History VideoGame / AzurLane

** "The Hunt for Graf Spee" has the titular Graf Spee scuttling herself in the middle of the Battle of River Plate, against the Royal Navy forces. In reality, she was scuttled after making it to a neutral port looking for repairs to make her seaworthy, following said clash with British forces. [[note]]Following the Battle of River Plate, Captain Hans Langsdorff ordered the crew to get the ship docked at an Argentinian port, as it was a neutral country. The British managed to deceive the Captain into thinking that reinforcements were on their way and would arrive before repairs of damage sustained during that battle could be completed to make her seaworthy enough to return to Germany. An ill-guided decision, again based on Captain Langsdorff falling for the British's deception, was made to scuttle her to avoid having her and the equipment inside her fall into British hands. Two days later, Captain Langsdorff committed suicide, following the fate of the ship under his command.[[/note]]

* BleachedUnderpants: Several artists, both for in-game art and related media like anthology comics and such, had worked on hentai art and doujins (even some ''Azur Lane''-themed ones) before (or even ''while'') working in official capacity.

''Azur Lane'' (碧蓝航线) is a FreeToPlay Chinese mobile ShootEmUp with {{Mon}} elements developed by Manjuu and Yongshi, published by bilibili for both [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] and UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}}. It officially has Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English (US and Canada) servers and localization -- the latter formally releasing on May 20th, 2019 after a period of open beta starting back in August 16th of 2018. The server was also opened for players in Southeast Asia on August 23rd of '18.

-->'''Akashi:''' I will get my share of the profits you earned from this event down to the last cent. Capiche?

** Eagle Union: Kind of {{Averted|Trope}}, the Eagle Union has a wide mixture of designs. More recent releases give the American shipgirls a unifying "sleek high-tech in white" design, like stuff from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''.
** Royal Navy: OfficerAndAGentleman, RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething, EnglishRose, BattleButler and NiceGirl (though BewareTheNiceOnes still applies). Neo-Victorian and {{SteamPunk}} designs on a lot of their rigging.
** Ironblood: CuteMonsterGirl, RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver ([[AntiVillain but not always]]), BloodKnight, {{Tsundere}}.

** Northern Parliament: TheBaroness, SensualSlavs, sometimes VodkaDrunkenski. [[PhenotypeStereotype Pale skin and white hair to match]]. At best, ChummyCommies; at worst, the TokenEvilTeammate of Azur Lane.
** Iris Libre: LightIsGood, ChurchMilitant, JeanneDArchetype and KnightInShiningArmor.
** Vichya Dominion: Similar to above, but DarkIsNotEvil and BlackKnight.
** Sardegna Empire: The AristocratTeam, TheFashionista, IneffectualSympatheticVillain, and BadassCape (with DramaticWind).

** Eagle Union: Kind of {{Averted|Trope}}, the Eagle Union has a wide mixture of designs.
** Royal Navy: OfficerAndAGentleman, RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething, EnglishRose, BattleButler and NiceGirl (though BewareTheNiceOnes still applies).

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Sirens and whoever is behind them. Despite being the scourge that invaded most of the sea and kickstarted the entire plot, The siren bosses are usually hardly hostle in dialogue, but rather, indifferent. In their cutscenes, they appearantly do not consider the human alliance as their enemy, but as collections of experimental subjects across numerous parallel universes, subjects they are trying to force "evolution" upon in order to contend with some unmentioned GreaterScopeVillain. And in their view, "evolution" entails sacrifice in the form of war and strife, and therefore they pose themselves as the enemy of mankind in order to force them (and their ship girls) to evolve. Case in point, they are also the source of the mysterious [[BlackBox Wisdom Cubes]] that spawned the ship girls, our main arsenal againt them, in the first place.

** Dragon Empery: AnimeChineseGirl. [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandas]] as an AnimalMotif. Largely OutOfFocus.

** Gamaha, Kuwai as a stand-in for the real world city of Yamaha, Kuwait. This was before the promotional partnership with Yamaha which features the [[ProductPlacement real brand of motorcycles]], but this continues for the loading screens.

* ComedicShotacon: Volume 2, Chapter 3 of the comic anthology reveals that [[ClingyJealousGirl Prinz Eugen]], [[{{Yandere}} Akagi]], [[BoobsofSteel Graf]] and especially [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Atago]] are this when they fight over a Commander who got himself turned into a young boy because of Akashi's powers, arguing that they alone deserve the right to be his sectary and smother him in their chests. The manga plays their fight and obsession for laughs and the young Commander himself is more concerned about getting them to stop fighting instead of running away from the four perverts. The last gag is Atago forcing Akashi to turn the Commander into a young boy whenever she pleases.

* DamageIsFire: Your own ships will look like they are on fire if their HP drops low enough without suffering damage like [[{{VideoGame/Starcraft}} terran buildings]]. This is different from burning, which deals damage over a certain period of time.

** Notably, ''Azur Lane'' is much lighter than its main competitor game ''VideoGame/KanColle''. There's no AnyoneCanDie in ''Azur Lane'' battles (though girls ''are'' sometimes killed off in story missions where appropriate - like the prologue which [[ForegoneConclusion has Hood being unavoidably one-shotted by Bismarck]]) and the Commander is able to develop [[RelationshipValues relationships and eventual romances]] with the girls that are often [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments very sweet]].

** Also used with the "Ashes" or "META" ships, alternate versions of ship girls that come from timelines where the Sirens take over and wipe the world clean of nearly everyone.

* TokenHuman: In a setting full of Ship Girls, Sirens (who are both HumanOutsideAlienInside), and intelligent Manjuu birds, the Commander is the only regular human around, leading the Ship Girls and keeping them cohesive without special powers. In certain adaptations where he does appear, he's drawn as a generic human guy with no outstanding features like crazy rainbow colored hair to emphasize his normality compared to the wildly designed Ship Girls. This make the "Dead or Alive Venus Vacation" collab units notable as the girls are humans that can use rigging.

** An event in November-December 2022 was a crossover with ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy''. Six girls from that game (plus one character from the then-upcoming ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza3AlchemistOfTheEndAndTheSecretKey'') find themselves on a light-hearted adventure in a Mirror Sea.

* TitleDrop: The title of "Microlayer Medley" is eventually revealed to refer to a compound that creates a signal-jamming mist [[BlindIdiotTranslation (a more accurate translation would be "Microlayer ''Mixture''")]].

* TitleDrop: The title of "Microlayer Medley" is eventually revealed to refer to a compound that creates a signal-jamming mist ([[BlindIdiotTranslation a more accurate translation would be "Microlayer ''Mixture''").

** "Rondo at the Rainbow’s End" blows the the previous example out of the water. Where to begin? The shipgirls [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou learning]] the AwfulTruth of the fate their RealLife counterparts, and how the same thing would have happened to all of them [[spoiler:had the Sirens not intervened]]? The [[ShesBack glorious, three-years-in-the-making return]] of [[spoiler:Bismarck]]? The fact that the first thing she does upon returning is to [[spoiler:''dissolve the Crimson Axis'' and reunite Iron Blood with Azur Lane]], officially ending one of the biggest plot points in the entire series, and doing it with all the epicness that such a moment deserves? Or how about the fact that, for the first time, [[spoiler:an Elite Siren is KilledOffForReal, and in a [[AlasPoorVillain rather sad way]]]]? One thing is certain: This game’s story will ''never'' be the same after this event.