Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324161612/@comment-26221483-20150326200920

Ok...

Firstly, I would like to say that too many people are against sinking...I know no one likes it but, Kisaragi's death was essentially useless, personally I think it should have been Mitsuki so we, as the viewer, get affected by it even more.

Secondly, it seems people have forgotten a cool theory on how when shipgirls sink, they turn into Abyssals...oh god what the writers can do with that, certainly a better option than follow or rewrite history which is lack luster and, despite requiring some degree of imagination, uses no imagination!

Thirdly...maybe Kadokowa wanted the writer to take this path, cause that's what they envisioned when they made Kancolle in the first place. Typically, when you accept a job to write a story for someone, you do it with very strict guidelines or central idea, otherwise the writer in question might make something their employer doesn't like. I sincerly doubt Kadokowa would ok this story if they didn't like it.

Fourthly, this is my personal twist on what could make Ep 12 better. Just before Akagi gets hit Kaga takes the bomb (a hint on how she took the torpedo earlier in the series) and gets really hurt...to the point of sinking, prompting them to have a very emotional conversation about how they feel either about each other or the situation and then Kaga "dies" just as Fubiki and the others ride in and save the day. Kaga doesn't sink parse, but she's "dead in the water" as she was in real life and Akagi uses her bow to assist with the assualt. Events of the story unfold in the manner they did in the episode save for Taihou Ex Machina and the whole fleet arrives Ex Machina, cause those are just....well...shit. But the crew sent out are able to fight off the rest of the enemy and tactfully retreat, ferrying Kaga's "dead" body away in the midst of it. Regrouping and heading in for round two, they finish off the base, disregarding the regeneration thing which was beyond me to assist, and sink that Wo-Class with the fugged up eye. Rippy Kai Yay battle won, we think Kaga's dead but they retreat and she wakes in the tubs with Akagi waiting by her side glad she made it out alive and that she was well. (Anyone else get the feeling that these two should have been the main carrieracters....sigh characters)

So that's my take on it...feel free to pick at it as you see fit. You little vultures you :3.