Talk:Abyssal Target/@comment-4981281-20181227090534/@comment-213.248.110.84-20181227124645

That's a good question. At a guess, I assume it might be deliberate to set the Abyssals apart from the Kanmusu fleet?

It's a bit of a conundrum: For the ship girl version, it could be argued that since it's a class name, it makes sense to treat it as a proper noun rather than translating, similar to how we say "Shiden" rather than "Violet Lightning". If it were any other type of (unmanned) equipment, we'd probably use the English designation, like we do with the "Type-3 Shell" instead of saying "San-shiki".

On the other hand, if we'd just use the same proper noun for the Abyssal version as well, it would be the very first piece of Abyssal equipment on the wiki that has a Japanese name, somewhat breaking consistency -- in addition to making it an obvious piece of IJN equipment, whereas all existing Abyssal gear is somewhat anonymized by using names that *hint* at the origin without being exactly the same (e.g. "Abyssal Revenge bomber" rather "Abyssal Avenger").

I'm not sure which option is better, although I do have a slight preference towards keeping Abyssal equipment separate from the ship girls' in designation as well, to drive home the enemy fleet's alien nature.