The concept of female characters turning into powerful weapons is just cool in general but again, I think this type of content is more about collecting waifus than the waifus themselves. There’s a long history of Japanese media and products in the spirit of Kantai Collection, Girls’ Frontline, and Azur Lane that feature cute girls as (or transforming into) weapons that end up quite literally objectifying said preteen and teen girls.
I’m just saying, I don’t think it’s always for the story being told. Not that there’s anything wrong with magical girls and, in the case of Girls und Panzer, ‘tank girls’ being included in a male-oriented genre, but I do have my doubts as to why guys tend to like these series… In fact, I used to think the magical girl genre was strictly tailored for female viewers until recent years. I don’t know about you, but I’m often taken aback by what qualifies as a seinen as well as what is and what isn’t created with girls and women in mind. That something being the hook of cute girls operating tanks for sport. While Girls und Panzer is technically a seinen marketed towards young men, something about it hit a chord with all sorts of people. When Actas’ action/comedy anime and manga Girls und Panzer (German for ‘Girls and Tanks’) debuted in 2012, the internet was all for it.
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