History Anime / GirlsUndPanzer

*** This issue is ''especially'' exaggerated when it comes to vehicles like 1920s-era tanks and infantry tanks. Tanks like the Matilda and Mark IV are able to keep up with many of the faster tanks when they should be far far too slow to do so (the Matilda had a max speed of 9 miles and hour and the Mark IV had a luaghable ''4'')

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: All of the tanks seem to drive the same speed. The best example happens in the battle with Pravda, where Oarai can't outrun the pursuing Soviet tanks, but Pravda can't catch up with them. In reality, most tanks have vastly different speeds given their horsepower to ton ratio. It's not clear if ships the size of the school ships are actually feasible to build in real life -- and certainly, due to the SquareCubeLaw, it's monumentally unlikely they'd look like carbon copies of WWII carriers.

* A Japan-only UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita game based on the series was released on June 26, 2014.

* {{Expy}}: Amber and Oleo from [[CanadaEh Maple High]] are respectively based on Anne Shirley and Diana Barry from ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', with their appearances being specifically based on Anne and Diana's designs from the 1979 ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' anime adaptation.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** Translators can't seem to agree what the official term for tank combat (''senshado'', literally "way/art of the tank") in the series is. The manga scanlations call it "Panzerkraft", though various translation groups for the anime call it "Operating Tanks", "Panzerfahren", "Sensha-do", [[{{Pun}} "Tank-Fu" or "Tankwondo"]]. All current official translations of the show, and the translation to be used in the DVD release (according to the Anime Network streams), use "Sensha-do", and thus that is the term used on this page. The Sentai Filmworks dub and Blu-Ray release uses "Tankery". However, it should also be noted that a small English translation on a Japanese booklet discussing the plot uses "Panzerfahren" in the tournament's name.
** On a lesser note, it seems that tropers get the protagonists' school name wrong more often than not. It's ''Ōarai'' with a distinctive o-with-dash-over-it (itself properly known as macron[[note]]Which in turn is not to be confused with [[Anime/BlackRockShooter macaron]], macaroon, or [[VideoGame/{{Quake}} Makron]][[/note]]). It's not Orai, Owarai,[[note]]That would be the generic name for Japanese comedy shows[[/note]] or Oarai. You read it as 'Ow-Arai'. Definitely also not "Öarai" (that misuse of a German Umlaut for a long "O"-sound is particularly grating for German readers, since it stands for a completely different sound).

In RealLife, certain Japanese martial arts are considered [[LadyOfWar highly compatible]] with [[YamatoNadeshiko traditional womanly ideals]], including ''[[ArcherArchetype kyuudou]]'' and ''[[NaginatasAreFeminine naginatajutsu]]''. In this show, [[FantasticFightingStyle one of those martial arts]] is ''sensha-do'' -- the "Way of the Tank".[[note]]Or "Tankery" in the English dub. Or "Panzerfahren" in some promotional materials.[[/note]]

* On July 20, 2017, Bandai-Namco announced a Playstation 4 game ''Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match'', released on February 22, 2018 in Japan and on February 27, 2018 in the rest of Asia with the appropriate regional subtitles (including English) with Japanese-only voice track. [[https://youtu.be/QyT0Uv3rpTM Preview trailer here.]] An [[UpdatedRerelease updated version]] subtitled ''Dream Tank Match DX'' was released on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in 2019, with the new content also made available for the [=PS4=] as {{DLC}}.

** Saunders, one of the favorites to win the tournament, loses against Ōarai, a school that hasn't had a Sensha-do course in ''20 years'' and doesn't have the money to field a full team. [[spoiler:It's all because their flag tank commander [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat had to cheat and it backfired horribly]].]]

* CrappyCarnival: The Boko/[[DubNameChange Punchy]] Museum in the film is a run down tourist attraction with garbage everywhere, a few lame knockoffs of Disneyland rides, a stage play, and a gift shop. It's stated that it's going to be closed soon, but given the advanced state of disrepair the building is in it's amazing that it wasn't already closed as a safety hazard. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Alice's mother Chiyo agrees to sponsor it, so it presumably gets cleaned up and improved]].

* ExcusePlot: The first BeachEpisode OVA (fan nicknamed "Girls und [[IncrediblyLamePun Panzervice]]") has the girls planning to go to the beach, and buying swimsuits, so they can wear swimsuits, so the showrunners can animate them wearing swimsuits. Momo Kawashima lampshades this:

** Translators can't seem to agree what the official term for tank combat (''senshado'', literally "way/art of the tank") in the series is. The manga scanlations call it "Panzerkraft", though various translation groups for the anime call it "Operating Tanks", "Panzerfahren", "Sensha-do", [[IncrediblyLamePun "Tank-Fu" or "Tankwondo"]]. All current official translations of the show, and the translation to be used in the DVD release (according to the Anime Network streams), use "Sensha-do", and thus that is the term used on this page. The Sentai Filmworks dub and Blu-Ray release uses "Tankery". However, it should also be noted that a small English translation on a Japanese booklet discussing the plot uses "Panzerfahren" in the tournament's name.

