Line #83 Trivia/KanColle


1	* ActingForTwo: With many characters and only a limited pool of voice actresses, a lot of conversations in the anime tend to become this. Averted for the English dub of the anime, where individual voice actresses are assigned to one ship girl, as opposed to multiple ship girls of the same class, taking advantage of Creator/{{Funimation}}'s larger talent pool.
2	* ApprovalOfGod:
3	** Bob bookmarks fanart of the girls he is the artist for.
4	** A World War II veteran who [[https://sgcafe.com/2014/01/original-battleship-yahagi-crew-member-meets-ships-kantai-collection-counterpart/ served aboard the real Yahagi]] was presented with an illustration of the ship's [=KanColle=] counterpart, and expressed approval for her design.
5	** A staff member at the Battleship Iowa Museum [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/kantai-collection-ideas-and-recs-ii-not-azur-boogaloo.635002/page-959?post=86129450#post-86129450 asked several veterans who served on the battleship]] what they thought of their ship's representation. The veterans were universally positive, and quipped that her image would be posted all over the ship had [=KanColle=] existed when the ''Iowa'' was still in service.
6	* AscendedFanon: The anime adaptation takes some in-jokes from both the fandom at large and some of the spinoffs and canonizes them.
7	** Akagi's BigEater status comes front and center, after Fubuki witnesses the '''huge''' platter of katsu (or bauxite) curry she ordered. Kaga gets foisted with this as well come episode 6 (while her serving appears twice as large as Akagi's, it's likely that Akagi was halfway through her plate).
8	** Ashigara's desperate SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan OldMaid status is also referenced by Kisaragi, after rumors of apparently another failed mixer.
9	** Inazuma's "nanodesu", despite not being used often in the game proper, turns into a proper VerbalTic, used in all but one of her lines in Episode 2 and it gets over-killed in Episode 6 with about 17 instances of it -- the most of out all Verbal Tic-using characters in the episode. And only second to Yuudachi's "Poi~" throughout the entirety of the anime.
10	** Ooi, while not too far on the crazy side in-game, suddenly goes on a RAEG when Naka takes Kitakami's hand. (Naka's trying to get Kitakami to teach Fubuki.) This may have to do with the [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%82%AC%E3%83%81%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BA%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%95bot Crazy Lesbian Ooi Bot]], an [[NeverTrustATitle actual person]] on Twitter who regularly roleplays Ooi and portrays her as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin absolutely mad]] ManicPixieDreamGirl who only only loves Kitakami.
11	** Zekamashi, one of the fan nicknames for Shimakaze, gets used by Kongou in episode 4.[[note]]It comes from how her name is written on her gun cannons, with the hiragana going right to left as was common at the time.[[/note]]
12	** Raiden, a fan nickname for Inazuma and Ikazuchi, also gets used, again care of [[Main/TheNicknamer Kongou]] in episode 6.
13	** Nagato displaying a much less serious, far more cutesy and goofy side while in private, as shown in episode 8. Mutsu even teases her about it at the end of the episode.
14	** After Haruna's second remodel had her with dazzle camouflage, some fans started joking that she wears striped panties. [[http://otakomu.jp/archives/255566.html Cue official]] [[https://i.imgur.com/PoPt6ag.jpg art]] confirming that yes, she does.
15	** Iowa is frequently paired with Kongou in fan art due to their similar personalities or with Yamato due to their similar statuses as the biggest and best battleships of their respective nations. In the browser game, one of her hourly lines has her expressing admiration for the Kongou sisters, and another has her praise Yamato's cooking, though the latter doesn't go very well as she accidentally presses Yamato's BerserkButton.
16	** Some fan artist have drawn Asashimo with shark-like teeth. Her Fall 2016 finally shows that she indeed has sharp teeth.
17	** Many fan artists of both sides of the Pacific has drawn [=KanColle=]-styled American Fleet Carrier girls as wielding guns instead of bows or scrolls. The release of several USN carriers, beginning with ''Saratoga'', confirm that this is true; all of them but Ranger launch their planes with guns.
