Talk:Heavy Cruiser Ri-Class/@comment-203.188.235.133-20160417095129/@comment-27069434-20160530122719

Folks, let's face it, we've seen USN ship as a kanmusu and we've seen IJN kanmusu as abyssals. I say the abyssals are perhaps the ship spirits of all nations overtaken by grief and thus turned into vengeful wraiths (for a comparison, see Dark Souls, where you turn into an undead once you die, but can be restored to human if certain criteria are met). That, or abyssals are formed by the collective bloodlust and sorrow ship spirits experienced during war and accumulated over many battles. Then, over time, spirits were torn apart by the opposing feelings - those memories of camaraderie, duty and sacrifice formed into kanmusu as we know them, while the pain, fear, suffering and hatred formed the abyssals. This whole war is their purgatory, none of the ship spirits being able to find peace, forced to relive the horrors of the original war over and over again by reenacting the operations that led to their demise.