@@tinyplaidninjas8868 The schools being absurdly large aircraft carriers(city carriers?) actually makes the plot of Ooarai being threatened to be closed down extremely justifiable compared to the normal sports/idol anime portrayal of "oh no our school is gonna be closed down". The sheer costs of keeping the School Carriers running is logically stupidly high so closing down 1 of the under-performing schools that does not have the results to justify its existence makes a lot of sense from a budgetary point of view. GuP has a silly universe that has managed to have things that are logical in hindsight.
Literally why it does better than high school fleet that aircraft school and that one weird gun club one It embrace it strength and nonsense while others try to make sense
Well, in truth. The Hindenburg only went up in flames due to the mixture of the paints or dope (not joking) and the helium. On top of landing before a thunderstorm hit the area. If it was just the helium that was the cause of the fireball. The zeppelin would have likely exploded instead.
Well I love the German team. They have all of my favorite WWll Panzers from the King Tiger to The Tiger 1 and the Panther Tank. And I am a 34 year old guy who loves German WWll Panzers.
It should also entertain women, after all 1. Ladies like armored plating 2. Ladies like grinding treads 3. ladies like superior firepower 4. bitches love cannons. last I checked only a few tanks (that didn't do well) didn't check all four boxes.
The 1930's movie, to be exact if people want to see, it's the ending. In the remade version of the 70s, Paul draws a bird and exposes himself rather than being distracted by a butterfly.
It gets mentioned in one of the OVAs that Yukari carries a lot of stuff around with her at all times, stuff like sewing kits and medical supplies etc. Ignoring the question of where the hell she even keeps it all, that implies shes been bringing that grenade to school for presumably a long ass time and no one seems bothered by it (I guess all the girls are carbon coated so it's not a problem)
At Actas meeting: -Guys, I have an idea! You know tank biathlon? What if we make it waifu only sport? They drive ww2 tenks, their schools are on aircraft carriers... - *everyone snorts coke* LET'S FUCKING DO THIS! This is how GuP started. Probably.
What makes Girls Und Panzer special is the absurd attention to detail and constant callbacks to WW2 and related movies. Where else could you have a scene with Japanese schoolgirls singing a patriotic Soviet standard while driving accurately-modeled T34-76s/T34-85/IS-1s while advancing in echelon, the correct formation for an armoured company?
and other references, they have a Monty Python, I repeat A MONTY PYTHON reference in one of the OVA's which caught me completely off guard and I watched the OVA's after the main series.
Or recreate entire scenes from movies exactly. Anyone that has seen (or at least knows about) Kelly's Heros knows the "tiger" scene, and they perfectly replicated it down to the strange look of the fake tiger used.
Probably my favorite anime series in existence. I like all the characters, the action is a lot of fun, and as a history buff I'm very impressed by not only the tank design, but the various history references hidden inside. Then you have insane things. Like putting nitro on a ferdinand tank. The same tank that had trouble getting up a hill before exploding.
I don't think it's really a tactic but a wonderful adaptation nonetheless The song, Säkkijärven polkka, was played to combat the soviet radio mines that would explode if receive a certain frequency and that song happened to do it so they were able to interfere and after a while, the battery in the mines died and so the Finns succeeded another subtle yet clever reference, isn't it?
Also the best part about Chihatan is not that all their tactics including retreat are named different charges but that everyone aside from Fukuda is too dumb to figure it out
This video was so great, GuP is like my favourite anime because of how stupidly fun it is, and hearing you talk about it just made me smile and laugh with just seeing someone else loving it as much as I do, and it was so much of a great video I am definitely subscribing to watch more of your great content!
