Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-26574811-20160123133732

TL Tedi wrote: I wish the Iowa gun can be just considered as a weapon from the abyssals. I don't wanna have u.s ships implemented simply because it makes the events so weird. who were the ones we fought at AL/MI if it weren't the americans? AL/MI is the first event that includes Abyssal bosses to be directly modeled after Japanese ships, for first having the "Abyssal echo off" effect implemented on some of the bosses.

Now, time for some definition:

Abyssal echo off: (AEO)

The effect of the echoing voice being turned off upon the final defeat of certain bosses. First seen on AL/MI, and is present on every new bosses introduced afterwards, no exceptions. This implies that they are defeated and join the players' side, if possible.

For example:

CV hime has the look of Kaga (side ponytail), and the voice of Akagi, and lines that implies the JAPANESE side of Midway (Lack of recon, not changing their doctrine, sunk in flames, repeated try, inferring Yamamoto actually rolled the dice a lot of times during a simulation until he got the result he wanted), and, of course, AEO.

Can this be explained as CV hime being the US side? No, as these are NOT how the Americans think as the reasons they won.

Midway Hime also features AEO, but of course she can't join the players' side as we can't take command over land installations yet.

The most recent example is Hagikaze/DD Water Demon,  identical design, same CV, same fear of night, and the most apparent AEO effect ever (past examples usually features the last one or two words being echo off, she features seven, half a complete sentence).