in the group shot of them jumping up, that Saki is slow on the uptake and is just starting to jump when the others have cheered and Momo is STILL crying and can only manage to barely raise her arm That little clip shows how much work the GuP team put into the details. Everyone's jump is a little different, and in character. The vollyball team do spikes, and not all the same; two of them off the left leg, one off the right. On top of that, the location is real - it's at Oarai Station.  Vending machines, hexagonal paving blocks, and all. |
| mikozee wrote: Oh who am I kidding. I just want to see cute girls in moexploitation attempting to blow each other up. Boy that makes me sound like a violent person... Me too. I certainly don't want to advertise to everybody that I am a GuP fan. Otherwise, I would have ordered several of those plastic figurines that show the girls at the beach and YES, they do have panties if you look up their skirts. Neither do I want to put World War II tank models on display. Quite a number of comments on MAL threads related to GuP said that it seemed creepy. I think that the cute-girl-under-20-not-in-blue-jeans aspect bothered them even if that was not always clearly stated. Others were deeply offended by the war theme. I don't want to get into analyzing this. But suffice to say that this really bothered a lot of people. The great thing is that the computer models for the tanks are already digitized. Also, there is a skilled team who know how to put it all together perfectly. To satisfy the first unhappy group, I suggest a spinoff series where all of the same tanks are crewed by male soldiers wearing realistic military uniforms. There would be some danger of apparent BL themes that would get the fujoshi (腐女子) overexcited. The way around that is to have them all writing letters to their girlfriends back home. To satisfy the second unhappy group, take the animation techniques and apply them to other tracked vehicles such as road construction equipment or mobile cranes. Nobody would feel offended to see cute high school girls travelling all over Japan repairing decaying infrastructure. In the course of this work they would get a bit dusty, justifying one hot spring scene per episode. |
| I feel somewhat conflicted with this ending. It was an amazing battle and I’m glad that Miho’s team won, but really didn’t like the battle too much. All the previous episodes have been building up Maho’s team as some unstoppable force, but it felt like they fought worse than any of the other teams Oarai faced earlier. I was hoping that Kuromorimine High School would dominate the battle and Oarai would only win because Miho uses a brilliant plan to draw Maho out in the open. Maho was right when she said the battle wasn’t even close, because Oarai outmaneuvered Kuromorimine at every turn. |
| Hey! Guys! I think the site's broken. Where's the 15 option? No, but seriously. This anime has easily become one of my top five anime of all time. It's been a long time since I've watched an anime put together THIS well with only 12 episodes~ |
okanagan said: mikozee wrote: Oh who am I kidding. I just want to see cute girls in moexploitation attempting to blow each other up. Boy that makes me sound like a violent person... Me too. I certainly don't want to advertise to everybody that I am a GuP fan. Otherwise, I would have ordered several of those plastic figurines that show the girls at the beach and YES, they do have panties if you look up their skirts. Neither do I want to put World War II tank models on display. Quite a number of comments on MAL threads related to GuP said that it seemed creepy. I think that the cute-girl-under-20-not-in-blue-jeans aspect bothered them even if that was not always clearly stated. Others were deeply offended by the war theme. I don't want to get into analyzing this. But suffice to say that this really bothered a lot of people. The great thing is that the computer models for the tanks are already digitized. Also, there is a skilled team who know how to put it all together perfectly. To satisfy the first unhappy group, I suggest a spinoff series where all of the same tanks are crewed by male soldiers wearing realistic military uniforms. There would be some danger of apparent BL themes that would get the fujoshi (腐女子) overexcited. The way around that is to have them all writing letters to their girlfriends back home. To satisfy the second unhappy group, take the animation techniques and apply them to other tracked vehicles such as road construction equipment or mobile cranes. Nobody would feel offended to see cute high school girls travelling all over Japan repairing decaying infrastructure. In the course of this work they would get a bit dusty, justifying one hot spring scene per episode. Well, that's weird, considering that I can't remember a single school anime in which the girls wear jeans, and that a lot of animes feature wars and battles in one way or another. |
