Blitztank

Blitztanks (Denkōsensha in Japan) are one of the mook characters of the series, debuting in Akatsuki Blitzkampf. It is most commonly built to serve Gesellschaft and its leading section, New Orders of Knights Templar.

Appearance
Blitztanks are large-human-sized giant black (white in En-Eins Perfektewelt) cyber-tank with a skull-head which contains a glowing red eyes that can shot laser eyes. It has brown tank wheels. The back of its weapon is for Blitz Mine, while the front contains various gun-based weapons it can change into, close-range machine gun, flamethrower and a laser cannon.

In its ending’s X-Ray from Akatsuki Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse), where it reveals Blitztanks origins as former humans that they has upper body skeleton left after transformation into a mindless tank.

Personality
At first, Blitztanks are nothing more than mindless tanks. If one of them becoming sentient in progress, they might have remaining humanity left.

Whether mindless or not, as seen in the crossover BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, a Blitztank was capable of having a sense of humor when one of the opponents from another world finds that fighting a tank doesn’t make sense.

Past (Developement of Blitztank)
Blitztank were originally meant to be in development infused with an alternate variation of the Blitz Motor called Perfecti Motor for super soldier program during the World War II. However, the project was cancelled when the war was over. Make matter’s worst, the tank project was found to be lethal:
 * Cybernizing the soldiers into a cyborg with a tank body.
 * Human Soul is required.
 * Losing almost their humanity.
 * Weak to Anti-Tank Combat system of Blitz Motors like regular tanks.

Years later, a terrorist cult Gessellshaft revives the project. As Blitztsnk’s origins to be either former humans or artificial beings, Fritz appears to be involved in this project via genetic surgeries prior to recently defect Gesellschaft fifty years later.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse)
After Akatsuki’s revival in fifty years later, one Blitztank who was in a middle of deployment encounter him and opposing Gesellschaft to find out who it was.

En-Eins Perfektewelt
Few years later after Mycale (now known as Perfecti) regain the leadership of Gesellschaft, the publicly reveal its originator, New Orders of Knights Templar as the one who led the said organization and begin to declare wars on humanity in 20XX AD, Blitztanks are deployed to destroy the last one of them, including the Agarthan descendants like Akatsuki.

Once again, there's another Blitztank who oppose Gessellshaft is controlled and helped by a fellow traitor, En-Eins at a same time.

Gameplay
See: Blitztank/Gameplay

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
See its crossover appearance's page

Blitztank is the first downloadable characters representing its home series accompanying the protagonist Akatsuki in the crossover BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, starting from the 2.0 update.

The one who requested Arc System Works to include Blitztank earlier in this crossover, was Subtle Style itself. Unlike other cast from its home series, Blitztank’s sprites are drawn in Arc System Works’ artstyle instead of French Bread’s Under Night In-Birth-style (due to Akatsuki guest appearing in the said original French Bread game).

The Blitztank in this game is a male.

Trivia

 * Blitztanks are one of the three playable mook characters.
 * Most of Blitztanks’ genders are males.
 * Due to its infamous playable appearance in fighting game history, Blitztank is a considered living gag character.
 * It is the most infamous playable character than a Daytona Car (aka Hornet)’s appearance in Sega’s Fighters Megamix, who was the first vehicle-based playable fighter before the tank.
 * Even though BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is its first western appearance, its lifebar and win announcement text isn’t listed as “Denkōsensha” in Asian version, unlike Teddie from Persona series, though Blitztank may have share similar localize name condition as other Persona character Aigis in that crossover game.