18	** Several fanworks depicted Houshou running an on-base izakaya pub, before Chitose finally got an hourly voice line inviting the Admiral for dinner at "Houshou's shop". It's not stated what kind of shop this is, but given that Chitose is a known [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Bottle Fairy]], the odds are pretty good that it's exactly what people were expecting.
19	* BackedByThePentagon: [=KanColle=] materials have been displayed at JMSDF open house events, including in the presence of none less than [[https://twitter.com/konotarogomame/status/1225979718685450242 then-Minister of Defense Tarō Kōno.]]
20	* CastingGag:
21	** A subtle one in Episode 4 (cris-crossing with ActorAllusion): In order to lure out Shimakaze, the Kongou Sisters begin singing on a makeshift stage in the Naval Base's open grounds, only to be interrupted by Naka, the self-proclaimed IdolSinger of the fleet. Not exactly evident, until one realizes that the StarMakingRole of [[Creator/NaoTouyama the seiyuu for the Kongou Sisters]], was [[Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows an Idol Singer as well,]] and [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls she also voices/sings for another idol in a different phone game.]]
22	** One for the English dub of the anime: A voice actress named [[Creator/MeganShipman Megan]] '''[[Creator/MeganShipman Shipman]]''' gets to do the role of ''[=KanColle=]'''s poster girl, Shimakaze.
23	** Creator/ElizabethMaxwell's casting as Nagato also comes off as this, taking into account that she also voiced ''Manga/{{Fuuka}}'''s Sara Iwami, the Fallen Moon guitarist who, prior to her introduction in the said story, was known through the twitter handle "Yamato Admiral".
24	* ColbertBump:
25	** Originally [[PeripheryDemographic intended]] to be a niche game catering mostly to the military {{otaku}} population with a modest budget and minimal advertisement, its popularity experienced a '''huge''' surge after its players (including, among others, [[Manga/HellSing Kohta]] [[Manga/{{Drifters}} Hirano]], whose HeroicBSOD on Twitter is most commonly cited as the main reason for the popularity surge) spread the word on Twitter and/or Pixiv.
26	** Kisaragi's appearance in the anime [[spoiler: and being sunk in episode 3]] has resulted in loads of fan artwork of just her, when before she mostly showed up in group artwork or as a background character.
27	* CreatorsFavorite: Fubuki is known to be this to Tanaka.
28	* TheDanza: The devs seems to want to invoke this with the Matsu class destroyers. With the exception of Matsu, all current Matsu class destroyers have voice actress whose names contain their namesake.
29	** Take, is voiced by [[Creator/AyanaTaketatsu Ayana]] ''Take''tatsu.
30	** Momo, is voiced by '' Momo'' Ishibashi.
31	** Ume, is voiced by Megu ''Ume''zawa.
32	* DevelopmentHell: ''[=KanColle=] Kai'' was originally scheduled to be released sometime in 2014. Then it was pushed back to spring 2015. Then to November 26, 2015. Then to February 18, 2016. To add insult to injury, the final delay was announced one month before the scheduled release. While it was finally released in February 2016, many fans fear that the repeated delays have hurt the game's chances. That worry turned out to be unnecessary, as the franchise's sheer popularity have made up for its shortcoming well enough to becoming one of the top-selling PS Vita game at its release.....until it was pulled from both store shelves and from the [=PSN=] Store just over a year later.
33	* FanCommunityNicknames: Players are referred to as "admirals". Unsurprisingly, given the game's premise.
34	** New players are sometimes called "newfaces" or "newface admirals", from one of Kongou's {{Engrish}} lines.
35	** ''Bad'' players (new or not) are called "shitty admirals" based on Akebono's lines.
36	* FanSpeak:
37	** Night-battles - Often used as a double entendre, and adopted because of the teasing way some shipgirls themselves use the term. Heavily popularized by [[RunningGag Sendai]], through her dialogue lines.
38	** Displacement - Fanmade description for breasts; the greater displacement, the better. Though there have been some certain exceptions (some of the flat-chested carriers) and inversions for that matter (some big-chested Destroyers). "Fuel Tanks" are seen as an alternative term.
39	** On the same note as Displacement, shipgirls' body parts are often referred by the ship's equivalent; bow for head or hair, stern for butts, rudder for legs, torpedo bulge for body fat, horsepower for musculature, etc.
