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the assumption that Miho is basically just some kind of strategy and risk-taking wunderkind.

So episodes of girls sitting in a tank firing at a unmoving target time and again is something that would have made for exciting episodes?

More mock battles where Team A would again beat the stuffing out their teammates? Even in the training montage, Team A were the only ones to hit their target.

Didn't really care for it despite finding it entertaining, missed the point of the series completely by complaining about needless things being needlessly left out but it is progress.

Bamboo, if your planning to check out Netflix shows, I highly recommend Orange is the New Black. It's a great show, with a huge cast of female characters, drama balanced with the right amount of humor, and Capt. Janeway as a Russian mob wife.

Anyway, I've always thought I should give sports shows a chance even though I don't care for most sports (if only figure skating were a popular anime topic, at least during Olympic season). The manga REAL by Takehiko Inoue is excellent, but wheelchair basketball aint the average sport. I'm curious: what would you consider to be a quintessential sports anime?

Bamboo, if your planning to check out Netflix shows, I highly recommend Orange is the New Black.

Anyway, I've always thought I should give sports shows a chance even though I don't care for most sports (if only figure skating were a popular anime topic, at least during Olympic season). The manga REAL by Takehiko Inoue is excellent, but wheelchair basketball aint the average sport. I'm curious: what would you consider to be a quintessential sports anime?

I think some of the best sports anime out there include Hajime no Ippo, Kuroko's Basketball, Prince of Tennis, and Eyeshield 21.

Bamboo Dong-san

I am sorry to see that you feel your slangy relaxed and "cool' approach to reviewing is what we the readers and appreciators of Anime might enjoy. Frankly I find your manner and your style crude, immature and quite shallow. For my main focus your review of the outstanding series Girls und Panzer was as far off the mark as is almost possible.

The series is superb in almost every way, being a jewel of anime development style, art and story. The Characters, ALL of them are well done and balanced with the focus and scale of the project. They did a strong single season and did it well. There was not time for an in depth development of the main characters but we get enough of each of them to love them all. The show is unique almost in that it in fact develops ALL of the characters to a degree if you watch it carefully and gives them life and strength to stand as a group.

The focus of the story is NOT the tanks they are the least important part of it, it is the team work and the group effort and the love of their school that is the real story. It teaches much about character, and life and friendship which is the goal of much of Japanese School life and of much of anime. As a westerner and a Gaijin you show your bias and your lack of understanding which comes out in your approach and the casual and demaning way you dismiss much of what is really good about this show.

The art style and the characters are crisp, artistic and well done, they use the latest of anime style but don't push it, and don't make the mistake of trying to make "art" into faddish far outness. The setting is Ourai yes but it is much more, it focuses on the heritage of WWII for Japan which is very strong still and nothing for them to ashamed of, and the expert who advised them on the tanks also did the background for another very well known series featuring WWII military ships and planes.

The use of the various nations as background for the school ships was very clever and well done, never going too far in the parody and was a fun part of the show.

Overall I consider it a classic and the Japanese audience thinks so too, which is the primary audience and standard for anime. I am glad westerners enjoy anime as much as they do but many of them including you could learn a lot more about how to appreciate what is good and what is great about anime in depth, scale and in value.

I hope in time you will take the time to watch the series again several times and I hope that your appreciation will deepen. Mine does each time I watch the series and I have watched it now about 6 times and plan to do so again soon. A movie will come out soon to help extend the series and I hope for another season.

You don't like a series that I like, so I'm going to insult you and then go on a rant hyping up a show that's actually 'very good' at best.

The series is superb in almost every way, being a jewel of anime development style, art and story

it focuses on the heritage of WWII for Japan which is very strong still and nothing for them to ashamed of, and the expert who advised them on the tanks also did the background for another very well known series featuring WWII military ships and planes.

I couldn't connect with any of the characters (except possibly Miho)because they weren't actual characters but merely some tropes with a few tweaks thrown on the screen.

Regarding Girls und Panzer, I'd much rather see the story of how this particular matriarchal society came about than all this tankery chicanery.

trilaan wrote:

Regarding Girls und Panzer, I'd much rather see the story of how this particular matriarchal society came about than all this tankery chicanery.

What makes you think it's a matriarchal society?