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| It wasn't 'real', but I don't give a shit. What I do give is a +1 to a score of 9 if for no other reason that it was damn fun to watch...and I'm really, really jealous. Panzer Vor! |
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| When a show about girls driving tanks makes you tear up, when even shit like Clannad After Story never has, you know it's good. Plus drifting a goddamn tank. The entire strategy of both teams in this whole final arc was so well done and just amazing to watch. |
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soluuloi said: okanagan said: mikozee wrote: Oh who am I kidding. I just want to see cute girls in moexploitation attempting to blow each other up. Boy that makes me sound like a violent person... Me too. I certainly don't want to advertise to everybody that I am a GuP fan. Otherwise, I would have ordered several of those plastic figurines that show the girls at the beach and YES, they do have panties if you look up their skirts. Neither do I want to put World War II tank models on display. Quite a number of comments on MAL threads related to GuP said that it seemed creepy. I think that the cute-girl-under-20-not-in-blue-jeans aspect bothered them even if that was not always clearly stated. Others were deeply offended by the war theme. I don't want to get into analyzing this. But suffice to say that this really bothered a lot of people. The great thing is that the computer models for the tanks are already digitized. Also, there is a skilled team who know how to put it all together perfectly. To satisfy the first unhappy group, I suggest a spinoff series where all of the same tanks are crewed by male soldiers wearing realistic military uniforms. There would be some danger of apparent BL themes that would get the fujoshi (腐女子) overexcited. The way around that is to have them all writing letters to their girlfriends back home. To satisfy the second unhappy group, take the animation techniques and apply them to other tracked vehicles such as road construction equipment or mobile cranes. Nobody would feel offended to see cute high school girls travelling all over Japan repairing decaying infrastructure. In the course of this work they would get a bit dusty, justifying one hot spring scene per episode. Just wait until Shiho says to his crew the night before the last match in the tournament "I love you all" and Kazuki replies with a big blush... Why do I get the feeling I've seen that before? =P |
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| Damn that was quite the final showdown. Wasn't really into the series in the beginning but I got hooked after a few episodes, glad I gave this series a chance. |
| 5/5 for this episode! That was awesome! Watched the entire series with my brother and both of us agreed it's great. PANVER VOR! |
"Fortress Maximus has come himself. Okay! Then I shall get Fortress Maximus to fight me, huh huh huh!" |
| A gem of a little series. No unnecessary dramatics or romance to distract from a simple story with good characters ( and plenty of WWII references!). Hope there's a 2nd part too! |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| That was incredibly absurd and stupid, yet surprisingly good at the same time. 6/10 |
| I wish the sequel will be about the third-generation tanks. That would be fun and I wanna see Chouno Ami's tank in action. |
| "Everyone wears their own panties inside their heart" - Kousaku Hata |
wenchance said: Great series! Hoping for a season 2. I'd love to see a game made out of this too. Definitely play it. World of Tanks + GuP Mods http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/183240-girls-und-panzer-world-of-tanks-the-anime-mod-collection/ You'd only need more than that if you wanted to follow the storyline as well. |
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| I wish the sequel will be about the third-generation tanks. I have seen a lot of people say this. But that is not what I would like to see. It was DURING World War II that people discovered the optimal design for a tank through trial and error. This involved a lot of tragedy for tank crews as well as a lot of lost battles. By the end of the war, the basic design had been pretty much figured out. As a result, pretty much any post-WWII tank that you see looks similiar to the others. (I know that many of you experts with keen eyes will disagree.) A thing that made GuP really accesible to non-tank-experts was that their team made use of a very wide range of tank designs. This made it very easy for us to identify them. And of course the crazy color schemes helped too, for the first few episodes. So I think that it would be less attractive to have a spinoff anime based on post-WWII tanks. Yes, I know that some of you would greatly enjoy it. But I think that the potential viewer base would be smaller. My own preference would be to have a spinoff anime based on World War I and immediately-post-WWI tanks. There