Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-900265-20180413143433

Swordweaver wrote: Kancolle isn't the first to Moe Anthropomorphize... it just became super popular. I know I wouldn't have rekindled my interest in warships if not for the game; it's way easier to learn/care about history and tech when you can attach a cute face to it.

And yeah, the reason we have the +FireDirector workaround is because Tanaka regretted putting 10cmLongs on literally every DD Kai

Allied ships being added is a fine stunt to assuage the "Abyssals are USN" theory, and give into various fan-factions, but I hope we get more ships from "That country"... and Pastaland.

The idea is already old but it become popular around the 2000's or 2010's if I can recall. Also personificating ships isn't new nor KanColle started it either.

It just happened that KanColle made it popular.