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Ponimu Indonesia Adds Girls und Panzer Anzio OVA, Film, das Finale Episode 1
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian streaming service Ponimu Indonesia added the Girls und Panzer: This is the Real Anzio Battle!, Girls und Panzer der Film, and the first episode of the Girls und Panzer das Finale films to its catalog earlier this month.
Ponimu Indonesia previously added the Girls und Panzer television anime in August 2018.
Girls und Panzer: This is the Real Anzio Battle! debuted in theaters and home video in Japan in July 2014. The OVA shows Oarai Girls Academy tankery team's battle with Anzio High School, an event that was hinted at but ultimately not shown in the plot of the television anime. The tight-budgeted and Italian-themed Anzio team is equipped with numerous tankettes, few heavy tanks, and is led by the ambitious but tactically myopic Anchovy, who is affectionately called "Duce" by her teammates.
Girls und Panzer der Film debuted in theaters in Japan in November 2015, and continued to screen through its one-year anniversary and beyond as one of the highest-earning anime films of that year. The film centers on a new challenge facing Oarai, with the school facing closure yet again unless Oarai defeats the All-Stars University Team, whose deployment is comprised of an assortment of heavily armed and armored late-WWII and post-war main battle tanks, tank destroyers, and other experimental weapons platforms. Oarai's ranks are bolstered by its former enemies turned compatriots, with the addition of the Finnish-themed Jatkosota High School and their BT-42.
The first episode of Girls und Panzer das Finale is the first in a six-part series, and it opened in December 2017, with the second part opening on June 15. The film focuses on Momo Kawashima's dilemma of failing to get into her college of choice (though everyone seems to think she will repeat a year), due to her efforts to ensure that Oarai will never again face closure. To ensure that Momo passes another college entrance exam, Oarai decides to join the Winter Continuos Track Cup to ensure its prestige as a tankery school and fulfill Momo's wish. In the episode, Oarai faces off against the French-themed BC Freedom High School, whose capable machines and tactical acumen are undermined by its divided leadership. Oarai is joined by the Shark Team, who roll into battle with the archaic Mark IV tank.
