Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-24477438-20140416012010/@comment-84.178.116.219-20140419081343

IJN didn't use distinctions between fleet carriers and escort carriers, they instead used a classification based on if the carrier was laid down as a carrier or was remodeled into a carrier at some time - so RJ counts as 正規空母 for the IJN, which gets translated as standard carrier or CV (however, information gets lost in translation).

The game is closer to the USN classifications, but all sources I've seen put Junyou and Hiyou as CV, while the game puts them as CVL. The game also invented a class for Taihou. I wish I knew which source Kadokawa uses.