History WMG / GirlsUndPanzer

* Viking Fisheries High School: Their tankery program probably utilizes Swedish tanks.

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Considering that Sensha-do is at least 80 years old, it stands to reason that there would be some rules to settle a battle where two teams knock each other's flag tank out at nearly the same moment. The tie breaker has to be fair to both parties and having a rematch is not an option considering most of the time depending on how badly damaged that tank is. So having it be based on number of tanks knocked out is fair because in a battle where it is 2 vs 6 the 6 tank team could only have a maximum of 2 kills while the 2 tank team only needs to knock out 3 tanks to break the tie. This would favor the smaller team who had to make good use of tactics to outmaneuver the larger team.

* Continuation High School: The school is probably stuck using the most pathetic tank yet seen in GuP, the BT-42 modification of the T-34.

** Confirmed in episode 9. When meeting with the MEXT representive who tells the Student Council about the closure, he explains the school is closing due to low attendance rates and how there's nothing special about the school to justify its continued existence. He trails off into how it ''used'' to have a tankery program and Anzu latches onto it like a life preserver. "You wouldn't close down the national champion, would you?"

* From the "russian" four-pointed star on the Pravda uniforms it seems that the series takes place in the ''StrikeWitches'' universe. Probably there's still enough of Neuroi threat remains to base schools on land. Either that or the Neuroi are gone, but left some poisonous shiat behind as a scorched earth tactic. We're in WMG so [[SincerityMode it's a nice crossover theory]].

* Its' likely Katyusha was well aware. The spin-off manga, Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu, heavily implies that Katyusha got her promotion to commander for engineering the situation Kuromorimine found themselves in - advancing down a narrow mountain pass, something no respectable tank commander would do if they could avoid it.

* Worth noting only a couple of shots were seen from Pravda in the clip of the previous year's finals, nowhere near enough to get a good grasp on Pravda's accuracy. Pravda also aren't the only team who suffer from heinous accuracy dip against Oarai.

* Highly likely given the evidence shown in the series. Oarai is able to buy a Hetzer upgrade kit that never existed in real life for the finals, telling us that such things are produced commercially. They also have a Porsche Tiger, of which there are currently ZERO in existence, and a Type 3 Medium, only one of which exists in a museum. Likewise for Kuromuromine's Maus. It is safe to assume that these are replicas painstakingly crafted to be identical to the real thing, with carbon lining added into the armor for safety. In a world that has 7 kilometer-long school ships industry is definitely advanced enough to mass-produce copies of WWII tanks. 3D printing of parts, perhaps?
** Not for armor! Or any high-strength metal components. CNC machining, on the other hand...

But even that wasn't enough and the war still went on for generations; Whole generations where born with the war raging, and died of old age with the war still going on. Inevitable perhaps, the war went atomic.

Highly likely given the evidence shown in the series. Oarai is able to buy a Hetzer upgrade kit that never existed in real life for the finals, telling us that such things are produced commercially. They also have a Porsche Tiger, of which there are currently ZERO in existence, and a Type 3 Medium, only one of which exists in a museum. Likewise for Kuromuromine's Maus. It is safe to assume that these are replicas painstakingly crafted to be identical to the real thing, with carbon lining added into the armor for safety. In a world that has 7 kilometer-long school ships industry is definitely advanced enough to mass-produce copies of WWII tanks. 3D printing of parts, perhaps?

! All the tanks used in sensha-do have their armor replaced with stronger modern steel or composite, to ensure that rounds traveling at WW2-era velocities can't penetrate.
* It would explain why the Hetzer can survive being run over by the Maus.

!Rabbit Team wasn't just bonding watching ''KellysHeroes''
* They were studying how to knock out Tigers. The other films listed were ''BattleOfTheBulge'' and ''Film/{{Patton}}''. Since it's Rabbit Team, something will go hilarious wrong. Cue paint rounds in 3, 2, 1...

* For the most part (not the entire team) they have tanks with casemate guns,(fixed to the hull, you aim by turning the whole tank) there very powerful since there have a lower profile and trend to have a larger gun. The Problem is they have to aim by turning. Their direct choice to only go with the biggest guns they could while ignoring there less powerful more flexible options will come back to haunt them.

