History WMG / GirlsUndPanzer

* Jossed: Oarai won by taking advantage of BC Freedom's [[EnemyCivilWar constant in-fighting among themselves]] and move on to the second round, where they face Chi-Tan-Next.

By Das Finale, Turtle team has only taken on the role of a flag tank; not an actual team commander. Considering that Momo was baited into a trap by BC Freedom and her overall lack of commander experience compared to Miho, there is a chance that she may slip up and get a flag tank disabled and cost Ooarai the competition. (Given the overall beats of the story however, I doubt this will happen)

! WMGs for Season 2's character development

Comes in part because she realizes that Miho is still adhering to the tenets of the Nishizumi style. The Nishizumi style emphasizes winning at all costs something that Miho has demonstrated. The only difference is that Miho usually prefers if the one to pay the cost is herself and her tank, as seen in the finale of the movie. Additionally, her willingness to do means that the rest of the Ooarai team is more than willing to sacrifice themselves for Miho.

** One of the songs in the film's OST, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t39APyKFK-8 This is the Shimada-style!]]", is played by an 11-string kantele.

** In the mobage ''Great Tankery Operation'', Mika's description is, "The nameless commander of Jatkosota High School. Everyone just calls her 'Mika'."
** If 'Mika' is a fake name, then it's possible that her real name is Fumika because if it's true that she's Alice's sister, then Alice would call her Shimada Fumika-nee, as in the name of the character designer of ''Girls und Panzer''.

** One of the songs in the film's OST, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BueuoiSc7mE This is the Shimada-style!]]", is played by an 11-string kantele.

* Jossed, in Episode 10.

The ''Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu'' spin-off implies that Miho was the personable one between the Nishizumi sisters. After the loss to Pravda, we hear that the crew of the tank that fell into the river were ostracised but we do not hear of much blame being put at Miho's feet. After all, not many people would criticise a commander who risked her life to rescue a crew from drowning in a river swollen with rain. Instead they noticed the effect the loss had on Miho and blamed that tank's crew for making her miserable. When she left Kuromorimine to flee from her guilt, their morale plummeted. When Miho shows up as a captain of another team, seemingly enjoying panzerkraft for the first time, it hit rock bottom. ''They'' were the problem, despite how much affection the Kuromorimine girls held for her, they were the cause of her sorrow.

* [[GenericDoomsdayVillain Some nutjob]] ([[TerroristsWithoutACause and all the nutjobs under him]]) unleashes a superweapon that [[KryptoniteFactor magically fries the electronics of all modern military vehicles]], [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece forcing the army to work with the old-school Tankery teams]] to stop the bad guys. May lead to CerberusSyndrome, since both sides are going to fight, y'know, [[WarIsHell a real war with killing people]] ([[BreakTheCutie and may drive poor Miho]] [[HeroicBSOD to a larger case of PTSD than what she has now]]).

* 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]]).

* 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 part of the family!]]). Hopefully they'll at least stop treating her as the BlackSheep of the family, and accept her for who she is now and all that.

** One of the songs in the film's OST, "This is the Shimada-style!", is played by an 11-string kantele.
** In ''Ribbon Warrior'', according to the old ladies' gossips, while the Nishizumi has a 'schism', the Shimada "took care of that".

Possibly due to pressure from the Nishizumi school, the League in charge of running and refereeing the matches is trying to ensure Oarai loses the tournament. Since the beginning of the tournament, the rules have been blatantly favoring schools able to take larger teams, starting with Saunders' 10 tanks, Pravda's 15 tanks, and finally Black Forests '''20''', while Oarai has less then 10 (not very good) tanks total. The chosen battlefields even seem to favor the other team, such as Oarai having to fight Pravda in a snowy battlefield.

Yukari would obviously compare Anchovy negatively to her hero Miho, whilst Miho would see Anchovy more positively than Miho would see herself. As a result Yukari exaggerated Anchovy's worst characteristics, and Miho Anchovy's best.

