Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150415230802/@comment-26091970-20150416005555

Nanamin wrote: So what's the explanation for not being able to put the same girl in the a fleet? Though this is nitpicking at a pretty fine point.

I always knew the damn fairies weren't actually crafting and instead spinning a compass behind the ship frame... Although if you think about the animation for their construction, there shouldn't be hammers and stuff there. Also, that blowtorch is obviously not speeding up magic (unless it's argued that the flames are magic).

Doesn't scrapping/modernization put together with the summoning stuff mean that every girl is actually just walking and talking fuel/ammo/fuel/bauxite clumped together and we only perceive them as humanoid? I wonder what they even feel like in that case. 1. I have no idea about the prohibition of the same girl in a fleet. Maybe it would be an identity crisis, maybe it would confuse both of them when trying to give one commands. I'll try to do some more research to come up with a plausible theory for this one.

2. The construction animations are fine. The fairies use the hammers and stuff to construct the vessel (like real-life ship construction), and probably summon a spirit into the vessel after it's done. The blowtorch is probably magic, though (otherwise, it would be a repeat of Episode 6 of the anime where the result was a molten lump of metal).

3. Technically, the shipgirls are a bundle of resources wrapped up in a humanoid shape. However, if you consider how Japan portrays tsukumogami, they often end up with humanoid limbs/bodies/characteristics. Thus, it wouldn't be too far-fetched for the shipgirls to take a humanoid shape if they are analogous to tsukumogami.