Talk:General Discussion/@comment-112.198.79.226-20141210110147/@comment-140.0.248.172-20141210210852

I'm putting my bet on Ashigara and Nachi. Here's why:

1. They already have their kai ni slots prepared.

2. Sisters already kai ni.

3. Their illustrator bob is returning to active duty with Christmas Naka 2014 (I feel that Kadokawa is missing a great business opportunity here - look at Snow Miku and the entire industry now surrounding her).

4. The other illustrators confirmed to be returning to active duty for Christmas (Kuu Ro Kuro for RJ and Kujou Ichiso for Shigure) don't have any CAs in their portfolios.

With that said, UGUME is recently active with Furutaka and Fujikawa did Asagumo, so Kako and Kinugasa are also possible.

Out of the other CAs' illustrators, Mikoto Akemi (Takao and Atago) has been inactive since she made her contributions, hatsuko literally only did Aoba then dropped out of sight, and both Shibafu (Mogami, Mikuma) and Konishi (Suzuya, Kumano) have been inactive for a while.

If we want to be honest about it, the single unifying thread connecting all kai nis seem to be illustrator availability rather than particular events, popularity boosts, or combat record of individual kanmusu. My personal guess is that every once in a while as a particular event (by which I don't mean game events - rather things like sinking dates or battle anniversaries) approaches staff would go out and ask illustrators if they could contribute kai ni art, and if the illustrator agrees we get a kai ni, otherwise they delay until the illustrator is less busy.