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After the great success of the
Azure Lane British Animé in 2015, the French animation studio IAP counter-attacked in 2016 with its own Animé: Filles de Char (Tank Girls). The short series is following Claire, the protagonist, a young girl who under a cute and delicate appearance, hide a true passion for tanks and combat vehicles. Convinced by her best friend to enter a "Club de Char" (Tank Club), a group of passionate who renovate old tanks to enter a friendly competitions against other clubs and fight mock battles. There she would met who would become her friends for the series: Marie, a snobish girl from a noble, military family who initially tried to be the tank commander by the sole virtue of her upbringing, and Violette, a mix-raced Pied-noir girl who come from a proletarian family and who's passion for tanks is a way to escape her bleak every-day life.
With the other girls of their club, Claire and her friends would at first learn how to maintain and drive a tank before formally entering competition against other clubs. While the series initially faced criticism for openly using real tank designs from the Second Great War, the fact that girls from other country, including Germany and the USA, were presented as friendly rivals and that the tanks battles were treated as professional competitions helped alleviate the concerns about the rumor of being being pro-Action Française.
After the success of the first season, the unexpected second season and the Téléfilm (ITTL OAV), Filles de Char would be adapted into a video game, humorously enough taking the opposite road of its rival Azure Lane.