Girls & Panzer: Saishuushou Part 1

Rumor has it that Momo Kawashima, former student council member at Ooarai Girls Academy, is bound to repeat a year. Having failed her university entry exams, she is far from spending another year at Ooarai, but her plight is unenviable nevertheless.

The only way for her to gain admission into a university is to be granted an athletic scholarship. With the Winter Continuous Track Cup rapidly approaching, Momo becomes the commander of Ooarai's tankery team, so as to demonstrate her sport skills and wipe away the stain on her honor.

Their first opponent—French-themed BC Freedom High School—is split into two factions that are constantly at odds with each other. Despite this seemingly fortuitous match against a disorganized rival, Ooarai might soon find itself taking one step too far.

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Akiyama, Yukari Main

Nakagami, Ikumi Japanese

Reizei, Mako Main

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Nishizumi, Miho Main

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Isuzu, Hana Main

Ozaki, Mami Japanese

Takebe, Saori Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Anzai, Chiyomi Supporting

Yoshioka, Maya Japanese

Katyusha Supporting

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Darjeeling Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Itsumi, Erika Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Nishizumi, Maho Supporting

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Maruyama, Shunpei Producer

Kamiji, Tomoyo Producer

Sekine, Youichi Producer

Nishikawa, Kazuyoshi Producer

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Apr 28, 2022

UnionRaid

Recommended

Girls und panzer is a show that shouldn't have worked, After all the concept of lolis driving tanks and blowing each other up isn't exactly a returning concept: but rather a totally original piece of work that's way to entertaining even with the dull story and lack of game modes. For those who don't know, this series of parts takes place after the main series and the movie (you can safely skip all the ova's apart from the 40 minute ova with the Italian loli.)

Story:

The story is as such: A girl in the student council is going to repeat another year at the academy, ... so the sensha'do team has to win a tournament in order to stop her doing so. And that's pretty much it, the story has never been a strong point in this series. After all, the animes always been about lolis driving tanks and when they try a emotional scene it never really hits home or make you care for the characters.

7/10

Art:

The art style is.. unique, its a blend of 3d CGI and fluent 2d animation. Now if your reading this I'm assuming that you have watches the rest of the series up until this point: and if so you would know that the CGI is some of the best in anime. There is no jank in the CGI whatsoever, sure it can take some time to adjust to but when you do, you will fall in love with the animation style this anime has to offer. The 2d is fluent and cutesy and the same goes with the 3D tanks.

8/10

Sound:

Its pretty standard, VA's are great like always and everything matches up well enough. Now, I'm not American but when I heard the opening for these parts I might have turned patriotic right then and there. As soon as it starts there's bullets and what seems like a American war cry of some sorts? I know this doesn't make sense (like at all) but when you watch this or should I say when you, you will see what I mean. Anyway, the OST is fantastic as always: as they use each country's real life national anthem. Even my people (the British) have there real life national anthem and its hype as fuck whenever it comes on.. excuse my language.

Characters:

This anime has a large focus on characters, but it overwhelms its self by adding so many different country's and teams so you cant really feel emotional for any character. Of course our main focus like always is Orai academy's Sensha'do team, so we get some minor character development there but none of them are particularly emotional or make you root for the character in question. all the teams have massive potential and could do with a OVA of there own to help build there characters, not much else to say here.

7/10

Enjoyment:

Your enjoyment will heavily depend on whether you have watched the main anime and the movie just after it. If you haven't watched it you will be clueless: and even if you have watched it like me you will still be confused. My advise would be too not pay attention to the story and just have some mindless fun watching this dumpster fire of a anime. Worth a watch just don't take it seriously.

8/10

Overall; 7/10

Give it a watch, the 3 parts that are out now are only 50 mins each or 2 episodes put together. Mindless fun and lolis blowing each other up with 50 tons of steel.

Thanks for reading!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 22, 2021

Mic7ch

Recommended

The fight to save Momo has begun! Let roll!
The story left off since der film and picked up well with the schools now safe the new problem arises and I think it's a decent goal for a story can’t spoil much, very good 8/10
Art is very nice, all is smooth the review is in 2021 and art has developed since but the quality pleases me as it’s not much of a stutter. 8/10
Sound is top as usual, like the others parts tank sounds are high quality and same theme is still in used. A point for the sung onion song 9/10
Characters we're taken from the ... main series with an addition of new characters it may seems sudden and all but it fits in the universe well! 8/10
Overall? Enjoyed! As a fan of the series this is a good way to kick off a film streak. The name das finale signals the end but this may just be the best beginning to the end ever! (Hope and prayers that das finale is not the end!)

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Mar 31, 2022

Pika10032

Mixed Feelings

I don't write a lot of reviews, but I wanted to write this one for a simple reason.

This is not a movie.

This and the next 5 parts are essentially season two. I'm not writing a review for each part, but so far they each end with a cliffhanger and act just like a double-episode. They even slow down right in the middle where a new episode would start.
The quality is as good as the show, but it is not a movie. This of course means nothing after they have all been released, but right now expect a cliffhanger for each movie.
It's been 5 years and ... they are only halfway done. Why was this not a TV show?

Now my score has nothing to do the viewing format. I gave this a 4 because this episode is slow and basically just introduces the new plot and the new team. If this were a whole season, then my current score would be a 7. Not spectacular plot or characters, but awesome fight scenes, especially in movies 2 and 3. Better than the first season overall, but not as good as the movie.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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