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Valiona2016-09-02 20:48:59

Hello, and welcome to my liveblog for Girls und Panzer, the show in which tank combat is a sport done by high school girls.

It's been about two years since I was first introduced to the anime, after seeing a video about Katyusha. I found it quite enjoyable, with good action and an interesting cast of characters, even if I'm not into tanks or military history as many of the show's fans are.

Girls und Panzer is a multimedia franchise, and consists of the following entries, listed in the approximate priority I gave each. Next to each, you can see how far I got in each.

1. The main anime series. Complete
2. The manga adaptation. Complete
3. The Little Army prequel manga. Complete
4. The OVAs. Complete
5. The Little Army sequel manga. Cancelled
6. The Maginot manga. Complete.
7. The chapters of Ribbon Warrior that have been released thus far. Cancelled
8. Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu. Cancelled
9. Der Film. Complete

The next entry is the first episode of the anime.

UPDATE 1(November 26, 2014): I've had a change of plans, and will be liveblogging the manga adaptation around the same time as the anime, partly because it mainly covers the changes, and it's easier to liveblog the manga with the anime somewhat fresh in my mind. Expect them to be done at approximately the same pace, and I'll altenate between each version.

UPDATE 2(December 24, 2014): To celebrate Christmas, I decided to release Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu Chapter 9's entry early, and temporarily put it after Chapter 16's entry.

UPDATE 3(January 6, 2015): I have completed the main series anime and manga, and have added the Maginot manga to the list. I'll do it after Little Army and the OVA series.

UPDATE 4(January 22, 2015): I have completed the Little Army manga. Updates may be somewhat slower from here on out.

UPDATE 5(March 18, 2015): I have completed all the OVAs.

UPDATE 6(March 27, 2015): I have completed all of the Maginot chapters so far. I'll add the rest as they come in.

UPDATE 7 (April 2, 2015): I have also completed the Ribbon Warrior chapters so far.

UPDATE 8 (May 3, 2015): I have completed all the chapters that have been translated into English. I will update as new chapters are released and translated.

UPDATE 9 (October 30, 2015): I have completed the Maginot manga.

FINAL UPDATE (September 2, 2016): Having completed der Film, I have decided to officially stop updating this liveblog, as per the plan I made when I started doing der Film. Thank you for reading, and any comments are appreciated, since I'll still check for them from time to time (remember- DO NOT include apostrophes, or your comment will not show up).

Comments

erana Since: Dec, 1969

May 29th 2015 at 12:11:18 PM

/ak/'s translator has stated he wants to do LA 2, just that it's still on hiatus because he wants to catch up in Maginot and RW first (in that order), he said.

I don't think this chapter is particularly humilliating for Usagi Team - yes, they look like cute girls afraid of 'roaches, all right, but they also keep their series-long tendency to start out as afraid and inefficient, then brave up and finally defeating their powerful enemies al by themselves. What? Did you really expect that tendency to be played out seriously? In MLLSD? Not even Miho would get that!

Also, Saki's jump is such a Shout-Out to Master Yuppa's own jumps in Nausicaa (just twin bugswatters instead of twin ceramic blades) that my sides hurt just by watching it...

Valiona Since: Dec, 1969

May 29th 2015 at 7:21:23 PM

erana,

That's good to hear, even if it isn't quite what I saw on the "Projects Status Page."

It's true that Rabbit Team is like that in canon, but here, Saki was the only one who made meaningful contributions toward defeating the enemy.

Jamibu Since: Dec, 1969

May 30th 2015 at 1:12:18 AM

I think what the /ak/ translator means about "too much bla bla" is that the more dialogue the more he'll have to translate the thing. You have to understand that he is translating all Gu P manga plus other manga outside Gu P as well.

erana Since: Dec, 1969

May 30th 2015 at 5:33:32 AM

Jamibu,

spot-on. He actually asked for the hiatus on Gu P precisely because he was starting to have quite the backlog [[spoilers:which includes the Gu P Anthology]], with so many panzer stuff. Plus his usual answer when a character goes "wall of text" mode (like Shizuka in last RW chapter's raws) is along the lines of "oh, no, notto diso shitto agen".

Valiona Since: Dec, 1969

May 30th 2015 at 9:51:47 AM

erana, Jamibu,

That makes sense, and I'd suspected that something like that was the case. MLLSD definitely seems to have the least dialogue of all the spinoffs, so that may be why it's the easiest to translate, and that may also be why no one seems to have tried to translate the light novels (pure text).

erana Since: Dec, 1969

May 30th 2015 at 3:48:30 PM

BTW, maginot chapter 7 has been T Led, now waiting for typesetter (you can read it now in the imageboard archive if you dare visit that place)

erana Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2015 at 2:32:10 PM

And now MLLSD chapter 26 has also been translated and is waiting for typesetting, in case you want to check it in the aforementioned archive

Valiona Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2015 at 4:25:23 PM

erana,

Thanks for letting me know. I generally wait for the scanlated chapter before liveblogging, though.

erana Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 12th 2015 at 3:02:51 PM

would edit previous comment instead of multi-post, but can't edit comments. Whatever. Ribbon Warrior chapter 7 translated. And oh boy, did we get Yaika right...