At the talk show during the Oarai Spring Festival Kairaku Festa on Sunday, Director Tsutomu Mizushima confirmed that the movie edition of Girls und Panzer, will now premiere on November 21. The film was originally slated for this summer and was announced during the 18th annual Oarai Anglerfish Festival last year. Additionally, the movie is slated for 120 minutes, and Tsutomu Mizushima vowed to do his best to meet that goal. Singer ChouCho will perform the theme song.
A new poster with the visual for the upcoming Girls Und Panzer Movie also debuted on Sunday. It features Miho Nishizumi with a tagline that reads “Take it back”.
The talk show revealed that a trailer for the movie will come out in June and limited edition models will soon be available.
The first promotional video for the film released in July last year:
The first visual for the movie was revealed last November:
Girls und Panzer is a 2012 Japanese anime television series created by Actas. It depicts a competition between girls’ high schools practicing tank warfare as a sport. The series was directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and produced by Kiyoshi Sugiyama. Takaaki Suzuki, who has earlier acted as a military history advisor for Strike Witches and Upotte!!, was involved in the production of the anime. The series initially aired in Japan between October and December 2012, with two additional episodes airing in March 2013 and an original video animation released in July 2014. Five manga series and a light novel adaptation have been published by Media Factory. An animated film had been announced for release in 2014, however was pushed back to Q2 2015.
Here is a synopsis of the series from Haruhichan:
You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai High School practice gun-fu—really, really BIG 75mm gun-fu, in fact. It’s called Sensha-do, and it’s the martial art of operating armored tanks! They take it seriously too, and since winning the national Sensha-do championship is such a huge deal at Oarai, they sometimes go to extreme ends in order to get the best students from Panzer class to sign up. Which is how Miho Nishizumi, who HATES operating tanks, gets drafted to join doomsday-driven driver Mako, even-triggered gunner Hana, highly receptive radio operator Saori and combustible tank-fangirl and loader Yukari as the incomparable Anko Team. They may not be on the half-track to fame and fortune, and maybe a few of them would rather shop for tank tops than become tops in tanks, but once their focus is locked and loaded, they’re absolutely driven.
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://girls-und-panzer.jp/
And follow their Twitter: @garupan
Source – Anime News Network
