Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1820055-20150908231347/@comment-50.27.23.77-20150912092059

Tadano Hitoshi wrote: I've had a lot of problems with these. These are why the anime was a failure in hooking me into actually playing. I mean, come on. Some things just seem to prod you over and over in the face (episode 3 death flags, come on the flag was obvious already, writers, do you actually need to tell us that next she's gonna sink in our faces for so much?) as if trying to tell you "This is what you'll see and enjoy so enjoy it, you've been playing it so you will know."

Not only the Admiral doesn't have a face, he is too kuso to even have one. No wonder they didn't even give him a face. Also this brings me back to another case where it's hard to tell whether you're watching a series about a game or the series using the game's universe to tell its own story. From my POV it's more of the former and telling people "Ayyyy we have a game with cute girls and the anime is to promote it so come over and playyyy." From my POV it is neither.

If it was the former it would have had the characters be much closer to their canon in-game personalities (with some ascended fanon added in to spice things up and act as fanservice) and would have had more references to the game's maps and events rather than a halfassed retelling of history (until that asspull at Episode 12).

If it was the latter the plot wouldn't have been such an indecisive mess; it would be a fun, laid-back slice-of-life with little to no plot, or a historical tragedy as history repeats itself, or a plot with defying a repetition history set as its core theme from the very beginning, or perhaps something unexpected that is crazy awesome.

Instead, it's more like the writers were thinking, "If it has KanColle on it, it will sell! If it has shipgirls animated and moving, the fans will watch it and buy it!! If it has girls who are cute and moe in it, then newcomers will watch it, then buy it, then play the game, then get hooked on it, and by the merchandise!!! Profit!!!! Herrderrderp!!!!! ￥￥￥" And thus they didn't even bother making an effort... -__-