No need to single out Girls und Panzers, its pretty much a trope of almost *all* anime of schoolchildren being allowed to openly command lethal force..... Take probably the most well known in the Western world - Pokemon. If Pokemon were real, there is NO WAY anyone under the age of 18 would be allowed to stray within several hundred yards of a Pokemon, let alone tame them and FIGHT them. Mice that electrocute you, giant rats that gnaw through not only your bones but your soul too, anything that looks like a cute pet (dog/horse/cat) breathes fire, adorable ducks that can give you a cerebral hemorrhage just by looking at you (not to mention the fact they also are walking ticking bombs), and a cute cat/fox hybrid that seems harmless enough, but can evolve into creatures that will electrocute you, drown you, set you on fire, rot your soul, explode your brain, rip you to pieces with leaves, freeze you to death, or deliberately sooth your senses until you believe it harmless before eating you. And I havnt even started on the fire-breathing dragons...... But no, its perfectly OK for kids to play with them....
you can say the same about western animation too, like Phineas and Ferb for example, I'm willing to bet that they're still in elementary school, yet they were able to build rollercoasters, spaceships, inventing a new language, be a race car driver, and most of the adults just shrugged it all off, like it's normal for kids that young to do such things
@@gunnargunnarsson5963 Phineas and Ferb is not representative of Western animation though, it is comedy, it is supposed to be a total piss take, the fact the kids can build spaceships etc. is supposed to be the funny part. In the Japanese example I gave, there is no assumed comedic value of ten year olds possessing a pocket full of pets they can command at will each capable of razing an entire city to the ground and killing everyone living in it. The only comedic value implied in Pokemon is the ability of Jesse and James (and their Pokemon) to constantly get hit by 100% assured lethal to normal human beings force and merely 'blast off again' (which in itself is lethal force as them falling back to earth would kill them).
Oh the discussion on the tanks that are and aren't allowed in senshadou is even funnier since arguably both the IS-3, IS-4, and the T-44's are technically all rules legal tanks. As well as the Centurion Mark 1. The American T29 and T34's also might be legal, I can't remember. But the IS-3 alone just totally breaks the balance of the sport. Same weight as the IS-2, same powerplant. Basically the same tank with significantly improved armour. practically speaking it's almost as invulnerable as the Maus except some very specific weak spots and hail mary shots. But substantially more mobile. Well supported it would effectively be un-deadable by most of what the other teams can field.
13:57 In this world war as a concept seems to have been reduced to a "novelty", it's not really a thing anymore. If we had a world where there was no war and the defence industry was basically entertainment, this wouldn't be a problem really. Not joking, look at the astronomical costs of all the nations defence budgets. If all that money had been put into say various space programs we would have colonized the solar system by now.
Hollywood is so big I wouldn't be surprised if they could afford an aircraft carrier if they wanted to. Especially if war was a thing in the past. So it doesn't surprise me that if that was the case the entertainment and sports industry would do this.
The safety issue is a real concern for me. Not one of them is wearing safety goggles! I had an idea where there'd be a girl in a ww2 fighter plane, doing the air combat equivalent of sensha-do, when a 30mm shell enters her cockpit, bounces around wrecking everything it hits, then plops down in her lap before exploding, causing the center of the plane to disintegrate and parts of the plane to fly off in all directions. When the smoke clears the girl is seen parachuting down to safety while coughing and waving away the smoke, completely unharmed except for being covered in soot. Similar note the Carl Gerat could fire on some poor light tank and score a direct hit, causing an explosion so massive the tank simply vanishes. When the smoke clears it's just the girl's sitting there in the exact same positions in the middle of a giant crater while breathing in the remains of their tank. They then raise the question of whether or not they're technically considered out being that their white flag turned to gas with the rest of their tank.
You can't even consider they have 5 tanks, 1 is a paper thin light tank, 1 is a hetzer, like you've got 2 mediums and a tiger tank at best vs the other schools which field a mix of 10-20 medium and heavy tanks
7:10 I think to some extent that's the point. This show is a thinly vailed commentary of the reality of WW2 and given that context that's exactly what the superpower "teams" started doing. Take a strategic resource because you have the men to do it, exploit it to create more war materials, put them in the hands of your massive population that you have access to, and next thing you know you're destroying every small country in your wake.
