Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-17703786-20150930091035

TheLenrir wrote:

It's been over a year since Taihou has been released and now people are suddenly branding their pitchforks about the ship term. Why now? Why not earlier? Why do it when the term has been so established into the annals of Kancolle history that it would inevitably lead to bickering which is being displayed in some parts of this discussion?

While the topic is about Taihou, this discussion actually came about due to Shoukaku Kai Ni and her Kai Ni Kou form. Shoukaku's upgrades giving her the same ability as Taihou means that Taihou can no longer claim to be unique, which thus necessitates having a classification to the type of carrier that Taihou and Shoukaku are. Hell, given Shoukaku's upgrades it's likely that Zuikaku will follow suit, which means we'll have three armored carriers that thus demand their own proper classification.