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The first time I discovered KanColle was actually on head-fi (headphone forum). It was in the anime thread (back around February/March 2015), where someone posted a screenshot of their HQ with valentines Hamakaze as FS. I was quite interested, because it didn't look like a dating sim and I had no idea what kind of game it was. On the exact same day, one of my uni group members posted (on Facebook) a screenshot of their ship construction page with a 5hr timer. I was interested in that as well, since it looked like a Japanese game :P I was surprised to find that both pictures were from the same game.

I've always been a fan of war history ever since I was in primary school, but in terms of naval war history, all the books I read mainly focused on the allied powers, so the only axis ships I ever heard/read about were Yamato, Bismarck and Tirpitz. One of the reasons why I started playing was to hopefully expand my knowledge of the IJN, as well as the language itself.

I decided to watch the anime and actually enjoyed it (I liked the character art), even though it was difficult remembering all the names at the beginning. After finishing the anime and determining that "kawaii ship-girls + IJN history = I have to play this game", I registered an account via the April 1st 2015 lottery.

With 200 ship slots, 4 repair docks and 4 waifu, I still play this game on a daily basis, and aim to collect every ship in the game. I'm currently missing Arashi, Harusame, Nowaki, Asagumo, Katori, Shioi, Yuu/Ro, Unryuu, Mikuma, Musashi, Bismarck, Z3 and Taihou...