They do handwave a lot away saying the tank interior has some kind of carbon nanotube coating and the shells are some kind of smart warhead, but that wouldn't stop them from getting blown to bits when they nearly get shot by one shell
overpressure not a thing? tank drifting? literally a huge artillery shell flipping a panther and they still lived? live ammo? highschool girls in tanks go brrrrrrrr mad respect to the huge amount of historical references tho (simo hayha, hill 203, etc) + the stereotype of every nation (putting cheese on a rice ball because youre italian) tldr its so stupid i love it lol das finale 4 wen
"why they live there?" half the cities and town should be asked this question too, and the answer usually is simple: the previous generation lived there too. also this is probably the same universe as the high school fleet is in, that in the late 21st century sends schoolgirls to live on wwii ships that fight with each other to learn, while they have a literal utopia otherwise. never forget, running was something you just need to do sometime until the 20th century. than when it stopped being a necessary part of life, people started to just run for fun. not all, mostly insane people who hate themselves, probably, but some, enough that it even turned into a sport, including running really long, to the point that you can die from exhaustion. how far is it that from tankery.
I loved this anime. In fact, it is what prompted me to pay for Crunchyroll. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but that is one of the beauties of anime, any story can be made.
Yes some Dominion influences, mind you a fair number of police forces around the world do actually own armoured vehicles for riots/counter insurgency and there are some who have battering rams that look suspiciously like gun barrels like they are trying to cosplay being the army.
4 out of 5 crew members in a sherman survived a hit historically...........................save enough i would say! You can't bake a cacke without breaking a few eggs!
Btw the It is in fact allow to do sabotage, and steal information on other opposing teams. You can even Imprison them. and ask the opposing team compensation or intel exchange for the capture
"one of the english girls named earl gray" you wanted to say every single english girl named after a tea? yes. and every 'national' team are just stereotypes, including the japanese one. played straight to the end.
@@BuddhistZenDave as I live in Victoria, I come across emus a fair bit. They are not used as military vehicles at all, yet each family in Australia gets a donated emu as a recreational vehicle
Senshado is stupid. Though thanks to the Manga expanding things. Personally fav "Ribbon No Musha" series. As it introduced Tankathlon. Basically, it started out as a "Poor Man's version of Senshado". As all tanks could weigh no more than 10-tons and it was pretty much the wild west of combat. I mean nearly anything goes. Right up to tanks using the crowds as cover. That shit don't fly in Senshado. Lol It is cool to see the Senshado combat with big tanks slugging it out and see tye really big guns, like the Karl, have their moment to prove they did exist. Even if it is in an Anime but all the tanks in the Anime/Manga did exist to some degree. Tankathlon is all about the scout tanks and light tanks, maybe getting up to your TDs and Light Mediums. If they ever make an anime version of Ribbon No Musha. They better do it justice.
The Nishizumis just have a thing of not getting inside the tank and they've dodged countless tank shells and yet they claim the sports to be "safe". I just love the utter nonsense in the show.
@@Kamerad_Ernst I was making a joke. Ofcause it is not safe. Even a tank flipping over would lead to severe injuries, and we see that happen in the show all the time.
@@zafranorbian757 Ah I see, sorry about my reply I sometimes have a difficult time telling apart if people are joking or not. Y'know since what's been happening around the internet it's hard to decipher things.
Seriously, why would you keep the machine guns, not like they would do anything to tanks, and shooting on people outside the tanks is against the rules.
@@gokbay3057 Tracers to fool the enemy team. Oarai did this in their match against Chi-ha Tan. Beyond that, there's no reason for live ammunition to be issued when training ammunition used by both military and law enforcement could do the same.
@@gokbay3057 Some machine guns are designed to have roughly similar ballistic arcs to the main gun, so if your coaxial machine gun hits the target, so can your main gun.
Just as a note, the girls with weird names actually have real names, those are only nicknames, some schools use them as tradition. Anchovy's real name is actually Anzai Chiyomi, you can hear Momo calling her Anzai before their match.
