1 I'm really amazed that no one has brought out a sub yet. I've been eagerly looking.

2

OK, a sub by AK-Submarine (who?) just showed up. And it's even more fun now.

3 This is random, but I realized that the GnP character designs are really quite perfect for the content.  They're not too "appealing" on the sexual aspect, but they're not supremely moe.  Somehow the wider heads end up working really well for the story they are telling.
Which is still an insane story, but it's awesome.

4

It's a fantasy, and it doesn't make sense in lots of ways. One fundamental, undefendable rule is "No one ever gets hurt."

They play games with the cannons and ammo, for instance. Anko's gun was powerful enough to penetrate the rear armor of a Tiger and make a really nice, BIG hole, and yet they never penetrate the crew compartments of any tank. The tanks sometimes have accidents of various kinds where they roll, or run into things, and those ought by any rights to cause insane injuries to the crew, but they never do. One of the Anzio tank destroyers somersaults twice at the end of this battle, but everyone walks away. And the kind of things that were happening to the tankettes should have killed their crews even if it didn't set off a white flag, but it never did.

It's handled nicely; they sneak it in. The very first shot in the series that hits is in ep 2 when Anko (not called that then) hits the STuG, and it sets off a white flag -- but doesn't explode. It acts like the round was made of ceramic, and just shatters.

As the show goes forward, the rounds get more and more powerful. No one comments on it; it's just snuck in, until you get that shot into the rear of the Tiger in ep 12.

And I've never seen any fan complain about it, because they pull you in. The school ships, the whole concept, is so weird, and so wonderful, that the audience reaches the point where they'll forgive anything. It's masterful story telling.

5

There's another sub out now, by "loligeddon". It's better.

I think it's a better translation, and they translate things like signs and text on computer screens. It's also a larger file and I think the video might be slightly cleaner.

It's on Nyaatorrents and it was announced on TokyoTosho.