History YMMV / TheGreatestGeneration

** Hibiki, who lived after the war and learned about things that her sisters can't handle on their own (things like politics of WW2, war crimes, etc), and she had no one to turn to for help. She generally keep this to herself and go along with her sisters, but when Chapter 7 happened, she is extremely grateful that Tenryuu is there to help her sisters out, especially since she had to bear that burden alone before.

* HilariousInHindsight: In chapter 5, one of the things that clues Yvonne in to the Abyssals' plan is their recreating the sinking of Force Z with two Singaporean warships as unwilling stand-ins. Cue the game's Summer 2016 event, which is the recreation of the Malayan operations and where one of the new Abyssal bosses represents Singapore.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:

* CrazyAwesome: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Indefatigable_%281784%29 HMS Indefatigable]].''

* HilariousInHindsight: In chapter 5, one of the things that clues Yvonne in to the Abyssals' plan is their recreating the sinking of Force Z with two Singaporean warships. Cue the game's Summer 2016 event, which is the recreation of the Malayan operations and where one of the new Abyssal bosses represents Singapore.

** [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17816096/ As another reader points out]]: Hibiki making her sisters read up on [[spoiler:the Rape of Nanking]] - Did it just randomly happen to be there? Or was she being CruelToBeKind?

** The snooping reporter Mildred Marshall is starting to create a division between readers who like her and readers who find the amount of access she's being given to be implausible.

** Hibiki, who lived after the war and learned about things that her sisters can't handle on their own (things like politics of WW2, war crimes, etc), and she had no one to turn to for help. She generally keep this to herself and go along with her sisters, but when Chapter 7 happened, she is extremely grateful that Tenryuu is there to help her sisters out, especially since she had to bear that burden alone before.

* BaseBreaker:

** Admiral Shimada, especially after the rewrite added more substance to his perspective and made it clear that he wasn't firing on all cylinders due to a concussion, shifting opinion away from one-sided Scrappydom. Is he a DirtyCoward who, driven by InterserviceRivalry against intelligence officers, sabotages Yvonne's mission, then selfishly throws the refugees under the bus in favour of his own girls rather than sacrifice them for the slightest chance that they might save a few more people? Or is he AFatherToHisMen who, having had his distrust of spooks justified by Yvonne's actions and recognising that the situation is untenable, decides to save his subordinates and their fighting strength rather than waste them on a SenselessSacrifice that can't actually make a difference in the face of such a large enemy force?

** Admiral Shimada, especially after the rewrite added more substance to his perspective and made it clear that he wasn't firing on all cylinders due to a concussion, shifting opinion away from one-sided Scrappydom. Is he a DirtyCoward who, driven by InterserviceRivalry against intelligence officers, sabotages Yvonne's mission, then selfishly throws the refugees under the bus in favour of his own girls rather than sacrifice them for the slightest chance that they might save a few more people? Or is he AFatherToHisMen who, recognising that the situation is untenable, decides to save his subordinates and their fighting strength rather than waste them on a SenselessSacrifice that can't actually make a difference in the face of such a large enemy force?

** Yvonne. [[spoiler:Her lack of family as well her inability to sortie properly thanks to her circumstances clearly affects her more than she even admits to Yamato. Even moreso if you consider the theory about why her sisters failed to summon.]]

* BaseBreaker: The snooping reporter Mildred Marshall is starting to create a division between readers who like her and readers who find the amount of access she's being given to be implausible.

* MoralEventHorizon: Shimada abandoning Okinawa and all the civilians there. See TheScrappy below.

* TheScrappy: Admiral Shimada has gained a lot of hatred for his actions at Okinawa (choosing to retreat instead of fight, though there were good reasons to do either). [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that is all that will be said about that.]]

** Yvonne. [[spoiler:Her lack of family as well as inability to sortie properly thanks to her circumstances clearly affects her more than she even admits to Yamato. Even moreso if you consider the theory about why her sisters failed to summon.]]

** Is Yvonne [[spoiler: an AlternateSelf of [[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls Pacific's Enterprise]] ]] or [[spoiler: a CaptainErsatz of her]]? Some people on the forums and discussions say it's the latter, however, the communication from new group of writers saying that they had to [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/kantai-collection-the-greatest-generation.336029/page-112#post-19688835 ask permission]] from Morgane of the Mists (''Pacific'''s creator) to continue the story practically confirms that it's the former.

* StoicWoobie: Yvonne. [[spoiler:Her lack of family as well as inability to sortie properly thanks to her circumstances clearly affects her more than she even admits to Yamato. Even moreso if you consider the theory about why her sisters failed to summon.]]

** Is Yvonne [[spoiler: an AlternateSelf of [[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls Pacific's Enterprise]] ]] or [[spoiler: a CaptainErsatz of her]]? WordOfGod from the authors of both fics heavily imply the former (not to mention acknowledging one another's works), while those on the forums and discussions say it's the latter.