[Girls und Panzer] The famous commander who created miracles: Nishizumi Miho

Nishizumi Miho is the main character of the anime "Girls und Panzer" and captain of the tank team at the weak Oarai Girls' Academy. Thanks to her efforts, Oarai continued to advance, but she also had various worries and conflicts, and led the team to a miraculous victory. This time, we will introduce Miho's abilities and worries.

Nishizumi Miho's profile

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Although Miho is the captain of the Oarai Girls' Academy Tankery Team, she is shy and withdrawn, and is not the type to lead the team, but rather is easily influenced by others' opinions. When she transferred to Oarai, she had no friends in her class and was alone. She is also a bit of a scatterbrain, and gets flustered when something happens. Miho doesn't look like a captain in her everyday life, but once she gets in a tank, her expression tightens and she uses the knowledge of tanks and tactics she has acquired since childhood to lead the team with vigor. By the way, although you wouldn't imagine it from her appearance, she has good athletic ability and can easily run a 10km marathon. He had good dynamic vision thanks to watching the shells flying at high speed, and when a student from the maritime department attacked him, he dodged the punch with ease, and even when he was charged, he threw him back, showing how strong he was despite his appearance.

Military God Nishizumi Miho

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In the story, Oarai won their first national championship despite being full of inexperienced tank drivers and having low-spec vehicles, but the person at the center of it all was the captain, Miho. Before a match, she carefully checks the opponent's vehicles and formations, plans countermeasures, looks at the map to read the terrain, and from that terrain, predicts where the opponent will be deployed and develops a strategy. Since Oarai is always at a disadvantage in terms of numbers and performance, Miho comes up with all sorts of strategies to isolate the opponent's flag vehicle. She uses the opponent's wiretapping to spread false information, takes advantage of the darkness while fleeing from the enemy's pursuit to secretly split up the team to search for the flag vehicle, blocks the only entrance with a heavy tank, preventing the opponent's reinforcements from entering and creating an opportunity for a one-on-one with the flag vehicle, and uses every trick in the book to snatch victory. Her command in matches is impressive, but she also devotes herself to training her team members, teaching inexperienced members tactics, artillery fire, and driving advice from scratch during practice.

Nishizumi Miho ran away from Sensha-do

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As the daughter of the head of the Nishizumi school and a student at the prestigious Kuromorimine Girls Academy, it was expected that she would carry the Nishizumi school in the future. However, Miho herself had doubts about Nishizumi-style Tankery. Then, during the national tournament when she participated in as a first-year student at Kuromorimine Girls' Academy, Miho's unilateral actions in an attempt to save her teammates caused Kuromorimine to lose and miss out on their 10th consecutive victory. Miho's mother, Nishizumi Shiho, scolded her for this action, saying, "You cannot achieve great victories without sacrifice." This experience left Miho with a complex about not only the Nishizumi style, but Tankery itself, so she fled and transferred to Oarai Girls' Academy, which did not offer Tankery classes.

Nishizumi Miho supported by many friends

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Miho was a great leader, but she couldn't have led the team to victory alone. She was able to win thanks to the support of her team members. In particular, the support of the Anko team was a big catalyst for Miho to find her own way in tank racing. Takebe Saori surprised Miho by putting mirrors and air fresheners in the tank, a very girly style far removed from the uptight tank driving style Miho knew, even among those who had never done tank driving before. This was the trigger for Miho to discover a new form of tank driving. Isuzu Hana taught her strength as a woman and a gunner, and as the daughter of a head of a school, she had something to learn from her. Akiyama Yukari was a great support, providing reconnaissance before and during matches, tactical support using her military otaku knowledge, and affirming that Miho was "not wrong" when she made mistakes during her time at Kuromorimine. Reizei Mako demonstrated her exceptional piloting skills and carried out even the most unreasonable orders properly. There are many strategies that would not have been possible without Mako's skills. The other team members also trusted Miho and followed her, making her an important ally.

Nishizumi Miho's Bold Actions

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Miho is usually a quiet person, but when she gets on a tank, she often takes unexpectedly bold actions. Even though it's dangerous with shells flying around during the match, Nishizumi leans out of the cupola to take command, saying, "It's rare that we'll get hit." In the story, many tank commanders hide inside their tanks when the battle begins, but Nishizumi-style tank commanders seem to stay outside as much as possible. In the battle against Pravda, she even does the dangerous thing of standing on the cupola with her whole body exposed, even while the tank is moving. Also, in the bath scene with her teammates, she is bold enough to stand up without covering her front at all, even though the people around her are the same sex. However, she is not as brave as Hana, and when walking through the dark interior of the ship or among the rough-looking students at the bottom of the ship, she walks around timidly as usual. She was raised by a mother who was scarier than demons, but...

Nishizumi Miho as a child

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Miho's childhood is depicted in the movie and related works, and she seems to have been a much more active child than she is now. She was a lively child, eating ice cream in one go, trying to jump off a tank even though she was still small, and running around innocently along the rice paddy paths. However, as she grew up, she was forced to carry the Nishizumi style, and her older sister Maho, who had always been by her side, was becoming more and more talented and ahead of her, so she began to feel distant, which led to the personality she has today.

Nishizumi Miho's Strange Hobbies

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Miho's hobby is collecting stuffed animals, a very normal girl's hobby. She has a teddy bear on display in her room, making it a girly room. But the bear is a little strange. His name is "Boko", the beaten up bear, and he is a bear character with bandages and bandages all over his body, looking like a painful sight. Boko is short-tempered and quick to fight, but unfortunately he is weak and always ends up getting beaten back and injured. The reason Miho likes Boko is because he has the tenacity to face strong opponents no matter how weak he is, and never give up no matter how many times he is defeated. Even the Anglerfish Team seems a little put off by this. However, Miho doesn't mind. "That's just Boko." Incidentally, when Miho discovered an attraction called the "Boko Museum" in Oarai, her reaction was the most exciting in the story, and the others couldn't keep up. How much does she like him?

Nishizumi Miho's tank road discovered with her friends

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So far, we have introduced Miho's abilities, past, and unexpected side, but Miho's charm is her unyielding spirit and her caring for her friends. It's true that during her time at Kuromorimine, Miho lost because she abandoned her roles as vice-captain and flag car to go and rescue her teammates, but everyone at Oarai trusts and relies on her. In the finals, everyone accepted Miho when she tried to save Team Usagi, who was almost swept away by the river. Miho never gave up for the sake of her teammates, no matter how impossible the battle, and she took the lead and took command, and everyone responded with all their might and supported her. Through the national tournament, Miho found her own way in tankery - "fighting alongside her teammates."

This time it's the vice captain Nishizumi Miho

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In the final chapter, while Saori, Hana, and Yukari from the Anglerfish Team become student council members, Miho does not become an officer in order to focus on commanding Sensha-do. However, for some reason, in the Infinite Track Cup, Momo Kawashima, a senior and third-year student, will be the captain, and Miho will support her as the vice-captain. In reality, Miho is the one who is planning the strategies, so Momo is the captain in name only, but I'm looking forward to seeing how Miho will perform as vice-captain for the first time in a while, and seeing her in a different light than before.