Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324162253/@comment-26240187-20150327130453

The anime was pretty much what I expected the anime to be given that it was made from a free to play web browsing game.

I think a bunch of you guys are looking after too much #edge, which in that case you should just look up Hetz fanart instead, for all your edgey anime needs.

The final episode summed it up nicely about how I felt the anime was. A total mess wanting to put in everything.

Either they wanted to display the ship girls, the slice of life or the nit and gritty " war is hell and we are destined to repeat the history of the ships we have inherit " life. But they never got around finding a good balance between these three things.

We all know the Curry episode is the fan favourite. Because it was executed properly and didnt feel like it tried to keep these 3 things together. It focused merely on the slice of life half. With some cameo for the Melon and Haguro and some other.

I think the anime would have been much better if they either focused on the military war part. i.e. more stuff like Akagi's events from episode 11 and the failed attack on the Airfield Hime (like the #edge cravers you all are). OR if they focused more on the slice of life part that was the benevolent curry episode. If it was more SoL we could have less fighting scenes but more concentrated ones, maybe even with dire results. Not like Kisaragi that we (the viewers) never got to get attached to and supposed to feel something when they die after 10 seconds of screentime. Now Kisaragi was as present as Mutsuki and Yuudachi during Fubuki's " level up " part of the anime. And sunk in say ep5, that would have made much more impact.

For being a cash cow anime for a highly popular web browser game it was alright for what it was. Not every kind of anime adaption of this sort can be like Rage of Bahamut from last season.

But the art was nice and felt somewhat unqiue to me by how the eyes looked, the girls were cute and those who enjoy yuri got it plenty early on from Ooi and Kitakami and later on Nagato and Mutsu.

And I for one did enjoy that they never showed the admiral, since having a "canon" depiction could  be a let down for many. And I don't know if it was an error in the subs of the ship girls calling the Admiral by male pronouns but honestly I don't care if the admiral was a dude or a chick all that much.

7/10 from me. Would like to see better focus on either the Slice of Life or amp up the story writing (along with explanations and backstory for unanswered questions) if they wanna make it with a more serious tone. By the way, Akagi's voice actor was phenomal in that part during the end of episode 11, really giving that despair feeling. Sadly the start of ep.12 turned it moot.

Here's for hoping the next season will feel more concentrated on what it wanna give to us. Now if you excuse me, I got a 1-5 mission to farm to get my Submarine waifu.