Girls Und Panzer is Insane Nonsense
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- A story of girls but also of panzers. Join me as I ramble about the dumb nonsense that makes up the series I like more than I should.
00:00 - Intro
03:50 - Part 1: Senshado is fucking stupid
13:22 - Part 2: They live in a nightmare
18:06 - Part 3: They're weirdos
Potential History:
/ @potentialhistory
Sources:
gup.fandom.com/wiki/Girls_und... - Zábava
That's why it succeeded where OTHER series failed:
it embraces the nonsense
It was completely unnecessary to make all the schools into humungous aircraft carriers. But by Jove, they did it anyway and it rocks
@@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.
@@junsengjs Especially given that the usual line about carriers being "floating cities" is taken FRIGGING LITERALLY.
@@tinyplaidninjas8868 When they zoomed out of Ooarai carrier I was like: fuck my neurons, this shit is awesome
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
As an Australian I can infact confirm Koalas do command our tanks or sometimes even the entire platoon.
That would explain a lot
Oh Koala of the panzer, what is your plan?
Emu are strictly Calvary?
@@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
I’m glad I’m American, I don’t want a drop bear growling in my face when I’m trying to run the gun
“It’s a safe sport”
*Owns the biggest fucking tank in the world*
biggest is questionable, I think the Japanese Ka-Chi was even longer and similarly tall.
But the Maus was by far the heavyest.
@@zafranorbian757 I wouldn't be surprised if they had the Löwe or Ratte
they also live on giant city sized ships lol
the landkreuzer p. 1000 ratte lol 250mm cannons would make the tank atoms when shot at lol
@@orionSpacecraft ship guns go booom
"This is stupid, I love it"
-probably everyone
Can confirm. I just seen a bunch of clips of the ridiculous tank battles and I loved them.
Well, if you play(ed) Warthunder or World of Tanks. You'd basically are used to some stupid shit that happens. GuP just it one step further.
:)
@@Qardo Plus GuP even had an event in World of Tanks.
i only came to know their names and research purposes
"Senshado is fucking stupid"
Absolutely beautiful because it's true.
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.
@@Qardo
I’ve read ribbon warrior and it’s amazing
Tankathol’s still stupid lol
I would however love for the national pastime of the United States to cease being "football" and instead become TANK JOUSTING. I mean, come on!
@@DSiren it would kill WWE stone dead too!
What you mean? It make sense to take a grenade in to a fist fight
"Yukari just has a grenade ready. SHE HAS A FUCKING GRENADE READY!" Yukari best girl.
Potential history flashbacks intensify
Yukari is best girl
To quote a certain person:
"Yukari is my spirit animal."
Reminds me of that scene in Anchorman...
'Brick, where di you get a hand grenade?'
Where did she keep said grenade? WHO IN THE FUCK KNOWS
Add the implication that Miho has gotten used to personally dodge incoming tank shells to the list of crazy stuff.
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 It is save, as long as you dodge all shells.
@@zafranorbian757 I mean, is it though? Dodging tank shells is just inhuman imo but is the sport, as a whole really safe?
@@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.
*Referees:* Follow the rules and it's safe!
*The rules:* Everyone gets live machine guns.
Switzerland? Sounds like Switzerland to me.
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.
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.
It's not my least favorite dub I'll give it that, but yeah it is not good
They did a good job modeling the tanks other than speed. No way in f-ck does a Great War-vintage Mark IV keep up with a Panzer IV.
@@PhoenixT70 im pretty sure they souped up the motors or something, since engine modifications are banned
@@PhoenixT70 or a Porche Tiger managing to climb up hills
@@hakzource8660 not banned, but restricted
Don’t forget Kuromorimine also has a zeppelin.
What couple possibilities go wrong?!
must be fueled with helium
Hindenburg: guess I die
@@FlagAnthem *H y d R o g e n*
Oh the humanity!
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.
Like potential history said the show is clearly a 'history show made by history fans'
With an emphasis on fun. And I'm all for it.
ok nazbol
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.
The fun thing is, unlike the British Girls, they gave the names themselves
But maybe the Brits are exceptions, as i can't find any source that states their real name
Though i highly doubt that those are their real name lol
@@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.