@@SyuaibZulkarnain I don't know if you can call this canon but in Little Army 2, we find Kilimanjaro, a girl whose whole purpose is mimic Darjeeling and St. Gloriana. Kilimanjaro's real name is Shiratori Kiri, and if she picked a tea nickname you could assume it's a mimiced tradition, so Darjeeling must also be a nickname.
@@SyuaibZulkarnain I mean all of the girls except a very few (like klara) are Japanese so theres an extremely high chance darjeeling isnt her real name.
A couple of things: The town the first battle against St. Gloriana and in the movie is modeled after the real town of Oarai , a few hours north of Tokyo (the insignia is a stylized version of the town's name, 大洗). The animators took real buildings, shops, and street scenes from this town and incorporated into the anime. I'm not sure why they chose this town, but the reason was to give them a boost after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. And it did turn the town into a mecca for fans of the anime. If you're a military history nerd, you can appreciate some of the inside jokes. For example, we're told Saori's birthday is June 22nd, which is the day Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Hana's birthday is December 17th, which was the day of the start of the Battle of the Bulge. When Pravda demands Oarai's surrender, Momo says "Nuts!" which was the response of the 101st Airborne's commander to the German demand for surrender when the division was surrounded at Bastogne. The number of tanks in Saunder's inventory and how well supplied they are reflects how the US outproduced everyone else in WWII. Chihatan Academy's wanting to charge all the time is a reference to the tendency of the Japanese army, that is, when in doubt, human wave assault. Not to mention they did a really good job modeling actual WWII tanks and even though they're CGI, it's not too intrusive. It's the charm of the underdog story done well and the work of voice actresses that wins you over. Just let it happen and don't think too hard. By the way, the English dub is horrible.
Being a WW2 history buff and tank fan makes Girls Und Panzer 100x better. Pretty much every moment of a match is some history or tank joke, and my friend and I couldn't stop laughing through most of it. I watched it with my friend who isn't a tank nerd but likes anime, and I don't like anime but I love tanks, so together we were able to get most of the jokes. The show's not meant to be serious, its just fun, but it still has a certain reverence for the history behind the tanks, and explains just enough about each tank and nation to intrigue the viewer into wanting to learn more. My friend kept asking me history questions as I watched, proving the show does give people an interest in history who otherwise wouldn't care. It's not a documentary, but if it can get more people interested in history then it makes a positive impact on the world. The tank community (meaning tank nerds and real tankers) never gets any love in pop culture and that unfortunately bleeds over into museums. WW2 planes have enough interest from the public that private collectors and public museums can afford to rebuild entire planes from a few parts and a serial number plate with a few million dollars, but tanks that cost a fraction as much to restore get left to rust or be scrapped as people forget about their history and the people that gave their lives fighting in them. Girls und Panzer is a small part of a wave of new interest in tanks and history, and at multiple points has directly helped museums across the world. I don't think it's "glorifying warfare", its not meant to be taken that seriously, but the vaccine to repeating history is knowing it, and Girls und Panzer gets people interested enough to learn. (This was a reply I made to another comment, but I put it here too.)
also fun fact: Finland has only one Bt-42 left but due to low budget, they couldn't save it but it was Girls Und Panzer Der Film who donated to save the last remaining tank. Which basically means GUP saved the only Bt-42
Didn't know why they even had to change the entire BC Freedom. It already had an established concept, tank lineup, and characters in Ribbon Warrior. Yet for some reason, the animators had to change the whole thing. As you said, it's weird that they chose an Austrian Queen as the commander but not the already written, and better, fem Charles De Gaulle (Asparagus).
@@imgvillasrc1608 I seriously think they just wanted the excuse to make several dozen MORE dumb history jokes instead of repeating the Manga ones. Like the entire multimedia franchise is an outlet for dad jokes that are just bubbling up from the brains of the creators
16:02 That isn't just any plane btw. That is a Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy, a US military transport aircraft and one of the longest and heaviest planes to ever fly. So not only does the government trust the girls to fly planes, they allow them to purchase and operate modern military aircraft that cost upwards of $100 million with NO OVERSIGHT. Gosh I love this show.
let's not forget they fly that plane on a whim when they used it to "safeguard" Oorai's tanks from being confiscated, then use it again to airdrop said tanks before the battle.
