Best Girls und Panzer Characters
Girls und Panzer is a popular 2012-2013 anime about schoolgirls and a class elective called Sensha-dō, the traditional art of tank fighting.Throughout the anime, many colorful characters and people are introduced. This list highlights the most favored characters of the show.
Erwin (real name Riko Matsumoto) is a character based on Field Marshal Erwin Rommel of Nazi Germany, to whom she bears a similar appearance. She wears an army officer's cap and tan desert coat over her school uniform and has a very determined attitude. She's put at the top due to her personality being different from everyone else and having a close, friendly bond with Yukari and a few other characters.
Plus, Erwin has a couple of funny scenes and quotes. She's a true leader like Miho and is the commander for the team's StuG III tank destroyer.
Suffering from Napoleon Complex Disorder (NCD), Katyusha feels intimidated by her small size. She then combats it by knocking out some enemy tanks on the field with her T-34 Soviet tank. Katyusha is a prideful, boastful, and somewhat arrogant girl who tells people above her that she's better by offering a challenge to them.
She's accompanied by her co-commander Nonna, who does things for her, corrects her on rewordings, and even offers her leader piggyback rides. Katyusha feels more dominant when she's on top of Nonna.
Yukari Akiyama is one of the best characters. She is strong but really shy. Most teams love her because she is nice. I love how she makes friends through tanks because she is only interested in tanks, so she can only make friends that way. She has a disorder where she can only be interested in one thing, and she likes tanks. It is so funny when she talks about tanks. She is the girl to know everything about them and will come in handy. I love when she went on the other ship to spy, and I thought it was funny when she thought her dad's hairstyle was cool and tried it herself.
Saint Gloriana's Tank Team Captain is an interesting and complex girl. In all the episodes featuring her, Darjeeling is always drinking tea, always. Her background is British, and her quotes and traits are very English. She also has a stove inside her Churchill VII tank that brews tea for her and her teammates, though she's the only person drinking it.
She's a comical character with many moments that put a smile on your face.
I think that Darjeeling is the cutest Girls und Panzer character of all time.
And when you'll tell me I can't fall in love with an Italian Fascist Dictator...
Lo sai cosa ti dico?
Me ne frego!
This girl is fun to get to know. She leads the Saunders Girls School and is a commander of an M4 American Sherman tank. In the episodes that feature her, Kay is a forgiving, happy person who is also full of energy, not finding a point to be friendly except when she yells at a teammate for cheating in the competition.
Mostly positive, she enjoys socializing with others and always offers things with open hands.
A Southern-based girl who leads Saunders based on the idea of fair play. She immediately withdrew two Sherman M4A3 tanks from her command when she found out that Alisa, the flag tank commander, breached Ooarai's radio communications, letting Ooarai's Hana take the shot at the M4A1 before Sniper Naomi knocked the PZ 4 D Anko team out. Kay helped Miho win by reducing tank quantity, diverging from her strategy of swarming tanks on Ooarai.
Nonna is Katyusha's best friend and surrogate mother/older sister figure, as well as the overall second-in-command of Pravda. She is a very calm and compassionate character, as well as beautiful. Her motherly personality shows often towards Commander Katyusha, and despite being yelled at, she still remains loyal and compassionate.
In Girls und Panzer der Film, she has proven her loyalty to Katyusha, even going as far as to sacrifice her tank for the commander, saying that she was more important. Also, she is the best tank gunner in the entire show, only missing one shot in the anime series. She is normally in a T-34-85 tank but can also operate the IS-2. She is the kind of woman any man would dream to have, as she can tolerate yelling while still remaining calm and compassionate.
She is also, in my opinion, the most attractive character in the anime, and has never lost her temper, always remaining graceful and elegant.
Momo is the (former) PR Manager of the Student Council and loader/gunner for the Turtle team and their Hetzer. She has medium-length black hair with her easily recognizable monocle. Personality-wise, she seems cold and strict, with an overwhelming dominance and control, especially towards people like Miho. But that's not really "her." She seems to try and hide it under a coat of ice, but her heated personality melted it away with her first outburst. This is when we started to see the real Momo. She is somewhat hot-headed, emotional, stressed but caring, and determined for her beloved friends and school.