Have you heard momo-chan said nuts at ep8
"Marie, who eats cake"
Ah yes, the most fitting french commander. A princess from Austria.
did you prefer the Corsican artilleryman?
No thank you i will stick with the Austrian princess.
Also they be singing a song about killing the austrians and them not getting onions
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
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.)
everytime I see a Panther D or a Cromwell jumping or drifting keeps killing me lmao
(ignore this if the comment get posted)
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
@@erichvondonitz5325 source?
@ Erich von Donitz gup does a noice job
@@erichvondonitz5325 and that Bt-42 is doing a stellar job as the flag tank at Jatkosota High School.
"Yukari just has a grenade ready. SHE HAS A FUCKING GRENADE READY!"
That one killed me
I wonder if she had it for any "personal" time she had, she is shown to be borderline obsessed with WW2 especially the tanks.
She was prepered to take down as many of them with her as possible
@@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.
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.
Well, the 'German' team has a giant dirigible airship, so that's not a problem.
Is this show just set in the aftermath of a global AnCap takeover?
@@Archris17 No, the government trying to shut down the school of the main characters is the main plot point.
I think they exist in some sort of Ace Combat situation where vehicles are so cheap that they're actually struggling to find crews for them all.
The butterfly scene is a reference to All Quiet On The Western Front.
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.
The show exists to entertain teenage boys. And teenage boys love three things: 1) girls 2) weapons 3) violence. And this show has all three.
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.
@@trinalgalaxy5943 do you also like to talk walks at night?
@@miked884 First off I aint a woman. Second off I was quoting Halo 2 and Hellsing Ultimate Abridged because its funny.
@@trinalgalaxy5943 First ok did not ask second yes it is that's why I know the quote
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.
@@don_5283 So sort of in the direction of Gakuen Babysitteers?
Planes? Please, working in machines are for girls.
BOYS JOIN THE MOBILE INFANTRY!
@@imgvillasrc1608 Okay, so "Boys und Jäger" no; "Gun Haikyuu with live ammo" yes. Noted ;P
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??
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.
Welcome to war thunder xD
You clearly never played early wot. KV2 as a tier 5 kv modification sure +4 match making why not.
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.
Ah but you are in a TOG/KV-2 Group. They have numbers, you have TOG.......and a BATTLESHIP CANNON
It's stupid? Yes!
I like it? Yes!
I'm there for cool tank fights and a shit ton of historic references, not for plot or ultra realism.
This
This
Agree
Basically any tank fan is lacking a tank fight scene in media
So we take anything we can get
Don't forget the drifting tank moments haha
GuP girls are precious.
One of the best anime franchises out there.
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?
@@tymekka3031 It technically still is a post-war tank, if the M46 gets a pass, what else would get a pass?
Give us "Boys Und Panzer" after "Girls Und Panzer" is completed. Let's continue the very entertaining insanity.
Boys Und Luftwaffe
"Have you ever heard of a man driving a tank?"
-an actual line from this show
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
@@Yeet-yb8iu
Oh boy, the Japanese team would be alot of fun
@@danielcross4146 >literally mentions Rommel next scene
“The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
- Barbossa
GuP has been such a blessing of an anime. I can’t believe it’ll be 10 years old this year.
Bist du wirklich deutsch? -_- hmmmmmmm
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.
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)
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.
The reason Ireland doesn’t have tankery team is because before there first match a few members got down right wasted in a bar the other night
My impression is they sketched the school but ended with the shark team
Ireland was neutral during WWII
Fair point but they were sorta part of England so they could be a sub unit
I feel like the alternative of them for boys schools are either warships or aircraft battles (which kinda makes it worse for safety reasons)
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.
I mean, Haifuri is a thing so there's a precedent for school-navy stuff already lol
@@GoodwillWright Im more concerned of them dying of natural causes tbh e.g drowning
No, that is also girls jobs according to Japan:
Battleships: High School Fleet
Plane fighting: Girly Air Force
@@samunagy221 infantry for the boys then
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.
Not quite. Black Forest had a _nine_ year winning streak, until beaten by Pravda, arguably because Miho left the team's flag tank exposed.
@@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."
@@wwoods66 Erika is being lauded as a tactical genius because she's figured out how to flank.
