Watching how Sentai Filmworks is slowly moving into the video side of social media after getting their Facebook and Twitter sides moving along in the last few months has been interesting. With their fourth video added to their new YouTube channel, they’re going to make a lot of fans happy with a new look at Girls und Panzer, which is set for release on DVD and Blu-ray in December. The new promo isn’t just an opening sequence gone wild but a variety of clips from the show with a narration and a bit more to it that will likely get the fans quite excited. The company picked up the home video and digital rights to the show in September of last year and it also got a Crunchyroll simulcast at the time.
Plot Concept: 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. It’s mad, it’s metal and mayhem is guaranteed! So marching band and drill teams take cover, ‘cause the parade ground’s about to be rock and rolled under in the extra-curricular, armored vehicular spectacular that delivers in every particular: GIRLS UND PANZER!