@@peacemaker63604 Doesn't she also have live tank shells hung up on her wall? It wouldn't surprise me if Yukari actually got off on diddling tank shells or grenades.
As to what the boys are doing: As the girls in the series talk about how weird it is to imagine men in tanks, I like to believe instead that there is a parallel series called "Boys Und Jäger" in which schoolboys dogfight in WWII fighter planes. About as safe, makes about as much sense.
Interesting idea. It would be cool to see what sports the boys would be interested in considering this is what the girls do. Maybe they're in planes, or ships, or infantry, or even modern equivalents. Or there's a huge conflict going on and they just get sent to the front directly and these games are sort of propaganda.
Boys und Kinder: a mediocre and short-lived stab at a comedy-drama series depicting a small group of high school males and their daily lives in their traditional roles as childcare specialists, as they struggle with coming of age and dealing with romance and aspirations for the future. Very well-acted, but everyone agrees it was just too boring and real and took itself too seriously to ever have a chance. There's a small but very devoted cult following for that one guy who dreamed of one day going to Colonel Sanders's cooking school. Much fanfiction has been written about him. Otherwise very forgettable.
As a child of an Asian Family with a military background, Shiho is still a really deplorable example of this type of parent, but not so extreme that she is implausible.
Not too extreme to be implausable Holy shit man The woman who literally disowned her own daughter for saving human lives over a sport competition win is not to extreme to be implausable? What kind of hell do asian parents with military backgrounds force on their children??
Girls und Panzer is the first anime I actually love. For a start, I'm a fan of WWII stuff and waifus. I just love how crazily unrealistic it is. I've recently got into tanks in general and I'm still learning
@@mariebcfhs9491 lolwut, WT tank crew are fearless superhumans who would reload and fire their weapon even while their tank is on fire. And I've seen at least one of them taking a sabot through the knee and live.
Imagine playing World of Tanks, and finding out the enemy has twice as many tanks as your team does, and a Maus shows up in a T5/6 match, that would be quite a surreal experience.
Yeah, it is somewhat bearable in War Thunder, with extremely large map. In WoT, if such battle modeled, nobody would ever be able to do anything to a Maus team. If tricked well, in War Thunder a Tiger Porsche might be lucky to destoy Maus in a side shot, if Tiger is well hidden and the whole Maus thing is a trap.
One thing to note regarding the numerical inequality in battles, the battle against All star/selection university was basically rigged with the federation even allowing the Karl Gerat, which went against the rules. Essentialy it was supposed to be the last fuck you to Oarai, so that is the point of those numbers, to show the battles aren't equal and senshadou isn't actually a fair sport.
I know this is three weeks later but also the regular tanks the All star/selection university team are suspected to be a variant that while it was designed and somewhat prototyped before the end of the war was actually put into production after the war.
If you are talking about the Centurion mk.1 which Alice uses, that is almost accurate. Some centurions were completed in 1944, and they were even shipped to europe in 1945 but never saw actual combat in WW2, so the Centurion is technically a post-war tank. If you are reffering to the M26 Pershing(mainstay tank of the team), they saw some combat in WW2 in late 1944 and throughout 1945, but not in large numbers. Still, the Pershing counts as a WW2 tank and is aproximately equivalent to a tiger I in combat power, even being slightly better. If you are reffering to the M24 Chaffe(Selection's light tanks), again, they were designed in WW2 and even produced then, but never put into combat then, i believe. The entire Selection team is styled more at a Korean War style force, rather than a WW2 one.
I was talking about the Pershings see the problem with the Pershings was while the Pershing is WW2 tank the model that the university team is suspected of using is a post war variant.
