Talk:Iowa/@comment-26171444-20160222035103/@comment-17703786-20160222053746

"It also goes to say that Iowa would act and look more like November's version than this."

Where does the certainty in this statement come from?

Pacific's Iowa is great looking yes, however Kancolle's version is no less valid an interpretation of the ship, with the key word being interpretation. While the personality of ships in Kancolle do sometimes take measure of the ship's history, sometimes they're completely random at times: see the utter adorable goofball that is Kongou, despite the fact that she's the chronologically the oldest ship in the game, or Naka being portrayed as an idol simply because her in-game card number is 48.

Different people can have different interpretations of a concept of an anthropomorphized ship, and that's fine: returning to the Kongou example above, while Kancolle's interpretation is one way of doing said battleship's personality, we can also have an interpretation like Arpeggio of Blue Steel's Kongou, who's more serious.

So claiming that Iowa as an anthropomorphized ship should somehow be expected to act in a supposed fashion doesn't really float, so to speak.