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A bit of a stretch, but considering how Akitsu Maru has pale skin just like them, and the whole RavenHairIvorySkin WomanInBlack deal that she shares with some Abyssals like Battleship Princess and Water Demon. Maybe in the [=KanColle=]-verse an IJA equivalent to Millennium from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' escaped to parts unknown in the dying days of the empire and created or summoned the Abyssals to take vengeance on the world that beat them once.

The Neuroi were [[TimeTravel Time Travellers]] as well as space. When they descended on Earth, they stopped WorldWarII from happening. Oh, many of the events were the same because of their engagement; but it was the Neuroi who took the dark karma. HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct, GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel. [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] A planet united, humanity turned to WhiteMagic and the purity of the souls of their children, and destroyed the Neuroi; and drove the shattered remnants of their flying ships into the sea.

The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) 442nd Regimental Combat Team]] was a World War II unit of the United States Army comprised almost entirely of Japanese Americans who fought for the US against the Axis, admittedly not in the Pacific Theater against their ancestral homeland. With this as an analogy, you can reconcile the existence of Allied ship girls with the "Abyssals are Allies/Americans" theory: Abyssals do actually represent the Allies or Americans, but some of them chose instead to fight in defence of mankind and thus manifest as ship girls instead of Abyssals. For added symbolism, Iowa was a reward for smashing Abyssal-held Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, with that state being where the majority of the 442nd were from.

Re-class's arsenal is consistent with the ships that make up the heart of SCP-1264. She has 16-inch guns (Nagato), can fire torpedoes (Lamson, Apagon), can carry and launch aircraft (Saratoga), and can attack and sink submarines (Lamson). SCP-1264-A are the fairies that operate her equipment.

Adding on to the above, she may well and truly represent Pearl Harbour as a whole. Her extreme vulnerability to dive bombers is a reference to how the ''Arizona'' was sunk, while her having the ''Iowa''-class' main armament can be explained by her assimilating the ''Missouri'' museum ship.

Due to her introuction into the browser version as a boss in the Summer 2016, we now have her equipment loadout, or specifically, what her main armament is.......a pair of triple SIXTEEN-inchers, with the exact same stats as the player-usable [=Mk7=] triple sixteens. What does this mean? Central Princess may not actually represent ''Arizona'', but rather ''MISSOURI''.

Listening through her lines, she sounds like she isn't as sure to herself of her as she lets herself shown, was it asking what Admiral thinks of her in her marriage line, dismissing how she can match up to Akagi and Kaga with an awkward laughter and seeks attention whenever she can. In a sense, she seems to fear being thought of being JustAKid, being the youngest-looking Aircraft Carrier and wants to be seen being as good as the others.

And the ship girls? Well, they sure as Hell didn't come out of a government procurement programme. Perhaps the would-be founder of a certain MegaCorp encountered things from the stars and repurposed it for human use, hoarding it until the time is right. Well, with the emergence of the Abyssals, that time is now.

Beings of vaguely aquatic appearance, they wage on us a war ordinary humans can't win. Unlike in Crysis canon the Alpha Ceph activated more discreetly and took a different approach. Destroyers are the Stage One, resembling whales like the canon Stage Ones resembled squid. Cruisers are where you can see the shift into Stage Two, mutants with more humanoid features. The capital ships, Demons and Princesses are the pinnacle of the adaptation to human methods, complete with looking the most outwardly human. Clarketech covers a multitude of sins as far as their seemingly magical abilities are concerned. One shudders to think what will prompt the Cephabyssals to initiate Stage Three...

-->'''Yuudachi:''' '''SOROMONYO! YUUDACHI WA KAITEKTA-POI!'''

* [[https://twitter.com/noisy_sgr/status/701195229563478016 End credits]] has Yoshinori Shizuma as the artist of Iowa, the same artist behind the ''Akizuki'', ''Nagato'' and ''Yamato''-class ships.

* Jossed. All the way up to Spring 2015, no second Arpeggio crossover has occurred.

To get things out of the way, it will not be drawn by the [[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls]] crew, as Morgane of the Mists has outright said that [[http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/31187-kantai-collection-discussion-thread-kai/page__st__16740__pid__1697454#entry1697454 the crew is not involved in any way, shape or form.]] For her voice actress, all there is to go on is that it will be someone who has not previously voiced a ship girl before.

Yes, there are some spinoffs that explicitly say as such. But maybe all the renditions of [=KanColle=] aren't on our Earth either. Those wacky names like W Island, Vanilla Gulf and Curry Ocean? Maybe they're not just Doylist NoCommunitiesWereHarmed things, but really are a sign of their Earth not being the same one as in RealLife.