*** The members of the Volleyball Club share surnames with members of the national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Driver Kawanishi seems like the [[JustForPun odd-duck out]] at first glance, but in her situation it's just a case of AlternateCharacterReading -- Kawanishi is just another reading of Kasai, the surname of the captain of that team (Kasai Masae).

** An unnamed Saunders gunner blurts out an equally-big ''"Jesus!"'' when she realizes too late that she has been staring down the barrel of [[spoiler:the [=StuG=],]] seconds before they open fire.

* NerdsAreSexy: Played with, as the Anteater team girls (who wear their uniforms in ways that show a bit more skin) are likely trying [[InUniverse in-universe]] to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope. That said, Nekota is shown to be a genuine beauty (standing out even amongst a cast full of them) when she removes her glasses, and Piyotan is either the most or second most buxom girl in the series (the only one even coming close to competing with her in the bust department being [[BoobsOfSteel Nonna]]).

** Miho summons the nerve to question her mother Shiho about whether it was necessary [[spoiler:for Maho to fire on the flag tank when it went to rescue her teammates]], brought on by Maho's [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] behavior, and backed by her friends. Shiho [[ShutUpKirk calls it a "foolish question"]], and then proceeds to say that the Nishizumi school values victory above all else. [[spoiler:While the question doesn't get much of a response from Shiho, the fact that Miho was able to ask it, [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness which is uncharacteristic of her]], results in Maho going to Miho to apologize and have a heart-to-heart talk]].

** As shown in the Movie, Chi-Ha-Tan Academy is [[SelfDeprecation almost excessively Japanese]]. Everyone [[PhenotypeStereotype has black hair]], their ''entire'' playbook is basically "Charge forwards", and their captain, Nishi's mannerisms are exceeding formal.
** The French-based BC Academy is a fusion of two schools, one an upper-class elevator school and one for lower-class students who had to pass a test to enroll, and is racked with class conflicts.

* LastNameBasis: Fairly common among the characters who don't know each other well, as Miho tends to use last names on her friends at first, before switching to first names. Hana gets Yuzu's last name correct when calling her "Koyama-[[SenpaiKohai senpai]]", but confuses her first name with Momo's.

* MasterApprenticeChain: Some schools have hints of this going on alongside the usual SenpaiKohai dynamic, with St. Gloriana's Orange Pekoe evidently being groomed to succeed Darjeeling as team captain; in turn, Darjeeling herself had the same relationship with her senior, Earl Grey.

* SenpaiKohai:
** Miho is often referred to as "Senpai" by the freshmen team.
** One tactic Saori tries to convince Mako not to quit the team after hearing about having to wake up at 5AM is saying that if she doesn't get the credits, she'll be held back and have to call her "Saori-senpai." Mako, who typically calls Saori by her [[FirstNameBasis first name without honorifics]], starts to stammer out "Saori-senpai", implying that she sees this as unpleasant, but it ultimately takes Saori threatening to tell Mako's grandmother to convince her.

In RealLife, certain Japanese martial arts are considered [[LadyOfWar highly compatible]] with [[YamatoNadeshiko traditional womanly ideals]], including ''[[ArcherArchetype kyuudou]]'' and ''[[NaginatasAreFeminine naginatajutsu]]''. In this show, [[FantasticFightingStyle one of those martial arts]] is ''sensha-do'' -- the "Way of the Tank".[[note]]Or "Tankery" in the english dub. Or "Panzerfahren" in some promotional materials.[[/note]]

--->'''Darjeeling:''' ''Orries faiya een ruv and worr!''[[note]]In case you got confused, she then explains it means "all's fair in love and war", in [[{{Keigo}} impeccable Japanese]][[/note]]

* LadyOfWar: Every girl in Sensha-do is supposed to be this. In this world, a tank is as feminine as a [[BladeOnAStick naginata]] is in ours.

* A movie was originally [[https://twitter.com/garupan/status/328412701674049536 announced]] for release in 2014, but got pushed back to Summer 2015 and then finally ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzerDerFilm'' was released on November 21, 2015 in 77 theaters across Japan. In keeping with this anime's surprising popularity, in spite of a relatively limited release, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-14/girls-and-panzer-film-tops-2.5-billion-yen-at-box-office/.120102 the movie's current gross is over 2.5 billion yen with over 1.4 million tickets sold at the Japan Box Office as of August 13, 2017.]] It staysd in theaters right up until the day of the blu-ray release. It's currently ranked [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative 3rd highest grossing movie based on a]] [[OtakuOClock late-night TV anime]], behind ''[[Franchise/LoveLive Love Live!]] The School Idol Movie'' and ''[[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online:]] Ordinal Scale''.