Her stress probably comes from multiple different things piling up, like family life, her managing job, trying to think of new plans of attack, school exams and tests, and, of course, the school itself being shut down.
Aside from her character arcs, I like her on a more personal level. There are multiple things I can relate to, with me becoming an adult soon and going through my teenage years, such as the stress of family life, my easily annoyed temper, my somewhat cold and dry talking, getting emotional about certain things, and having bad social problems and anxiety.
But there are good things about Momo that I want to strive to be: being a good big brother for my siblings, staying determined and never giving in to self-doubt, keeping good friends close to me, keeping up the hard work, trying to be more social, and most importantly, being happy. Because if Momo, with all of her problems, can become happier, then I can too, even in these confusing times of my life.
I love you, Momo-Chan~
One of the main antagonists of the anime, Erika Itsumi shows harsh leadership alongside Miho's older sister Maho and their team, Kuromorimine. She's the commander of a Tiger II German heavy tank and the co-commander of their school's tankery team.
Throughout the anime, she appears alongside her commander Maho and tries to intimidate Miho for blemishing the school's record of victories for nine years in a row. Erika could also be classified as a "Hot Head," for in one of the episodes, a series of unfortunate events happens to her panzer that causes her to explode in anger, which seems somewhat amusing.
The Newcomers
The main character of the anime has many moments in which she's noticed and known. Despite having a troublesome past, she maintains a peaceful motive and is a very nice person who cares about her friends and even her enemies, like her older sister Maho and her friend Erika.
Miho is also a great commander for her entire team, who listens to and understands what her crew is saying and what they need. Thanks to her leadership and teamwork, Miho and her friends were able to shoot their way to victory.
Miho is shy, but she is really strong mentally. She is the one who raises the team spirit when the morale is poor. None of her opponents were able to bring her down, Erika in particular. The true leader, one of the better commanders in the series.
Saori is classified as a red-headed, long-haired, glasses-wearing, boy-chasing individual who's loyal to the Ooarai Girls School tankery team. She's the radio operator of the school's Panzer IV tank and always wants to look good in front of others. Mostly not talking much, she befriends Miho on the first day at school alongside Hanna.
Saori is the most beautiful girl in Anglerfish and everyone else.
Mako: Why does morning have to come?
Me: Amen, sister!
Skims a manual, becomes a master tank driver. Like, come on, is this really a debate?
Hanna is a tall, long black-haired girl who has a positive attitude and is always right when it comes to tight situations. She comes from a family involved with flowers and was kicked out of the household for wanting to be on the school's tankery team.
She's an accurate gunner on the Panzer IV who never has a hard time hitting targets and always has a cool head in combat.
Best gunner in the universe! And she convinced her mother to like tanks. I love Hanna. She's the best.
Clara is a tall, elegant girl with long, platinum blonde hair. Her personality is similar, if not exactly alike, to that of Nonna. They both act like older sisters/mothers to Katyusha. Clara, despite being a fairly new student, has managed to befriend Katyusha in a very short amount of time, and has become one of her most trusted team members, apart from Nonna.
Like Nonna, she is never seen losing her temper, and remains calm without raising her voice. She is also very attractive, as well as skilled at tankery.
Ave Caesar! Yeah, I'm just a sick Roman Republic/Empire fan, though.
She's a short-haired girl with a normal attitude and was the first to easily recognize Yukari, who was in disguise. While Arisa states her class (Oddball Division Team), this proves that Naomi has incredible senses. When she first meets Miho and the team, she offers them food as a peace offering. She took out three Ooarai Girls' School tanks.
She may sometimes eat gum. She operates a Firefly Sherman and is the gunner. If you wanted to pick a sniper, well, here's your sniper for Saunders Girl School.