What better way to crush her daughter's "hersey" then a CurbstompBattle on live television?

* For the most part (not the entire team) they have tanks with casemate guns,(fixed to the hull, you aim by turning the whole tank) there very powerful since there have a lower profile and trend to have a larger gun. The Problem is they have to aim by turning. Their direct choice to only go with the biggest guns they could while ignoreing there less powerful more flexable options will come back to haunt them.

The girls who made it to the last year finals (and eventually became the champions) have graduated and left the school and the team, except for a few skilled tankers like Nonna (one can assume that she is the only decent gunner in the team, given that it was necessary to reassign her to the JS-2) or the flag tank driver, who did a good job evading shots (note that while the other crewgirls, including the tank commander, were relaxing on the armor, the driver was the only one to monitor the situation and warn them). The other girls don't seem to be older than Ooarai's Team Rabbit, nor more skilled. It would explain why the team who managed to win the tournament last year suffers from such a [[ATeamFiring sudden dip in accuracy]].

* it may even be a shout out
** I thought the only reason that a proper translation didn't call it World of Tanks was because Wargaming didn't give [=GuP=] the rights. Given how it is ''the'' online tank game, it's almost undoubtedly either World of Tanks or a counterpart thereof.
** Obviously could not be neither {{Jossed}} nor confirmed, but it was given a [[MythologyGag nod]] when the [[spoiler:victorious]] Anteater Team [[spoiler:congratulated]] doing together what, [[OrSoIHeard reportedly]], is the [[spoiler:"[=WoT=] secret handshake"]].
** Given how Wargaming.net has partnered up with Actas to advertise World of Tanks in Japan it's probably safe to nail this as Confirmed.

!WMG's for a possible second season plot..

!Black forest line up comes to bite them

* {{Jossed}}. Despite considerable internet {{troll}}ing saying [[http://data.archive.moe/board/a/image/1364/13/1364139959735.jpg otherwise]]. Said trolling about deaths in the series has caused Actas to explicitly deny "unexpected deaths" in the forthcoming movie.
** Of course, trolls reacted with "No [[ExactWords unexpected]] deaths. Bye bye, [[spoiler: Grannie]]".

** Jossed, at least for the first season.

She goes nuts about her 'thing' tanks. Additionally aside from her narrow interest, poor social skills (she was friendless) and odd speech patterns (she listed as with due respect on her trope page)are additionally symptoms of aspergers. Yukari misinterpreting Miho's statement that she loves Team Anglerfish as friends as "Nishizumi-dono just confessed to me!" would also count, due to how aspergers syndrome can lead to misreading social and emotional cues.

! The real reason other teams are not mixed nation. . .

* Extending on that, there's also the part in Chapter 7 of ''Little Army'' where Maho says that it's fine if Miho wants to quit tankery, but if she continues, she should find a way of tankery she can call her own, which could indicate that she doesn't think too highly of the Nishizumi style, or at least thinks it's one that Miho can't follow.

* When Kikuyo sees her off as she returns to school in Chapter 7 of ''Little Army'', Maho leaves while requesting that Kikuyo take care of Miho, implying that she knows her mother is not a very good parent.

* This, has been confirmed. She drops all [[JerkassFacade facades]] and [[HeartwarmingMoment opens up to Miho]] after her victory[[note]](notice spoilerless wording)[[/note]], instead of cold-shouldering her as her mother all but orders her to do from then onwards in episode 8 ([[spoiler:that's part of what the disinheritance scene means]]).

! Going with the Above, Erika will cost her team the battle by accidentally shooting Maho's tank.

Especially if it's because Maho had ordered her to hold her fire as she closed to point blank with Miho, but Erika can't control herself. Possibly having Maho seeing this as the final crack in her devotion to the family tradition.

