| Klara |
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- "Katyusha-sama, it was an honour to fight beside you. За Правду! (proun. Za Pravdu!/transl. For Pravda!)"
- ―Klara
Klara (rus. Клара, kanji. クラーラ, romanji. Kurāra) is a supporting character in Girls und Panzer who appears in the movie Girls und Panzer der Film, the spin-off manga Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!, the theatrical film Das Finale and in the Drama CD.
Profile[]
Klara is a transfer student from Novosibirsk, a city in the Siberian part of Russia. She transferred into Pravda Girls' High School at some point between the events of the 63rd National High School Sensha-do Tournament and the exhibition match against Ooarai and Chi-Ha-Tan. Klara serves as one of Katyusha's executive officers alongside Nonna, and commands a T-34/85.
Appearance[]
Klara is an attractive girl with platinum blonde hair reaching past her shoulders, and a widow's peak. Her eyes are pale blue. She is relatively tall, being only slightly shorter than Nonna.
Klara wears the Pravda uniform in most of her appearances, with black calf-length socks.
Personality[]
Like Nonna, Klara is a very calm girl as she never raises her voice or loses her temper, even during difficult Sensha-dō matches. Everything she does is with the same measured grace and calculated resolve. She is more social compared to Nonna, even interacting with students of other schools. She appears to enjoy non-alcoholic vodka, as she holds a bottle in the end of the movie after Ooarai Girls Academy's victory against the All-Stars University Team and according to Nonna, she was drinking it when she mistakenly signed the transfer papers to Pravda. Klara speaks Russian and has a habit of conversing with Nonna in this language, which annoys Katyusha. However it is later revealed that she also speaks fluent Japanese, which surprises Katyusha.
In Saga Of Pravda, however, she has a completely different personality from what we see in the movies. She is a very arrogant, aggressive and disturbed girl, which has gone completely insane because of her solipsistic view of the world and others around her. Because of this, she constantly views other people as nothing but despicable and useless creatures. Except for Nonna, who was the only one who, in her own words, "awakened" something in her cold heart, and also Katyusha, who completely broke this illusion she was living in. She also raises her voice a lot, as in Chapter 20 she's constantly screaming at Nonna while they fight, talking about how she feels numb and has a "hole in the middle of her chest", which causes all of this constant pain and suffering. Notably, she views Nonna as unaffected by such an existential malady, in that Klara sees Nonna as "whole", unlike herself.
Family[]
Little is known about Klara's family other than that her father works for a foreign intelligence agency, which she used to gather information about Katyusha, including a photo of her as a baby.
Background[]
Klara, along with Katyusha, Nonna, Nina, Alina and some other Pravda students, temporarily transferred to Ooarai Girls Academy in order to join the Ooarai Compound Team against the All-Stars University Team.
During the fight against the All-Stars University Team, Klara sacrifices her tank in order to ensure a successful retreat for Katyusha and the others.
In the drama CD, Katyusha interrogates her, but as she only speaks in Russian most of the time, Nonna handles the translation. They have a friendly discussion to see who knows more about what makes Katyusha so great and exchanged some secrets. Meanwhile, Nonna translated the reasons for Klara's transference, the given reason is that Klara was watching TV and drinking non-alcoholic vodka when she signed what she thought was a sleep-over consent form, when in reality they were enrollment papers to Pravda that supposedly would result in an enormous breach-off contract fee that her family could not afford if she refused to enroll. However this was false translation given by Nonna to fool Katyusha while they discussed Katyusha facts.
Etymology[]
Trivia[]
- Klara appears to be a talented singer.
- Appearance-wise, Klara was based on her very voice actor, Jenya Davidyuk.
- Klara used to have ties with the Russian military, but moved to Pravda because of Nonna. She promised to stay in Japan with her, helping her take care of Katyusha.
- It is believed that Klara's mother's name is Viktoria and that she's a general in the Russian army.
- It is stated by Nonna in the CD Drama that Klara ended up in Pravda because she accidentally signed transfer papers thinking it was to a sleepover party.
- This story, however, is probably not true, partly because it sounds nonsensical and partly because Klara never confirmed it.
- In addition, Nonna is known to sometimes intentionally distort Russian-to-Japanese translations in the presence of Katyusha, for humorous purposes.