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
Lmao same. GuP made me into a weeb xD
not to mention the speed and handling of their tank could make even the M1 Abram cry well not tank it could even make Lexus SC400 jealous
Same
The boys don't play with tanks, they play with 16th century siege weaponry.
@@tarlison2k1 the jump height of the bt42 is enough for a irl bt7 to reconsider existing, speaking of which, how high would it go in gup
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
The KV2 scene at the start of the movie Der Film really makes me question if they'd really survive that kind of shell
It doesn't penetrate... it disintegrates everything.
@@manapoints9329 even if it doesn't penetrate the overpressure could kill people with that explosive power.
Ah, but you see, the carbon-nanotube sunscreen will protect them.
@@miming3679 do you mean Elias btw?
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.
Strike Witches aka "Girls und pantsu"
What i Love about Strike witches ist that all the Girls are named after WW2 Pilotes
Patton command...
What
It isn't just stupid and insane, it is War Thunder and World Of Tanks levels of insanity. That's why I love it!😁😁😁
well if it is WT level of insanity, the crew would chicken the crap out of their tanks at the slightest mosquito bite
@@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.
@@lv83bloodknight it's just through the knee, he will be fine.
The crew members could all be dark red and still be fighting.
Just use the APHEFSDSHEATHECBC shells.
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!
Does it have realism? It fucking has not, is it good? Yes it is,is it worth to watch? Absolutely, cute waifus in a tank? Sign me up
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.
Using actual war movie classics as tactical inspirations....
Imagine if the kiwi team shows up with Bob Semples and absolutely dominates the other teams
@@KaizerKlash111 bob semple is the tank of the gods
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*
You're right. The most unlikely one is Americans losing and be a good sport about it.
A show that gets "so dumb its perfect"
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
Why do you get so even more excited over an American dish than pasta?
@@CloverJuice are you for real?
How about Carbonara?
@@FlagAnthem pasta is the main ingredient. carbonara is only a type of the innumerable type of possible dressing in italian cousine
Without the glorious American Tomato, your pizzas' amount to nothing more than toast, pepperoni, and burnt cheese!
Girls und Panzer is like Michael Bay movies. You don't think about them, you just enjoy them.
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.
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.
Yeah, Saunders may have some Halfus and Nonna can speak Russian (Katyusha specifically can't) but they are all Japanese.
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
Klara on the Pravda team is an exchange student from Russia. Possibly the only character that is not Japanese.
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!!!
Never forget they actually used balloon tanks to trick the enemy into thinking they are real
i was like: ''hey why here have minors driving a car'' in the der film and remember that
WHY THEY'RE MINORS DRIVING WW2 TANKS LIKE
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).
It's basically a bunch of inside jokes for the Weaboo/Westaboo/Teaboo/Wehraboo/Aussieboo/Baguetteboo/Commieboo/Pastaboo tank communities.
I always felt sorry for the boys on the maintenance crew who somehow had to perform miracle repairs often overnight.
The Abridged versions of this series is hilarious.
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
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.
@@trinalgalaxy5943 By coincidence, the girls were watching _Kelly's Heros_ in the episode about the night before the battle.
@@wwoods66 thats what i was talking about. they completely remade the scene I mentioned in animation!
I mean, i don't really care about the nonsenses. The anime got dumb logic but i liked it and that's it.
No joke, it's no easy work to write some good dumbness. Funny if you succeed, cringe if you fail
Yukari just be like
"I knew beating World at War on veteran would prepare me for something!"
*pulls pin with malicious intent
this show was so insane with my brain turned off it has ended up in my top 5 animes list xD
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.
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.
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.
Though it is possible that these girls are just that durable so it really isn't much of an issue.
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.
They even put a Flying Circus reference
Miho had PTSD until she forgot about that
i love how japan is so willing to clown on their history during ww2 as opposed to literally every other axis power.
Well anime and manga writers typically clown on anything and everything they're imaginations can conceive and it can be done cheaply enough for animation companies/manga publishers to sponsor them and make bank. And the youth in Japan along with fans abroad love it.
Can't tell you about the older generation though...
This is the exception. Normally they just hint how much they wish they had won...
yeah, the plot of the Kancolle anime is just a bit uncomfortably similar to the Pacific War, except “”Japan”” won.
