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I'm pretty sure this entire episode was operating at 2 to 3 cuils. Also the girls are still absolutely terrible friends. lodoubt fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Oct 30, 2012 |
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The poor Lee was outperformed by the Japanese tank again.
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The japanese tank has been pretty well portrayed as the horrid shitpile it is for the most part, and this is the first time we've seen a shot from it penetrate anything. And it didn't even really damage the tank it hit in the fuel tank at point blank, apart from all the fire and stuff. The M3 Lee on the other hand well... we don't even know how they are going to portray its performance. Both of the times it was taken out before it did anything amounted to crew error. lodoubt fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Oct 30, 2012 |
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Oct 30, 2012 15:07
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"Stop firing at your allies!"  This must be that mythical 10% Crew game mode I kept hearing about  I mean honestly, you couldn't even try to miss that horribly in world of tanks, you would likely hit some poor AMX instead. e: Oh, and I got a good line for this show if anyone ever does an Abridged Series at 12:21 "My cabbages!"  e2: Anyone else think the ending is reminiscent of the ending for Mass Effect 2? M4's are pretty terrible for them to be up against, especially that number of them 
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Oct 30, 2012 15:27
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So; checking out the Tournament teams 1; Sweden 2; Anzac Tanks? Can't think of anything obvious 3; Soviets  4; 5; French Tanks 6; Italian Tank(ettes) 7; America obviously 8; Our gallant heroes 9; Canada? All we really got is the Ram-II... 10; England. Shall we get to see that Crusader they had in the background? 11; Czechoslovakia???? 12; 13; German Steel? 14; Japanese Tanks? 15; 16; Finland? 
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Oct 30, 2012 16:29
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The show is definitely improving. “These little streets are excellent. The StuG has a low signature.” 
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Oct 30, 2012 17:34
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Raenir Salazar posted:e2: Anyone else think the ending is reminiscent of the ending for Mass Effect 2? M4's are pretty terrible for them to be up against, especially that number of them
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Wow this show moves fast. Each of those subplots would have taken several episodes in normal anime. But the really crazy thing is the background setting. WTF is going on in this world. Every show would be good if it played a setting that crazy that straight.
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Platystemon posted:The show is definitely improving. “These little streets are excellent. The StuG has a low signature.” 
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tonberrytoby posted:Wow this show moves fast. Each of those subplots would have taken several episodes in normal anime. Yeah the little things like the guy being happy his shop was destroyed really make this crazy tank girls concept actually sort of make sense. We'll see how it develops from here though. Also on the accuracy thing, playing World of Tanks is one thing, but these are people with no experience moving turrets with WWII controls. edit: words. SerCypher fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Oct 31, 2012 |
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Oct 31, 2012 07:30
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tonberrytoby posted:But the really crazy thing is the background setting. WTF is going on in this world. Every show would be good if it played a setting that crazy that straight. The girls aren't worried about injuries from firing semi-live ammunition at each other because they are nigh-invulnerable posthumans. (The big reveal in the final episode is that this takes place in the universe of Iain Banks' Culture books.) Sindai fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Oct 31, 2012 |
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Oct 31, 2012 07:56
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Man, I hope I'll be a cool enough parent to disown my children when they the nerve to choose a hobby different from the one I've set out for them. "Now you listen here sonny, I'm a Magic player, and my daddy was a Magic player. Why your great-grandpappy lost his legs fightin' with a swarm of Slivers and lived to tell the tale  So if I hear one more word out of your ungrateful mouth about some "Ultimate Frisbee" you'll be out on your rear end so fast your head will spin!"
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tonberrytoby posted:Wow this show moves fast. Each of those subplots would have taken several episodes in normal anime. Yeah I'm really liking how fast they handle the different segments of the episode, it's a nice change of pace from other shows that tend to draw things out. I especially liked how they handled the carp dance, they just went to the meat of it long enough to be funny, and the sudden transition to normality after it was great.
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Aw man, I love how this show is reveling in its absurd premise. I was honestly expecting this to be "cute girls doing cute this and there is also a tank in the background", but the writers have pulled all the stops and just rolling with it like a panzer over some soft infantry positions.
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Saunders appears to be using the M4A4 Sherman variant. A variant that was mainly used as lend lease tanks to Britain, France, & China. Strange to use that particular variant to represent the US.
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Well, all of the stuff we've seen so far is early war stuff, while the main character's big sister uses a Tiger tank; clearly late war land yatches are in the senior high schooler division.
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Nine of Eight posted:Well, all of the stuff we've seen so far is early war stuff, while the main character's big sister uses a Tiger tank; clearly late war land yatches are in the senior high schooler division. They'll flashback to Elementry school and have the girls rumbling around in one of these.  Or god help them one of these. 
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Well, given they had images of both in the background at various points, I guess it would be a thing. Edit; oh god that British WWI tank has a semaphore mast on top.
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Nine of Eight posted:Well, given they had images of both in the background at various points, I guess it would be a thing. 
