Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26988710-20150424033735

139.216.148.160 wrote: So because there's a "plot hole". It's okay to create more plot holes? Classic Hollywood script writing there

209.195.118.48 Yeah you're Canadian. Close enough /s I'm just helping you make your theory more concrete but you're taking it the wrong way.

The maps in the game are based around real WW2 maneuvers of the IJN. What would Americans defending against the Abyssals be like? 10 maps of "Patrol the American West Coast"? or maybe Fictional battles? Kancolle has already visited the Aleuthian Islands and surprise surprise they didn't come into contact with American Kanmusu (if they are any).

I suppose "Hunt the submarines" is plausible because of I-25, I-26 submarine operations on the West Coast. So Kancolle (American ver.) will have the mighty Americans struggling against the small Aleuthian islands task force and a few submarines?

Next, someone is probably going to suggest "IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AROUND WW2 MANEUVERS" i bet. Reality check: This game is based on WW2 ships and always had WW2 Maneuvers as maps Let me get clarification on something: are you refuting the idea of American ships being added to the game, or the idea of American kanmusu existing in the KanColle world at all? Or are you they type for whom those are the same thing?

Which leads back to my "plot hole" point: KanColle has no story, but it does have a concept to build off of (personified/reincarnated WWII ships fighting cyborgs/aliens/zombies in what may or may not be the present-ish day). It's natural for fans to take that concept and run with it. In short, KanColle's story is what you, the player, make of it. You can deride it as "fan-fiction" or some such but that's just how it is.

As far as American ships being added in the game, you're 100% right; it wouldn't make much sense seeing as how we've only seen Axis vessels and our battlefields so far have indeed been entirely Pacific Theater combat sites. Adding American ships would either require laying down some sort of plotline to justify it, or just confirm once and for all that KanColle never had a story and the devs just sort of do what they want.

As far as American kanmusu existing in some nebulous KanColle world outside of what we see in the game, well....YMMV. I and others say they do, while some may say they don't. It just depends on if you invest some imagination in this game or take it at face-value. Personally, I love me a good story, and if no story exists for a concept I find interesting, I'll make my own.