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FridgeLogic

* Why is Erwin Co-commander in the Stug? 3 guesses what her [[ErwinRommel namesake]] did? She's probably the only one other than Yukari and Miho who knows anything major about tank warfare in Ōarai before the series started.

** The BD booklets yield some light on the issue: Yukari did something they are EXPLICITLY ALLOWED to do (recon before games), while Alisa used a glaring loophole ([[ExactWords rules forbide using "radio intercept ''airplanes''", she used a radio intercept ''balloon'']]) to do anyway something that they are EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN to do.

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!FridgeLogic

* Why is Erwin Co-commander in the Stug? 3 guesses what her [[ErwinRommel namesake]] did? She's probably the only one other than Yukari and Miho who knows anything major about tank warfare in Oarai before the series started.

** [[SoreLoser Manga!Anchovy of Anzio]] right out states that victory is not an end unto itself. It is what a commander should deliver to her team as a reward for their efforts. [[GracefulLoser Anime!Anchovy]] and her school instead display the value of camaraderie. Despite their loss, they are in high spirits and invite the Ooari girls to a party right after the match showing that sensha-do to them is fun rather than work and that they are friends before they are a team.

* Alisa's plan in the Ooarai vs Saunders match involved tapping into Ooarai's radio communications. Ooarai's countermeasure was to [[spoiler:use their cell phones]]. This seems an odd blind spot. Given that every girl in Ooarai has [[spoiler:a cell phone]], it's safe to assume the same applies to other schools. In the end it's a difference between experience and [[StrategySchmategy inexperience]]. Saunders are experienced in Tankery, where as Ooarai are still relative newbies. Alisa probably never considered they would try to [[spoiler:communicate with anything besides radio]]. Even if she did think of the method they used, she'd likely discard it as impractical, which it would have been if it wasn't for [[spoiler: Saori's [[ChekhovsSkill ability to text fast]].]]
* During the Sanders match, both Alisa and Yukari spy on the enemy and Kay's reaction to them is polar opposite; she [[TranquilFury coldy reprimands the former]] and jokes about it with the later. This may seem like a double standard until you look at the wider context. Kay's tankery program is much wealthier than Oarai's (2-1 advantage in numbers) and their members are more experienced (their opponents only have one veteran), thus their advantage is so great it's unfair and [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen Kay will not tolerate such a thing]]. Thus, Yukari spying on them and supplying her commander with Sander's battle plan evens the odds. It's a handicap. In contrast, Alisa's spying is like MinMaxing; a {{munchkin}} so obsessed with winning she resorts to overkill. That's why Kay was so mad. Alisa knew she would react this way and that's why she lied and said 'gut instinct'.

* With all the recent intelligence leaks involving the depth of American surveillance programs, the radio cheating by Saunders University (which was probably symbolic of how the Americans were listening to Japanese communications during WW2) becomes even more appropriate than it was probably intented...
** Then in ''Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu'', [[spoiler:Alisa tries to infiltrate Oarai, but thanks to her terrible disguise, she gets caught fairly early on and taken as a "prisoner of war", resulting in Kay and Naomi coming over and, after spending some time with Oarai, bringing Alisa home]].
* When it is revealed [[spoiler:that Oarai is slated to be shut down if they don't win the tournament]], everyone is naturally concerned about the implications about the students going their separate ways. However, the implications are much deeper when you consider that [[spoiler:the entire purpose of the school ships are ''the schools''. Shutting down the school would result in shutting down the entire ship. Not only would the students be divided by going to different schools, but this would also result in the displacement of an entire community the size of a small town]].

** [[SoreLoser Anchovy of Anzio]] right out states that victory is not an end unto itself. It is what a commander should deliver to her team as a reward for their efforts.

* When Miho is riding with her head outside the tank in the second episode "''Sensha, Norimasu!''", Saori pleads with her to put her head back inside the tank, in case she gets hit. Miho replies that people barely ever get hit...which implies that sometimes, ''they do''. 75mm shell + child's head = Fridge Horror.

* Gradually, it is revealed that Maho is living something of a double life: outwardly becoming the perfect Nishizumi heir and treating her sister with contempt, but internally only doing so so that Miho can have her own free future, essentially sacrificing her own happiness and satisfaction for her sister's (which goes a way to explaining why she is so humorless and robotic). So, in essence, due to the strict expectations of her parent, she must become [[UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat "a mirror, reflecting the personas of those around me, that dare not be what nature made it."]]

** Also consider Kei's reaction to Yukari's 'Oddball' reference. Probably pegged Yukari as a fellow tank otaku and would more likely give her a pass.

* During the Sanders match, both Alisa and Yukari spy on the enemy and Kay's reaction to them is polar opposite; she [[TranquilFury coldy reprimands the former]] and jokes about it with the later. This may seem like a double standard until you look at the wider context. Kay's tankery program is much wealthier than Oarai's (2-1 advantage in numbers) and their members are more experienced (their opponents only have one veteran), thus their advantage is so great it's unfair and [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen Kay will not tolerate such a thing]]. Thus, Yukari spying on them and supplying her commander with Sander's battle plan evens the odds. It's a handicap. In contrast, Alisa's spying is like MinMaxing; a {{munchkin}} so obsessed with winning she resorts to overkill. That's why Kay was so mad. Alisa knew she would react this way and that's why she lied and said 'gut instinct'.

* When it is revealed [[spoiler:that Oarai is slated to be shut down if they don't win the tournament]], everyone is naturally concerned about the implications about the students going their separate ways. However, the implications are much deeper when you consider that [[spoiler:the entire purpose of the school ships are... well... the schools. Shutting down the school would result in shutting down the entire ship. Not only would the students be divided by going to different schools, but this would also result in the displacement of an entire community the size of a small town]].

