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Calling for recommendations!

Do YOU have an anime that has a bunch of tanks? Does that big armored guy jump in front of his friend to save him? Does the anime tank in quality after the first season?

Let me know so I can rank any and all Anime Tanks!

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Girls Und Panzer!

Girls Und Panzer is a military sports comedy directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, written by Reiko Yoshida and produced by Kiyoshi Sugiyama. In it, the sport of sensha-do (Tankery) is a given option for young girls to participate in as they go to school on the giant School/Community ships that serve zero purpose for the plot. The girls go through multiple hardships as they undergo their training and tournaments just like in any sports anime.

In the first season tanks are Everywhere. The first episode begins with a tank hunt to make sure the school has the tanks needed to compete. These tanks of course have been left abandoned all throughout the school and are readily available for the club to use. Throughout the season they discuss and show multiple types of tanks, tank crew, tank operation, and tank strategy. On top of that fuel tanks are shown in a few episodes, and the tactic of running around until enemy fuel tanks are emptied is mentioned. Just in case that wasn’t enough to earn full marks, this show even includes the use of a tank as a Tank, shielding the less armored tanks with its heavier armor to allow them to continue fighting. For all of these reasons Girls Und Panzer earns 5 out of 5 tanks.

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Sounds like a near perfect anime!

ソ・ラ・ノ・ヲ・ト

Sound of the Sky is an original military/slice of life drama-comedy.  It was directed by Mamoru Kanbe, written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, scored by Michiru Ooshima, and animated by A-1 Pictures for the winter 2010 season.  Private Kanata Sorami joins the military as a bugler and is stationed in the city of Seize with the 1121st Platoon.

Throughout the normal run of the anime there are exactly zero airplanes, or indeed flying machines of any kind.  The world itself is post-apocalyptic where technology has regressed to roughly that of the 1930s or 40s.  The heavy machinery of choice in this world are the tanks, which are quadrupedal and based off a highly-advanced pre-war design.

For its complete lack of airplanes, especially in a setting that seems so ripe for them, Sound of the Sky earns itself 0 out of 5 Airplanes.

But wait, I said “normal run.”  That means there must be more to it.  In addition to the twelve episode series there were two OVAs released, episodes 7.5 and 13.  We can safely ignore 7.5 to focus entirely on 13.

Kanata realizes that she doesn’t know what her dream for the future is, and goes around asking the other cast members what their dreams are, for reference.  The dream that we are interested in is that of Lieutenant Rio Kazumiya.  Through her we learn that aviation is one of the lost technologies and, while she has built a hot air balloon that she lets Kanata ride in, her real dream is reinventing the airplane and using it to explore beyond the wastelands in search of a way to keep the world from ending.

In the end, the OVA gets a Participation Ribbon, and Lieutenant Kazumiya gets a Gold Star.

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Calling for recommendations!

Created due to the inspiration of my dear friend who judges anime worth based on if an anime has airplanes in it, I bring to you Animetanks! The fantastic anime rating service that will sometimes hopefully post something, critiquing an animes quality based on how many tanks and how those tanks are executed in the anime. Right now I’m looking for recommendations of anime that you the people would like judged based on their tank having or lacking qualities!

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