Girls Und Panzer Collection [Blu-ray]

The sport of Tankery (Sensha-do) sees women and girls fight each other in Second World War era tanks. Miho Nishizumi transferred into Ôarai Girls' Academy to get away from the sport due to a traumatic experience in her last match but as the new year begins she discovers that Ôarai is restarting their Tankery program. As the only person with any experience in the sport the Student Council pressure Miho to join the program forcing her to come to terms with her past and her family.This first season of 'Girls und Panzer' was the surprise hit of the Autumn 2012 anime season that despite a somewhat troubled production managed to become popular enough to get a second series announced as well as a movie. The series is very entertaining with some very nice tank battles mixed with some good humour and an entertaining, if basic, plot. There are also a few moments throughout the series where the makers show their knowledge of World War II tanks and although there are some moments where realism takes a little knock these are generally forgivable due to how entertaining they are (such as the tank drifting). The characters in the series are all very good with my favourites probably being the history obsessed Hippo Team.The animation of the series is generally good even if the CGI tanks don't gel well with the more traditional animation in places but even this is better than in some series I have seen. The battles are all very good with the battles against the British themed St. Gloriana and the second half of the fight against the Soviet themed Pravda being especially entertaining. The final battle against the German themed Kuromorimine (Black Forest Peak) is also extremely good and a great way to end the series.Both English and Japanese versions of the soundtrack are included of course and while I would say that the Japanese version is better, the English dub is still good despite having a few issues. For the most part the English dub does away with the original Japanese honorifics but strangely retains them in some places (using sempai at one point and a couple of others). As well as this, the term Tankery doesn't sound quite as good as the original Sensha-do (although it is better than Tank-Fu or Tankwondo that I have seen used in some places). Other than these minor issues though the English dub is relatively good with all the voices generally suiting their characters, although some took some getting used to, especially Rozie Curtis's performance as Student Council President Anzu Kadotani. Of the English voices my favourites were probably Caitlynn French voicing Hana Isuzu and Molly Searcy as Mako Reizei.The music used in the series is very good with a good opening and ending song as well as nice versions of the British Grenadiers March and he Battle Hymn of the Republic. Unfortunately due to copyright issues Pravda's brilliant rendition of the Soviet song Katyusha had to be replaced with an instrumental version of the traditional Russian folk song Korobeiniki (best known from Tetris) which isn't quite as good.For extras the set contains the usual clean opening and closing sequences, as well as a number of trailers. Also included in the extras are episodes 5.5 and 10.5, introductory clip shows that were included in the original run of the show due to the trouble the animation studio were having with the series.The closest series that I would compare 'Girls und Panzer' to is probably the mah-jong anime 'Saki' (one of my favourite series). Both series have a main character who is disillusioned with a sport/game only to rediscover their love for it with the help of friends and take their team to the national championships to have a showdown with their estranged older sister. 'Girls und Panzer' just has tanks instead of superpowered yuri mah-jong. While I still think 'Saki' is the better series (due to having more time to develop its characters) 'Girls und Panzer' is still extremely entertaining and is probably one of my current top ten anime series and as such is more than worthy of a full five stars.

A terrible history documentary, but a brilliant anime.I'm not a huge fan of anime and have only seen a couple animes. But for me, this is brilliant! I've grown up visiting tank museums and playing games like world of tanks, so to watch a show like this is great. It doesn't take itself seriously which adds to the enjoyment factor. It has good characters and development and i think it balances tank battles with school / slice of life stuff. If you like anime, you'll probably like this, if you like tanks you'll probably like this, if you like anime and tanks, what are you doing still reading this? Get the DVD's!"

The entire show is perfect (in my honest opinion). The tanks are cool, the girls are cool and the visuals and soundtracks are cool. This series has become my favourite anime ever and I've already purchased all of the movies to go along with it. I highly recommend watching this anime if you haven't already and if you have then watch it again. Nothing will ever be as good as this and I shall love this anime till I die (but even after I die I'll still love it).

'Girls und Panzer' is one of those wonderfully bizarre concepts that only seem to occur in anime, and involves some of the talent that brought us the even weirder 'Strike Witches'. Basically it's your everyday story of schoolgirls studying something called 'Tankery', ie playing occasionally brutal wargames in genuine WW2 tanks - oh, and their school is actually a giant aircraft-carrier. If you can buy into this completely daffy set-up, then there's tons to enjoy: the characters are engaging, there are some terrific one-liners, and the tanks are rendered in exquisite detail. The only drawbacks are that by the end of the series there are so many characters that few of them get developed to any degree; and while spectacular, the Tankery competition doesn't quite provide the dramatic heft that would lift this show into the top echelon (at least the Strike Witches get to fight marauding aliens). Nonetheless, it's a ridiculous amount of fun, and thoroughly recommended.

Fun to watch

I'm not a great anime fan but this is quality. Excellent artwork, the tanks are well reproduced and the script is quite funny. Don't be put off by the fact that the crews are High School girls, there is no overt sexualisation that is sometimes found in female anime characters. Recommended to World of Tank drivers by none other than The Mighty Jingles.

I'm not a bit animie fan but I watched this due to love for tanks and omg got to be best thing I've seen for so long. Such a happy thing to watch. Love it! 💘The actual tank battles are brilliant the story is amazing! And the girls are hot 🔥 not alot more could ask for 😂👌

The translation could be better.The fact that the Russian's singing Katyusha was cut out was super disappointing! Also some of the words just aren't well translated like "Tankery" instead of Senshadou and even going as far as replacing "Und" with and. I dunno it's just weird, the fan translations are much better.