* Hey, hey, hey, let's not pick on Erika too much. She might be a [[JerkAss Jerk Ass]], but with the exception of her [[VillainousBreakdown little explosion in the middle]] she is relatively able to control her emotions. It seems much more likely one of those incompetent no-name tanks will backshoot Maho in the confusion instead.
** That's the point. She has shown to be prone to amusing {{Villainous Breakdown}}s, and her (and her crew's) level of competence has been sown not to be [[MilesGloriosus as good as she brags it is]]. She ''is'' likely to go all GloryHound when (not ''if'') Miho's next plan seems to be about to give them victory[[note]]we all know it's gonna happen, the doubt is only if it will give them victory or it'll only ''seem'' to do so[[/note]] and try to take matters in her hand. [[StopHelpingMe I doubt that'll end well]].

! Maho decided to bring out the [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill you]]-[[FinalBoss know]]-[[OutGambitted what]][[note]]Maus[[/note]] as a last minute decision the very night before the battle

If her expression during her ByronicHero scene (when she's seen [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog from the back]] contemplating her team's tanks in episode 10) is any indication, as her expresion when her face is finally shown seemed [[note]](this entry is written after the fact, and they say that "[[SarcasmMode everyone has 20/20 hindsight]]", but ''[[SincerityMode really]]'' seemed like that)[[/note]] the face of somene [[VillainRespect wondering if the forces at her disposal will be enough]]...

** Certainly ''possible''. However, Chihiro's mother is not completely invisible -- we never see her, but she's still discussed. Saori's parents aren't even mentioned. Using an inverse of ChekhovsGun, if it's not mentioned, then there is nothing unusual about it.

Just an obvious extrapolation, given the clearly-caucasian slant of the most visible Saint Glorianna team (Darjeeling, Assam, and Orange Pekoe), as well as the higher-than usual ratio of blondes and redheads in Saunders (as shown by Yukari's infiltration). Especially noticeable compared to Oorai, a school without a National theme, whose members barring two exceptions (Akebi and Nekonyaa) feature hair colors are normally what could be found among real-life Japanese (mainly black or shades of brown).

She does seem a bit more savvy that Katyusha and we know she seems to have got command solely because she landed the winning shot in the previous year's final.
* In Katyusha's defence, it seems more reasonable that she set up the meeting engagement last year, which went off brilliantly. Further, IF one closes his eyes to the less than wholesome goal of the Battle Plan, to get group ''dogeza'', the Plan was well executed. One can even generously forgive the dogeza part by suggesting that when you have 13 T-34s and a IS-2, even a clean curbstomp battle against Oarai's 6 ragtag tanks won't be very satisfying, while a group ''dogeza'' would have been something (that may explain why the Pravdans seem at pains to keep from actually flagging their enemies while shooting out their armament and/or their ability to employ it).
* Katyusha's greater failure was choosing to sleep the whole way instead of supervising her troops and getting them off the bonfires in time to restore their night vision. That is the probable cause of the drop in firing accuracy and it seems likely if they had kept up the accuracy they showed in the "Chase Oarai into the church" part, they would have been able to adapt to Oarai's banzai charge. Still, Nonna's fault was the greater because she was actually ''awake'' and all she does is fawn on Katyusha. So she may or may not have been the commander the previous year, but she arguably isn't better.
** Besides which, as Executive Officer, Nonna was in charge while Katyusha slept.

* My guess (not the OP) is that it might be a longer OVA or a movie, since there seems to be enough for a few episodes, but not an entire series.

namely: a capture the flag mode with bases, SPG's , more conceptual tanks (like the AT2 and T25 AT as compared to the mostly actually made tanks the anime uses) and a shout out to actual world of tank maps, (what is this Campinovka?)

and we get Girls und warplanes or Girls und battleships!

* And amusingly, also confirmed. The manga spinoff is centered on the girls, the tanks playing just a minor cameo role.

!if a sequel has new tank teams, list names bellow.

* The obvious plot thread to follow will be the Under-20 Sensha-do World Cup that Anzu mentioned in the first episode. This also conveniently makes it possible to tie in another hanging plot thread from the prequel: Emi. And what better stage for the two friends to prove to each other their ways of Sensha-do than the world championship?

trust me, as some one who also has it, I was just as nuts about my 'thing' (trains) as she is about tanks. additionally aside from her narrow interest, poor social skills (she was friendless) and odd speech patterns (she listed as with due respect on her trope page)are additionally symptoms of aspergers.
* Yukari misinterpreting Miho's statement that she loves Team Anglerfish as friends as "Nishizumi-dono just confessed to me!" would also count, due to how aspergers syndrome can lead to misreading social and emotional cues.

