History Anime / AzurLane

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Enterprise has this reaction [[spoiler:when she snaps back to her normal self after shooting down Kaga and killing Akagi in her Ash-induced state in Episode 7. Then she re-enters Ash state following that freakout and finally snaps back after almost killing Ayanami and seeing Javelin and Laffey rescue her at the last second in Episode 8.]]

* ItsPronouncedTropay: Inevitable with Prinz Eugen in the dub due to the spelling of her name. Fusou's name is also mispronounced as "Foo-soo".

* ItsPronouncedTropay: Inevitable with Prinz Eugen in the dub due to the spelling of her name.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the Sirens remains the true threat to humanity, Crimson Axis have finally realigned to Azur Lane. Enterprise, who succeeds in resolving her past trauma, becomes the new Commander.]]

** San Diego. Most of her appearances so far has her in the receiving end of misfortune. The first episode has her perform in a nonexistent concert as Laffey, Javelin and Unicorn, who were searching for Unicorn's LivingToy U-chan at the time, just look as if they don't care one bit. The second episode has her as one of the first onscreen casualties shown after the battle in the first episode, and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment her name's even introduced as she's face down in the water]]. She's shown later whining about how her ship got damaged. The third episode shows her getting chased by a shark, where Saratoga has to help her deal with with offscreen. Thankfully, the fourth episode gave her a small break, but she gets misfortune again in Episode 6.
** Hammann is just as bad as San Diego, as many scenes she's featured in shows her getting beaten easily by enemy forces or just for Hornet to mess around with. She maybe even worse than San Diego in this regard as when the latter got her small break above, she somehow gets roped in to helping Ning Hai and Ping Hai with their business, to her annoyance.

* CareerEndingInjury: Yorktown. Lots of ships are SparedByTheAdaptation, but she's hospitalized for most of the season here. [[spoiler:Thankfully this is averted at the end of the season, where she's shown to be fully recovered.]]

** The tenth episode ends with Purifier and Enterprise firing at each other with Kaga emerging with Project Orochi, causing cataclysm in the Sakura Empire. Worse that the following two episodes are going to be delayed ''three months'' after this one.
* CastHerd: Even with the massive reduction in amounts of characters being focused on, with most others being limited primarily to cameos, there are still roughly 20 characters with significant screentime and thus they appeared in various groups.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Because of the apparent absence of the Commander from the anime, it's not too surprising that the girls are either depicted as not having their romantic orientation being brought up at all or be rather distinctly lesbian. Most notably, Akagi is clearly shown to have a much more intimate relationship with Kaga than in the game, even directing her {{Yandere}} behavior towards her in the absence of a Commander. Lesser cases being Atago being more skinship friendly with Takao (much to Takao's distress) and Prinz Eugen mildly harassing Hatsuharu. [[spoiler:It's hinted that Akagi's relationship with Kaga is just a ruse on the former's part to make the latter go along with her plans.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Akashi accidentally stumbles upon a Siren ship while minding her own business, making the Observe almost kill her. Due to this, she escapes with Edinburgh and Sheffield, who happened to be infiltrating the base at the time, and defects to Azur Lane.

** Episode 1 has Enterprise utter this line, and in GratuitousEnglish to boot.

* BreatherEpisode: After the [[WhamEpisode seventh and eighth episodes involving Ash]], we get a rather lighthearted episode of Laffey and Javelin bonding with Ayanami (who's a prisoner of war after getting rescued). There's slight discussion of the Sirens and Ash, but it doesn't really blend in much with the main plot.

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} concerning [[spoiler:Akagi and Kaga. While they will indeed be facing punishment for their crimes, it won't be as severe since Nagato admits that all of Sakura Empire is responsibile for letting Orochi get out of control.]]

** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] [[spoiler:Akagi and Kaga will indeed be facing punishments for their crimes but it won't be seriously severe since Nagato admits that all of Sakura Empire have responsibility for letting Orochi got out of control.]]

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: [[spoiler:After finding her HeroicResolve through her Ash!Doppleganger, Enterprise finally comes back in full fighting force.]]

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:No one in Azur Lane holds any hard feelings towards Ayanami when she ends up as their "prisoner of war".]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: The opening for the anime is actually accurate to most of what happens in the first season (even including [[spoiler:Laffey and Javelin successfully becoming friends with Ayanami]]), but the last moment, we see the four nations flash forward, with significant ships showing up (Enterprise for Eagle Union, Queen Elizabeth/Warspite for Royal Navy, Akagi and Kaga for Sakura Empire) ... until the last one shows for Ironblood ... Bismarck. Not only has Ironblood not played a significant role other than Prinz Eugen (keep in mind the only Ironblood ships that have appeared have been the same exact ones that appeared in Prinz's shot in the intro), Bismarck herself hasn't appeared at all in any form.

* DemotedToExtra: A lot of ships seem to be shown to be demoted to background characters or don't really contribute other than just being there. For instance, Saratoga has voiced lines but is mostly a background character (as of Episode 7, she hasn't received an intro caption) while her older sister Lexington doesn't have a speaking role, San Diego is mostly a ButtMonkey who has no real relevance to the main plot of the anime, and most other shipgirls are just simply cameos and background characters.

** So far, there has been no mention or appearance of the [[PlayerCharacter Commander]], who is a major character in the game. The closest to one shown so far is a manjuu reenacting ''Film/PearlHarbor''.

* AmbiguousSituation: Even though there isn't a human commander, [[MascotMook Manjuus still show up]]. Particularly, one seems to have the hat that the in-game Commander is associated with, making people wonder if that Manjuu is the commander, or is just one dressed up as such.

