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Squid Girl Helmer Mizushima, Strike Witches Advisor Reveal Girls und Panzer TV Anime (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
Takaaki Suzuki, a military history advisor on Strike Witches and Upotte!!, revealed a new television anime called Girls und Panzer (Girls & Tanks) on Thursday. Bandai Visual publicity representative Yūji Hirooka (Eureka 7: AO, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere) also said that he is involved, and producer Kiyoshi Sugiyama (Armored Trooper Votoms Case;Irvine, Blue Submarine No. 6, Yukikaze) added that the project has been in development for a year and a half. Director Tsutomu Mizushima (Squid Girl, Another, Blood-C, xxxHOLiC) chimed in that the "pleasant school story" is his first entirely original work (as opposed to an anime based on a previous manga or novel).
The official website for the project will open later on Thursday at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. EDT) with a promotional video that is about two minutes long, the main staff list, and part of the main cast.
Ryūichi Saitaniya will launch a manga series, tentatively titled Girls & Panzer, in the July issue of Media Factory's Comic Flapper magazine on June 5. The "military teen battle action" manga is about "high school girls x battles in tanks." It is not stated whether the manga is inspiring the anime, the anime is inspiring the manga, or if the two projects are parallel developments.
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Update: More information added.
Update 2: Images from the promotional video have been leaked before its official unveiling.
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