40	* FanworkBan: Kadokawa has prohibited fangames of [=KanColle=] from being made. This was first known back in 2013, but whether they have relaxed the ban since then is unclear.
41	* FollowTheLeader:
42	** ''VideoGame/WarshipGirls'' is a Chinese game for the Android with a similar premise to ''Kantai Collection''. However, unlike ''[=KanColle=]'', ''Warship Girls'' from the very beginning featured [=WW2=] warships from all sides, and has since pushed into the Korean and Vietnam War eras, with the introduction of jets as well ships equipped with long-range anti-ship and anti-air missiles. It was announced for an English release at [=E3=] 2015, but it wasn't until a change in publisher that it finally came out on December 18, 2018.
43	** Another Chinese warship game, ''VideoGame/AzurLane'', gained prominence and popularity following its 2017 debut, being another take on the genre that includes ships from both the Allies and Axis. The game eventually evolved to become ''Kancolle''[='s=] most significant competitor (though quite a few fans of both assert that they aren't actually direct competitors due to huge gameplay differences, since ''Azur Lane''[='s=] combat is ShootEmUp rather than card-based).
44	** A Western Kantai clone is ''VideoGame/VictoryBelles'', a UsefulNotes/{{Kickstarter}}-funded Free-to-Play warship sim for the Web and iOS by American developer Black Chicken Studios. This particular take on the genre takes it up to eleven by not only having a wide variety of [=WW2=] warships from all sides, but by having the shipgirls voiced in their native languages (e.g. Royal Navy ships speak English, Red Fleet ships speak Russian, etc.), thus averting FakeNationality.
45	** In general, the game's success led to several other {{Card Battle Game}}s involving {{Moe Anthropomorphism}}s fighting for the player to be hosted on DMM, such as ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'', ''Shinken!!'' and ''VideoGame/FlowerKnightGirl'' (with the last being rather infamous for some versions of it being, shall we say, [[HGame salacious]]). However, ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' is the only one of these to become anywhere near as popular as ''[=KanColle=]''. While previously hosted outside of Japan via Nutaku, both ''Flower Knight Girl'' and ''Shinken!!'' would be terminated in January 2021 and September 2017 respectively, thus remaining Japan-exclusive from there on.
46	** ''Abyss Horizon'', which is more accurately a ''[=KanColle=] Arcade'' clone, offers the gameplay of the arcade version to owners of smartphones, especially to those from outside of Japan who thus do not have access to ''[=KanColle=] Arcade'' machines. SEGA was clearly NOT amused and [[https://sega-interactive.co.jp/news/180711_information_1/ filed a [=C&D=] against the company operating the Japanese version]]. Though the lawsuit has since been settled, the Japanese version continues to operate by said company transferring ownership of it to a shell company operating in Hong Kong, thereby circumventing the [=C&D=]. However, the entire incident cast an inescapable pall over the game, and thanks to it and other serious management issues, the game folded at the end of February 2021.
47	* GeniusBonus: The signal flags beside Kashima's beret stands for "[=UY=]", which in Naval parlay means "I am carrying out exercises. Please keep clear of me." Fitting, since she is a Training Cruiser. [[note]][[https://cdn.awwni.me/rptj.jpg Others have interpreted this]] as a reminder to the Admiral [[StopPokingMe to stop flirting with her.]][[/note]]
48	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/SumireUesaka is well known as a Russophile, yet the role of Verniy was given to Creator/AyaSuzaki. The official 4koma has Fubuki (whom Sumire Uesaka voices) communicating with the suddenly converted Verniy (Hibiki's second remodel) with (supposedly) good Russian, only to reveal that Verniy cannot really speak Russian apart from rudimentary words.
49	** This became HilariousInHindsight, with the reveal that Sumire Uesaka will be voicing Hibiki/Verniy's ''VideoGame/WarshipGirls'' counterpart, as well as two other [=VMF=] vessels (Kirov and Reshitelny).
50	** Done a '''second''' time with Tashkent. Despite her voice lines sounding quite similar to Sumire Uesaka (especially if you compare them to Murakumo's), it was later revealed to be Wakana Miyakawa voicing Tashkent instead.