The pershing's "Post-war" variant is called the M46 Patton, and the only major difference is in the transmission, engine, and ammo available. All factors are largely irrelevant since nobody sane will use HEAT ammo in senshadou, and all tanks used for senshadou have swapped transmissions and engines anyway. So why would the usage of the M46 Patton matter?
I remember having a headcanon fanfic of a coed and all-boys version of senshadou. Copious amounts of small arms are used (albeit paintball versions) and the rules (the main characters drive a horribly undermanned M8 Greyhound armored car nicknamed _La María_ ), the logic (at one point they unscrew the commander’s M2 Browning machine gun to use as a two-man jackhammer and take out an enemy light tank by climbing onto it) and the danger (people fighting near and at times on moving military vehicles, actual combat planes, and hand-to-hand fighting) have all been heightened because we need it to be manlier still
Considering what the girls survive in a tank... I guess in universe everyone is built TOUGH. The boys probably could jump out of an airplane with no parachute and just superhero land safely. But I'm guess like the tanks, aircrafts would not just blow up giving ample time to eject and deploy a parachute. And I'm guessing that both the craft and the boys are built tough that they could survive a non-explosive crash.
Is it silly? Yes. Does it understand that? Absolutely. Does it do it well? Damn right it does! And are we looking forward to the second half of Das Finale? Hell Yeah!
Military vehicles used in a sports competition? National representations full of stereotypes? Protagonist known to belong in a famous martial art style? Sibling is a representative in the German team? Girls und Panzer really is the G Gundam of the modern generation.
Best thing is that they all are Japanese AFAIK. So the whole thing about stereotype is people willingly subjecting themselves to it. Girl und panzer is a post-scarcity society where you can just join whatever stereotype you want to indulge in.
Strike Witches could probably fit into the insane nonsense category, too. Although, besides being based around World War II aerial history (and having fun with "what ifs", such as Patton commanding a P.1000 Ratte) the main difference is that Strike Witches does take itself seriously, especially in Operation Victory Arrow and Road to Berlin when it starts flirting with the grim dark. Strike Witches literature (the Suomus Misfits Squadron in particular) even more so with excessive use of alcohol, depression, PTSD, and suicidal ideation - and not the "heroic last stand, self-sacrifice" type either.
Nay, Strike Witches background is apocalyptic and they fight a alien invasion race called Neuroi ... wouldnt work as Girls und Panzer never takes itself serious. High School Fleet is the closest since its Girls und Panzer except with ships, including Musashi even if the hero ship is a modified Kagero destroyer, Harekaze even if I dont think it have that many ships.
@@drakron I don't think you read my entire comment. I do mention that Strike Witches takes itself seriously. However, its entire concept, like Girls und Panzer, could be categorized as insane nonsense.
I like how they said the armour cant be penetrated to the crew because of special coating. Karl gerat with 600mm not being penetrating the the paper tonks
If I recall correctly, the whole “big schools are rigged to win” thing is why apparently in universe Shensado was loosing popularity before Oorai beat Black Forrest’s 7 year streak.
@@wwoods66 And frankly their winning streak can't be attributed to superior tactics, because their chief strategy is "Drive straight at them and don't stop for anybody". The fuckers are the definition of Pay To Win.
@@Spudtron98 Yeah, the concept of "platoon" apparently isn't in the Nishizumi School's playbook. For the battle on the mountain, Maho should have been ordering something like, "Alpha and Bravo teams, go straight up at Ōarai. Charlie, go around and see if there's a way to get to their rear. Delta, stay here with _me,_ in reserve."