* BreatherEpisode: After the [[WhamEpisode seventh and eighth episodes involving Ash]], we get a rather lighthearted episode of Laffey and Javelin bonding with Ayanami (who's a prisoner-of-war after getting rescued). There's slight discussion of the Sirens and Ash, but it doesn't really blend in much with the main plot.

''Azur Lane: The Animation'' is an anime adaptation based on the ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' game. It is directed by Tensho and animated by Tensho's Bibury Animation Studio. The series began airing on October 3, 2019.

** Both Bulins are absent from the anime, [[spoiler: although they both make cameos in the final episode]].

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Both Bulins and Bismarck make short appearences in Episode 12.]]
* CareerEndingInjury: Yorktown. Lots of ships are SparedByTheAdaptation, but she's hospitalized for most of the season here. [[spoiler:Thankfully this is averted at the end of the season, where she's shown to be fully recovered]].

* EnemyMine: When the Siren threat grows worse thanks to Akagi and Kaga, Azur Lane and Crimson Axis put aside their differences for the time being to stop them. [[spoiler:They formally join forces afterwards]].

* UseYourHead: How does Zuikaku manage to snap [[spoiler: Kaga]] out of the Siren's control? She headbutts her.

* AnArmAndALeg: While she has been SparedByTheAdaptation, Yorktown has [[CareerEndingInjury lost both her legs below the knees]] instead.

* CareerEndingInjury: Yorktown. Lots of ships are SparedByTheAdaptation, but she's an amputee in this one, as shown in the third episode. This was shown in the opening too.

* NonLethalKO: Ships that are incapacitated in battle just show signs of damage and need for repair as opposed to being outright dead storywise like the game. That being said, serious damage could cause a CareerEndingInjury, as shown with Yorktown.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The anime doesn't seem to be based directly off events of the game and therefore, actual naval history, so certain characters seem to be alive when they should have been dead and sunken. For instance, Arizona is alive (although she along with a squadron get beat up by Zuikaku and Shoukaku), while in the actual game (and history), she was one of the first Eagle Union ships to go during the attack on Pearl Harbor. And so far (as of the second episode), Hood is alive and well, despite being ''the'' first major casualty in the game, being shot down during the Battle of the Denmark Strait by Bismarck. Yorktown, Enterprise's older sister, doesn't explicitly die here, but she [[CareerEndingInjury lost her legs]], meaning something really bad must have happened to her. In fact, the only character who wasn't spared is Amagi, which is confirmed to be Akagi's primary motivation in the anime.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: When the Siren threat grows worse thanks to Akagi and Kaga, Azur Lane and Crimson Axis put aside their differences for the time being to stop them.]]

** Both Bulins are absent from the anime.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Late in the series, Kaga started to feel that she's a failed version of this as Akagi never stopped longing for Amagi. When Orochi, in the guise of Amagi, spells it out outloud, it completely crushes her.]]

--->[[spoiler:'''Orochi!Amagi''': ''(to Kaga) But you're a fake as well. Amagi died, leaving Akagi behind. Parts of Amagi were passed on to another ship. You know this, Kaga. Aircraft Carrier Kaga, you are a ship that was retrofitted using Amagi's parts. Akagi loved you becahse she saw a shadow of Amagi inside you, but that is an illusion. You're not even a replacement, you're a colletion of decayed parts, a Ship of Theseus that shall not sail... That's what you are, Kaga.'']]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Kaga, to an extreme, towards Akagi. She's a ReplacementGoldfish for Amagi, and a failed one at that, and she knows this. She will follow Akagi's machinations without hesitating and will follow them through in her absence as well. Even after the [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech soul-crushing abuse]] she got at the hands of Orochi!Amagi, she still sides with them because she just genuinely wants to make Akagi happy and figures this is the best way, even if it means facing both Crimson Axis and Azur Lane forces combined, just to protect Akagi and Orochi!Amagi.]]

* MartialPacifist: Laffey is shown to be able to fight, but refuses to fight her friends - even if said friend happens to be from opposing nations, which is why she (and Javelin) refuse to attack Ayanami, rather talking down and acting peaceful towards her.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The anime adaptation seems to be different than the game itself, such as [[DemotedToExtra reducing focus for several characters]] and even [[SparedByTheAdaptation letting a lot of ships live too]]. It also makes some large change to lore and how Kansen function.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Kaga realizes that she's a failed version of this as Akagi never stopped longing for Amagi.]]

* OhCrap: In Episode 4, when Zuikaku and Shoukaku realize they've been chasing the wrong carrier, meaning Enterprise is actually in the thick of it and is tipping the battle in Azur Lane's favor after being lured away from the battle by Hornet's trickery.

** The tenth episode ends with Purifier and Enterprise firing at each other with Kaga emerging with Project Orochi, causing cataclysm in the Sakura Empire. Worse that the following two episodes are going to be delayed **three months** after this one.

* EveryoneHasStandards: When she confronts Kaga in Episode 7, Enterprise immediately expresses her disgust towards her and Akagi for betraying their comrades by forming a deal with the Sirens. It doesn't help with Kaga's cold threat against Akashi which serves only to fuel Enterprise's hatred towards the two.

** Azur Lane and Crimson Axis: They are both powerful factions but their methodologies in dealing with the Sirens are completely opposite to one another. Azur Lane are comprised of TrueCompanions with many members helping each other during their time of need while the latter faction is practically an unstable alliance that will eventually fall apart if the constant secrets and backstabbing continues.