Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-26171444-20160126233635

I was just about to make a new thread to talk about this till I saw this one. Anyways, might as well say my piece on this issue. Feel free to disagree/agree/give me your opinion.

I never quite understood why there is so much backlash against the idea of non-axis ships being added into the game. True, this game did start out as an IJN ship game but I believe that branching out and adding more ships from different countries could be a very good move on kadokawa's part. For example, I'm sure that almost everyone on here has heard of the kancolle-esque game "Warship Girls". While I don't think that warship girls is in any way a major competitor to kancolle, I think that most of the players who play warship girls only play it because of the wide national diversity that is present in the game's roster. So if kancolle expanded the nations it includes, it could draw in more people who wanted more ship diversity. I've heard some people say that they don't want non axis ships to be included into the game out of fear that they'll take over and the IJN ships will no longer be in the majority. To be honest, I really can't see that happening. As it is the foreign ships combined don't hold a candle to the amount of IJN, so I'd say it's safe to say our lovely japanese kanmusu are and most likely always will be the majority. If non-axis ships are even added into the game, they'll most likely only be a small select few of the most well known and famous allied ships. Also, about the whole "How can the USN ships be kanmusu if they're supposed to be the abyssals?" thing, I'd say that argument would make sense if it weren't the fact that there are also IJN based bosses as well (Light cruiser oni, destroyer princess, AV princess). Other than that, I believe that allied ships could bring much to our collective fleets from both a gameplay and waifu simulator standpoint. That is, assuming kadokawa doesn't reduce them all to stereotypes. It would also be interesting to see how their relationships with the other kanmusu would play off of one another, and would bring in a whole new way to explore the shipgirls character dynamics and I could definitely see it spawning all sorts of new doujins. Basically, I don't see how this would be anything other than a positive thing