As a history enthusiast, the historical and reference stuff in the series are either good enough to make you smile or weird and stereotypical enough to annoy you. in terms of safety, they even fire machine guns at one another while the commander is still on the hatch (and yeah, the shock itself is enough to kill the crew, the soviets did test that with 122 mm. and 152 mm.) and on the tanks... I believe in the side story maho literally say it's not a fair fight (nor is it supposed to be one) because it's a martial art, not a sport, another matter, besides how they get their hands on those things, is the cost and logistics on how they can keep their equipment operatable... But as you said it is just a funny show without any real seriousness on realism and they kinda market it as "airsoft match but with tanks" so no problem, I guess. (although I wish they did Pravda justice)
It’s more akin to F1 in the 80s, where well funded teams had a whole engine dedicated to qualifying for each race that would make massive power… for 4 laps before exploding.
as an italian i can confrim that we get very excited everytime we hear the word pasta but if you want to seriously see us overdrive the magic word is pizza
In the prequel manga, “Saga of Pravda”, Maho explains her thoughts on senshado, explaining that it’s not a sport but a martial art and that schools that rely heavily on superior tanks, “may win the match, but fails as a martial artist”. The sequel, “ribbon warrior”, goes to explain that senshado as a whole is rigged to allow only the most prestigious schools with the most money to even have a chance of winning
As a entity who embraces history and accuracy. I can honestly say this series is absolute nonsense. The plot is nonsense, the tank battles are nonsense, the sport is insanely nonsense. Nothing about it makes anysense. Yet its so beautiful. It embraces that insanity, the tanks are lovingly detailed, the battles are glorious, they do have bits of actual info of said vehicles and weapons, little references to actual events, important leaders of some wars and battles, the girls some actually have some names of historical significance and ironically a number of them not to mention the nation schools they belong to has some fun referencing historical behavior or importance and traits. It has literally by itself influenced sizable number of people to learn more about history of the vehicles and the wars and battles they fought in and countries they served under. The show is the perfect way for people to embrace history and we need much more shows like it. Historian's and History buffs actually enjoy it. The only ones that don't are. Well we know who they are and I have no intentions of letting them target this show.
Won't lie, by episode 3 I was enjoying the show so much that when someone brought up how unrealistic it was I just yelled: SCREW REALISM, I'M JUST HERE FOR THE BOOMS!!!
Watching GuP as a tank nerd is so fun GuP is just perfect, name another show where you can see: A Tiger II, Tiger I, Jagdtiger, Elefant and Several Panthers, Jagdpanthers, and Jagdpanzer IVs drive in a V-Formation while Panzerlied blasts in the background. A BT-42 absolutely absolutely dominating three M26 Pershings A Tiger P, Elefant and Jagdtiger driving up a hill without catching fire Italian tanks getting screen time A Tiger P, Tiger I and Tiger II fighting together against M26 Pershings and M24 Chaffees French tanks also getting screen time... A Karl Gerat and T-28 Fighting together A Hetzer lifting a Maus tank from sheer will A KV-2 annihalating an entire building and sniping a Maus Finnish tanks also getting screen time..... A Hetzer getting propelled into the air by a CV-33 A Panzer IV shrugging off a direct hit from a Tiger I at point blank range **Tank Dorifto** **Tanks going Ultra Speed** British tanks getting screen time......... Americans losing??? Japanese tanks getting screen time............ School Aircraft Carriers... City Carriers? Australian tanks getting screentime.......... There is still a lot more that I can include to this list but what's the point really. It just amazes me that the people that created this series basically decided to throw realism and seriousness out the window and just went "Fuck it! Tankery sport!" and manage to get it right.
you forgot anothee one : some blonde 16 years old ss racists flying an fa-223 without any protective equipment considering it was an 80 years old relic that *flies*
18:40 Just a thing, There IS in Japanese cultur some VERY rooted traditions, with some people taking it EXTREMELY seriously. It's kind of a dig about that kind of behavior, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some member of family's got bad treatment for not following traditions in traditionalist family's. Japanese Cultur is VERY different from our Western approach.
