Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part I (2017) on Netflix

NR201747mAction Animation Comedy

Momo Kawashima has no university acceptance, and Ōarai Girls' Academy is missing its ninth tank. Her friends make her commander of the tank teams, entering the Winter Continuous Track Cup.

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Winter arrives, and Momo Kawashima hunts for Ōarai Girls' Academy's ninth tank, which has gone missing. Word spreads that no university has accepted her, along with a rumor that she may be held back. Miho Nishizumi and her friends think Momo can win a place at the university Anzu Kadotani and Yuzu Koyama attend if she shows skill at Sensha-dō. They make her commander of the school's tank teams and sign up for the Winter Continuous Track Cup. Anglerfish Team goes below the aircraft carrier's deck to search for the tank and takes on challenges from Ogin's group.

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Screenwriter Reiko Yoshida said the sequel was originally intended as an original video animation; once it became a six-film series, she wrote the script starting from the last film and finishing with the first to adjust the story's overall length.
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 1 was completed in December 2017 only four days before its release, an unusually tight finish for a film's first instalment.
Work on Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 3 carried on through the COVID-19 pandemic; director Tsutomu Mizushima said in May 2020 that the staff had begun editing and were preparing for the cast's dialogue recording.
For the jungle match between Ōarai Girls' Academy and Chihatan Gakuen in Part 2, the staff used the video game engine Unreal Engine 4.
For Part 4, Studio Katyusha used 3DCG for about 800 cuts and Unreal Engine for another 600 or more cuts.