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Media[edit] Anime[edit] See also: List of Girls und Panzer episodes, Girls und Panzer: This Is the Real Anzio Battle!, Girls und Panzer der Film, and Girls und Panzer das Finale Girls und Panzer aired its first episode in Japan on Tokyo MX on October 9, 2012, TV Osaka and TV Aichi on October 11, BS11 on October 14, and AT-X on October 17,[11] and concluded on March 25, 2013, with 12 episodes. [12] The anime series was produced by Actas and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima from a series composition written by Reiko Yoshida. [13] Shirō Hamaguchi served as the series composer. [14] Choucho performed the opening theme music for the series titled "Dream Riser", while Mai Fuchigami, Ai Kayano, Mami Ozaki, Ikumi Nakagami, and Yuka Iguchi, voicing the five main characters of the series, sang the ending theme music titled "Enter Enter Mission!"[15] It was collected into six Blu-ray and DVD volumes that were released in Japan from December 21, 2012,[16] to June 21, 2013. [17] Each volume contains the anime series' original video animation (OVA) and an OVA
featuring Yukari Akiyama's lecture about tanks that appear in the series titled Yukari Akiyama's Tank Course (不肖 秋山優花里の戦車道講座, Fushō Akiyama Yukari no Sensha Kōza). [18] A new OVA depicting the unseen match between Ōarai Girls' Academy and Anzio Girls' High School in the seventh episode, titled Girls und Panzer: This Is the Real Anzio Battle! (ガールズ&パンツァー これが本当のアンツィオ戦です!, Gāruzu ando Pantsā: Kore ga
Hontō no Antsio-sen Desu!), was released simultaneously in 14 theaters and
several online distribution services in Japan on July 5, 2014. [19][20] Its Blu-ray and DVD were released in Japan on July 25, 2014, which include a new episode of Yukari Akiyama's Tank Course featuring Italian tanks that appear in the OVA. [21] The OVA was aired in Japan on AT-X on June 21, 2015,[22] on BS11 on December 30,[23] and on Tokyo MX on January 3, 2016. [23] An animated film by Mizushima serving as a sequel to the anime series, titled Girls und Panzer der Film (ガールズ&パンツァー 劇場版, Gāruzu ando Pantsā Gekijōban), premiered in Tokyo on
November 20, 2015,[24] and was theatrically released in Japan on November 21. [25] The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on May 27, 2016, which include a new OVA, titled Alice War! (アリス・ウォー!, Arisu Wō!), that is set after the events of the film and a new episode of Yukari Akiyama's Tank Course. [26] The film is followed by a six-part animated film series by Mizushima titled Girls und Panzer das Finale (ガールズ&パンツァー 最終章, Gāruzu ando Pantsā Sai Shūshō),[27] with the first film in the series being released in Japan on December 9, 2017.
Plot[edit] Captured during an assassination mission, Gabimaru the Hollow is sentenced to be executed, but nothing seems to kill him due to his superhuman body. Believing his love for his wife to be subconsciously keeping him alive,
executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri offers him the chance to be pardoned of all crimes by the Shogunate if he finds the elixir of life on Shinsenkyo, a legendary realm recently discovered southwest of the Ryukyu Kingdom. After losing five
expedition teams sent to the island, this time the Shogunate sends a group of death row convicts. The convicts are each given a Yamada Asaemon executioner, who they must return with in order to obtain the pardon. Characters[edit] Main characters[edit] Gabimaru (画眉丸) Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi[4] (Japanese); Alejandro Saab[5] (English) Portrayed by: Tsubasa Kizu[6] The strongest ninja from Iwagakure, where he was taken from his parents as a child by the village chief and trained to become a killer. He is known as "Gabimaru the Hollow" (がらんの画眉丸, Garan no Gabimaru) for his lack of emotion during his gruesome work. However, he is very much in love with his wife, the village chief's peace-loving daughter who treats him with kindness. When he wanted to cut ties with the village and live a normal life with his wife, the chief arranged for him to be captured and sentenced to death. Sagiri (佐切) Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori[4] (Japanese); Marisa Duran[5] (English) Portrayed by: Ayana Shiramoto[6] A master swordswoman from the famed Yamada Asaemon family of executioners, where she is one of the only two female executioners in the clan. She recruits Gabimaru for the expedition after seeing his talent and strong will to live. Sagiri is ranked last, 12th, in the Yamada Asaemon hierarchy.
[52] Anime[edit] THEM Anime Reviews called the anime adaptation "complex" and "beautiful", stating that it features "sophisticated storytelling and complex plot weaving, memorable characters, godly production values and excellent pacing". [53] Darius Washington of Otaku USA named Monster one of the ten best anime of the past decade. [54] Carl Kimlinger enthused that "It cannot be overstated how brilliantly apart from the anime mainstream this unsettling, fiercely intelligent, and ultimately uncategorizable journey into darkness is. "[55] He praised Madhouse's animation for not only keeping up the dark "cinematic quality of Urasawa's art" but also improving on it, as well as Kuniaki Haishima's score for adding "immeasurably to the series' hair-raising atmosphere. "[56] Though he noted Viz Media's inability to acquire the original ending
theme song due to licensing problems, Kimlinger also called their English dub of the series one of the best in recent memory. [56] Kimlinger praised the series, for "its fidelity to Naoki Urasawa's original manga", commenting that "there isn't a scene left out, only a
handful added in, and as far as I can tell not a line of dialogue changed or omitted.
