Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324162253/@comment-98.245.35.176-20150617043128

BillySEEDDecade wrote: I know it's kind of late but I just finished watching the last episode, and for me, it was bad in some ways. The reason why I don't really like this anime is because I enjoy the game and want the anime to expand more, they could explain stuffs like the origin of the abyssal, are the fleet girls count as a human or not, and others, but what we got is like an animated version of a doujin story. I really feel like they wasted so much potential here, and I think they also fail to attract new fans, since most people that I know who is not a fan of the series drop the anime after around 5 episode.

To begin to answer that, we've got to go back to the intro, which calls them "girls who possess the souls of warships from years past[...] using weapons known as 'outfits'" (which in retrospect should have been our first clue they really weren't trying... I mean, come on, at least do something 10% more creative like "shipsuit" or something, just anything)... and then says "they were born with the power to fight the Abyssals." There's nothing in that second part that stops them being humans, because it's undoubtedly the "souls of the warships" that give them that power.

I would tentatively say that they are supposed to be human girls, taken with the fact the devs said that a scrapped girl continues life as a normal girl. Also, the blood from Kaga's mouth in ep 12 looks like just that - blood - in contrast to the wounds on Maya and Choukai's CGs, which could be leaking blood or oil (a possibility rendered moot by what the devs said).

(If this isn't swerving off-topic, just based on how untenable it is to have 9000 scrapped identical-twin Nakas roaming loose in the world, I think having the fleet girls be human is sheer nonsense, but it is what it is. This means it's no longer a question of "are they human", but "do you want to ignore that part of canon and have them be machines".)

The first three episodes, yeah, were bastions of false hope. If it had continued with that balance, it would have been a decent, if not good, addition to KanColle. Unfortunately, some of the things that salvaged the later episodes were also entwined with what made the show bad. (Would it have been possible to have derpy Kongou class without the mood whiplash? ...Not from this "writer".)