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[[File:Super-Deformed Girls und Panzer.jpg|thumb|550px|[[Loads and Loads of Characters|Loads and Loads]] of [[Super-Deformed| Super-Deformed Characters]]. Missing: the girls from Saunders, Kuromorimine, and Chi-hatan; Carpaccio and Pepperoni from Anzio; Klara from Pravda; the university team from ''Der Film''; all of the adults; anyone introduced in ''Das Finale'' including Shark Team; and all of the manga-only characters.]]

 

 

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* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: She seems to be competent at running the Council and its affairs, but [[High School Hustler|likes to push the work off on others]] as much as possible. She reclines her office chair, closes her eyes, and says cheerfully, "Fortune comes to those who wait, and sleep."

* [[Japanese Honorifics]]: She uses the "-chan" suffix with Miho's '''surname''', expressing a bizarre mix of intimacy and distance.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: She '''had''' a reason beyond the search for prestige to force Miho back into tankery. Now, [[Poor Communication Kills|if only she'd '''explained''' it]]. Also, she acknowledged that the loss against St. Gloriana was a collective responsibility, and thus decreed the Council would [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|pay the penalty]] along with Miho (and her friends).

* [[Supreme Chef]]: In the second OVA, Rabbit Team was trying to speed up the process of cooking, and wound up setting the prospective meal on fire. Anzu then took charge, salvaged the food, and made it delicious, too.

 

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* [[The Leader]]: [[Determinator|Determined]] and a student of tactics, shown at one point in ''Der Film'' taking tactical notes while watching a movie involving an M3.

** ''Gekitou! Maginot-sen Desu!!'' portrays her developing a bit of this even before the tournament began; she improvised a battle plan by which Rabbit {{spoiler|and Turtle Teams, supporting each other, took down a SOMUA S35 (47mm gun, upgraded so it could punch through the armor of anything Oarai had) and a Char B1 bis (47mm gun, 75mm howitzer, and '''very''' tough armor)}} while Anglerfish was fighting another S35.

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[[File:Girls und Panzer - Nekonyaa.png|thumb|200px|A rare official image of Nekota with her glasses off.]]

 

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Without her glasses, she looks almost exactly like a fairly typical [[Leiji Matsumoto]] heroine — [[Galaxy Express 999|Maetel]], for instance. This is likely to be a deliberate Shout Out, because her Matsumoto-style eyes don't look quite like those of anyone else in ''Girls und Panzer''.

* [[Cat Eared Headband]]: To go with her name and nickname.

* [[Opaque Nerd Glasses]]: Of the swirly lines variety.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Nekota is '''very''' shy. In OVA 7, chronologically before the end of Episode 7, she approaches Miho in a hallway, raises a hand, and then freezes, unable to get any words out. Miho walks past, not realizing the other girl wanted to talk to her. This leads to the Expressive Ear-drooping scene mentioned above.

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* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: She wears a peach-shaped eyepatch, presumably in reference to her name (or is it a nickname?).<ref>[[Recap Episode]] 10.5 mentions that her favorite flower is the peach.</ref> There's no evidence that this is anything other than a fashion accessory. In the final scenes of the anime, she's pulled it down to hang around her neck; the eye it usually covers looks completely normal.

* [[Had the Silly Thing In Reverse]]: She knew which gear she '''wanted''' to shift into, but put the tank into reverse through clumsiness (because the shift lever was so hard to move) rather than by mistake.

 

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* [[Boobs of Steel]]: When you consider her, um, endowment, and then the example given above for her team Taking a Level in Badass....

* [[Curtains Match the Windows]]: Gray hair (?!) and eyes.

 

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* [[National Stereotypes]]: They have the British ones, including:

** [[Brits With Battleships]]: Well, there's no battleships to be found, but their school ship is named the ''Ark Royal'', and they use British tanks, such as the Churchill (75mm gun), the Crusader (40mm gun), and several Matilda IIs (40mm gun). The Churchill and Matildas are "infantry tanks," relatively slow-moving; the Crusader sacrifices armor to get a maximum road speed nearly twice that of a Matilda.

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: It is ... '''unlikely''' that a Japanese girl's parents named her "Darjeeling." Even a genuine English girl wouldn't be christened "Orange Pekoe."

* [[Theme Naming]]: Or Theme Nicknaming - all of the team members are names after varieties of black tea or herbal tea.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Not only did her cheating '''not''' win the match, it didn't {{spoiler|disable even a single Oarai tank, and '''did''' misguide one of her own side's tanks into an ambush where it was zapped}}. '''And''' it got her a chewing-out from Kay. ''Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!'' shows other schemes going bad on her, for instance [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Funny|when she tries infiltrating Oarai]] in a ludicrous [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]. As a spy, Alisa doesn't remotely compare to Yukari.

* [[Evil Gloating]]/[[Evil Laugh]]: She indulges a little during the match against Oarai. {{spoiler|It doesn't count as [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]] because Saunders doesn't actually win.}}

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: As mentioned above; if there's a loophole in the rules, she'll use it.

* [[Sore Loser]]: Averted, surprisingly enough. She's genuinely ashamed for disappointing Kay with her tactics, and supportive of Oarai during ''Der Film''.

 

== Anzio Girls High School ==

 

An Italian-themed school; their emblem is a pizza with asparagus and brown olive toppings. Their home base is landlocked Tochigi Prefecture bordering Ibaraki, and thus physically closer to Oarai than any of the other schools. They are Oarai's second opponent in the tournament. In OVA 7, ''This is the Real Anzio Battle!'', Anzio is equipped with three Semovente assault guns (75mm), six tankettes with twin 8mm machine guns, and as a recently acquired secret weapon, a "heavy" tank with another 75mm gun. The manga has them using fewer tankettes, the others replaced by Fiat Carro Armato M13/40 tanks with a 47mm main gun ... and the heavy tank isn't said to be a new asset.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: After Mako lost her parents.

 

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