- In Saga Of Pravda, Klara is depicted with little fangs; this is probably because, in certain panels, she is compared to a wolf.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Klara/Gallery
| Characters | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ooarai Girls High School | Anglerfish Team | Miho Nishizumi ♦ Saori Takebe ♦ Hana Isuzu ♦ Yukari Akiyama ♦ Mako Reizei |
| Duck Team | Noriko Isobe ♦ Taeko Kondou ♦ Shinobu Kawanishi ♦ Akebi Sasaki | |
| Hippo Team | Erwin ♦ Caesar ♦ Saemonza ♦ Oryou | |
| Rabbit Team | Azusa Sawa ♦ Aya Oono ♦ Ayumi Yamagou ♦ Yuuki Utsugi ♦ Karina Sakaguchi ♦ Saki Maruyama | |
| Turtle Team | Anzu Kadotani ♦ Momo Kawashima ♦ Yuzu Koyama | |
| Mallard Team | Midoriko Sono ♦ Moyoko Gotou ♦ Nozomi Konparu | |
| Leopon Team | Reira Nakajima ♦ Keiko Hoshino ♦ Maria Suzuki ♦ Tsuchiya | |
| Anteater Team | Nekota ♦ Momoga ♦ Piyotan | |
| Shark Team | Ogin ♦ Murakami ♦ Cutlass ♦ Flint ♦ Rum | |
| Miscellanous | Taiga Ou ♦ Sadoka ♦ Mazoe | |
| St. Gloriana Girls High School | Darjeeling ♦ Orange Pekoe ♦ Assam ♦ Rosehip ♦ Rukuriri ♦ Nilgiri ♦ Vanilla ♦ Cranberry ♦ Earl Grey | |
| Saunders Girls High School | Kay ♦ Alisa ♦ Naomi ♦ Helmet-Chan | |
| Anzio Girls High School | Anchovy ♦ Carpaccio ♦ Pepperoni ♦ Amaretto ♦ Gelato ♦ Panettone | |
| Pravda Girls High School | Katyusha ♦ Nonna ♦ Klara ♦ Nina ♦ Alina ♦ Ekaterina ♦ Olga ♦ Polina ♦ Natalia ♦ Lisa ♦ Mo ♦ Zemlya ♦ Neba | |
| Kuromorimine Girls High School | Maho Nishizumi ♦ Erika Itsumi ♦ Koume Akaboshi ♦ Leila Rou ♦ Emi Kojima ♦ Geshiko ♦ Sangou ♦ Mauko ♦ Sheska ♦ Manami Himuro ♦ Runa Onizuka ♦ Kirishima | |
| Chi-Ha-Tan Academy | Kinuyo Nishi ♦ Haru Fukuda ♦ Tamaki Tamada ♦ Shizuko Hosomi ♦ Setsuko Nagura ♦ Noriyo Hamada ♦ Tomiko Teramoto ♦ Emi Ikeda ♦ Rin Kubota ♦ Yasuko Nishihara ♦ Chiyoko Uenishi ♦ Tatsu Hasegawa ♦ Hanako Hirai | |
| Jatkosota High School | Mika ♦ Aki ♦ Mikko ♦ Touko ♦ Lili | |
| BC Freedom High School | Ribbon Warrior | Asparagus ♦ Moule ♦ Bordeaux |
| Das Finale | Marie ♦ Andou ♦ Oshida ♦ Sofue ♦ Isabe | |
| Blue Division High School | El ♦ Tristana ♦ Viridiana ♦ Andalusia | |
| Koala Forest High School | Wallaby ♦ Platypus | |
| Bonple High School | Ribbon Warrior | Jajka ♦ Uszka ♦ Pierogi |
| Das Finale | Maiko | |
| Maginot Girls College | Éclair ♦ Fondue ♦ Galette ♦ Madeleine ♦ Colombier | |
| Count High School | Noemi Kohiyama ♦ Anna Masukura ♦ Nachigami Sisters ♦ Marina Constantinescu ♦ Mizuki Ikarashi | |
| Tatenashi Girls High School | Shizuka Tsuruki ♦ Rin Matsukaze ♦ Haruka Endou | |
| Tategoto High School | Aung | |
| Maple High School | Trout ♦ Amber ♦ Oleo | |
| Kebab High School | Bosphorus | |
| Bellwall Academy | Tiger I Crew | Emi Nakasuga ♦ Hitomi Yuzumoto ♦ Kita ♦ Takami ♦ Nagisa Shiratori |
| Jagdpanther Crew | Neko Yamamori ♦ Yano ♦ Koharu Sakai ♦ Kanbara ♦ Hirono | |
| Elefant Crew | Chifuyu Doi ♦ Terauchi ♦ Wakasugi ♦ Kunihiro ♦ Nogata ♦ Enami | |
| T-44 Crew | Youko Minami ♦ Saionji ♦ Azuma ♦ Hokuto | |
| Panzer II Crew | Kashiwaba Sisters | |
| West Kureouji Grona Academy | Kiri Shiratori | |
| All-Stars University Team | Alice Shimada ♦ Azumi ♦ Megumi ♦ Rumi | |
| Japan Sensha-dō Federation | Ami Chōno ♦ Shiho Nishizumi ♦ Renta Tsuji ♦ Chiyo Shimada ♦ Shichiro Kodama ♦ Kikuyo Idegami ♦ Kanon Sasagawa ♦ Hibiki Inatomi ♦ Remi Takashima | |
| Non-Affiliated | Yoshiko Akiyama ♦ Jungorou Akiyama ♦ Hisako Reizei ♦ Shinzaburo ♦ Yuri Isuzu ♦ Chihiro Yusa ♦ Boko | |