Tthere is a WW2 historical Youtube site that has brief clips of what appears to be an Anime series, which portrays WW2 Warships as anime girls
the version of USS Enterprse, seen in a few frames here, is fetching
What is the title of that Anime series? I know about Girls Und Panzer.
And, are there other, similar Anime or Manga titles?
Dude, that thing is nearly 90 minutes long. Maybe point out when those few frames are?
try 53:24 for good images
OK, one is called “Azure Lane”.
Originally was a video game.
It then became an animated series.
Are you even talking about the video posted in your OP? Or some other video?
I just watched the video in the OP from 51:00 to 55:00. It had 2 seconds of a Star Wars scene, about 3 seconds of some anime teenage boy, and 4:55 of WWII B&W documentary footage.
Maybe this thread needs to be closed and tried again.
Several other people have been able to be of help.
Here is another game based on anthropomorphic female warships. (Yes, there are enough to be a category.)
Specifically warships? Specifically girls?
Because the broader “X imagined as personified anime characters” is a whole big thing. I’m thinking of Hetalia, for one.
Hmmm–interesting.
There’s also a Chinese knock-off specifically of the KanColle game, if that’s what floats your boat.
and if you’re interested in the broader … genre, I guess you’d call it (check out especially the Based on Military Vehicles and Based on Military Weapons subcategories):
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The specific trope of military hardware as cute girl is also known as mecha musume or shōjo:
MrDibble–you get the Gold Star.
My thanks.
The origin of anime women as World War 2 equipment was basically Strike Witches, where it took actual WW2 combat aces, made them teenage girls, gave them witch powers and they flew around with prop engines based on actual WW2 aircraft on their feet.
Kantai Collection (KanColle) was basically the video game equivalent which kick-started the whole naval version of this. It basically made every ship in the Japanese navy into a cute anime girl.
Azur Lane is basically a rip-off of KanColle but did it one better by not limiting it to only Japanese ships, and their version of the USS Enterprise is basically THE version you see all over the internet.
Girls UND Panzer is an outlier where it’s not based on actual WW2 material, rather it’s basically like high schoolers doing a demolition derby/paintball in actual WW2 tanks.
Basically anytime you see anime girls in WW2 it’s based on the above four franchises.