Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1820055-20150908231347/@comment-26988710-20150910135501

50.27.23.77 wrote: A movie and another season with this KusoTTK along with Blizzard Sue, lack of characterization (with the few who get any are either over-simplified (Hibiki & Ooi) or retooled (Mutsuki)), indecisive writing full of a mash-up of cliches, poor uses of historical references, oversaturation of yuri subtext, overreliance of fanon, oversaturation of yuri subtext, wasting too many plot elements, and large amounts of They Just Didn't Care?!? I'll pass unless there's a reboot.

I couldn't agree more about the overuse of yuri subtext. Awful overuse and in some cases downright gross (Nagato and Mutsu are sisters dammit).

But two points in regards to personalities: first, I rather like Mutsuki's less hyperactive, more down-to-earth anime persona; just personal preference.

More importantly, I would argue that the characters aren't really oversimplified because the majority of the girls in the game have one or two dominant personality quirks and little else (Fusou is unlucky, Kongou is hot for the Admiral, Shimakaze is fast, Yamato has a hotel complex, etc). As far as I know, a lot of the traits we consider "normal" for a given girl are just things the fans took out of a single line of dialogue and blew out of proportion (Akagi being a Big Eater, Ashigara a predatory single, etc). The point is that the anime didn't really oversimplify character's personalities because there wasn't much there to begin with.