This time around, she blends right in with Anzio’s students and enjoys some of the sights and sounds on their vessel before attending an open presentation about the P40, without blowing her cover. Opening with Anchovy giving a speech to her team, the episode soon shifts to Yukari’s path towards acquiring intel for their upcoming match. Over its thirty-minute run, preparations from both Anzio and Ooarai are shown. The OVA takes after the same mood as Girls und Panzer‘s original run having the perfect balance between exposition and combat sequences, the Anzio battle reminds viewers of everything that made Girls und Panzer so enjoyable. In the match’s aftermath, Ooarai attends a celebration Anzio hosts, and Anchovy resolves to fully support Miho and Ooarai in their final battle, but accidentally sleep through it. Meanwhile, after a harrowing chase, Anglerfish team manages to score a direct hit against the flag tank, ending the battle. Initially distracted by decoys Anzio sets, Ooarai soon finds several of their tanks under fire: Duck team is engaged by the tankettes, and Hippo team is engaged by one of the Semoventes. On the day of the match, Anzio puts up a fierce battle, fielding the 元/33 tankette, the P40 and Semovente 75/18 self-propelled guns in their loadout. Later, Miho pays a visit to Erwin and Caeser’s place besides learning more about Anzio’s loadout, they also decide practise and make the most of their Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. To that, I can say that sometimes, it’s good to be wrong, and indeed, I’m hoping that viewers out there enjoyed it half as much as I did.Īfter Yukari successfully carries out her assignment and discovers Anzio High’s secret weapon, a Carro Amato P40, Ooarai begins devising strategems for overcoming them. However, there was a thrilling story behind how Ooarai reached this point I myself boldly claimed that Anzio was wrecked in a one-sided battle, but this OVA has soundly shown that I was incorrect. In its original run, Girls und Panzer only depicts Anzio as having lost the match, with Anchovy climbing out of her tank and plopping down in exhaustion. Here, the OVA tells the story behind just how Ooarai defeated Anzio. The OVA finally aired yesterday in Japanese theatres: clocking in at half an hour, it’s a fantastic journey that does something most anime neglect to do: exploring how an outcome was reached where they were previously omitted. Despite being nowhere near as long as the wait for the Gundam Unicorn finale, the wait for the Anzio OVA to air felt about as long. It’s been a little more than a year since I’ve watched anything related to Girls und Panzer, and if memory serves, knowledge that the long awaited OVA about Ooarai’s match with Anzio has been with viewers since at least last September. “If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.” -Heinz Guderian