Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27495052-20151221173559/@comment-3131745-20160404230532

Kind of like ArcticaFrost, I found out about Kancolle through Arpeggio of Blue Steel.

It was sometime during Summer 2014, maybe July. Was going through an anime marathon phase. Needed a new anime to watch. Found out about Arpeggio. Watched the whole series in a day, loved every moment of it. Found the pictures at the end of each episode rather peculiar. Researched about it, found out about Kancolle. The more I researched, the more interested I became in Kancolle.

I always was a sucker for WWII stuff, but my knowledge about the Pacific Theater was very shallow. I only knew about Pearl Harbor, Midway, the nukes and little else. I saw in this a good oportunity to quench my thirst for more WWII knowledge and sate my hunger for more anime. But ... the language barrier, the regional block, the lottery ... it made me hesitate.

Mid September 2014. Armed with precious info from this here wikia (whoever made that tutorial totally deserves a beer), a working VPN, an account created in the previous day, and the exact hour when the lottery would take place, I took a shot at it. BAM! Great success! Got in at first try!

Choosing the first girl was awkward. I didn't research that far, only focused on actually getting in. I was aware of Fubuki Ganbarimasu!, so I thought "why not", and picked the plain one as my starter.

Since that day, I have spent a couple hundred euros in the game (unlock the docks, more ship slots, a couple rings, the usual) and have gathered all the shipgirls currently released in the game, and never let anyone sink. Still haven't cleared 5-5 (dat Re-chon) and 6-4, though.

There is only one thing I regret doing during my TTK career, and that I can never fix: my starter Fubuki, ID nº1, is no longer around. During my nub days, when I was still short on ship slots (lets be real, 100 slots is nothing), I must have scrapped her or fed her to someone, without realizing. I got another one when I bought enough slots for everyone, but she's not "the" one. Does that make me a kuso?