was a huge variety in their designs. That was because, at that time, nobody had any correct concept of how a tank should be designed. There is a natural place for such a spinoff series as a "prequel" to GuP. After all, we know that there are some of the older characters in GuP who we know were part of Senshado a long time ago. So I would really enjoy seeing them fighting each other in those earlier models of tanks. Shiho Nishizumi is the mother of Miho and Maho. You may recall seeing a beautiful painting of a British Mark IV tank in her home. The Mark IV dates back to 1917. So perhaps the Mark IV has some special nostalgic significance to Shiho. Also, I am interested to learn more about the early days during which she developed her "Nishizumi school" of Senshado. |
okanagan said: I wish the sequel will be about the third-generation tanks. I have seen a lot of people say this. But that is not what I would like to see. I don't agree with the rest of what you said (in regards to WWI tanks) because pre-WWII tanks were pretty much fucking garbage, extremely slow, and not powerful at all. WWII is a great age for this to be done and to continue being done in. Plus, a prequel would still use WWII tanks. The show very clearly is PRETTY FAR in the future from WWII if they have fucking massive land-mass sized boats with schools floating around and 30000000000000000x3000000000000000 truck televisions, etc. So WWII tanks would have probably been used since the entirety of Senshado began in general. I agree about the cutoff date for tanks though, any more modern than they have here and you end up with just MBTs and nothing else, which as much as I love them - they'd be boring and all the same. Not to mention 90% computer controlled. |
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| I'm no tank expert or fanatic but this episode was amazing. Loved when they took down the Maus. |
| Awesome final episode! I loled hard at Mako's grandma busting a jig there at the end. xD Second Season needed, I want MOAR!!! |
| This show should of never been delayed it's final 2 episodes. It was actually really good and well executed in the battle parts. Really fun to watch. |
| Fantastic finale! The bit with the Hetzer driving under the Maus and the Tiger P withstanding a gazillion of shots while other tanks were knocked out by grazes earlier episode are a bit of a stretch, but if you want realism, watch a documentary. Ingenuity winning against all odds, I like that. SAKI SPOKE! I still can't get over that! Nice job keeping her VA a secret until the end. 5/5. Erwin-chan as cool as ever, even if she is on her head. This has been an extremely fun ride, certainly the underdog of the past year obliterating almost all opposition. And who could blame them? It had cute little girls and freaking tanks and wanted to entertain, nothing more, that's why it succeeded, it knew what the target audience was and how to please them. 8/10, I really hope we will get more of this franchise, and with the sales, I have faith in it. Panzer vor! |
| Well executed. Didn't expect the show to be interesting to be honest but something about tanks that glued me to the screen. The action scenes were pretty good, didn't expect them to ramp up on to the Maus like that. |
| Uhm..after watching the Final episode w/ subs, I'll boost my score from a 6 > 8. Actually ended well with a good battle. |
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| I'd hate using World of Tanks to explain Girls und Panzer but this video explains why the Tiger P lasted so long under enemy fire. In case, you're still wondering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wq5S8CrsUig#t=694s |
| AMAZING episode ;-; |
I have my own anime blog. It's called Anime Viking. Hope you'll you read it! |
| "Panzer vor!" Great. The girls claim a thrilling victory true to their style - by the skin of their teeth in a daring do-or-die showdown. A fair win using every available resource including the terrain, with every team contributing. Miho distinguished herself yet again as a brilliant tank commander and a decisive leader. A win also made possible by the fact that her teams performed to the best of their ability and to what the limitations of their machines would allow. Also, that was a pretty impressive and creative operation to take down the Maus. So ends the story of how a dark horse school team of misfit girls and motley tanks came to win the entire tournament. Superior skill, unconventional tactics and flawless teamwork to overcome the overwhelming odds. At its heart, this was an honest-to-goodness sports tournament show full of camaraderie and teamwork. For a show with a lot of cute girls, the creators remarkably resisted exploiting them as a source of cheap fanservice. The only 'dirty' thing here was the grease in their tanks and the tactics of a few past opponents. Exceeded my expectations overall, it was quite the fun ride. |
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