Inge Aizawa

"A Sensha-Do style is just a tool, not religion, not a cult. You won't go to some Sensha-Do hell if you don't choose a style."

- Inge Aizawa Inge Aizawa is a student of Kuromorimine Girls Academy. Starting as a regular member, she is the Vice-commander of Kuromorimine Sensha-Do Team during Oarai's Commemorative Cup. She is known as a Jagdtiger commander. Her existence is alluded in Melati Girls High School's story

Profile
Inge Aizawa is a first year student in Kuromorimine Girls Academy. She is the commander of Kuromorimine's prized Jagdtiger. Before being assigned the Jagdtiger, she commanded a Panther Ausf. G.

Inge is known for being a skillful but rebellious tank commander. Despite being looked as one of the best practitioners of Nishizumi Style, she saw it as merely a mean and tool to achieve the team's ends.

Appearance
She is a medium-sized girl with shoulder-length messy blonde hair and indigo-colored eyes. When in school she wears her school uniform with a dark red hoodie inside or outside the uniform shirt.

When in Sensha-Do matches, she wears her Sensha-Do uniform like others. Unlike other tank commander of Kuromorimine who use their headset only when trying to communicate, Inge always wears her headset for the duration of the match especially when she acts as a gunner, as it helps her focus. Towards the end of a match, she usually wears her uniform in awry manners, much to her superior's annoyance. She would tidy up if she is summoned by the commanders though.

In her room, she wears simple t-shirt with short pants. While outside for other than school or Sensha-Do business like going to concert or shopping, She usually wears fashion with grunge and buckle style clothing.

Personality
"Good morning, Prinzessin Erika!!"

- Inge, every morning

She is a mostly-calm, sarcastic and playful girl. She often shows herself as a cheerful and friendly, though sometimes oblivious, teenage girl, although when it comes down to Sensha-Do or something related to her close friends, she would be dead serious and calculating. In Sensha-Do matches, she command her crew and later, her team, seriously and effectively, although sometimes her sarcastic self bubbles up to the surface. She also hardly gets out of her hatch, preferring to stay inside the comfort of her tank and looking through her periscope.

Interestingly, she has a sense of etiquette of sort, She would remove her headwear/eyewear or tell her crews to remove theirs during match salutations and indoors, hold a door for anyone, try to tune down her eccentricity in public, and greet everyone she knows personally every time it's appropriate.

However, she is mostly known for her habit for annoying her teammates, especially her superior, especially Erika. She often annoys others by her independent and perceived-delinquent nature. She would ignore and outright defy her superior's order if the order she deems stupid and not helping. Therefore she prefers to improvise her tactics to achieve objectives. She loves to tease other students, including Maho Nishizumi and Erika Itsumi,  with prank, strange nickname and with sarcastic remarks that sometimes even bordering insults. She also lacks military bearing and sometimes disregards uniform regulations. According to Erika, only her impressive track record that keep her from being expelled from the team.

Background
She was born at December 5th to a middle class family in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto to a mother who had a job as a tank mechanic and instructor in an elementary school. As a kid, Inge would follow her mom to works. Watching her mom works on tank cemented her love for tank since her childhood.

Years later, Inge joined an elementary school, the school which her mom worked. She joined the Sensha-Do team right away. The then-shy girl was assigned a Panzer I as a gunner and a commander. During the prefectural junior championship, she managed to take her team to a second position. Her exploit in the championship with only a Panzer I earning her an invitation to Kuromorimine Youth Team Recruitment Program.

Almost a full year later, Inge enrolled to Kuromorimine thanks to her achievements in elementary school.

In Sensha-Do matches of her school, She often acted as a scout or a sniper in her years at Kuromorimine Middle School. In her third year in middle school, she was appointed Overall Commander by then-graduating Miho Nishizumi. Many people protested her appointment due to Inge's personality and Miho's history of appointing incompetent personnel. Eventually, Inge proved her value by winning national middle school championship, almost singlehandedly annihilating St. Gloriana in the finals. Her exploit during the 62nd Middle School Championship also earned her a rare Nishizumi Cross, 1st Rank, an award only given to non-Nishizumi team member who won the National Championship by practicing Nishizumi Style and exemplary actions, making her a ceremonial part of Nishizumi Household. She dedicated the Nishizumi Cross to recently disgraced Nishizumi Miho, an action that almost got her award revoked.

When she learned what Miho did in the finals against Pravda, she wasn't disappointed at Miho, she only thought that Miho is very unlucky, being at the wrong place and the wrong time. Instead, Inge blamed Pravda for shooting a helpless tank, The Federation for not stopping the match and her school to judge Miho to harshly.

