I was thinking Koihime Musou can be a precedent in that instead of having the battles originally found in the game, they just went with cute-genderbent-historical-characters doing cute things. They even removed the original male main character.
"If music be the food of love, PLAY ON" - William ShakespeareI only know about this from danbooru, but if the animu doesn't have Tenryuu, I will be disappointed.
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It's a bit of a joke, but I think a good chunk of those in the know consider the Arpeggio of Blue Steel/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio manga to be this. I think someone even did a comparison of how each version of Takao, Kongou, etc. looked.
Personally I like the tsundere heavy cruiser version of Takao from Arpeggio, but I can see how Takao the "heavy" cruiser in Kantai looks fine too
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edited 2nd Oct '13 7:33:32 AM by MyssaRei
Hi, it's been a while.
For pictures there is duall Takao Arpeggio/KC crossover
That said Arpeggio isn't realy moe-centric and goes with character development and plot. KC looks more like Upotte.
...Yeah, I think it will be something like that.
edited 2nd Oct '13 7:41:22 AM by Tenzen12
Apparently they are in the game, I was looking to see what non-Japanese ships were in. Check for an extra u.
In a general sense a Kongo was never going to stand up to a modern fast battleship, but tactically that was never their intended role in the IJN when World War 2 dawned; they were meant to face off against raiding heavy cruisers, particularly in the job of keeping them away from the carrier force. Their closest real threats were the British Renowns, which they could go one for one with pretty easy, and Hood, which they could gang up on.
The North Carolinas and South Dakotas only really altered that equation in 1941 and 1942, and by then it was too late. Even then if the Japanese screening forces at Second Guadalcanal had properly identified SoDak and Washington as BBs rather than CAs, Kirishima probably wouldn't have gotten itself into quite the mess it actually did.
edited 4th Oct '13 6:27:59 PM by Night
Nous restons ici.Arpeggio of Blue Steel. Which starts airing tomorrow
edited 6th Oct '13 3:38:54 PM by Hylarn
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Actually the Miko sisters (Kongou etc.) seem to be more popular, it's just that Shimakaze's outfit... is pretty memetic. Every other ship has at least someone else that has a similar dress (see Takao, or Akagi and the archer-carriers), but Shimakaze's thong-dress is singular.
But given the Cast of Snowflakes aspect of the game, its easy to gravitate to a particular kanmusu. Maru the idol-ship has been gaining traction lately for example.
edited 6th Oct '13 4:34:50 PM by MyssaRei
Just found about a 4-koma manga based on this.
I have to wande if it was released recently or if it was just recently that people took interest in it. Yes, there is a difference, no I'm not saying.
Edit: I believe that it's relevant to mention that there is another manga about ships as girls. It's called Battleship Girl. No, seriously.
edited 7th Oct '13 1:51:30 PM by minusmagniaxe
Need to double-check on the Kantai wiki for that (... which is in Japanese) to see if the Gender choice for the Teitoku does anything.
Still, the fact that you CAN choose the Admiral's gender opens possibilities for the adaptation.
P.S. Huh, so not even a placeholder page anywhere. I suppose I could make one and stick it in Video Games, but please tell me how to create redirects.
edited 9th Oct '13 5:52:24 PM by MyssaRei

While the series itself is slated for a 2014 slot
, it's better to get this out of the way now.
For the uninitiated, Kantai Collection
, or Kan Colle to its apparently growing legion of followers, is a browser-based card game where you control a personal fleet of battleships represented by cute girls, all of whom are based on real ships of the IJN from WW 2. The girls in question are also by the way voiced by V As many of you guys might be familiar with like, oh, Megumi Nakajima, Saki Fujita, or Ayana Taketatsu.
Given how the focus of the game itself is the growth and development of your fleet of battleship girls, and battling either generic enemies (like the Wo-Class Aircraft carriers) or other players, makes me wonder where'd they go with regards to the plot that will be used for the show itself.
Of course the production could just leave it WITHOUT a plot (cute battleship girls doing cute things), but that's kind of wasting the possibilities with the ton of characters it has (like fan-favorites Shimakaze
or Takao). There are the generic enemies, who are by the way have a different design aesthetic to them (quite alien actually), but that might make it veer a little too close to, oh, Arpeggio of Blue Steel...
Hmmm, definitely waiting on the developments for this one.