Talk:Anime/@comment-24185472-20150108213842/@comment-39.252.150.182-20150109164731

Kongou was overall (Japanese) fan favorite character based on personality and usefulness as a game unit due to her class' original low consumption, evasion, and firepower combination. She remains the most popular BB as a character. As a game unit, though, her popularity has been eclipsed for a long time. Other ships are simply more useful now. Shimakaze is simply the most often depicted DD in both official and fan publications, eclipsing even original postergirl Fubuki. This is largely thanks to the thong-fuku and her generally unique appearance. However, she's not exactly popular in the same sense that Kongou was (and is). Shimakaze doesn't have the personality to match Kongou, so she competes on cuteness. That's why "oh!" became her catchphrase. I mean, if you think about it it's just a sound. "Burning love!" is at least an actual phrase.