20:10 my goodness, it has been a while since I watched it and that reminded me why I love this show.
I'm going to watch it all again!
0:22 I wrote a fanfiction based on that exact possibility without even watching the show end-to-end.
Really? where can i read it?
@@thedoctorairsoft6813 AO3. CZcams hates links so I’ll just tell you that it’s called “Broken,” and that my handle is “Phoenix_T70.”
... Also, don't freaking underestimate Koala's.
Animals in Australia are out of this world.
Ever heard of the Great Emu War?
Plot twist: the koalas took over the country
welp, you just described European football with the whole cycle of money thing
Think of it like that: if an anime featuring WW2 tanks _wasn't completely stupid_ , it wouldn't be nearly as bubbly and fun.
By an order of magnitude.
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.
11:00 Actually, the one using the radio listening device used a loophole to go around the rule.
The leader of that cheater caught on and gave a slight advantage for the Oarai team afterward.
16:45 I love the casual Panzerfaust with a ribbon, just leaning there, like its fine.
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...
Honestly, we need to go to space more than ever, and we still need more GuP to distract Putin from doing it for real.
There's actually an explanation on how the sport is safe
Just found it recently
So basically the shells are modified in a way to be incapable of penetrating deep enough to hurt anyone inside or damage anything to harshly, the damage is then calculated by a computer system which then decides weather or not the damage that shell would have normaly delt would have rendered the tank destroyed or incapacitated, similar how modern militaries use a system in combat training
Except the concussions from large enough shells will still kill you, unless they dampeners as well.
@@sirboomsalot4902 it wasn't stated about that, but I do believe that the special carbon layer absorbs some of the blast to minimize its effect, however, I have no real explanation for situations like in Der Film, where tanks get slung around from massive explosions (scene with the Karlgerät), as I can't explain how they survive being slung around inside their tanks. What could be possible is that the inner coating of the tank also absorbs impacts on the inside of the tank, therefore protecting the crew to a certain extend.This however is just speculation
I'm pretty sure that everyone in that universe is superhuman and basically immortal. Makes sense why Miho's mother would be mad at her losing a match to rescue a kid that wasn't actually in danger of drowning.
@@clone4211 or the show just doesn't take itself to seriously and Shiho is just a cold bish
And don't forget how the buildings are blown apart by the very same shells, and how much repairs the tanks need after the battles. And, of course, there are the open hatches and commanders outside the hatch, while bullets and shells are flying around.
Someone told me this show existed, and I went into it thinking that it was going to be some post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare where high school girls are forced to fight and die in tank battles kind of like 'The Hunger Games.' Wow was I wrong.
I love how tankery is a sport, no one gets hurt and the heartwarming elements
Gonna be that ackchyually guy and just point out Shiho doesn't disown Miho over Kuromorimine losing. Miho transfered to Oarai with consent from her parents. The condition for leaving was probably that she stopped practicing senshado, since a big deal is made when she shows up commanding Oarai. The threat of disowning doesn't actually happen until the Pravda match, but never gets carried through because Miho kinda proved Shiho wrong by winning the tournament following her own way. Shiho wanting to avenge Kuromorimine next tournament is an implicit aknowledgement of her daughter's skill.
Yeah it's just one of those things that the series glosses over so many of the details on and isn't helped by parts like when Miho visits home in the movie and is so genuinely off put by potentially encountering her mom. Like yeah she isn't technically disowned but even after proving herself there's still such a tangible tension between her and Shiho that feels very much like she has been disowned.
@@LoliFiend Yeah, they have such contrasting visions of what Senshado is meant to be that it's gonna be hard for any of them to take that first step. Specially now that Maho is not around to mediate things between them.
8:25 I'm sure this also goes very well with the fact that a carbon lining saves everyone from all damage without any extra protection. At the very minimum if that hits you without hearing protection you are deaf
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.
20:02 One of the most hilarious moments in the series for me, where they are all pulling weapons and one of them pulls the sword out of a pop-up-pirate!
We got Tank themed School Girls (Girls und Panzer), we got Navy themed School Girls (Haifuri). All we need left is Airforce themed School Girls.