...because, why not. We know the Nishizumi Household is based on land. Oarai had a good tankery program twenty years ago, which would be just about the time Shiho was a student herself. Ami Chono (the instructor) owes Shiho a major favor - could this be that she wanted to go to Kuromorimine and take the Nishizumi style with her. If Kuromorimine is the longtime home of the Nishizumi style, why not mention that in the same breath as their ten-year run of victories. In fact that string of victories is more impressive if Kuromorimine was a no-name school before the arrival of the Nishizumi style. We can even stretch to a reason - maybe Shiho was somehow disgraced at Oarai, or disgraced the school and its tankery program, which then went into terminal decline. Maybe she let boys play. Maybe Maho was conceived in Yukari's beloved D-chan (Yukari: Eww... that's not what tanks are for)

* It's a nightmare getting parts for tanks built by seven different country's. the m3 lee was built using U.S. customary unit and the others with metric. While if you had a team of only Shermans, you only need to get one type of drive shaft.

* Aliens: There foreign exchange student from planet X who decided to try out tankary.

Orthodoxy or 'Anbiru' (anvil) style is the one used by Maho and the rest of the Nishizumi family. this school of thought is you take your tanks, and you HIT your enemy as hard as you can like a warhammer to plate mail, and like a hammer, you fall back and hit them again, and again and AGAIN, relentlessly pounding at them until you get the metal so thin, that your next hit smashes through. This is why Maho brought so many massive over gunned (for the task) tanks to the finals. Nishizumi school is that you hit hard and keep hitting until the enemy gives in.

'Neo' or 'misericorde'(a weapon used to kill a fallen knight often called the dagger of mercy) style is similar to Anbiru style, however rather then hammering the enemy, you put all your effort and force into sliding your blade into the cracks and chinks in there armor and then you sink your knife into there chest up to the hilt. BUT as Miho learned against Pravda, this style leaves you wide open to counter attacks if it goes wrong. It is a high risk reward plan that favors the under dog, as all they need to do is take out the one thing that matters to win, no matter how many Panzer's they lose, the only tank that matters, is the flag. Miho tactics the tourny over were designed to do this. Go for the enemy flag tank no matter what.

Nishizumi school started with 'neo' (hence the quote marks)however as the earlier practitioners won tournament after tournament and gained more fame and money, they found themselves with more and more resources and 'neo' evolved into the Orthodoxy style used today trading the risky single quick hit for repeated pounding of a longer drawn out game. In time the new evolution became the ONLY accepted school of tankary with in the Nishizumi school and by the time Miho was born the old style was no longer considered 'true' Nishizumi style. In effect, the underdogs became the upper crust.

* Tankery - Since it's adopted as a sport in the 1920's, and a bit of supplementary material also adds it was influenced by myths of Greco-Roman chariot duels between women, the impetus for the sport started as such: World War One is in full-swing, [[WarIsHell and it's every bit as ugly as our timeline]]. The divergence point is that the tank was specifically conceived by a women/some women inspired by these myths, and rode in as guardian angels to their men on the front-lines. The reason tanks carry a feminine stigma thereafter was because the women were considered protected under their layers of steel and cannons, while the guys still had to fight exposed with rifles and bayonets. It's unknown how much the stigma eroded in the rest of the real world (Rommel being mentioned as a tank commander proves that not all tanks were crewed by an AmazonBrigade by at least WWII), but it is obviously strong enough in Japan that guys are instinctively put off from girls that go into Tankery. A possible theory for all the national schools is that Japan adopted all the Tankery traditions of Europe and the US (like they adopted modern weaponry in general for WWII), or Japan was considered a "neutral ground" for the post-WWI nations to have Tankery scrimmages.
* The Super-Carrier High Schools - Given how it's obvious Japan is far more militarized than in our timeline, for simply having what amount to wargames as a high-school course, the super-carriers are possibly an attempt to give the high-schools the opportunity to maneuver if the mainland of Japan is attacked. Either a far more aggressive bombing campaign by the Allies in WWII or threat of nuclear attack in the Cold War/post-Cold War Era ([[GloriousMotherRussia Russia]], [[RedChina China]], [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets or North Korea]] - your pick on which was most likely). Also may serve as a convenient landing-pad for the foreign exchange students of the [[NationalStereotypes foreign schools]] (this assumes the teams are sponsored by the nation they're stereotyping, and have the majority of their students from those countries, rather than Japanese fanatically role-playing them).
** Jossed in the face of OVA3, where the ones to start the schoolship concept was the Roman Empire.
*** True, but I still think the above reason can still be listed as a more practical reason to justify city-ships in the present day, which would be AwesomeButImpractical otherwise. After all, the first-known version ''was'' dated back to '''Emperor [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula's]]''' '' reign, so this may just as well have been a case of ancient ConspicuousConsumption updated for a more modern problem.

