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Hokuto No Ken takes place sometime after 199X, its a post apocalptic kind of setting. Theres hardly any vehicles except some cars and lots of motorcycles and stuff.

In one episode, the leader of an enemy army brings the last tank on earth against Kenchiro. The evil guy says he scoured the earth and found it, the last tank. And it does look pretty familiar. It reminds me of a T-26... But Im not sure... Is this a real tank? or totally made up? Cause it looks real to me.

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971711.jpg

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971739.jpg

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971762.jpg

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971822.jpg

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971863.jpg

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971901.jpg

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/po...-1071971934.jpg

Naturally, Ken' busts it up and destroys it. Cause he can do that. Cause he's awesome. But yah.

-BEN-MAN-

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Of course that tank is made up, it's a cartoon :rolleyes:

It sure aint based on a real tank. Totally made up by the animators.

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I posted the second round of pics just to show that most vehicles in Hokuto No Ken are real life vehicles. The Jagdtiger, the buzz bomb on the cieling, the Railroad Gun, etc.

After thoroughly looking through every single tank design in my tank book.. I believe it to be some form of the Shinhoto Chi-Ha. Think of the characteristics similar to both.

1. Turret set to the starboard side of the vehicle.

2. Drivers position on starboard side, machine gun to the port side of him.

3. Auxilary machine gun mounted in back of turret.

4. Unique shape of the base of the barrel.

It has to be a Shinhoto Chi-Ha. I betcha the reason it doesnt look quite like one is because the animators were drawing it from memory.

Edit: Or the Type I Chi-He. The Shinhoto Chi-Ha used the same turret as it, and its pretty damn similar overall. The general way the gun is set up, and the way its set into the plate on the turret is umistakebly Shinhoto Chi-Ha or Chi-He.

http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fwge2272/Chihe1.html

http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fwge2272/Chihe2.html

Feel welcome to argue me on that point ^__^

-BEN-MAN-

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Definitely not a T-34 -- it doesn't even remotely looks like one.

Possibly an early WWII type if it's Soviet, or as pointed out a Japanese tanks. I lean more towards an early Soviet tank because Japanese tanks in WWII tends to be rather small, unlike the screenshots.

Also, the driver arrangement and hull MG reminds me strongly of a Soviet Tank.

Possibly a T24, or a T37A. Both seems to be a bit small for the tank in question though.

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I think its a dramatised Shinhoto Chi-Ha, or a Chi-He, with animation mistakes, LoL. Theres too many similarities between em.

Edit:

Gnollman, sorry didnt see your post till now for some reason. The Chi-Ha got me thinking, but the entire turret and gun is different. Then I saw the Shinhoto Chi-Ha and the Chi-He. If its any tank its one of those. Not the original Chi-Ha. But you were close ^_^ (And I still could be wrong..).

-BEN-MAN-

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Certainly it is supposed to be a variation of a late 30s-WWII Japanese tank.

I'm not to well versed in the Japanese tank varients however...

edit - Opps, guess I should read what everybody else posted before I reply next time. Looks like you're on the right track...

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I think its a dramatised Shinhoto Chi-Ha, or a Chi-He, with animation mistakes, LoL. Theres too many similarities between em.

Edit:

Gnollman, sorry didnt see your post till now for some reason. The Chi-Ha got me thinking, but the entire turret and gun is different. Then I saw the Shinhoto Chi-Ha and the Chi-He. If its any tank its one of those. Not the original Chi-Ha. But you were close ^_^ (And I still could be wrong..).

-BEN-MAN-

heh heh... the chi-ha had the only picture, and I thought, hey, close enough. Good enough for government work, as the saying goes....

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Of course that tank is made up, it's a cartoon :rolleyes:

It sure aint based on a real tank. Totally made up by the animators.

oh yeah, nothing in a cartoon could possibly be based on a real object, after all, cartoons all have anvils falling on people and eyeballs pop out of the heads when they get supprised.

as for the tank, i thought it looked something like a tiger tank in a few pictures but for the most part its probably just made up.

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