Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324161612/@comment-1873984-20150326142727

Show is absolute shit. Sequal can't save it.

I get that it's supposed to be a tie-in fanservice anime and probably wasn't targeted towards people who are new to the series but jesus fucking christ how is the writer not fired? This entire season was a constant roller coaster of me thinking "ugh, this show fucking sucks" to "oh okay maybe it's not so bad" to "wait nevermind it's still shit". Just those thoughts would constantly go through my mind everytime i'd watch a new episode.

One of the things that bothered me most about this show is how sometimes conversations between characters took on a near-'The Room'-quality feeling (If you don't know what 'The Room' is, educate yourself and google it if you want). The girls would say things that would normally probably be said in the given situation and then they just say the line they'd say in the game. Just. Often times it felt unwarrented and would make absolutely no sense.

For example, the scene where Yuudachi showcases her new remodelled body for the destroyer girls. They all compliment her and say stuff that seems normal for the situation and then Yuudachi just mutters that line from the game "SO MANY TARGETS!". Or the scene where Fubuki seeks comfort from Kongou because she had to stop being flagship and then Hiei just walks in and is like HIEEEEEEE!.

Kongou did this almost constantly and god I don't even care for Kongou very much but she was a saving grace in this show with her engrish and hyperactive personality. Her sisters, too. Kongou sisters were MADE for anime hijinks.

But really the thing that bothered me the most was how unjointed some of the things happening in this show were. Like when Kisaragi sunk, but then they kept raising Akagi's deathflag just to have it retconned by Fubuki doing the thing she did again like 6 episodes ago. Or even Yamato being rendered completely useless, just like the time she was used in Midway in history, her first and last battle. This possibly due to it being all according to plan by the Admiral in this show who didn't want history to repeat itself, but I don't want to rest on that notion due to how little information about anything got passed around when the girls talked in this show and how Kancolle even in-game will throw subtle historical hints here and there for anyone with an extended amount of knowledge on naval history to pick up.

Even if this was the case that Admiral had everything figured out, it still feels...gross to me. From a writer's standpoint.

Also Taihou showed up after being silhouetted in episode 11 for some reason. Historical reasons maybe? I don't know.

tl;dr: Hope you guys enjoy your mediocre regurgitated 8th-grader fanfiction.net writing. Meanwhile Arpeggio of Blue Steel is a far superior series.

I like Kancolle but holy shit I cannot reccomend this complete disaster of a show to ANYONE even people who didn't know they could totally just VPN this game and play it themselves. And don't give me that shit 'OH THE SERIES ISN'T DONE YET YOU CAN'T JUDGE IT FAIRLY'. No. Fuck you. That's not gunna fly with me.

At the very least Henderson-chan spoke. That's the best part of the final episode for me. I kid you not.