Original TV Anime 'Girls und Panzer' Announced

I wonder if real shell would be used in their game of Senshado (The way of tanks) though :-) The paint scheme clearly makes it un-warlike too. On the other hand, the specification data on that website are more than I would expect for an anime like this.

Holy crap, that is one gaudy StuG III. Not really digging the paint schemes for the Panzer 38(t) or the M3 Lee, either. Using the Type 89 I-Go would pretty much be suicide for its hapless crew, given its thin armor and ineffectual main gun.

I'm very tempted to watch this for the absurdity and cuteness, but two episodes of "Upotte!!" taught me that liking weird and ecchi stuff isn't enough to like this kind of show.

You need to love real-life weapons and military stuff, and I definitely don't do that. You most likely also need to not care about main characters being either invulnerable or ghastly careless (like firing at friends and siblings with live ammo).

I also read that the director promised no panty flashing and more tank-service instead, so I guess it really is aimed at people who like things more than people. I'll read about how it turned out later, but I'm pretty sure that military otaku shows are generally not my thing.

I'm note sure if I want to watch this, but I guess I'll give it a chance.

If you look at their official website you will see that they are pretty serious in depicting the tanks. Check the specs and the multi-angle view of various tanks featured in this anime
http://girls-und-panzer.jp/mecha_4go.html

Fixed that for you.

We had enough of moe with guns or tank.

CRAP

Cute Hitlers doing cute Hitler things?

Would watch.

I would be pleased by that.

Look goods. Like the idea of adding tanks in a moe anime.

Hmmm...Girls and tanks,sounds like a new kind of anime(at least for me).

Oi oi oi, I have a fantastic idea for some people here.

Don't like it? Don't watch it. Such a mind-boggling concept!

Um... the girls in this show were not high schoolers. In fact, they were not even middle schoolers. Plus, there were boys and girls, and it wasn't like the girls severely outnumbered the boys. This show obviously doesn't fit with your list of shows following the "same old formula". As someone else pointed out, I have a hard time seeing Shugo Chara! and High School of the Dead being included in the same list, for they are nothing alike.

screw the girls, that's just a bonus... I want the tanks xD


anyway, nobody here says you need to watch it so I fail to see your problem

i think we`re getting a little to philosophical about this and your right i dont know much about the show, i can only go on what i have seen and who knows maybe it`ll be great, i doubt it but you never now

i understand that animes are essentially a business and that they are trying to make money that's obvious but its a little to busineesy at this point to where its almost a façade. they`re just slapping together elements of stuff that's worked before and shoving it into this in the hopes of making a quick profit. Why does the story have to be about teenage girls, because their popular and make money, why is it set in a high school, because thats relate-able , popular and makes money.

Its not the showing of the tank that's the problem, its the context, thats the difference between say "Crosses of Iron" and this anime, where its obvious their just using the image of the tank to try to make money. if this was a deep thought provoking story with really creativity and passion then id be fine with them showing any Tank or weapon but when its obvious that its just being used as a cheap marketing gimmick then im sorry to tell you but its wrong. if you want to make a silly anime about high school girls and tanks that fine, but use a generic looking tank, why even bring the Nazi element into it at all, it makes no sense?

why not for example have an anime about a group of people who live in a world that has been at war for hundreds of years to the point where technology has devolved and the fighting is now done with primitive weapons. then this group of people in a Gurren Lagann sort of way discover an old working tank, figure out how to use and try to end the war or something. a little change would be nice now and again you know, throw in some memorable characters a few plot twists and some thought provoking episodes and boom you've got a winner, its not rocket science.

this show is just following the same old formula

High school girls+ mecha = Infinite Stratos

High school girls+ flying = Strike Witches

High school girls+ magic = Shugo Chara!

High school girls+ zombies = High school of the dead

High school girls+ Tanks = Girls Und Panzer

and those are just the ones off the top of my head, there's a lot more out there and until people realise this then creativity and originality are as good as dead.

what I was trying to say was that this series is clearly just trying to appeal to people who like watching anime`s with high school girls in them (wank bait) and also to weapon Otaku so that it make as much money as possible by selling crappy merchandise. And they don't care how they do it, they just choose a tank that they thought people would recognise without even considering the moral and ethical choices of showing it as long as they can make as much money as possible while tricking idiots into thinking that this is an original, clever idea when in fact its a morally misguided, mish-mash of ideas that have been done a hundred times before.

My point about the "Girl und Auschwitz" was not that this series was going to be "extolling the virtues of the Final Solution" but rather that if series`s like this keep getting made and making money where will it end? how long before they`ve run out of places to stick high school girls and think " hey you know what would be funny, we take a bunch of high school girls and put them in the Third Reich, we`ll make millions!

I know im exaggerating a little but im not getting pissed off just because they took one tank from world war 2 and that offends me somehow, its how blatantly their just using the image to make money by slapping a bunch of good looking girls next to a tank that people recognise in the hopes fools will watch it.

you don't say... :P

This is coming from the right mouth I see. You think it's alright to make a anime about highschool girls butchering each other over and over again, but when they take one tank from WWII you freak out... interesting indead

and had it been better taking a Alliance tank? Last time I checked they weren't any better than the Germans

This series looks disgusting. What sick mind came up with the idea of making an anime about high school girls and a panzer 4 tank, a tank that caused so much death and destruction during the second world war. how dare the creators trivialise such a horrific symbol of destruction and try to cash in on its image. i mean whats next "Girl und Auschwitz", "Girls und Hitler"