12 Days of Anime #11: Girls und Panzer

Girls und Panzer surprised everyone. People were expecting a sequel to the much loved Upotte. What they got was a far better, more tight anime.

Girls und Panzer doesn’t rely on great characters to suck you in. If anything, the characters are kind of ordinary. Sure, some of them are cute and do cute things like falling over in cute ways and some of them say a few cute things, but that’s about it. There is nothing extraordinary about the characters, in fact, some of the characters like the student council kids are such good clones of their archetypes (archetypes that I dislike), that I can’t help but dislike them. And yet, I love the show.

I like the girl with the large boob…errr, orange hair the most. I am also impressed with the photographers use of an aperture of F5.6. It is not so small as to let no light in, but hopefully small enough to get a wide depth of field.