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Girls & Panzer Blu-ray Bundled With Brad Pitt's Fury in Japan
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Japanese branch of Amazon lists a bonus Girls und Panzer Blu-ray Disc bundled with the Japanese Blu-ray release of the World War II film Fury.
The bundle is an Amazon.co.jp exclusive, and it will contain a special promotional video for the upcoming Girls und Panzer movie, as well as two special segments entitled "M4 Sherman in Girls & Panzer" (where the character Yukari Akiyama explains the M4 Sherman and Tiger tank fight scene in Fury) and "Kore ga Fury-go ni Natta M4A3E8 Sensha da! (This is the M4A3E8 Tank Turned Into the Fury!)." Girls und Panzer character Yukari Akiyama (as voiced by Ikumi Nakagami) narrates both videos.
A Japanese television commercial for Fury was also shown last November, also narrated by Yukari Akiyama. A collaboration project with Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- and Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow also started last October.
The Girls und Panzer television anime premiered in October 2012. It is set in a world where World War II tank combat is a traditional Japanese martial art and a competitive sport. Miho Nishizumi (Mai Fuchigami), a new transferee to Ōrai Girls' Academy, is ordered by the student council to form a team and compete against other schools.
Fury is set in the waning days of World War II on the Western Front, where "Wardaddy (Brad Pitt)" commands a tank crew aboard the M4A3E8 Sherman tank "Fury" to undertake a desperate mission against the German army.
