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- "We're up against Anzio in the next round ... We have to take them seriously, or we'll be in for it!"
- ―Yuzu Koyama
Episode 7 "Anzio is the Next Up!" "Tsugi wa Anzio desu!" (次はアンツィオです ! ); English dub: "Up Next Is Anzio!", is the seventh episode of Girls und Panzer. It originally aired on Novermber 26th, 2012.
Plot[]
Miho, Hana and Yukari travel to the hospital in the town of Ooarai to visit Mako and her grandmother, Hisako Reizei, who was admitted after she collapsed during the previous episode. The girls arrive to find that Hisako has regained consciousness and, feisty and irascible, is on her way to recovery.
As Mako, exhausted, rests on the homeward trip, Miho learns from Saori that Mako's grandmother is her only remaining family. Mako lost her parents whilst she was young; the last time she saw her mother, they'd had a fight, and they never had a chance to make up. Prompted by that similarity, Miho remembers that the last time she saw her own mother was under similar circumstances, after the incident during a Sensha-dō match that caused her to leave her previous school.
Having lunch together the next day, in the tank garage, Anglerfish Team celebrate their first tournament victory. They also discuss the odds in their next match, and Miho relates the backstory to her dislike of Sensha-dō. The previous year, Miho, then a student at Kuromorimine Girls' Academy, had been the commander of the flag tank during the tournament final against Pravda Girls High School, competing for the school's tenth consecutive tournament victory. However, during the battle another Kuromorimine tank slid off the road and into a river. Miho abandoned her vehicle to save the crew of the sinking tank from drowning, but in her absence the Kuromorimine flag tank was knocked out, losing the match. She has been despondent about the incident ever since, but Yukari assures Miho that going to the aid of her teammates was the right choice.
With Ooarai training hard for the coming match against Anzio Girls High School, Miho is inundated by the heavy responsibilities of managing the newly organized and as-yet inexperienced Sensha-dō club. The members of Anglerfish Team each chip in to divide the workload: Miho discusses strategy with the student council, Hana helps with the logistical details, Yukari offers technical advice, Mako tutors other crews on tank driving —and Saori offers relationship advice to the young members of Rabbit Team.
Hana finds evidence that other yet-to-be-discovered tanks may still exist aboard the Ooarai campus ship, prompting a search throughout the ship. Aided by Ceasar's divination skills, Yukari and the history buffs discover a Renault B1 bis. While they don't find a tank, Miho, Mako, and the volleyball team locate a 7.5 cm KwK 40 L/43 high velocity cannon compatible with the Panzer IV, which was being used to hang up laundry. Saori and the first years search the lower decks of the ship, but eventually get lost within its dark depths. When Miho, Hana, Yukari, and Mako go to rescue them, they find the lost girls in a cargo hold containing a Porsche Tiger prototype.
Anzio Girls High School is defeated
The new finds cannot be made ready in time for the next match, but team morale is high and Miho addresses the Sensha-dō club with an invigorating speech. The concluding scene opens with the final shot of the match against Anzio. Anchovy, the commander of the Anzio flag tank, is seen slumping over the wreck of her P40, as the commentators declare a victory for Ooarai.
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| Episode 6
"Reaching the Climax of Our First Battle!" |
Episode 8
"We're Fighting Pravda!" |
Characters Introduced[]
- Hisako Reizei
- Midoriko Sono
- Anchovy (Seen on screen, not named)
Tanks Appearing[]
- Panzer IV
- Panzer 38(t)
- Type 89B
- StuG III
- M3 Lee
- PzKpfw III Ausf.G (in flashback only)
- Pzkpfw VI Ausf.E (in flashback only)
- T-34/85 (in flashback only)
Main Events[]
- Anglerfish Team visits Mako Reizei and her grandmother at the hospital in Ooarai city.
- Miho's backstory is revealed.
- The Sensha-dō club find a KwK 40 L/43 main gun, a Char B1 bis, and a Porsche Tiger to supplement their forces.
- Ooarai triumphs against Anzio Girls High School in the second round of the tournament.
Trivia[]
- This is one of the two times that Hana Isuzu changes her hairstyle in the anime, in the hospital being seen wearing her hair in a long braid (similar to Rukuriri's one but longer) instead of wearing it down as usual. The second time being in Episode 10 where she wears her hair in bun.
- The sailors directly involved with running the school carrier wear different uniforms from the girls in the General Studies Department.
- The Char B1 bis is found next to a sign marking the speed limit as 30 km/h. This is a reference to the low top speed (28 km/h) of the B1 bis, a factor that stymied its ability to counter the German Blitzkrieg during WWII.
- It can be compared to Ooarai's M3 Lee for the fact that both had a heavier gun in the hull and a lighter gun in the turret. (The Lee is much faster than the more heavily armored French tank.)
- Yukari rejects the soul name of 'Montgomery' in reference to the poor reputation held by Montgomery outside of Britain, specifically in France during the German blitzkrieg of 1940.
- Montgomery gained his fame in North Africa, where he confronted Rommel's tanks and won the battle of El Alamein, turning the tide of WWII in the desert.
- Montgomery was often in conflict with other Allied generals (especially Omar Bradley, George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower) and was heavily criticized for both his egocentrism and his extreme caution. After the failure of Operation Market Garden, that he had planned, he was chastised by the Allied Command.
- The battle against Anzio is almost entirely skipped in the anime series. It is covered in a separately released OVA episode.
- It is not explained how the Porsche Tiger ended up deep inside the ship's hold. It is revealed in the OVA that it was recovered with great difficulty through the efforts of the automobile club.
- It is revealed that Mako Reizei is afraid of ghosts; so much so that she would prefer waking up early.
- In the English dub, Anzu expresses confidence that they will be able to defeat Anzio because they have both their hopes and spirit going for them. This is a reference to Anzio's exuberant penchant for declaring themselves to be "from the land of spirit!"
- The ending sequence features Anglerfish Team riding their upgraded F2 variant of the Panzer IV even though the gun hasn't yet been fitted to the Panzer IV.
Gallery[]
| Girls und Panzer Anime | |
|---|---|
| First Anime Season Episodes | Episode 1 ♦ Episode 2 ♦ Episode 3 ♦ Episode 4 ♦ Episode 5 ♦ Episode 6 ♦ Episode 7 ♦ Episode 8 ♦ Episode 9 ♦ Episode 10 ♦ Episode 11 ♦ Episode 12 |
| Recap Episodes | Episode 5.5 ♦ Episode 10.5 |
| OVA Episodes | OVA 1 ♦ OVA 2 ♦ OVA 3 ♦ OVA 4 ♦ OVA 5 ♦ OVA 6 ♦ OVA 7 ♦ OVA 8 ♦ OVA 9 ♦ OVA 10 |
| Animated Movie | Girls und Panzer der Film |
| Final Chapter | Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 |