Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20151228113512

Ransk wrote: The Abyssals are pretty non-subtly implied to be American ships, no? I mean they use imperial measurements for their guns, isn't that proof enough? That argument has been proven to be futile long, long time ago, for no allied ships, historical or planned, had 20-inch guns.

By the way, no navies other than IJN features torpedo cruisers and ASW-capable CLs as well.

What's more, after AL/MI, all new bosses feature their "Abyssal voice effect", aka the weird echo effect when an abyssal speak, to be gradually turned off when they are finally defeated. Which causes them to pronounce the last few words of their sinking line in the same way as our ship girls. In addition, their sinking lines are scripted to imply that they surfaced from deep sea, and become the players' ships.

For some quick examples:

DD Princess becomes Harusame when defeated

DD Water Demon, Hagikaze

CL Demon, Naka

CL Hime, Jinntsu

CV Hime, Kaga in terms of appearance, Akagi in terms of voice

etc.