51	** And [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 Uesaka's Revenge]] ''continued'' in ''Azur Lane'', wherein she got to voice Kirov ''again'', complete with ''Red Alert'' memes. Hibiki herself, though, is voiced by Creator/MaayaUchida (and Uesaka has no vocal connection to the overall ''Fubuki''-class).
52	* MemeAcknowledgment:
53	** Zuikaku's seiyuu Creator/IoriNomizu has previously done the infamous [[https://i.redd.it/aijnxskje4jy.gif Zui-Zui dance]].
54	** When the JMSDF introduced the helicopter destroyer ''Kaga'' (DDH-184), fans made a lot of art of her namesake in JMSDF uniform or with modern equipment. When an open house event was held on ''Kaga'' in July 2017, [[https://www.facebook.com/TirpitzTirpitzNorth/posts/489850231360806 official depictions of a modernised]] Kantai Collection Kaga were put on display on board the ship.
55	** Pixiv artists used the tag "Mother Fletcher" for Kantai Collection's personification of Fletcher. Helena refers to her as such in one of her hourly lines.
56	* NoExportForYou: The only way to play the game is to register on the Japanese-language segment of the DMM website, which itself is inaccessible to non-Japanese IP addresses. This means to even ''register'' for the game, a prospective non-Japanese player will have to jump through a lot of hoops to do so (usually by using VPN), never mind getting to ''play'' the game, which then requires newly registered members to win a lottery for one of the limited slots per server. And competition is ''steep'' for server slots.
57	** The January 29, 2014 update was a rude awakening for many foreign players, as the most prevalent method used to play the game (the API link) no longer worked, since DMM had the game purge its API lists every 90 minutes. This meant that anyone who wanted to play via API was now essentially playing on a timer, and they had to hop on VPN to renew their API link when the time was "up". The other choices were playing on the VPN full-time, which carried its own associated risk, mainly a chance of getting banned for using a single IP (as DMM would technically see a single IP used by multiple accounts), or purchasing a private VPN to play the game on. In any case, this caused a ''lot'' of grief for non-Japanese players, causing some of them to drop the game outright rather than face the hassle of renewing every hour and a half. However, said API renewal forced a lot of players to log in simultaneously, overloading DMM's log-in servers, and essentially making the game inaccessible to everyone for hours on end. It was quietly removed in a subsequent update.
58	** Since Koreans hate this game (although it still has a fan community), the anime series is not available on Korea[[note]]Aniplus, a Korea-based TV channel, released the [=KanColle=] anime only in Singapore and Indonesia and not in their own country[[/note]]. It isn't available in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Merchandise from this game isn't available in those countries, either.
59	** However, in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries, basically territories which suffered greatly under Imperial Japan, merchandise and cosplays of the game's various ship girls are rather popular.
60	* PermanentPlaceholder: When the marriage system was first announced, it was called ''kekkon kakkokari'' (ケッコンカッコカリ), which means marriage (temporary) and implied that "marriage system" was just a placeholder name. ''Kekkon kakkokari'' would later go on to be the official name of the system on implementation.
61	* PromotedFanboy:
62	** Jiji, so far the main artist for the Italian ships, has done fanart of the game before; just don't look for it at work. The same can be said of fan artist [=Acea4=], who has already done a lot of [=KanColle=]-related art prior to being called in to pen Mikura.
63	** [[http://kanmusu.blomaga.jp/articles/70943.html Later articles also revealed]] that Creator/ShuuUchida (Warspite's seiyuu) also played [=KanColle=] long before joining the cast; she even has Murasame as her "shipfu".
64	** Yuki Yagi (Honolulu and her abyssal counterpart's seiyuu) is already a player herself before joining the cast.
65	* ScheduleSlip: In general, anything the developers announce they plan to add can take a long while to be added.
66	** Some fleet girls representing ships from the IJN, the Kriegsmarine, and the Regia Marina, that actually existed during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII have yet to appear in the game. The most blatant case thereof would be that involving the Aircraft Carrier ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano Shinano]]'': Kadokawa had already released [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2312428 Alpha Art of her in supplementary materials ''way back in 2013'']], but she has yet to make her appearance as of the end of 2023.