* Why is Erwin Co-commander in the Stug? Well, 3 guesses what her [[ErwinRommel namesake]] did? She's probably the only one other than Yukari and Miho who knows anything major about tank warfare in Oarai before the series started.

* Alisa's plan in the Ooarai vs Saunders match involved tapping into Ooarai's radio communications. Ooarai's countermeasure was to [[spoiler:use their cell phones]]. This seems an odd blind spot. Given that every girl in Ooarai has [[spoiler:a cell phone]], it's safe to assume the same applies to other schools. In the end it's a difference between experience and [[StrategySchmategy inexperience]]. Saunders are experienced in Tankery, where as Ooarai are still relative newbies. Alisa probably never even considered they would try to [[spoiler:communicate with anything besides radio]].
** Even if she did think of the method they used, she'd likely discard it as impractical, which it would have been if it wasn't for [[spoiler: Saori's [[ChekhovsSkill ability to text fast]].]]

** And then, in ''Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu'', [[spoiler:Alisa tries to infiltrate Oarai, but thanks to her terrible disguise, she gets caught fairly early on and taken as a "prisoner of war", resulting in Kay and Naomi coming over and, after spending some time with Oarai, bringing Alisa home]].

* When it is revealed [[spoiler:that Oarai is slated to be shut down if they don't win the tournament]], everyone is naturally concerned about the implications about the students going their separate ways. However, the implications are much deeper when you consider that [[spoiler:the entire purpose of the school ships are... well... the schools. Shutting down the school would result in shutting down the entire ship. Not only would the students be divided by going to different schools, but this would also result in the displacement of an entire community the side of a small town]].

* With all the recent intelligence leaks involving the depth of American surveillance programs, the radio cheating by Saunders University (which was probably symbolic of how the Americas were listening to Japanese communications during WW2) becomes even more appropriate than it was probably intented...

* Alisa's plan in the Ooarai vs Saunders match involved tapping into Ooarai's radio communications. Ooarai's countermeasure was to [[spoiler:use their cell phones]]. This seems an odd blind spot. Given that every girl in Ooarai has [[spoiler:a cell phone]], it's safe to assume the same applies to other schools. In the end it's a difference between experience and inexperience. Saunders are experienced in Tankery, where as Ooarai are still relative newbies. Alisa probably never even considered they would try to [[spoiler:communicate with anything besides radio]].

* Alisa's plan in the Ooarai vs Saunders match involved tapping into Ooarai's radio communications. Ooarai's countermeasure was to use their cell phones. This seems an odd blind spot. Given that every girl in Ooarai has a cell phone, it's safe to assume the same applies to other schools. In the end it's a difference between experience and inexperience. Saunders are experienced in Tankery, where as Ooarai are still relative newbies. Alisa probably never even considered they would try to communicate with anything besides radio.

** In episode 3, Miho's Panzer IV somehow manages to survive a direct hit to the rear from a [=StuG=] at close range, which normally shouldn't be possible. Then you realize that Miho had deliberately placed the Panzer IV on a ''{{rope bridge}}'' because it would act as a massive shock absorber!
*** {{Jossed}}. The battle map [[AllThereInTheManual shown in the manga]] (its actually [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly shown on-screen]] in Episode 2) shows that the reason they went on the bridge was only to cross the river to get at the Council team. So it's not that Miho handles tank bounces better than a Warthog-launching {{Halo}} player, it's just that she is [[PlotArmor insanely lucky]]. Also, [[WordOfGod Mizushima said in a twitter]] that the round just happened to miss hitting anything vital [[PlotArmor for a few millimeters]][[note]]quoted, "Simulator caliculates mock penetration status as it goes in its half way to engine room's blank corner space, so, that round(warhead's own signature chip's signal) was AP, not HE or SAP, then system did not judge damage as much as demobilize status, did not raise White Flag at that time. If that round goes in deeper or collide in slight different angle (as sim judge so verchally), they've knocked out."[[/note]]
**** The above was commented upon in the Animesuki forums as "So [[FanNickname Kampfgruppe Miho]] had the tank-equivalent of a bullet going through the helmet but missing the head? Neat-o."
** In ''Little Army'', Hitomi is shown early on in the last chapter learning how to drive a tank from one of the Nishizumi school students. Recall in the first chapter that she was the worst at driving, and her willingness to improve on her weakest area is a sign of her CharacterDevelopment and taking Tankery more seriously, [[spoiler:which may serve her well when she does Tankery in the future]].
** Why is Erwin Co-commander in the Stug? Well, 3 guesses what her [[ErwinRommel namesake]] did? She's probably the only one other than Yukari and Miho who knows anything major about tank warfare in Oarai before the series started.
** Why is Mako so keen to stay on her grandmother's good side? [[spoiler:It's because she doesn't want a repeat with [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye what happened with her mother]].]]

* With all the recent intelligence leaks involving the depth of American surveillance programs, the radio cheating by Saunders University (which was probably symbolic of how the Americas were listening to Japanese communications during WW2) becomes even more appropriate than it was probably intented...

* In the manga, shortly before the match with Pravda, Miho learns that [[spoiler:she will be disinherited if she loses]]. After that upsetting revelation, she, in the following scenes, [[StepfordSmiler acts exactly as she does in the anime, as though nothing is wrong]], and Yukari, the only one of her teammates to know what is going on, is deeply disturbed by this, although she doesn't say anything. One has to wonder- how much else is Miho keeping secret from her friends and the viewers?