Talk:General Discussion/@comment-139.194.123.221-20141108060331/@comment-64.233.173.149-20141108092838

The beaver and zekamashi were the original staff-fave DDs. That's why they came out as golden bg stat outliers. Nowadays other girls also get preferential treatment, but the original staff pet DDs were those two. Before the doggies got their kai nis, the golden girls were basically the most dangerous DDs in the game (especially night battle beaver).

In any case, Yukikaze is Japan's most beloved WW2 DD IN REAL LIFE. In Japan she's both got more mentions in history books (as well as more books written on her history) and more notice in history buff circles than even Yamato. This is why even Ark Performance gave her a Mental Model in Arpeggio (the only DD to have one) and ALL adaptations of Space Battleship Yamato has Godai's big bro commanding the space DD Yukikaze.

Needless to say, a Yukikaze-less Kancolle anime would be.... weird... at best and rage-inducing to the more hardcore members of the fandom at worst.