11:05 The listening device is actually the only thing that's against the rules in the whole series, not because the act of espionage is illegal but because it involved an external device that is not a tank. 12:30 people are actively betting on their property being destroyed because that means free renovations. In a way, it would make the city renewal a lot easier to be justified (even if it's uncontrolled). Just throw in a match at a place that needs city renewal and have both teams roam crazy in the city, and rebuild everything in the city afterwards. That is an insane and ridiculous way of keeping the economy alive and actually have logic in it (which is crazy) Edit: You also missed the part that these are all Japanese. They might be expats but their nationality is Japan. The winner of the National leagues goes to international matches (kuromine destroyed the german team, for example). Oh, and the names they called are all nicknames as in one of the episodes they showed the ID of one of the characters, and it's a very normal, Japanese name. The only characters that go with their real name in the series are the kuromine, chiatan, Ooarai, and some saunders characters.
this makes me think some of the buildings are rigged, to 'explode', for the extra visual explosions, but without harming anyone. which would mean that the tanks do fire safe shells, its just that the building owners want to renovate.
that reminded of how farmers in West Germany were pretty happy to have high damage compensations, courtesy of the British government after every NATO military exercise during the 80s
Dear Elon Musk, we as the humanity don´t need to go to space or have more inteligent cars, we just need to make senshado a real thing, pls organize your priorities...
I watched the first two episodes when they came out (referred to by a friend and I played World of Tanks at the time) and I thought it was a bunch of pandering nonsense. I rewatched the whole thing (up to current) about a year ago. The battles really did it for me. It's like Initial D in a way, drifting included.
6:27 Isn't that argument valid for every sport with teams? In the Olympics the richest nations of the world can afford spend lots of money to have athletes prepared by good-quality and well-payed trainers and they can afford to have hundreds of them so that they can compete in all the Olympic's sports. Isn't that too an unfair advantage to nations that can only send 10, 5, maybe even one athlete? At least in Senshado the objective is to take down the flag tank to win the match so, even though facing a team with double of your numbers is a great obstacle, if you play you cards well you need to knock out only one tank.
yeah that’s true, I haven’t seen any 3rd world countries that are in the list of countries that won the most gold or silver medals in the Olympics, nor do I see countries like Moldova, Bangladesh or South Africa made it into the quarter or semi final rounds in the World Cup
I firmly believe the creator of this series grew up watching every Mel Brooks and Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker movie made. Being a vet of World of Tanks, this is my all time favorite anime.
I think it's a pity they didn't title the series 'Die Series' (or more accurately, 'Die Serien') as it would have foreshadowed the follow ups: 'Der Film' and 'Das Finale.' I thought the Oarai girls' preparation for the Pravda battle was interesting. About the only concession they made to the near-arctic conditions were tights (pantyhose) and a flask of cocoa. Damn, those Oarai girls are made of stern stuff.
It would have been "Die Serie" Serien would be plural. But yeah would have been fun, though I would assume a sequel film was not part of the original plan.
They didn't think it was going to have the success it had. They even had production problems that delayed some episodes (that's why they have 5.5 and 10.5 as fillers), you can already tell they didn't had such a big budget to begin with.
If the rules do say that any tank can be used in Sensha-dō as long as it was deployed or designed before the Japanese surrender during WW2, could Kuromorimine(the German-themed school in the anime) build and use the P-1000 Ratte in the sport if they wanted to?
My take is that the GuP universe is the product of a post-scarcity Kardishev 2+ civillisation, almost certainly a hyper-real simulation on a Matrioska brain or other super-advanced computer. The characters are actually uploaded minds who have edited their own memories to participate in a form of extreme role play gaming to become their in-game personas. Obviously when they exit to the overworld they have their full knowledge returned, but we only see the in-game segments. They can't get hurt because it's not allowed by the rules of the simulation, and the universe and society doesn't have to make historical, economic or social sense, any more than the Mushroom kingdom or a JRPG setting does. It also explains why no-one in universe notices how crazy things are, because the simulation acts as a censor, preventing them from thinking about it.
That's a good take on this. It takes into perspective just what a post-scarcity K2+ civilization would decide to do for fun. I actually have a similar idea for my own personal world that would do such a thing except they use multiple bodies instead of a simulation and it covers a wide array of different eras of conflict.
