Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20151108052301

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Just a Simple Merchant wrote: Ar-cen-ciel has a point about the backlash that could be had though. The fan base as been...touchy about this topic as I'm sure some responses above have courteously pointed out. Well, the USN ships wouldn't really much of a problem once the Japanese fanbase have gotten used to Allied kanmusus, so there's some hope for that one at least.

Chinese ships on the other hand was a major mixed bag due to several reasons, among them is because China was basically split into two nations now, Yukikaze was given to Republic of China back when KMT was a faction in mainland China, so the chances for Yukikaze ever getting remodelled into Dan Yang in Kancolle are pretty much nil (not that it mattered since Yukikaze is a Shimakaze-tier destroyer in Kancolle to begin with). Interestingly, in Japanese doujins Yukikaze was usually described as "went to a southern island nation after the war ended", but back in 1945, the Chinese Nationalists still control the whole China. Dan Yang was sent to China, not Taiwan after the surrender of Japan, and she actually participated in the withdrawal of the Nationalists.

Dan Yang herself won't be a problem to the Japanese, Japan and ROC actually had quite a good relationship over Dan Yang issues. A much bigger problem would be how to adapt the ROCN insignia. Soviet Navy had an independent flag, but ROCN flags are either the ROC national flag, or the Nationalists' party flag.

Also, Yukikaze (IJN) is using blue and white as her main colors, since Dan Yang literally means "Red Sun" in Chinese, it is possible to have Dan Yang using red and white instead. But an IJN ship using blue while an ROCN ship using red? It's just very anti-intuitive.

It needs to be reminded that Yukikaze's Chinese affiliation was officially admitted in a way, though. In the official 4-koma, when the folks first encountered Unryu, they thought that she was a Chinese, and one of them shouted "should we go and find Yukikaze?"