She was troubled about joining Kuromorimine high school due to Miho's incident and her mother wanted her to join St. Gloriana or Bonple instead. Eventually, Inge decided to join Kuromorimine high school. There, she was assigned as a commander of a Panther.

Versus Chi-Ha-Tan
She alone shot down two Chi-Has thanks to Kinuyo Nishi's charges.

Versus Jatkosota
Annoyed by quick moving Jatkosota's BTs, which she remarked as cockroaches, she targeted them. Thanks to her gunner, She managed to took down two BTs, one of them by disobeying Maho Nishizumi's order by ramming it in a high speed. She broke her Panther gun in the process, but the top-heavy BT-42 was knocked to one side, immobilizing it.

Versus St. Gloriana
"Tiger 212 is going to be Tiger 131 if we don't get there in time."

- Inge Aizawa "Verdammt it all, aim and shoot at that Tommy before it shoot again!"

- Inge Aizawa

In this match, Inge stationed on the high ground on a hill slope overseeing a sandy plains. Eventually, the plain turned to be a battlefield on which St. Gloriana's main force led by Darjeeling engaged with Kuromorimine's tanks under Erika.

Inge was taking out a Crusader when she realized the Churchill was gone and the huge engagement before her is a bait  She reported it to Erika and then hurried to climb the hill, leaving her slower teammates. When her tank reached the top, she found The Churchill failing to kill Maho's tiger by shooting at the turret ring. While The Churchill was preoccupying itself with the Tiger, Inge flanked the Churchill and then shot it down.

Maho later entrusted Inge with a special tank, a Jagdtiger, for the finals. Shehe noted that working in the Jagdtiger is "Bloody awkward".

Versus Ooarai
"Jagdtiger, to the front!" "My pleasure."

- Maho Nishizumi and Inge Aizawa

In the final, Inge's Jagdtiger was given callsigns Tank #19. Her tank was used for its huge firepower and thick armor to protect the flag tank.

Unlike most of her teammates, Inge didn't lose her cool for the most of the match. However, her team's incompetence towards Ooarai's asymmetrical strategy frustrated her. During battle for the hill she was ordered to be a bulwark for the flag tank. When Oarai's Hetzer melted Kuromorimine's formation, she was suddenly ordered to reinforce the broken formation. To her dismay, her slow Jagdtiger trapped in a loose ground and slid downhill, failing its duty.

"Panzer nr. 13, this is Panzer nr. 19. You go ahead. I'm going to hunt down some annoying rabbits."

- Inge Aizawa, deciding to destroy Rabbit Team

In the city, after Elefant's Destruction in the hand of Oarai's M3 Lee, she took it upon herself to destroy it. She baited the M3 Lee into thinking it was flanking her Jagdtiger from behind.

The Lee fired at Jagdtiger with no successful penetration even from its rear armor. The Jagdtiger later turned around after going to a wider area, setting up an ambush for when the M3 Lee came out to the end of the road, but the Jagdtiger failed to knock out the M3: The 12.8 cm shell ricocheted from its frontal plate. The Jagdtiger pushed the M3 Lee back into the narrow road again, but failed in its first attempt to fire because the length of the gun meant it couldn't be pointed at the M3 at close range. After a lengthy chasing battle, Jagdtiger was finally able to knock out the M3 Lee, but the Jagdtiger was lured into a trap. After knocking out the tank, it continued forwards under its own momentum, before falling down into a dry riverbed, breaking its gun and flipping over, thus ending up knocked out.

Shortly after the match was over, Inge casually approached the crew of the M3 Lee and introduced herself and her crew. She congratulated rabbit team for winning the match and praised them for being a good opponent.

Ooarai's Commemorative Cup
"Yeah, the medallions were good and all, but managing you lot was such a hassle."

- Inge Aizawa

At the Commemorative Cup, Inge was appointed Vice-commander thanks to her exploit in the national championship before. After winning the cup, however, she decided to be a regular tank commander instead of a Vice-commander, noting that managing the whole club is a hassle.

Trivia

 * Her favorite tank is Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. L.


 * Her favorite flower is Heather.
 * Her favorite drink is non-alcoholic beer.


 * She was born in December 5th, the same date as, in 1942, the end of Operation Barbarossa and the start of Soviet Winter Counteroffensive.
 * She is the youngest member of the team
 * She likes heavy metal songs.
 * Her name is based on Inge Dombrowski, a character from the movie, Downfall.
 * Lacking military bearings and being an ace, her characters is based on Kurt Knispel, a German Panzer Ace.