Of course, there are Abyssals that are implied to be the grudges of Japanese shipgirls. It's possible that the Abyssals decided to try a new tactic in an attempt to demoralise the kanmusu, by making them fight their own former allies instead of other regions' ships, and may continue to do so in the future. Time will tell if they continue to bring up the ghosts of old enemies, or switch entirely to this "fallen allies become new enemies" policy in the future.

Of course, there are Abyssals that are implied to be the grudges of Japanese shipgirls. It's possible that the Abyssals decided to try a new tactic in an attempt to demoralise the kanmusu, by making them fight their own former allies instead of other regions' ships, and may continue to do so in the future. Time will tell if they continue to bring up the ghosts of old enemies, or switch entirely to this "fallen allies become new enemies" policy.

There are more than a few things that hint towards the Abyssals being the Allied fleet, or American ships in particular. However, if one thinks about it, things aren't quite what they seem. Considering the nature of the Abyssals, it's likely that they're not just attacking Japan, but the entire world. As such, every nation would be fielding kanmusu against them, and thus experiencing casualties. If a kanmusu were to hold a grudge, it would most likely be against the Abyssals themselves; as self-hatred isn't exactly conducive for a soldier, though, it's likely that the process that turns a kanmusu into an Abyssal transfers the grudge to whichever group the kanmusu was second-most likely to have a grudge against. Now, who would, say, American kanmusu have a grudge against? Here's a hint: they bombed Pearl Harbour. That's right: The Abyssals that the Japanese kanmusu fight aren't the Allied fleet, but '''''the grudges of the Allied fleet'''''. It's likely that they aren't receiving any help from the Allies because they're caught up fighting the Abyssals born from the grudges of the Axis kanmusu.

There are more than a few things that hint towards the Abyssals being the Allied fleet, or American ships in particular. However, if one thinks about it, things aren't quite what they seem. Considering the nature of the Abyssals, it's likely that they're not just attacking Japan, but the entire world. As such, every nation would be fielding kanmusu against them, and thus experiencing casualties. If a kanmusu were to hold a grudge, it would most likely be against the Abyssals themselves; as self-hatred isn't exactly conducive for a soldier, though, it's likely that the process that turns a kanmusu into an Abyssal transfers the grudge to whichever group the kanmusu was second-most likely to have a grudge against. Now, who would, say, American kanmusu have a grudge against? Here's a hint: they bombed Pearl Harbour. The Abyssals that the Japanese kanmusu fight are '''''the grudges of the Allied fleet'''''. It's likely that they aren't receiving any help from the Allies because they're caught up fighting the Abyssals born from the grudges of the Axis kanmusu.

Considering the nature of the Abyssals, it's likely that they're not just attacking Japan, but the entire world. As such, every nation would be fielding kanmusu against them, and thus experiencing casualties. If a kanmusu were to hold a grudge, it would most likely be against the Abyssals themselves; as self-hatred isn't exactly conducive for a soldier, though, it's likely that the process that turns a kanmusu into an Abyssal transfers the grudge to whichever group the kanmusu was second-most likely to have a grudge against. Now, who would, say, American kanmusu have a grudge against? Here's a hint: they bombed Pearl Harbour. The Abyssals that the Japanese kanmusu fight are '''''the grudges of the Allied fleet'''''. It's likely that they aren't receiving any help from the Allies because they're caught up fighting the Abyssals born from the grudges of the Axis kanmusu.

The introduction of Graf Zeppelin in Fall 2015 Event, who was never finished in reality, suggests that Kadokawa will go the napkinwaffe route once they run out of completed capital ships to add. Also, more never-finished designs like Kaga's sister Tosa might show up.

* This actually makes a lot of sense, and also goes a long way towards explaining certain parallels between the Abyssals and the Allies. With the Allies also fighting the Abyssals, there are going to be casualties. And as we know, Abyssals are born from the grudge of fallen kanmusu. However, if a kanmusu hold a grudge, it would most likely be against the Abyssals. As self-hatred isn't exactly conducive for a soldier, it's likely that when a kanmusu becomes an Abyssal, the grudge would transfer to whichever group they were second-most likely to have a grudge against. Now who would, say, American kanmusu have a grudge against? Here's a hint: who bombed Pearl Harbour? That's right. The Abyssals aren't the Allied fleet, they're ''the grudge of the Allied fleet''. It's equally possible that the Allies can't help because they're caught up dealing with Abyssals born from the grudges of Axis kanmusu.

Given that Light Cruiser Demon resembles Naka and Light Cruiser Princess is Jintsuu, this seems pretty obvious.