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- "Don't underestimate this monster!! (KV2)"
- ―Nina
Nina is a supporting character in Girls und Panzer, Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!, Ribbon Warrior and Girls und Panzer der Film.
Profile[]
Nina is a first-year student at Pravda Girls High School; she is the loader of the school's KV-2, Katyusha's favourite tank. She is also the commander of Pravda's Tankathlon team called Katyusha's Volunteer Army.
Appearance[]
Nina is a small girl with brown hair braided in two pigtails and brown eyes. She is almost always depicted wearing a brown Ushanka hat with the Pravda Sensha-dō uniform and vest, both in the OVA and other derivative works such as MLLSD and Ribbon Warrior.
Personality[]
Shy and young, Nina is a rather innocent and naive girl, shown by how easily she falls for Yukari and Erwin's deception (in Episode 9 and OVA 5). The spin-off also depicts her as clumsy, as she knocks over Katyusha's grandiose statue, smashing it to pieces in the process, by leaning on it. She is also not very circumspect in voicing her opinions, and provokes Katyusha's ire in the spin-off by commenting on the commander’s short stature (despite herself only being taller than Katyusha because of the hat she is wearing).
Despite her timidness, and constantly being at odds with Katyusha and Nonna due to her clumsiness, Nina is one of the strongest disciples of the "Katyusha Doctrine", being able to fight exactly like how her commander would. She was highly competent in commanding the KVA during the Tankathlon match, but ultimately lost due to underestimating the enemy, much like Katyusha herself had with Ooarai.
Background[]
Pravda vs. Oarai[]
While not seen in the anime, she appeared prominently in the fifth OVA, in which she was approached by Yukari Akiyama and Erwin, both disguised as Pravda students, as she was keeping the snow from accumulating on her tank's tracks. Thinking they were her upperclassmen, Nina fell for their charade. While sharing a cup of cocoa, she innocently revealedher commander's plans and the disposition of their forces, thus giving the pair from Oarai the info they needed.
Der Film[]
During Der Film she is seen in her role as loader for the KV-2 team, first agreeing that they should use their tank to block the road against the All-Stars University Team's tanks, then serving her gun as the KV-2 fights a last-stand rearguard action to allow others of Sunflower Team to withdraw.
Katyusha Volunteer Army[]
During the Ribbon Warrior Arc, Nina was appointed as the commander of the Katyusha Volunteer Army alongside Alina. During this appointment, she was told by Katyusha that if she failed to win, she would be "deported to Siberia until her graduation." Her first battle was against Bonple High School, commanded by Jajka. In their first face to face encounter with Jajka, Alina and Nina were terrified of the enemy commander's imposing demeanor. After Jajka called Katyusha a child, the latter ordered the KVA to "totally murder and massacre them."
Nina, leading the KVA against Bonple.
In this battle Nina led 16 T-70s against Bonple's 8 7TP tanks and 2 TPS tankettes. As they advanced towards the enemy, several of Nina's tanks were ambushed and at least one was taken out. However, they continued to push into the forest, forcing the Bonple units to fall back even farther. When Nina's forces became bogged down in a swamp, 16 additional T-70s, led by Alina, surrounded the Bonple units, creating a double envelopment. With victory assured, Nina and several of her tanks fell back to ensure the safety of the flag tank. Unbeknownst to them however, Jajka and several of her forces had slipped through the envelopment, using camouflage. To Nina's horror, Bonple again ambushed Nina's group, quickly eliminating Nina's flag tank: thus winning the Pravda vs. Bonple Tankathalon match. As such, despite following Katyusha's doctrine, Nina and Alina's first Tankathalon match resulted in a loss.
Katyusha understood that Nina had followed her doctrine during the match, and did not seem to punish her afterwards, understanding that there was nothing that could have been done even had Katyusha herself been leading the KVA forces.
Trivia[]
- In the series "Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!", there is a follow-up to the OVA, detailing Nina's "punishment" for giving critical information to the opponent that ultimately lost Pravda the match.
- She is both the KV-2's warhead and black powder loader, as she is seen in the movie in different scenes holding both of them. She is one of the two loaders, alongside with Alina.
- In the OVA, she states that whenever she turns the KV-2's turret, it hurts her hand.
- It is also possible that she is the commander of the KV-2, as Nina is the one who responds when Katyusha addresses the KV-2.
- She is an accurate gunner in a T-70 light tank as commander of Pravda's Tankathlon team.
- Together with Alina, Nina speaks in an Akita dialect. This makes her dialogue somewhat difficult for many Japanese audiences to understand. (The English dub does not feature this, given the uniqueness of the dialect to Japanese.)
- Nina’s voice actress, Saki Ogasawara, was born in Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu. This is also the prefecture in which Pravda High School is based.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Nina/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 | |