1 When I saw "Bridge over the River Kawaii" at Sea Slugs, I really wanted to have come up with that line.  Was great.

I think the reason why the series is working so well is that it's in the standard anime-viewer's wheel house (we've all seen at least a few moe series), doesn't treat its audience as stupid, knows what it wants to be (and sticks to that), and, lastly, it doesn't get in the way of everyone getting their WW2 Tank geek on.  You can make an argument that it's a Tank-moe series.  Thus hitting 2 major Otaku categories at once, without pissing either off.

Which is normally how a genre-splitting series pulls off being popular.

2 When I saw "Bridge over the River Kawaii" at Sea Slugs, I really wanted to have come up with that line.  Was great.

I did, and was going to use it in a promo post I was going to write tonight.  Not anymore I'm not.  *sigh*  Damn work anyway.

3 Any show that can successfully pull off chibi tanks demonstrates a true understanding of moe.

4

When I saw "Bridge over the River Kawaii" at Sea Slugs, I really wanted to have come up with that line.

When I was making this post, I almost said "I wish I thought of that".

5 I really should have watched this show. I've been planning to use that line for some time but it never meshed with any pics.  This screencap was a more perfect fit that I could have ever imagined possible.  

Sea Slugs FTW!

6 It's not too late to catch up. (I recommend Hiryuu.)

7 I have to say, this is much, much better than Upotte!  The opening episode was a little clunky, but by the third I'm hooked on this.  It's simply fun, and the suspensions of disbelief are not that hard to come by.  To rephrase, I think this has an honest heart, and it's not complete madness, madness.  

So I'll celebrate with Colonel Bogey's march.

8

It would be hard to be worse than Upotte, which was trash.

And I'd like to say that I fully agree with the director's decision to leave out the panchira. Frankly, I think it would have spoiled the show.