I was just going to resurrect the thread about this show from the General board last year, because it's my party and I'll necro if I want to, but since most of my reply ended up being half-serious speculation about how the premise would intersect with the UF universe, I figured I'd put my remarks here instead. I just saw a little bit of this, which has left me in a better position to remark than I was last year (not that that stopped me, but :).

>Nishizumi Miho has transferred to Oorai Girls High
>after an Incident led to her quitting her previous school's winning
>sports team, precisely because Oorai doesn't have a team for
>that.

Poor Miho. She'll never be over Macho Grande.

>And then the school restarts said team and drafts Miho and her new
>friends as the first core element of their resurrected Tankery
>(Sensha-dou) squad.
>
>Which is, well, what the UFverse calls panzerdueling. A sport
>featuring tanks fighting. Run by high schools.

You know, I think the only reason why DSM doesn't have a panzerdueling team is because no other school would start one, so they wouldn't have anyone to play against.

I suppose that wouldn't stop them from playing it on an intramural basis, though, like the regular Duelists. They'd need more tanks, though. Right now the school only has the one. And then the kids who are into articulated mecha would want an intramural Friday Night Firefight league, and then there would be a four-way schism between the FNF kids who wanted to use Arm Slaves, the ones who wanted to use Mobile Suits, the ones who plumped for Miscellaneous Battlemovers and/or Landmates, and the ones who disdained piddling around with all that Fisher-Price stuff and insist on heavy-to-assault Destroids because this is high school, not kindergarten. And then you'd have the wrangling with the Aviation Club over whether Veritech fighters are aircraft or light Destroids, and the one insane kids who wants to use a Southern Cross Veritech hover tank even though it couldn't possibly pass even the most rudimentary safety inspection... well, in the UF universe it would all just get horribly complicated.

And then you would get the really crazy kids who wanted to set up an Anti-'Mech Infantry club.

None of which would actually be out of place as background wrangling in DSM Panic!, come to think of it, and would lead the first-generation Duelist alumni to think, Man, why didn't we think of that? every time they came back for a visit and found that it had advanced to another stage.

(I'm not saying any of this will happen, mind. Just that it could.)

It might be my favorite thing about the UF universe: That it's the kind of place where Girls und Panzer, Full Metal Panic!, and K-On! not only can all happen, but are probably all happening at the same school. :)

>The rest of this twelve-episode series chronicles Miho and company's
>efforts to put together the needed equipment and compete in this most
>Traditional of the feminine arts.
>
>(No, my tongue isn't in cheek. I make no warranty about the
>show's.)

There is almost certainly at least one planet in the UF universe where this is not even a joke, in much the same way that the traditional feminine arts in the Morita Empire on Ishiyama include flower arranging, the tea ceremony, calligraphy, musical theater, and psychic power armor combat.

Also, I should belatedly break this down.

>If you enjoy any subset of tanks,

Check!

>sports anime,

Uh... well, not really, I don't seek it out, but Princess Nine was cute...

>lighthearted WW2 movie montage music,

Check! (It did not escape my notice that the music in the opening scene of the first episode is a gleeful pastiche of Elmer Bernstein's The Great Escape score, presumably because it's the most recognizable WWII movie, even though it's not about tanks.)

>and the Cute Girls Doing Cute Things genre of anime,

And once again check.

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