Read more about Mika (Girls und Panzer) at: Wikipedia Official Site: Crunchyroll Girls und Panzer is a 2012 Japanese anime television series created by Actas, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, and produced by Kiyoshi Sugiyama. It depicts a competition between girls' high schools practicing tank warfare as a sport called , the art of operating tanks. The English dub refers to it as "tankery". is the school ship stationed in Ōarai, Ibaraki that previously had a Sensha-dŠprogram abolished years ago, and has just been recently reinstituted. They are thus forced to make do with whatever leftover tanks they have been able to find, and, unlike the other teams, field a hodgepodge of tanks from various countries. The school insignia is the two kanji for superimposed atop one another in stylized form. The school ship of Ōarai Girls High School is based on the IJN Shokaku-class aircraft carrier. They also use a transport ship that looks quite similar to the Japanese battleship Mikasa. All of the protagonists are students from the school and members of its Sensha-dŠteam while being divided into teams and their own respective tanks. The main protagonists make up the of Ōarai Girls High School's Sensha-dŠteam, with Miho serving as commander. They were assigned the German Panzer IV Ausf. D, armed with the short-barreled 75mm KwK 37 L/24 gun that is mostly used for infantry support. The tank was later upgraded to a Panzer IV Ausf. F2 when they found a long-barreled 75mm KwK 40 L/43 anti-tank cannon which was being used to hang clothes out to dry. It was upgraded again to Ausf. H, called the "Mk IV Special" in the series, for the Sensha-dŠtournament finals match by adding "Schürzen" spaced armour.
Mika (Girls und Panzer) has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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