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Post by lordroel on Jan 30, 2016 13:51:12 GMT
You are correct, also find it strange that a Norwegian team is on the list, but maybe the makers of the manga/anime toughed the name Viking sounded nice. My Guess is that they just decided to ignore the cultural and bilungual difference between Sweden and Denmark and just lump all of Scandinavia into one School. Vikings are not a sole Norwegian Thing after all (no matter how much Norwegians would like to tell you differently.) Well lets see what in this timeline would be schools that can take part, that is if the makers of the Netherlands version of Girls und Panzers now about which country had tanks in the 1939 to 1945 period. Koala Forest Academy (Australia) Anzio Girls High School (Italy) Pravda Girls High School (Soviet Union) Saunders Girls High School (United States) Kuromorimine Girls High School (Germany) Orange Girls High School (Netherlands) St. Gloriana Girls High School (United Kingdom) Transylvanian Academy (Romania) Gregor High School (Czechoslovakia) Maple High School (Canada) Viggen High School (Sweden) Bonple High School (Poland) Maginot Girl's Academy (France) BC Free Academy (Vichy France + Free French Forces) Yogurt Academy (Bulgaria) Waffle Academy (Belgium) Chi-Ha-Tan Academy (Japan) Blue Division High School (Spain) Jatkosota High School (Finland)
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Post by eurowatch on Jan 30, 2016 14:05:25 GMT
Let's see. Saunders, Pravda, Kuromorimine, St. Gloriana, Orange, Chi-Ha-Tan, Waffle and Maginot would defenitly be shown (even if not all get as much screentime as the main Schools or get most of their background explained in the novelisation.) Koala or Maple would be delegated to the Saunders OVA to act as competition to the Americans and the rest would probably only be shown in a montage or minor roles during the Movie.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 30, 2016 14:21:16 GMT
Let's see. Saunders, Pravda, Kuromorimine, St. Gloriana, Orange, Chi-Ha-Tan, Waffle and Maginot would defenitly be shown (even if not all get as much screentime as the main Schools or get most of their background explained in the novelisation.) Koala or Maple would be delegated to the Saunders OVA to act as competition to the Americans and the rest would probably only be shown in a montage or minor roles during the Movie. I think that Waffle Academy, where our protagonist is with is under powered in firepower with only 3 light tanks types and 1 tank destroyer type, my guess is that they use large number of them, like Anzio Girls High School did when they fought Ōarai Girls High School in the This is the Real Anzio Battle! OVA. Also i would image that both Kuromorimine Girls High School (Germany) and Orange Girls High School (Netherlands) have some kind of rivalry on who has the best tanks and crews.
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Post by eurowatch on Jan 30, 2016 14:40:40 GMT
In this GuP Waffle primarly uses German and American hardware so they at least stand a chance and to prevent the main cast from becoming to big. The reason they onlly started enjoying any kind of notable sucsess under Mio's leadership is not because she made up half the IQ pool on the team but because she taught them how to utilise those tanks properly. Previously they had just raced ahead and hoped for the best.
Most of the big name teams tend to boast that they have the best tanks and/or crews, they just strive to keep the rivalries civil.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 30, 2016 14:49:56 GMT
In this GuP Waffle primarly uses German and American hardware so they at least stand a chance and to prevent the main cast from becoming to big. So the Waffle Academy would be like Ooarai Girls High School, using what ever tank they can find, maybe also one or two Belgian tanks included. This would be the a list of tanks in use with the Waffle Academy:Goat Team: German Panzer IV Ausf (1) Turtle Team: French/Belgian AMC-35/ACG-1 light tank (2). Hippo Team: Belgian T-13 tank destroyer (3). Duck Team: Japanese Type 89 I-G. Rabbit Team:American M3 Lee. Mallard Team French Char B-1bis. Anteater Team: Japanese Type-3 Chi-N. Leopon Team: German Tiger (P). (1) in OTL they are named after a anglerfish. (2) in OTL they used a German/Czech Panzer 38 (t) medium tank. (2) in OTL they used a German StuG. III Ausf.F
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Post by eurowatch on Feb 20, 2016 1:09:28 GMT
“Concerned Parents Wage War on Dutch Cartoon.”
The New York Times description of Idolgate.
Anime had never been unknown in the United States, instead it was viewed as something foreign, and thus excotic. The problem of breaking into the market lied more in that the medium was viewed as a niche market and that networks were only willing to buy British dubs. While cheap and acting as a sort of quality control, this practice only allowed a fraction of the amount of anime produced into the country. Just how much the US market was lagging behind that of Europe became apparent with the rise of the Internet. Suddenly it was possible for everybody to watch whatever anime they wanted, even if it was in a different language.
But what really solidified anime as a household name was the news story that would later be known as Idolgate, when numerous media watchdogs demanded that newly released anime Love Live! should be banned for containing lesbian characters.
Instead of complying with the demand, dubbing studio Funimation claimed that Dutch customs were simply more liberal than American ones and that nothing was wrong,
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) media watchdog PTA was not fooled and threatened to drag Funimation to court, all the while publicly warning everybody from watching such an amoral series. As everybody with any knowledge of crowd psychology could have told them, this had the exact opposite effect.