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So, how is life in the Aryan future? I doubt they will play out the full consequences of an axis victory. "Hey guys, remember the Holo~~~uguuuh~~~"
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SavageGentleman posted:So, how is life in the Aryan future? I doubt they will play out the full consequences of an axis victory. I think the OP of this thread might not be completely serious. 
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I just hoped to see a deranged anime version of "the man in the high castle" in my lifetime 
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SavageGentleman posted:I just hoped to see a deranged anime version of "the man in the high castle" in my lifetime Eureka Seven AO actually makes a bunch of references to it, but it's pretty bad, especially if you're a fan of the original, so don't watch it.
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Dat Cake Hopefully this episode sets the tone for the whole series and it replaces K-on! as the most cake-ful show
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Apparently the tournament matches are 10 versus 10. This puts the main characters at a disadvantage with only 5 tanks. I wonder if the cast will increase or the other teams won't use 10 tanks.
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Oh god I wish 'tank cafe' was an actual thing Seriously though, Zettace's point is one that irritates me because I don't think I'll be very satisfied with either result. They're having severe trouble giving screen time to the five tank crews they already have, but just because Saunders' theme was having lots of money, there's no way they'd be the only school that can field 10 tanks. They were fielding 10 tanks out of the over 30 tanks that they had. A school with a third of the Panzerfauhren budget could field twice as many tanks in the same motley kind of manner as the protagonists have. Not to mention that we know there are entire teams of much more powerful tanks than theirs (Blackforest appears to have at least 3 Tigers), which it would be outright necessary to outnumber. Like, I'm not complaining of a lack of flavour, and I understand that the Panzer crew are the only girls we'll get full backstories on for each, but that's like a half season of character focus episodes right there, and even if we assume they allow for a focus episode on each other tank to get them past the stage of "The history club wear funny costumes" and "The girls in the M3 Lee cannot into operating tanks", that's still about as many episodes as the tournament itself is likely to last. I just can't see us getting a late addition to the lineup unless it's some kind of bizarre, crew minimal tankette operated by two people. In which case it wouldn't solve any of their weaknesses as a tank platoon. Also another weird annoyance I have is that the trainer lady has never once been depicted actually coaching them, telling them how to do anything, giving them advice, or even being physically present during practice. She showed up to roll an Abrahms over the principals car, then was never seen again save to get the girls into their tanks and occasionally smile in the background of certain scenes. lodoubt fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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I imagine the reason why we're having such a relatively fast paced show is so they can cram in more character interactions. I agree with the problems with Tank Lady but then again how much did Anderson ever do in Ender's Game? I'm still betting my money on upgrading their chassies to something better/late war. When they already potentially have so many characters comprising the other schools I don't really see them adding more to their team either, what I think I do see is them allying up with other schools as this was I think implied this episode as A Thing.
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lodoubt posted:
Try a (manga spoilers)Char B1. How's that for a tankette?
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That... fits the role... I guess. I mean its an enormous monster of a tank with some reasonable if situational firepower, and can be operated by a mere three crew...
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Zettace posted:Apparently the tournament matches are 10 versus 10. This puts the main characters at a disadvantage with only 5 tanks. I wonder if the cast will increase or the other teams won't use 10 tanks. It's an anime. They are going to win due to their clever plans, determination and The infiltration operation in this episode was amazing 
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Rexides posted:It's an anime. They are going to win due to their clever plans, determination and Actually it honestly was, its pretty amazing how she came up with a fairly effective plan that had a realistic chance of success. If you really wanted to know what that other school was planning why wouldn't you steal a uniform and waltz in? Most anime plans wish they were that clever. Its so... simple. That and it was some nice animation there.
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Well, her infiltration failed at the point she got caught. It's pretty much expected that the enemy will change their plans once they notice your spy. Rexides posted:It's an anime. They are going to win due to their clever plans, determination and
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Except for the fact they're so cocky, they actually sent in all of their tanks into the forest and left their command tank unprotected. Not that our heroes were able to take advantage of this...
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And there's the Kelly's Heroes reference.
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This show makes living in a tank-based society look so nice.  Rexides posted:The infiltration operation in this episode was amazing I love that her contingency plan for being found out was to just run away, and that it worked. Command Ant fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Nov 7, 2012 06:40
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And she also had time during her escape to [spoiler]edit the footage and add credits and opening titles[/spoilers]. This show is genuinely funny.
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Crunchyroll has an article up showing the real life locations from the anime and someone's attempt a replicating the cakes which are... okay I guess. http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/11/07/girls-und-panzer-locations-and-cakes-in-real-life Got to say I think I'll most likely keep following this. Does anyone know if it has a definite number of episodes it's scheduled for or will it be ongoing?
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I got this link from the crunchyroll forums: http://girls-und-panzer.at.webry.info/201211/article_2.html I can't read Japanese, but there were apparently some production issues, and next week's episode will be a clip show as a result.
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The episode preview at the end of this weeks episode also mentions it. Notice that it says next weeks episode is episode 5.5 and the new date for episode 6 is November 19th.
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Watched all the episodes so far, and its a lot better then i thought it would be. I am just waiting for them to break out the Russian tanks or maybe get one of their own, hopefully a T-35. 
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