Girls und Panzer/YMMV

"Shiho: That's absolute heresy. If you're my daughter, you'll show her the one true way to fight."
 * Abusive Parents: Shiho is never shown to raise a hand against her daughters, but her parenting has left Miho with PTSD from a high-school sport (over an incident where she should have felt pride for rescuing her teammates from possibly dying) and socially isolated. This could be chalked up to disastrously poor communication and misunderstanding, but then she travels to Oarai's semi-final match against Pravda with the sole purpose of watching Miho lose and disinheriting her.  Oarai wins, setting up the final match against Kuromorimine, but Shiho claims this is due to luck and Pravda letting their guard down.  When Maho defends Miho's methods of adapting and bringing her team together, as opposed to the rigid and ruthless Nishizumi style, Shiho replies:


 * Before we even see Shiho, the first episode shows Miho reminding herself, with sudden delight, that she's not living with her family any longer. What that tells the viewer about Miho's home life....
 * Awesome Music: Much of the soundtrack is composed of military and national songs, which are all awesome.
 * St. Gloriana: The British Grenadiers
 * Saunders: The US Field Artillery March, ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic
 * Pravda: Katyusha, Polyushko-polye
 * Kuromorimine: Panzerlied
 * Chihatan: Yuki no Shingun
 * In The Movie, when the other schools band together to help Oarai against the University Combined Team, a stirring medley of all of the school's themes plays.
 * Oarai's theme is not derived from any particular nation, but it's still good. Panzer Vor!
 * Most Wonderful Sound: The "thwap!" of a surrender flag. (Unless it belongs to a friendly tank, of course.)
 * Subbing Versus Dubbing: The English dub is generally good, but the songs with lyrics did not make the transition well. Katyusha (Ep 8) got completely replaced by an instrumental arrangement of Korobeiniki, and the "Anglerfish Dance" and Yuki no Shingun (Ep 9) were translated and sung in English, which gets a little stilted.
 * On the other side, some of the subtitles get a little odd. In the second OVA ("Survival War!"), "Itadakimasu" is subtitled as "Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub!" -- which is a classic "camp grace", but not exactly in-character for the girls.  Later, during the spam sketch, "Urusai!" is translated as "It's annoying!"  This might be the literal meaning, but the colloquial translation ("Shut up!") would fit the Monty Python theme better.