! Girls und Panzer is a precursor to WorldOfTanks

!The online tank game team Anteater met on was WorldOfTanks.

! WorldOfTanks will be mentioned by name in the english dub.

! Anchovy's different characterisation in the manga and anime come from the who the viewpoint character is.

! Anchovy's different characterisation in the manga and anime come from the who the viewpoint character is

Anzio is much the same position as Oorai having few good tanks, uses similar tactics, and is desperate for a win, but also likes the fun aspect of the club. Anchovy is very desperate for a real win, but also believes in fun.

Yukari would obviously compare Anzio negatively to her hero Miho, whilst Miho would see Anchovy more positively than Miho would see herself. As a result Yukari exaggerated Anchovy's worst characteristics, and Miho Anchovy's best.

Anzio is much the same position as Oorai, and uses similar tactics, and is desperate for a win, but also likes the fun aspect of the club. Anchovy is very desperate for a real win, but also believes in fun.

It fits their doctrine (Slow tanks with heavy armor) and Darjeeling mentions that they could have taken on the [[spoiler:T28]] in the film if they had one.

! All of WW2 tanks are made with some kind of [[VideoGame/{{AceCombatInfinity}} Advanced Automated Aviation Plant]]

! 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.

At least one station was ready to broadcast on January 9th, but because the show will be renewed, they had to completely redo Episodes 11 and 12 to allow a second season. Girls Und Panzer is popular enough to create a second season. As the main page states, the show was a runaway (and unexpected) hit. The first two BDs sold about 30,000 copies each. A typical show does more like 4,000. It'd be odd if the production team ''weren't'' at least contemplating a sequel/second season. Indeed, according to TheOtherWiki, the Japanese newspaper ''Joyo Shimbun'' reported on December 24th, 2012, that a sequel is tentatively planned.

If true, it would put Alice and Mika as direct parallels to Miho and Maho. Like Miho and Maho, Alice and Mika would be heirs to a long and respected Senshado tradition. However, the difference lies in Maho stepping up to take the mantle as heir to the Nishizumi-style to protect Miho, while Mika ran away and left Alice to inherit the Shimada style instead. Separation from the strict Shimada lifestyle could by why Mika is so laid back and carefree, and why she's enrolled in the extremely poor Continuation High School similar to how Miho is enrolled in the financially troubled Ooarai.

* From the "russian" four-pointed star on the Pravda uniforms it seems that the series takes place in the ''Anime/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]].

** Against 122 mm you ''[[ArmorIsUseless really don't want to get hit]]'' no matter which tank you use so in that case you use an option which limits your offensive capabilities the least. ''[[TheAllegedCar I-Go]]'' has the least effective gun due to extremely low muzzle velocity an if they use [[TheAllegedCar Type 89A]] it is completely useless in these weather conditions due to the engine. For what (little) is worth, they use a late model [[TheAllegedCar Type89B Otsu]] (recognisable for the turret), whose diesel engine was maybe the ''only'' thing worth saving. It's ''still'' a worthless tank that doesn't hurt the team's capabilities by not being actively used.

* Inverted: Momo has perfect eyesight in both eyes (Lasik, maybe?), but she chose to keep her old prescription glasses in the form of her improvised monocole. Must have been a very strong prescription if it screws with her vision that badly.

* From a purely logical point of view, Women are smaller on average than men. Given that making the crew space smaller means a smaller overall tank, well, do the math. GUP-verse quite likely was less sexist from the start, Men and Women both enlisted, and it's quite likely that both were, atleast initially, before tankery culture really established itself, were given assigned to tanks, but as the war wore on, and tanks were built with crew size restrictions that women fit under more easily, Tanking was seen as more of a woman's skill than a man's. The Military itself is still more egalitarian, but tank crews are still dominantly women, while tankery has become almost entirely a woman's sport.

