Girls und Panzer

It seems to expect quite a lot of her for her to sit in her drowning tank going: "This experience might possibly be unpleasant enough to traumatize me to such a degree that I will quit tankery."

I imagine she probably thought "FFS Miho why not leave it to the Marshals?!" She could have reconsidered subsequently though.

... How would she even know that Miho is trying to rescue her until after the fact? I'd think her only thought throughout the ordeal is "DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DON'T WANNA DIE LIKE THIS DON'T WANNA DIE LIKE THIS DON'T WANNA DIE LIKE THIS!", and she wouldn't notice her rescuer's identity until she's out of the river and into relative safety where she can properly breathe and wipe the murky water from her eyes.

edited 28th Aug '14 4:26:38 PM by MarqFJA

I meant afterwards. But evidently being drowned inside her tank didn't make so much of an impression as to stop her hating her rescuer for "panicking". I'm just saying that she seems to rate "able to do tankery" as being more important than "alive" or even "mentally stable".

Which suggests to me that she's not right in the head.

edited 29th Aug '14 1:40:53 AM by Achaemenid

Life is Panzer, Panzer is Life!

Life und Panzer. Neither of which Erica would have had if not for Miho.

Is it too early to write to Santa?

So cute!

Someone finally bought and scanned the new Ribbon no Senshi spinoff, and it looks like the Girls und Panzer answer to all those Star Wars videogames staring Keyan Farlander. ^^;

Essentially, this is set after the main series ends, and instead of the team battles, we're going to see a biathlon, which has a weight limit on tanks that can join (10 tons and lower). Name of the spinoff MC is Shizuka Tsuruki, her driver is her friend Suzu Matsukaze. They're both from Tatenashi High, by the way, which like Maple isn't part of the original 16 we saw in the Senshado tourney.

Intro image. Yes, her tank is a Type-97 Te-Ke. And it's pink.

Backstory battle.

Bonple's commander.

And guess who becomes the first opponents of our MC? Here's a hint: they like pasta and fun.

edited 5th Sep '14 5:03:11 AM by MyssaRei

Looks more red than pink personally, also the translations of the premise from a couple of days back refer to it as red.

On the other hand, the other picture shows it kinda pinkish.

edited 5th Sep '14 5:21:59 AM by SayuriUliana

Fun fact: While "pink" in Japanese is often rendered as momoiro (literally "peach color"), it also denoted with the word tankoushoku (淡紅色, "pale/light red color") or taikou (退紅 / 褪紅, "pale red"). Are we sure that the translator couldn't have misinterpreted the meaning of the kanji?

edited 5th Sep '14 6:51:43 AM by MarqFJA

I'll let you decipher the original passage.

2014年に劇場版が公開予定の人気アニメ「ガールズ＆パンツァー」シリーズの新作となるマンガ「ガールズ ＆パンツァー　リボンの武者」の連載が、5日発売の「月刊コミックフラッパー」（KADOKAWA）10月 号で始まった。同号の表紙には新キャラクターの鶴姫（つるき）しずかが描かれており、巻頭カラーでは「赤い リボンをたなびかせた、現代の武者の物語。」というキャッチフレーズがある。

　「ガールズ＆パンツァー　リボンの武者」は、テレビアニメで描かれた全国大会が終わった後の世界を舞台に した新たな「ガルパン」の物語。10トン以下の小さな戦車で繰り広げる試合「タンカスロン」で、闘志あふれ る少し変わった少女のしずかと、操縦手で友人の松風鈴が組む楯無（たてなし）高校「ムカデさんチーム」の活 躍を描く。しずかが乗る戦車は赤色で、ムカデと家紋「武田菱」がデザインされている。

　2012年と13年に放送されたテレビアニメ版の「キャラクター原案協力」だった野上武志さんと、同じく 考証・スーパーバイザーを務めた鈴木貴昭さんが手掛ける。

... I never said I was fluent in Japanese, did I? That's more RedSavant's specialty.

Anyway, a simple "find text" search immediately pin-pointed the kanji in question (赤色)... which only translate to "red color". Welp, there goes down my conjecture.

edited 5th Sep '14 1:10:38 PM by MarqFJA

lol Besides the main cast getting their Wo T voice packs, Nonna gets one as a "bonus".

gib weblink nao!

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Waiting for them Ribbon Warrior scans

Here.

Hmmm...just noticed it says you have to login to Wo T-ASIA...lol

edited 6th Sep '14 8:12:36 AM by entropy13

Nice. Website actually worked fine for me.

Why the hell does Anzio still keep bring their stupid tankettes along? Why not just sell all of them and get an actual tank that can actually KO a tank?

Maybe it's a point of pride.

"We're going to win with this stupid little thing if we have to try a thousand times!"

Also fewer vehicles means fewer people can participate in competitions, since less tanks = less crew and since Anzio seems to be more like an easy-going society of enthusiasts rather than a super-competitive bunch like KMM or Pravda they might prefer that. Maybe they just like the numbers too.

Also, if they stick with Italian, there's not much else they can get. There are a few bigger Semovente tank destroyers, but at GuP engagement ranges that's not really worth it. They could buy the M-series of light tanks (the Italians reckoned they were mediums, but they weren't), but why bother? They'll still be inferior and this time they can't even outrun their enemies. They've got numbers, the tankettes evidently aren't completely useless since they knocked out Maginot with them, and most importantly the tankettes look like fun.

Though why they don't fit them with the historical AT rifle armament is another story...

edited 6th Sep '14 6:08:20 PM by Achaemenid

Maybe Anzio's primary goal in tankery is not winning tournaments and achieving ultimate paramountcy, but rather having the most fun doing tankery out of all the schools, even if they lose every single time.

edited 7th Sep '14 10:10:08 AM by MarqFJA

I don't even remember who Anzio are to be honest.

Anzio is the school with no specific country in mind, with a loli as their commander and a very tall girl as vice-commander, and a strict adherence to the Nishizumi style, and exclusively uses Sherman variants.

Anzio are the Italians.

Not sure who to believe.

Geek Code Red is telling the truth. Entropy is just exploiting their relative obscurity for a joke.