Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! Act 1 (2025)

Interesting facts

Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! is a four-part Japanese animated film series based on the manga series of the same name by Maruko Nii. Produced by P.A. Works and Actas, and distributed by Showgate, the film series was directed by Masami Shimoda, with Takahiko Usui serving as the series director, from a script written by Noboru Kimura, who also supervised the series composition. It features the daily lives of Girls und Panzer characters outside of sensha-dō.

Production

In March 2025, a four-part film series adaptation of Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!, a spin-off manga series of Girls und Panzer illustrated by Maruko Nii, was revealed to be in the works at P.A. Works and Actas. Masami Shimoda was announced as its director and Takahiko Usui would serve as the series director.

In July 2025, the staff working on the film series were revealed, including Motonari Ichikawa as the 3DCG director, Sachiko Harada as the color designer, Daichi Asakura as the art director, Junya Kodama as the director of photography, and Masato Yoshitake as the editor, with Yuko Iwaoka joining Kawazura, Akiyama, and Mizuno as one of the chief animation directors.

The film series was structured in an "omnibus" format containing shuffled chapters from across the manga's 20 volumes instead of tracing the source material. Shimoda revealed that each film had a "jo-ha-kyū rhythm" but stated that at the end of the first film "Erika leaves us with a question mark, but that mystery will be resolved by the time you reach [the fourth film]."

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