** Cofirmed.... except the third name. the third team is Leopon not Lion.

All that's left is black forest German team and the only major European theater of world war two left is the North African Campaign, Where the tiger (which we know black forest ueses) was deployed.
** {{Jossed}}, the final battle takes place at the foot of Mt. Fuji. Specfically the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Fuji_Maneuver_Area East Fuji Maneuver Area]], Japan's version of the Top Gun school for tanks

At least one station was ready to broadcast on January 9th, but because the show will be renewed, they had to completely redo Episodes 11 and 12 to allow a second season. Girls Und Panzer is popular enough to creat a seacond season. As the main page states, the show was a runaway (and unexpected) hit. The first two BDs sold about 30,000 copies each. A typical show does more like 4,000. It'd be odd if the production team ''weren't'' at least contemplating a sequel/second season. Indeed, according to TheOtherWiki, the Japanese newspaper ''Joyo Shimbun'' reported on December 24th, 2012, that a sequel is tentatively planned.

** Volley ball team will get an M60 Patton upgraded to a turkish M60T Sabra, Histroy team will get a Raketenjagdpanzer 4 or Jaguar 2 (a tank destroyer with TOW missiles rather then a gun) the student council a swedish S tank. The fresh men will be split into two T-64 tanks, the displine team will get a PT-76 light tank, the gamers get a french AMX-30 tank no idea what Miho will get since i can't find a five man battle tank.

The performance of Nishizumi was far less than one would expect from THE elite school that Nishizumi is [[InformedAbility played up]] to be. They seem to have only one tatctic: confront the other team head on and smash them with superior tanks and this tactic seems to be enforced by Miho's mom to the point of dogmatism.

* When Miho mixes things up with her Tank Impersonation in the finals, they fall to confusion and dissaray because they are used to being a hammer. When you have the ablity to bring in the kind of guns they did, (Tiger, Panthers,Jadgpanther, Jagdtiger and Elefant) then your only tactical concern is getting as much armor as you can in the enemy's face (proverbially speaking given the range of those guns) and hitting them with as soon as you can. Brute force smashing is a valid tactic if you have the guns and armor for it. As for tactics, they place this hammer into position to smash and little else. In the finals, this hammer emerged from the forest because Maho knows Miho's first move is the safety of the forest, and moved to deny that.They sought to thwack it at the correct nail right from the start, but what happens if the nail turns out to be a slippery one?

* Miho on the other hand has a ragtag group of tanks that are not nearly as capable as there opponents in every match up. She has to be tactical and has to be cleaver in order to win. Black forest has Hammers to which all they see are nails, destroy all enemy tanks then go for the flag, in that order. Miho has a pocket knife she has to some how use like a swiss army scalpe to pull of her wins, deftly going for the flag tank. Previous generations of Nishizumi school wer based on highly flexibile tactical combat which is characteristic for Miho. This characteristic is called "hersey" by her mother.

It will either be chosen by prebattle vote, or set to the top or bottom tank in any match (highest tier and lowest respectivly) one tank will be chosen to be the Flag tank. if the flag tank is killed, game over for that team. Also it will either be Tank Companies or Clan Wars only. Random public matches would likely be lost if an idiot became the flag.Ask [=SerB=] to implement it. The developers are not averse to hear from the fans.
* Jossed: This was asked at a Reddit "Ask Me Anything". There was originally an 'Escort' mode where three random tanks were the only ones who could claim, and if all three were destroyed, your side lost. (Basically, THREE flag tanks). The inability even for their supertesters to protect the escort tanks put the kibosh on the idea, as public players would be far, far worse. It makes sense why this would happen. Discounting artillery, which would only need somebody on the team to have Line of Sight on the Flag Tanks, World of Tanks players would rather single-mindedly go for the objective tanks rather than trying to "soften up" the enemy as seen in GuP. Another possible problem is most certainly a Sensha-do arena is at least four times the size of a World of Tanks map (Which is set at no larger than 1 kilometer by 1 kilometer), meaning the Escort gamemode should be tried again after WoT has larger maps.