Instead of heeding the warning, tens of millions of people across the country watched the anime online, tempted both by the promise of hot lesbian girls and just to see what all the fuss was about. Within one month, owner of Funimation, Sunrise Studios bragged that all fourteen episodes were some of the most watched videos on their site and publicly thanked the PTA for the free advertising, before promising that the second season would be “even more intimate”.
In the end PTA simply gave up on trying to get Love Live! banned, likely realising the futility of their quest. Though they did get the last laugh as it was not the twelve episode animes European studios typically produced that would go on to dominate the US market, but action packed, long runners typically made in the DEI. TV Java has never let their rivals forget that Harry Potter (a joint British-Dutch production) and Bleach (made by a German studio) were the only shows able to get the same amount of popularity as the most famous series made in Batavia.
What European animes lacked in popularity for their products, they sought to make up for in involvement with their communities. Being in heavy competition with their rivals meant they were always on the lookout for new talent, and studios usually didn’t care much if that talent happened to be a foreigner. Most famous was self-taught web animator Monty Oum, who was hired by Breakthrough Studios after they found some of his videos on Youtube. After being given a crash course in Dutch, he was flown directly to Utrecht to work on the studio's latest project, the action-heavy series Hellsing. He was later promoted and given free reins to direct his own series, though he quit halfway into the second season of RWBY due to creative differences between him and the editor.
Few fans would even come close to Monty Oum’s success, though that did not stop them from emulating other facets of Dutch culture. By 2005 using words like “sukkel” (fool) or “sgattig” (a misspelling of schattig, meaning cute) was rapidly becoming the norm across the Internet, to the amusement and annoyance of native speakers. Language expert Jan Stroop is often quoted as having said that “everyone who speaks Dutch but doesn’t know the difference between de and het should be hit with De Dikke van Dalen until they get it right.”
By the time 2008 rolled around though, people would get more important thing to worry about than proper spelling. That year the greatest recession in memory hit the world and while the Netherlands and Germany were able to recover relatively quickly, South Europe was not so lucky.
Like most industries, the anime industry was hit hard by the recession with studios closing frequently. Desperate for work, animators moved in droves to Northern Europe in search of employment, flooding any job market with shear surplus and forcing the studios to close their doors to potential applicants.
Yet this was but one of the industry's problem. As Bas Kappert pointed out, “the studios are full of animators who don’t want to look at other people and writers who only want to write about their favourite series. There is almost no imagination left, only repetition.”
Wim van Loo was more direct in his assessment, stating that “we no longer write characters, we write archetypes.”
While this news did not create panic among fans, they were be more interested in the fact that leading experts predicted that the industry soon was going to run out of content to adapt. After this tipping point, quickly dubbed “peak anime” by image boards, studios were only going to produce less and less as they struggled to find new material to use as inspiration.
They got a taste of what was to come during 2015’s “the summer of remakes”, when seemingly every anime except for the Swedish The Perfect Insider was a remake of some kind.
Some optimists have suggested that this will cause studios to revert to create original content like the days of old, others have pointed to visual novels, an industry still in its infancy, as a source of inspiration. But only time will tell how the future of anime is going to look.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 20, 2016 14:25:31 GMT
Nice article but Batavia is stil the name of the capitol of the NEI and not Jakarta.
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Post by eurowatch on Feb 20, 2016 15:31:01 GMT
Nice article but Batavia is stil the name of the capitol of the NEI and not Jakarta. Fixed. What do you want me to Write about next?
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Post by lordroel on Feb 20, 2016 15:45:03 GMT
Nice article but Batavia is stil the name of the capitol of the NEI and not Jakarta. Fixed. What do you want me to Write about next? No Dutch anime is complete if there are any Gundams in it.
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Post by eurowatch on Feb 20, 2016 16:12:08 GMT
Fixed. What do you want me to Write about next? No Dutch anime is complete if there aren't any Gundams in it. That is going to be difficult because I have never watched any Gundam, but I'll try. Mobile Suit Gundam: If it did not create the super robot genre, then it at least is one of its most famous influences. First released in 1989, a mere month after its creator’s death, it would go on to become one of the most popular series that year, earning a second season and a spin-of. Despite its fame, other studios were reluctant to buy the copyrights of the franchise, afraid that they would be unable to earn back the high price asked. In the end the issue would solve itself when Spitsuur Studios remaining library became public property at the orders of the Ministry of Culture. Since then the Gundam franchise has become famous for many of the tropes it pioneered, being very popular in Germany and having more studios involved then one can shake a stick at. Any other animes you would like to know about?
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Post by lordroel on Feb 20, 2016 16:28:14 GMT
No Dutch anime is complete if there aren't any Gundams in it. That is going to be difficult because I have never watched any Gundam, but I'll try. Mobile Suit Gundam: If it did not create the super robot genre, then it at least is one of its most famous influences. First released in 1989, a mere month after its creator’s death, it would go on to become one of the most popular series that year, earning a second season and a spin-of. Despite its fame, other studios were reluctant to buy the copyrights of the franchise, afraid that they would be unable to earn back the high price asked. In the end the issue would solve itself when Spitsuur Studios remaining library became public property at the orders of the Ministry of Culture. Since then the Gundam franchise has become famous for many of the tropes it pioneered, being very popular in Germany and having more studios involved then one can shake a stick at. Any other animes you would like to know about? Not that i can think of right now, but will let you now if any title pops up in my head.
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