Remember the Porsche Tiger? Notice how it's found in an lower deck storage room, not all that bigger than the tank itself, and that is not accesible except for small passageways. Also notice how it's found fully assembled, but then, there's talk of how "it's not gonna be available" for the Anzio and Pravda battles. And finally notice how in episode 10 they mention that the Automovile team just assembled all its scattered parts, even though it was found fully assembled. [[FridgeBrilliance Corolary:]] The only way for the tank to exit (and enter) the room is disassembled. Plainly, the Tiger (P) was originally lost because of a AnimalHouse - style [[PracticalJoke prank]] - the classic "disassemble a car and assemble it again iside their room" one, but UpToEleven. Now, [[WackyFratboyHijinx what kind of people is likely to do that kind of stuff?]]. Having been stablished the past presence of fratboys in Õarai, there remains only the doubt if the Tiger([[labelnote:P]]rank[[/labelnote]]) was hidden there as revenge for the academy sending the guys away, or if sending the guys away was a revenge for stuff like hidding their best tanks.

* ''IF'' true, I'm thinking the first option. The second is a bit harsh (I doubt ''all'' the hypotetical male students were involved in the prank). It's also the one that explains the tank never appearing at all - they did hide it '''too''' well...

Considering the fact that she gave her pinned down opponents three hours to surrender (or, as the case turns out, plan their counterattack), it seems unlikely she expected her opponents to just leave their friends to die in the event of an accident. Thing is, though, she never saw the tank fall into the river, nor the crew need to be rescued, so she chalks up last year's finals to Miho's poor judgment.
* Based on the portrayed sequence, combined with Word of God, Katyusha was in those two tanks we saw closing. So she must know that it went off the road, though it is possible she didn't catch the part where it fell further into the river. Still pretty unlikely she'll hear nothing of it afterwards though.
** It's possible that Katyusha didn't see Miho exiting the tank, since Miho was underwater when the kill shot was fired. Then again, it should also be pointed out that the Little Army manga reveals that this scenario played out once before, with Maho in Katyusha's position and Emi's older sister in Miho's position (saving a tank from the ''opposing'' team, no less), and Maho took the shot.
* Why shouldn't she count it as poor judgment? As she probably sees it, it was between her and Miho as platoon leaders. Miho picks a dangerous, narrow path in the rain. Katyusha sees through it and brings her tanks for an encounter battle. She and the her fellow tank placed two high precision shots spaced 2-3 seconds apart exactly where they needed them, blowing Miho's lead Panzer off the path and leaving the Tiger exposed (which won't happen if they actually hit the lead Panzer and it stops w/o losing control). Despite the fact the trail Panzer worked around Miho's stopped Tiger without delay (something it'll have to try to do anyway), Katyusha still got off her second shot first and even if she missed, in 2-3 seconds the other T-34/85 will also get a 2nd shot and there will still be enough Tiger left exposed for a valid shot. Neither the lead, flag or trail Panzer got off even one shot - they seem totally unprepared. The Pravdans were simply better that day, with or without the rescue.

! The Planet population came from a Imperial Guard Division who managed to take the world. From

The Armored Regiment was a mongrel Regiment of Vahallans, Candians, and Krieg. They lost contact with the Imperium of Man due to the weakening Astronomican. Possibly only moe and Kawaii can keep the Grimdark away.

