Talk:Kitakami/@comment-199.33.32.40-20161202045303/@comment-26411685-20161202052646

They WERE Kuma-class light cruisers when built, as reflected in their pre-Kai forms. They were refitted and modified into CLTs as reflected in their Kai forms, but were never officially renamed as a new class (As in the case of Taigei for example), so they remained as Kuma-class.