There's an anime called "the magnificent kotobuki",though they are all grown women
@@paolochang4142 one of my favourites, also as I imagined that Shinden is a Boss Aircraft.
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?
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
Love your video and this amazing breakdown as a huge fan of the series this is a side I love to laugh about anytime you think for more than 5 seconds, great commentary, edits and humor
The most simplified version of GuP is:
World of Tanks anime. Period.
This show is basically.
*Snifffs crack*
...
With a *hints blunt*
For me, the best thing is how they did the national stereotypes. It would have been so easy to make it nasty, (Germans are Nazis, Russians are drunk, Americans are trigger-happy cowboys etc.) but they never do that. They poke fun at people without becoming mean-spirited.
As for Boko, keep in mind that one of the core principles of Japanese morality is that you should 'keep on trying your best'. Quite often, it is thought more important that you continue to try than whether you succeed. Of course, Boko takes it to an absurd level, but one of the interesting aspects of Girls und Panzer is that it also makes fun of Japanese culture. They even included the Kamikaze-like behaviour of the 'Japanese school', even though that is a subject that most anime tends to avoid.
The English -school girl who does the suicide manoeuver has something to prove. We don't notice it in the translation, but in Japanese, she speaks with a lower-class accent, while the rest of her school have upperclass accents. The show is full of little details like that.
- It's not the tank or the ammo. Those girls are just as strong as Kingkong but pretend to be weak.
- So driving tank are actually safer than letting them punch the shit out of each other.
Oh yes the Waifus Just throwing shells Like Bonbons Shows how ripped they actually are
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!
Pretty sure someone was playing World of Tanks and thought, "Damn, this needs an anime."
Something about Shiho Nishizumi: She actually cares about her daughters. But seeing her youngest daughter went out of her way facing danger to save her teammates broke her heart. So she made Miho gave up tankery and transfer her to another school without it. That's why you can saw her relieved face after Oarai won both against Kuromorimine and University All-Star. Also, did you forget that parent consent was needed for the student to transfer to another school? There is a good chance that Shiho gave her consent to Maho when she "temporarily" transferred to Oarai during Der Film. So, there is actually a lot of nuance with this character. The series didn't gave it right away but you can take some hints left and right or even mirroring Shiho with Hana's mom.
I like when he explained American baseball economics.
This is such a great video. Please do more of these!
Mika is commanding using the music and it's and actual tactics from Finnish during Winter War (or so I read it from other comments)
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?
I love this realist take on the anime. Also, you forgot about the fact that the girls could also get hurt or killed thanks to the tank getting flung across the field or falling. Real crews had that issue, including tank commanders who banged their heads on their vision ports and crewmen on their gun breaches.
I will say that, as a former athlete that has lived and played different sports through out North America, it's quite common for other teams to research opponents through filming their matches, or even sometimes their practices, depending on the sport itself and level of play. The NFL certainly has rules against filming team practices, but secondary school and post-secondary schools typically don't have that rule. In fact, most Universities across Canada and the USA will try to recruit coaches from other schools, and incentivize them to bring all the training material they've gathered, including film of the current team, and dossiers on returning players.
I've laugh much more than I thought I would while watching this video. The serious tone almost like a documentary presenter, while having those sort of breakdown to emphazise how insane it all is. One hell of a video lmao
Addendum. Apparently the Oarai carrier ship is 5 miles long (according to canon).
And it's one of the smaller ones. Pravda's ship is almost 18 KMs long. Roughly the same size as a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer.
@@maxpower3990 Yeah, you're right. I just didn't want to reveal my nerdyism. Wait...dammit! Hmm, Girls und Gallactic Battleships anyone?
When I first discovered this show years ago (I did and still do hate anime overall LOL) I thought "This is so stupid and weird" and of course came away with the very points you accurately bring up too.
But G'dammit, it' hooked me! Put my rational brain aside for a few episodes and enjoyed it more than I dare confess. Now I've seen them all and finally saw Part 3 of "Das Finale" the other night. (Sadly I'll probably not get to see Part 4 until next year! AGGGGG)
Well done video
I have been blessed by the algorithm to give me this well put together, funny, and under appreciate channel…well done, very well done
The plots ludicrous but the story somehow works