Mizushima answered to the question why he named the girls as so in the interview, “I knew that they are men’s names in Finland, but they sounded Japanese as well.
The Embassy of Finland in Tokyo recently invited 51-year-old Japanese animation director Tsutomu Mizushima for an interview to ask about his successful anime series Girls un Panzer and Keizoku Highschool featured in the mega hit feature film Girls und Panzer der Film released in November 2015.
You can now read the full interview in Japanese, English, and Finnish on the embassy’s official website.