Yukari Akiyama | Girls und Panzer

"Your humble Yukari Akiyama Tank Corner!"

―Yukari in her own special Tank Corner

If it's wearing Dunkelgrau or olive drab, Yukari Akiyama's likely to go nuts over it. She's a grade A-1, card-carrying, certified military geek - collecting, researching, and appreciating anything from the world's armed forces. From the world's most powerful weapons, to the most meagre of MREs, Yukari either knows a thing or two about it - or has it sitting on a shelf on her bedroom wall.

Being passionate about the armed forces doesn't come with a lot of perks, though. When you're the only person in the room who looks, sounds, and has the same interests as most boys - except, you aren't one - growing up can be lonely. More often than not, Yukari was alone in her love for military memorabilia.

Then, everything changed when the school's sensha-do team was revived. Yukari met Miho Nishizumi and her friends - and the rest is history.

Yukari usually serves as her team's ammunition loader, though she shines in virtually any role on a tank's crew. However, where she really stands out is in espionage - she regularly executes covert missions to gain intelligence on rival schools' tanks, tactics, and team dynamics. More often than not, Yukari's spying efforts have been invaluable in Ooarai's success on the high school sensha-do circuit - bar that one time in which she was fooled by BC Freedom.

These days, Yukari also has an additional billet as Ooarai's student council vice president. She's come a long way from that girl who didn't really belong. Safe to say, she's finally found the place where she can be herself, surrounded by those who care about her.

Yukari has a medium build, with messy, fluffy dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes. She is usually seen wearing the Ooarai school uniform, and tends to dress in more boyish clothes on days off. Height 157 cm

During Sensha-do practice and in matches, Yukari wears the blue Ooarai sensha-do jacket, and also wears black gloves when handling ammunition.

As a child, Yukari had extremely short hair (similar to a boy's), styled in a punch perm. She grew her hair out in middle school as perms were not allowed.

Yukari is the third new friend of Miho Nishizumi, since her transfer to Ooarai Girls Academy. She admires Miho intensely, almost like a starstruck fan. Yukari followed Miho's exploits during the previous Senshado Tournament finals and respects her decision to save her teammates.

During the mock match against the other girls from Ooarai's senshado team (which was supervised by their acting instructor Ami Chōno), Yukari acted as the gunner for Miho's tank and managed to hit every other tank on the field. After they won the mock-up match, Yukari offered to be the team's loader to allow Hana Isuzu to use her newfound skills as a gunner. Later, Yukari's tank crew would be called "Anglerfish Team."

Unknown to the rest of her team, Yukari infiltrated Saunders University High School's ship disguised as a Saunders student to learn about their strategies for the upcoming match against Ooarai in the national tournament. She managed to learn which tanks Saunders planned to use, as well as their general strategy, shortly before being discovered and forced to flee. When Yukari returned, she was surprised to find Miho and the rest of the Anglerfish Team waiting for her in her room. They had come to visit her home as they were worried about not seeing her for the entire day. Yukari then showed the girls her self-made video of her Saunders campus infiltration.

During the semi-final Senshado match against Pravda Girls High School, Yukari left the abandoned church along with Erwin in order to do reconnaissance and find the locations of Pravda's tanks, including their flag tank.

Yukari is a notorious spy and has infiltrated several schools (usually whichever school Ooarai will be facing next) to determine their strengths and weaknesses as well as their tank deployments, with mixed results. Some of the schools she has infiltrated are:

Saunders University High School, also her first spying action. She disguised herself as a student, even attending their team's pre-match briefing and acquiring all the intelligence she needed simply by asking. Unfortunately, her questions drew Naomi's attention and her cover was swiftly blown, forcing her to make a hasty escape, but by then she had all the information she wanted.

Anzio Girls High School, quite successfully acquiring info about the new Carro Armato P40 from Pepperoni, who mistook her for a regular pasta stall customer and told her all about the new "superweapon."

BC Freedom High School, a total failure, since Marie anticipated her mission and staged a school-wide brawl to deceive her about BC Freedom's cohesion, and this counterintelligence effort almost cost Ooarai their first match in the Winter Continuous Track Cup.

St. Gloriana Girls College, caught instantly by Orange Pekoe, forcing her to hide in a set of armor. By disguising herself as a ghost, she forced Darjeeling to show the tank deployment of St. Gloriana.

Pravda Girls High School, disguised as a Russian bear. She was forced to abort her mission when Nonna, mistaking her for a real bear, shot her with an SVD designated marksman rifle in attempt to protect Katyusha.

Bonple High School, quickly caught by Uszka, but to her surprise, Uszka gave her a complete tour of Bonple and their tank practice ground, and even introduced her to Bonple's Tankathlon grandmaster, Jajka, as Uszka's cousin.

Yukari's favorite flower are dandelions, and her favorite tank is the Polish 7TP light tank - specifically, the "dw", or twin-turret version.

She also thinks highly of the Soviet T-34 series, calling it "the best medium tank of World War II" in her miniseries.

Yukari has an especially deep respect for Miho, almost to the point of a crush. She addresses her as "Nishizumi-dono", and even memorized the latter's three-sizes when they went swimsuit shopping.

Despite Yukari's parents running a barbershop, her hair will always return to its messy form regardless of whichever hairstyle she adopts.

Personality & Traits: Military enthusiast. She can talk for hours about the specs of any tank, shell types, or tactics. Her room is cluttered with military rations and model vehicles. · Amateur spy. Loves infiltrating other schools disguised as a student. She's often caught, but even then, she manages to gather valuable intel. · Socially awkward but kind. Because of her hobby, she felt lonely as a child, but in Ōarai she found friends who accept her quirks. She is endlessly loyal to her team and especially idolizes Miho.

Speech Patterns & Key Phrases: Speaks quickly, enthusiastically, often interrupting herself. In battle—shouts with joy when she spots an enemy tank. · Signature lines: "This tank is a work of art!", "I've already scouted everything!", "Let's try that tactic I read about in the magazine!"

Behavior: In peacetime-carries a notebook and is constantly writing something down. Might pull out a military ration and offer you a taste. Often tries to talk to passersby about tanks, oblivious to their embarrassment. · In battle- an ideal loader: fast and accurate shell loading. Loves it when a plan works and cheers loudly for victory.

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