* as much fun as that would be the one thing that nix's that well and good is the fact there using world war two tanks not 40k tanks (lemen russ mostly). that said I'm predicting a WMG that this will be a cross over of some kind with every other game that has a tank showing. 40K vs USA vs Red alert USSR and more!

The girls who made it to the last year finals (and eventually became the champions) have graduated and left the school and the team, except for a few skilled tankers like Nonna (one can assume that she is the only decent gunner in the team, given that it was necessary to reassign her to the JS-2) or the flag tank driver, who did a good job evading shots (note that while the other crewgirls, including the tank commander, were relaxing on the armor, the driver was the only one to monitor the situation and warn them). The other girls seem not to be actually older than Ooarai's Team Rabbit, nor more skilled. It would explain why the team who managed to win the tournament last year suffers from such a [[ATeamFiring sudden dip in accuracy]].
* humm, is there some truth in television to support that? Given Russia's loses in the second world war I would not be surprised to find that they often had a similar turn over rate.
** Well, yes, the rate was quite high in 1941-1943, due to the high losses at the beginning of the war (although both the Soviet losses and the turnover rate decreased dramatically in 1944-1945, as the Red Army was growing much, much stronger in terms of the combat experience. Actually, in the late 1944 the Red Army stopped drafting any new people at all). So, yes, the (not so good, compared to the last year) performance of the Pravda team may represent the influx of the new and inexperienced soldiers... and it is likely that Katyusha and all of her subordinates are going to fight much better in the next championship, having learned from their mistakes.
* While the Pravda team certainly seem a bit sloppy compared to what we can see of the others, for firing accuracy, the basic level among all teams is quite low even when they are stopped. The average tank of even supposedly elite teams like Saint Gloriana and Saunders and of our heroes Õarai miss much more than they hit regardless of whether they are stopped or moving. Heck, in Episode 10 even Black Forest is scoring a lot of splashes for a hit. All teams seem to depend on one or two elite gunners for their kills. Saunders has Naomi, Pravda depends on Nonna and I don't think we even saw one for St. Glorianna. Õarai, in having 4 gunners that seem competent (Hana, Akebi, Anzu and Yukari) may actually be less disadvantaged than they appear. This is probably Justified because after all, they are amateurs with limited time to practice, so only a few particularly talented people ever get to the competent level - it is pretty amazing how well driving, commanding and maintaining go that this must be the weak point.
* One might also add, Pravda's [[RedshirtArmy un-named characters]] tank gunnery wasn't ''that'' horrible. They scored a total of 4 hits (including one in their ''first'' salvo), of which 3 were effective though [[PlotArmor not quite disabling]]. OK, they were all at close range but in this show, Hits are Hits - compare to the classy St. Glorianna's salvoes before they got the M3 at similar ranges and you can see they didn't do too badly by Sensha-do's standards.

! Miho is actually very, very unhinged.

Her room is full of teddy bears. That would be fine for a girl (even someone who is already in high school), except that every single one of those teddy bears are bandaged. Why would she need to bandage perfectly normal teddy bears? Because she want to tell herself that there are always people who need her, and that that is her raison d'etre. She doesn't want to consider her action of saving her teammates back then as 'wrong'. It's the family who is wrong, not her! In her inability to reconcile the heartless dogma of her family and her need to be someone who saves other, she repeatedly bandage her teddy bears. Of course, if she actually rips apart her teddy bears so that there will be a reason to bandage them, it would be another grade of NightmareFuel.

** Jossed. the bandaged teddy bears are just a popular toy in this universe. Posters and such have been seen in the background. Confirmed by [[WordOfGod the director when asked]].