** Confirmed. [[DiscussedTrope It's openly stated]] that they spent all night devising, and even ''named'' their plan after the movie - but taken UpToEleven, as they kill that way an '''Elefant''' [[note]]superheavy tank destroyer based on the Tiper(P) chassis[[/note]] and a '''Jagdtiger''' [[note]]''even'' heavier TD based on the chasis of the Tiger II[[/note]].

In addition to planning to disown Miho, she may [[YouHaveFailedMe become very displeased with Maho]] if Oorai manages to win. Miho may end up having to defend her style of Tankery to her mother, possibly by bringing up how she was fighting for the sake of the school, and wasn't going to allow herself to lose for that reason.

* There are so many signs pointing to this; the existence of 7-km long acedemy ships with islandscapes on top, some tanks being able to move faster than they should (Type 89...), Miho's ridiculous jumps in Episode 11, the Porsche Tiger's bridge collapse stunt, the Maus not outright flattening the Hetzer with its 188 ton weight and the many, many tanks that flip over and/or are flung short distances by tank shells all indicate that their universe has lower gravity than ours. Maybe their Earth is smaller?

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. 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 an ''Film/AnimalHouse'' - style [[PracticalJoke prank]] - the classic "disassemble a car and assemble it again inside 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.

* Maho's ultimate reason for taking on the position of Nishizumi heiress is so that Miho doesn't have to, rather than out of a desire to make Shiho happy or [[WellDoneSonGuy gain her aproval]].

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 "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]]...

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). It's 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).

Inpsired by Oorai's underdog victory, other schools might decide to try and enter the nationals (not necessarily to save their schools, but perhaps just for the money and prestige). They might have a mix of tanks from all nations like Oorai or go for a themed team.

!If a sequel has new tank teams, list names bellow.
Team Pistol shrimp using an SPG

Team Badger with a tank destroyer.

Team Kitty with a hellcat

* It's a nightmare getting parts for tanks built by seven different countries. 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.

! The Sodoko Colletive are really. . .

* Aliens: They're foreign exchange students from planet X who decided to try out tankary.

Much like Formula One racing, companies that produce the tanks use the Sensha-do tournaments to promote their products. While professional teams are their main customers, they may sponsor the tanks for schools to showcase their engineering. Thus schools with a good track record (like Saunders, St Gloriana, Pravda and Kuromorimine) have excellent material while poorer schools have to make do with what they can afford like Oorai. There are reasons they are not covered in sticks like [=NASCARs=]:

However, Miho made the logical leap backward, evolving back from Orthodoxy style to the 'neo' style that was now shunned. This is why her mother got so mad and disgusted at her style of tankary, it was NOT (to her) how Nishizumi style should be done. But since Miho won the tournament she proved the 'new' or rather older style was not only effective, but still proper Nisizumi style.

* It's somewhat unlikely that it will be mentioned by name, but it's possible that the script writers will put in a reference that WOT players will get, or make it a BlandNameProduct with a suspiciously similar name (Panzer Planet, maybe?). After all, why would Wargameing turn down the publicity?

* Based on [=OVA=] 7 it could be Anzio. It was described as a poor school - they could only afford Tankettes and a few tank Destroyers until they got their P40 just before the Ooarai match. If it's a poor school that not well financed, it might be next of the chopping block. Downside: It's breaking up a different school. Upside: [[DefeatMeansFriendship Possible new recruits and tanks for Oorai?]]

[[http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ Tanks Encylopedia]] gives us a pretty good idea.

* Koala Forest: They probably use the AC 1 Sentinel, which like the Chi-Nu never saw combat, but was similar in design to British "crusier" tanks.

It's almost ''certain'' that Japan is much more militaristic than in our world. At the same time, just ''look'' at how ridiculously multicultural the academies are.

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. 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.

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 It's doubtful that'll end well]]. This will be especially humiliating 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.

There will also be a Nishizumi family dinner where they, after much arguing, decide on an exhibition free-for-all match between all three of them, or alternatively, Shiho vs. her daughters.