Anzu

Anzu Kadotani Height: 142 cm (4'7") Hometown: Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture Birth Date: 2006 January 1st Affiliation(s): Ooarai Girls Academy Team: Turtle Team Role(s): Ooarai Girls Academy Chairman, Student Council (President) (formerly) Tank commander Radio operator Gunner Tank(s): Panzer 38(t), Hetzer

Appearance: Anzu is a short girl with a long twin ponytail tied by black little ribbons , light brown hair and a pair of brown eyes. She is seen to wear Oarai school uniform or Oarai Sensha-do uniform.

Personality: Anzu is well known for her manipulative personality, and is quite talented at getting others to do what she wants. Sometimes she seems to be quite cold and aloof, but most of time she is remarkably hyperactive, for example when forcing Miho Nishizumi to join the Sensha-dō team, much to the latter's reluctance. However, she was later revealed to actually be kindhearted and friendly, with her apparent imperiousness being motivated by her strong interest in the school's survival. She is mostly shown to be cheerful, talkative, smiling and cheeky regardless of the situation, often upon the point of seeming carelessness. She is also famous for being quite lazy and indolent, always relaxing and fooling around while making others (especially Yuzu) take care of administrative work and other tasks.

However, she always lends support when people get in trouble, and she has shown herself to be quite determined and a quick learner, when the situation calls for it. She is also a surprisingly good leader, and behind her laziness is also a sort of management style, as she can micromanage everything effectively in her laid-back style.

She is also notorious for loving sweet dried potatoes, which she is frequently seen eating, especially during Sensha-dō matches.

Background: Anzu became the Ooarai Girls Academy student council president when she was just a first-year, along with Momo and Yuzu, but how they came to their positions was not shown. She was responsible for the revival of Ooarai's Sensha-dō team in a last-ditch effort to keep the school from closing due to financial problems and decreased enrollment (although this fact was not revealed until much later), but she admited that she been maybe in fact motivated by interest of Sensha-do. She first forced Miho Nishizumi to join the team because she was aware of Miho's background as the only student in Ooarai with Sensha-dō experience; at first Miho refused, but, when her friends stood up for her to Anzu's supposed threats, she relented because of sentiment to her friends who wanted to join Sensha-do.

For their first mock-up match, supervised by their instructor Ami Chōno, Anzu was assigned to the Panzer 38(t) as the commander/radio operator, along with the rest of the student council which included the vice-president Yuzu Koyama and the PR manager Momo Kawashima. Later, her team was dubbed "Turtle Team".

During the semi-final round match of the Sensha-dō competition against Pravda Girls High School, the secret about Ooarai's possible fate is finally revealed by Momo Kawashima during a desperate moment (the Student Council had almost revealed it to Miho before, but ultimately kept it a secret since they did not want to give Miho too much pressure), and Anzu confirmed that a victory in the Tournament was necessary to save their home; this spurred Miho and all the others to keep fighting on. In the subsequent fight, Anzu showed her own determination by finally taking over the gunner's position from Momo, and instructing Yuzu to drive dangerously near Pravda's vanguard tanks to allow her to shoot at them at point-blank range; she managed to take out two of Pravda's tanks and damaged some more before being hit by Nonna.

Prior to the final round match of the Sensha-dō competition against Kuromorimine Girls Academy, Anzu bought a kit to convert their Panzer 38(t) into a Hetzer tank destroyer to improve their line-up, with herself as the gunner; she showed off her sharpshooting skill by crippling several enemy tanks with well-aimed shots.

Later, she participated in the celebratory events for Ooarai's victory, going so far as to hug Miho to express her gratitude. During the banquet, her team was declared the winner of the Hidden Talent Contest much to everyone's disdain, all but confirmed when it was revealed that the grand prize was a huge quantity of sweet dried potatoes valued by Anzu which made the others settle down.

In Der Film, Oarai Girls Academy was almost closed. Although it was negotiated that Oarai Girls academy would not be closed if its Sensha-do team won 63rd National High School Senshado Tournament, this hadn’t been released as a binding agreement. However, Anzu, together with Shichiro Kodama, Shiho Nishizumi and Ami Chono, by pressure methods to Head of MEXT School Carriers Department, Renta Tsuji, negotiated a Sensha-do match with the All-Stars University Team. Tsuji officially signed an agreement that, in an Oarai victory, the school shall not be shut down. He believes that Oarai, vastly outnumbered and outgunned, do not stand a chance and didn’t expect the other schools to transfer extra students and tanks to aid Oarai’s cause.

In das Finale, she, in order to aid Momo with her efforts to get into University, initiated the resignation of the old student council in favor of new a one created out of members of Anglerfish team with Saori Takebe as the PR manager, Yukari Akiyama as the vice-president and Hana Isuzu as the new president.

Trivia: It is stated that Anzu, along with Yuzu Koyama and Momo Kawashima, already joined the student council in their first year. Anzu's favorite flower is sunflowers, and her favorite tank is the T28 Super Heavy Tank.

When Anzu pressured Miho Nishizumi to join the revived Sensha-dō team, she remarked, "If you don't join, you won't be here for long." Miho, Hana Isuzu and Saori Takebe assumed that this was a transparent threat of expulsion if they didn't give in to her request, but it later turned out that she was ominously referring to the danger of the school being closed at the end of the year if they didn't win the Tournament, or even join the Sensha-dō club.

When Anzu served as the gunner during the second half of Pravda match, she showed a marksman's ability, almost rivaling Hana's own talent. She is shown to have only missed one shot whilst attacking Pravda's vanguard tank. Even though she only managed to immobilize two tanks, the other tanks did suffer damage, which delayed their objective of joining Pravda's main force. Anzu is often called “Prez” by her fellow students which is short for “President“. Anzu is good at cooking. It is revealed that both Anzu and Yuzu applied to Shimofusa National University, which offers an admission office entrance exam. It is revealed that Anzu has stepped down from the position of being the president, giving the spot to Hana. It is also revealed she is now the Chairman of Ooarai Girls Academy.