YMMV / Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls

• Broken Base:
  • When Kancolle first revealed their canon design for USS Iowa, many Kancolle fans were divided on whether this fic's version of Iowa or the canon version was better, particularly because canon's version seemed outwardly to be a collection of every American stereotype held by the Japanese. In the years since, however, most have come to appreciate the canon version more, as that design is an actual Iowa instead of Pacific's American!Yamato.
    • One staff member at the Battleship Iowa Museum actually asked several veterans of the battleship which version they preferred. Their answers were overwhelmingly in favor of canon, and the Pacific version was unanimously panned as having nothing that made her Iowa, as opposed to nega!Yamato.
  • Generally, disagreements over which design is better tend to happen whenever the rival works (canon, Warship Girls, Azur Lane or Victory Belles just to name some) come up with competing designs (for one, WSG!Enterprise came out after Pacific's) or when Pacific comes up with its own take on designs that the rivals got to first (such as Pacific!Lexington only coming out after WSG's).
• Crazy Is Cool: Arguably Phoenix. An Ax-Crazy Pyromaniac who manages to create an M2 Flamethrower replica out of scrap (inspired by US Army troops during the Leyte landings), and still has the Patriotic Fervor present in most of the US Navy ship girls.
  • Houston could count as well, due to her Hot-Blooded nature.
• Fix Fic: Many Kancolle fans saw this fic as such, due to the fact that it added American ship girls into the action even before 2016 and had an actual storyline complete with Character Development. At least until some very questionable aspects of that storyline turned many fans away.
  • Additionally, the team makes actual efforts to give the fairies focus, something the source material hasn't done.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This work is really popular in Taiwan, just like the source material it is based on.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This version of Iowa is an elegant Lady of War, and a very explicit Foil to Yamato. Months later, Kancolle released a canonical design for Iowa, who is pretty much everything Pacific's version isn't.
  • Same deal with this Jersey vs Belated Battleships' Boisterous Bruiser sportswoman.
  • Then canon waded into the "guns vs bows for American carriers" debate as of Fall 2016 Event by giving their take on Saratoga a launcher modelled after a Tommygun, contrasting with the Yorktowns' bows or the rifles of the Pacific!Lexingtons, as well as a much more modest outfit than Pacific!Saratoga. With canon's Gambier Bay and Intrepid, both introduced in Winter 2018, also using gun-based launchers, it seems canon has settled on American carriers using guns. This of course hasn't stopped other works from mucking about. In Azur Lane, there's not a single USN carrier ship girl that uses guns (with one loose exception), and almost half of them use bows. Lexington herself is said loose exception, with her having a late 18th-century musket as part of her kit (referencing the namesake battle during the The American Revolution), though the weapon itself is not used as a launcher, but rather as a flagstaff upon which her ship self's bridge is mounted on. Meanwhile none of the IJN carrier ship girls are depicted as archers.
• Moe: Enterprise is the most obvious example out of the roster so far.
• Never Live It Down: A number of worldbuilding and setting decisions have soured a plurality of readers on this story. Probably most infamous among them is the resurgence of Nazi ultranationalist sentiment in West Germany, as recounted in Lori's Silent Service article.
• Viewers Are Geniuses:
  • The rationales for some of Pacific's designs can be complicated, with lots of little details that can and will go over the heads of those who don't have a thorough grasp of the ship's history and/or her namesake, or who haven't kept up with the Word of God from the Pacific team.
  • The Japan-focused content is written by Sune, a native Japanese with IJA heritage and insight into ultranationalist thought, and requires an deep understanding of post-World War II Japanese conspiracy theories, culture, politics, religion and sociology to comprehend.
• The Woobie: Arizona and Oklahoma, but even moreso for the latter.