Be grateful with what you have: Girls und Panzer fanfictions.

As someone who’s tried (and failed) to write some fanfics in the past, I have to give praise to those that can not only write a meaningful story based off of preexisting characters and themes, but manage to finish their stories in a compelling and thoughtful way that the reader will be thinking about the stories told of the characters they love from a completely new direction.

I, myself, have a lot of thinks that are wrong with me, including the high potential of having undiagnosed ADHD, but that hasn’t stopped me from myself trying to write some fanfics of my own in the past and present, and I respect those that have a passion for doing things like that, because they’re following their hobbies and dreams like any other person would want to on this Earth.

All this to say, I love it when anything has fanfics to it, whether it has only a couple of tens of fanfics, or a few thousand, any fanfic entry for any piece of work, whether fictional or not, is a good thing in my opinion, and as such, GuP having nearly 850 fanfics to its name is a bloody great thing for the community as a whole. Hell, it’s something we should be proud of, as GuP is already in the top 25% of all anime communities to have fanfics with numbers like these. So next time someone says GuP has a shortage of fanfics in the community, then divert them to this post and tell em that GuP is nowhere near short on fanfics now, or the future.

Want to add to this, this is only the tip of the iceberg. AO3, Wattpad, and more all have GUP fics in huge amounts. Personally I publish on AO3 because I prefer the layout (literally that simple) but I know others prefer other sites.

There is absolutely not a lack of GUP fanfics, doujins, etc. I think the problem is that if the OP of that first post couldn't find one they liked maybe they need to dive deeper. If you like it, someone has probably written it somewhere.

I agree. I began reading Fanfiction very early when compared to others here (late 2023 - early 2024), but even with my short time in contact with the form; Girls und Panzer fics have been some of the absolute BEST forms of entertainment I've had in any fandom.

Reading through Dein Weg ist Mein Weg for the first time during my winter vacations in 2025 absolutely blew my mind with the amount of effort, love, and careful plot progression the author managed to put into their work. I'll try to not spoil any of the big plot points of this fic here for everyone that isn't up to date with the releases, but I vividly remember reading Chapter 47 and just being completely dumbstruck lol.

It also inspired me to write better fanfics too, and I have a Maho x Anchovy longfic idea cooking up for a while now. :)

This information is worth millions! It's incredible that a relatively unknown anime has so much content created by its community out of love. It truly inspires me to keep writing and drawing.

I Have also Creating fan fiction title called Girls And panzer A brave new world i can't send summary here but still building emotions, tension and lot more.

While this is indeed an interesting data point to consider, I think it’s also somewhat undercut by a fact that isn’t as easy to spot.

Namely, that GuP is a relatively old show, and that the fanfiction scene has shifted a lot since the show first released.

When GuP first released in the early 2010s, Fanfiction.net was still the main epicenter of fanfiction, even though it had begun its decline and the various purges that dotted its history was still in recent memory. Either way, when the show released FFN was the place you published fanfiction at.

But in the years since, fanfiction has on the whole moved away from FFN and migrated over to AO3 and to a lesser degree Wattpad, and so for a lot of newer shows it’s no surprise that there’s a lack of fics on FFN, as those communities would primarily have developed on AO3 and Wattpad.

But also setting the fact of where fics get published aside, I do think the person making the original claim has a bit of a point in that, regardless of the absolute number of fics, a lot of the fics written and published for GuP does tend to fall into the same handful of archetypes. Your ”what if boys were part of things?”, your ”what if the girls fought in actual wars?”, your ”an american team joins the fray”, your ”it’s the world tournament”, your ”what if combined arms with infantry and/or planes played a role?”.

And with that in mind, the fanfiction landscape can certainly feel like a lot smaller of a pond than it really is, as either you enjoy the kind of fics a lot of the scene is comprised of, or you don’t.

But ultimately it’s also true that fanfiction is a work of passion, not just another piece of content you can order up exactly the way you want, and if you can’t find the style of fic you’re looking for, the only solution is to pick up a pen/keyboard and get to work 🙂

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