* For some reason, I can't help but think said "confrontation" will be a 1 v 1 Tank Battle between Miho's crew, and Shiho's old crew from ''her'' high-school Tankery days, which will somehow end with Miho '''finally''' [[WellDoneSonGuy gaining the respect of her mother again]] ([[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming hopefully by being re-accepted as family heir!]]).
** "...([[NightmareFuel being re-accepted as family heir?]])". There. Fixed it for you (from Miho's point of view at least). She was '''fleeing''' from being that. (Even ''Maho'' doesn't seem to be happy about being the family heir, ''at all'').
*** Oh... [[DidntThinkThisThrough Forgot about]] [[TheSpartanWay THAT part.]] Well, at least hopefully they'll stop treating her as the BlackSheep of the family, and accept her for who she is now and all that.
*** OP again; I suspect that Miho wants most of all for Shiho to treat her like a daughter rather than a disciple of the school, as well as accept her way of Tankery. There's a scene late in Little Army where Miho asks whether Maho shooting Emi's tank when it did the same thing she did in the tournament was necessary, but Shiho [[ShutUpKirk shrugs it off]], saying that victory is most important and that "There will come a time when you will understand this, Miho". Perhaps age and experience in tankery will make Miho better prepared to argue against Shiho's philosophy, and if she wins, she may have evidence to show that she can overcome the "orthodox" Nishizumi style her own way.

Seriously; you can't tell guys "We fuck about with tanks as a highschool, sport, but it's a girls-only activity." It's not going to fly. ConservationOfDetail means we don't see males participating, since an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls school]] would be competing in the Women's Circut. If it wasn't an [=AGS=], we'd see Men's and Co-Ed Tankery.
* One of the background characters says "boys and tanks feel mismatched" but this could be a regional thing or just one person's opinion. Regardless of the alternate history, it's highly unlikely that males don't practice the sport. It's like ''Anime/{{Saki}}''. There's a brief comment about Kyoutaro participating in (and quickly lossing) the boy's tournament in the regional qualifier, but other than that, one would think that only girls play Mahjong.

One of the background characters says "boys and tanks feel mismatched" but this could be a regional thing or just one person's opinion. Regardless of the alternate history, it's highly unlikely that males don't practice the sport.

It's like ''Anime/{{Saki}}''. There's a brief comment about Kyoutaro participating in (and quickly lossing) the boy's tournament in the regional qualifier, but other than that, one would think that only girls play Mahjong. ConservationOfDetail means we don't see males participating, since an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls school]] would be competing in the Women's Circut. If it wasn't an [=AGS=], we'd see Men's and Co-Ed Tankery.

Some time in the past, for some reason; Maybe global sea levels rose (which happened anyway, but may not have been the immediate cause), oil ran out, or for some other reasons, WorldWarThree broke out.

Now this was not a quick war by any stretch of the imagination; Whole generations went by in a rolling, ceaseless combat. In the end the nations had to start drafting women and since women are, generally speaking, physically less strong than men, it was decided to make tank crews mostly female and men were given positions in the infantry. All the nations did this, which explains the universal fascination of tank combat among women.

This explains where the giant city carriers come from (left over from the war), why they're always at sea (keep this generation away from radiation hot spots or you won't have a next generation), how tank driving can be a hobby and sport among girls (left over attitude from the War), how tanks can be economical (who knows, how far in the future this takes place and what new production methods they have) and how it can be safe (it's the future).

* The start of atomic warfare in that conflict was called "Ragnarök", "Götterdämmerung" or "The Days of the Burning Heavens".

Some time in the past, for some reason maybe globe sea levels rose (which happened any way but may not have been the cause), oil ran out, or some other reasons WorldWarThree broke out.

Now this was not a quick war by any stretch of the imagination whole generations went by in a rolling ceaseless combat in the end the nations had to start drafting women and since women are (generally speaking) less strong as men it was decided to make tank crews mostly female and men were given positions in the infantry all the nations did this explain the universal fascination of tank combat among women.

But even that wasn't enough and the war went on still for generations, whole generations where born with the war raging, and died of old age it still going on. Inevitable perhaps, then the war went atomic.

All sides won, all sides lost in a fury of mutual destruction and all that where left were scattered bands of survivors who banded together into a semblance of government

Obviously Girls und panzer takes place a LONG time after that war so the planet has recovered (at least where the humans live) and human civilization is pretty much fine as well.

This explains where the giant city carriers come from (left over from the war), why they're always at sea, (keep this generation away from radiation hot spots or you won't have a next generation), how tank driving can be a hobby among girls (left over attitude from the War), how tanks can be economical, (who knows how far in the future this takes place and what new production methods they have) and how it can be safe (it the future).
* The war was called "The 200 Years War".