67	** When the Shoukaku sisters were given their second remodels, the developers promised they would be able to operate jet aircraft. To further the hype, the [[http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Ne_Type_Engine Ne Type Engine]] was released as part of the November 2015 ranking rewards. However, for over a year, there were no jets available. Considering the case with ''Shinano'', to add even ''more'' insult to injury, ''Warship Girls'' introduced its first jet aircraft, the Yokosuka [=R2Y2=], into the game in Summer of 2016. By the time the [=R2Y2=], and the Kikka were added to ''Kantai Collection'' later in the same year, ''Warship Girls'' had added another jet into the game, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_F2H_Banshee [=McDonnell=] [=F2H=] Banshee]].
68	* ShrugOfGod: The developers are ridiculously closed-lipped about the origins of both the player-controlled fleet girls and their opponents, the Abyssal Fleet, which leads not only to fans making their [[WildMassGuessing own theories]], but even to the '''official print spinoffs''' not agreeing on where they came from.
69	* SleeperHit: The game was originally meant for the very niche market of military {{otaku}}, but thanks to some {{Colbert Bump}}s from big names in the manga and anime industries (the most notable example being [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Kohta Hirano's]] epic meltdowns about the game on Twitter) it got a lot more popular than intended.
70	* StarMakingRole: Creator/ShuuUchida [[https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/status/774053749228605440 makes her voice-acting debut]] in this game as Warspite. Ditto with Kanon Takao as Gotland
71	* TrollingCreator: The game's lead developer, Kensuke Tanaka. At times, one can't tell whether what he did was a genuine mistake or completely intentional. (If he fixes it. If not, it's probably intentional. Probably.) Comparisons to [[VideoGame/WorldOfTanks SerB]] have been aplenty, as a result. Apart from the ScheduleSlip entry, here are some of the infamous instances:
72	** Affirmed that ships did sink at orange (50% or less health), in ''[[LyingCreator direct contradiction]]'' to information provided in the tutorial itself.
73	** When the Autumn 2013 event was extended, he added a new ship, Yahagi, to the drop pool of the E5 boss. Some players who had cleared the event before the extension were not pleased. Then less than one month after the event ended, she was part of the starting LSC pool when it was implemented, available using the minimum recipe. Naturally, those who spent resources farming for her were even less pleased.
74	** During the Summer 2014 event, ships used in the AL maps were locked out of being used in the MI maps. However, the last map, E6, was not known to lock out ''all'' ships used in the first 5 maps, until frontliners first got there and found that they couldn't use their best ships there, as they had already been locked in earlier maps.
75	** In the buildup to the Winter 2017 event, the devs [[https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/status/826956081691701249 tweeted]] that one needed to prepare at least 2 Saiun for the Winter 2017 event, if you wanted to tackle the latter half of the event on anything other than easy. What was not specified was that you not only needed to consume one Saiun and 20 development materials for each of two attempts, it was simply wasted if your attempt failed, potentially making you need more. Some players were not pleased.
76	* VaporWare:
77	** As discussed in the ScheduleSlip entry above, ''Shinano'' had a design released in supplemental materials in 2013, but has not been introduced to the game as of the end of 2023.
78	** A second season of the anime was announced in 2015. The closest thing to follow-up since then was the announcement of an animated project in 2019 starring the Nishimura Fleet that ''may'' have been the second season. In 2021, it was announced that the second season would air the following year. Only for it to fall into its own ScheduleSlip after episode 3.
79	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
80	** The temporarily playable Fleet of Fog ships. Let's just say, if the marriage(temp) system, which was confirmed for eventual implementation before the Arpeggio event started (and was eventually implemented some time after it ended), with the concept for it being leaked out some time before that, had instead been implemented before the event started...
81	** [[http://otakomu.jp/archives/64.html If the game had failed to take off,]] it would have gone out in a TorchTheFranchiseAndRun fashion with the Bombing of Kure as the final Event, which was planned to coincide with the 68th anniversary of [=VJ=] Day.
82	** [[https://en.kancollewiki.net/Fubuki#Trivia An earlier design for Fubuki]] was done by Shizuma Yoshinori and was effectively a brunette Shimakaze.

Context Trivia / KanColle