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View Poll Results: KanColle - Episode 8 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 9 | 36.00% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 6 | 24.00% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 6 | 24.00% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 4 | 16.00% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2015-02-26, 07:41 | Link #61 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: By that dark and bloody river called Ohio.
Age: 59
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The second time through I did notice, in the Nagato bath scene, that she quickly looked around just before she grabbed the squirrel. That just made the scene even more funny!
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2015-02-26, 09:23 | Link #64 |
物語は、もう、おしまい……?
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In the Horizon
Age: 43
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That steak Akagi had reminds me of Yamaguchi Tamon (aka Tamon-maru) =3. Yamaguchi was a big-eater too and when asked about the food he had on the Yamato, his reply was, "Delicious, but the servings are too little."
From hence on, by order of Admiral Yamamoto, he was given two steaks instead of the usual one for his meals
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2015-02-26, 12:41 | Link #68 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Age: 36
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If they don't need those facilities at all they could have simply gone 'and suddenly weapons are there' from the very beginning and would have saved budget as well as time for more story content.
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2015-02-26, 12:46 | Link #69 |
Master of Killing Time
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Makinohara Service Area
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Watching this episode only made me wonder more about the reaction of those old men from the IJN during WWII about the portrayal of their pride and joy almost 70 years to the day she was sunk.
I mean, would they be delighted or horrified that their moefied superbattleship is now so elegant, beautiful and homely? Would they be happy that their ships are still known and recognized all throughout the world (but mainly by kancolle otakus), although they're now scantily clothed bishoujos and even more so when they're damaged? Nah I already know the answer to that, being the old fogies that they are I assume that they'll be horrified and have a heart attack or something. |
2015-02-26, 12:49 | Link #70 | |
RUN, YOU FOOLS!
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Formerly Iwakawa base and Chaldea. Now Teyvat, the Astral Express & the Outpost
Age: 44
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Not quite what you think it is.
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2015-02-26, 14:36 | Link #73 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
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Yamato has remained famous. It is the other ships that are getting some limelight (no Naka, not just you).
Interestingly, for a Space Battleship Yamato concert coming soon, Bandai Channel was streaming the most recent Yamato 2199 film yesterday. In it is a direct reference to Hotel Yamato, where they go literal. Inside a copy of Battleship Yamato is one of the Hotels (in the Amazon rainforest)! (meanwhile space battleship Yamato is nearby in orbit.) Space Battleship Yamato also uses the Type 3 shells to great effect in the film.
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2015-02-26, 15:48 | Link #74 | |
物語は、もう、おしまい……?
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In the Horizon
Age: 43
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WWII Japan is still a controversial issue in that country. A good example are the debates that were raised over "The Eternal Zero" and more recently "The Wind Rises". In a Asahi Shimbun article in May 2014, it reported that folks who had experienced the war feel uneasy over how Kancolle's popularity has helped pushed sales of model ships, worried that this interest in military-themed models would lead to have a glorified view of the military itself within the younger generation, making way for a pro-war attitude. (On a sidenote, it's not just Kancolle that has this effect on model sales. Tank models also reported a similar boost with Girls und Panzer =3). Of course, this article brought feedback from a good many TTKs. Putting the imho rather farfetched "Interest in models = Interest in joining the military" theory aside, the article ignored that it was because of interest in Kancolle that many people began to learn and understand the history behind the Pacific War, and the consequences that followed. No long after, someone submitted a counter-argument to the paper, of which included this excellent passage: "The most important thing is that, by knowing that precious lives would be lost, we would not embrace a right-wing doctrine so easy, nor would we condone war as an end. If our people are left in the dark, apathetic and stop thinking, wouldn't this make it even easier for us to walk down the road to war? " On a more cheerful note, a perhaps unintended side-effect of Kancolle's popularity is that the grandchildren of former IJN personnel began to take interest in their grandfathers' experiences. A good example would be the increase of requests for the wartime duty records of ex-soldiers by their descendants. In the past such requests were usually made by veteran societies for archiving purposes or for ex-military men or their kin for autobiographies. In fact, the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare reported that requests fell from 898 made in 2005 to 403 in 2011, and then up to 639 in 2013. While folks from the Ministry "aren't sure what's the reason for this increase", they believe it's probably due to the interest generated by the "Eternal Zero" movie as well as this game. So coming back, yes, maybe veterans might be bemused or even disturbed that the ships on which they had braved storms and Allied military might are now... cute girls. And then again they might be just shrug and even chuckle, knowing that this is this and that is that, that the cute girls their grandchildren are obsessed with are not the warships that they had been with until the very end. Who knows, maybe now they might even find it easier to chat with the kids, with the warships and shipgirls as a new common ground. Like, say, Gramps puffed up with pride how the ship he was on would definitely be a fine woman and that sort of thing =3 To automatically assume that every one of them would just foam at the mouth and flip shows prejudice towards the old imho =3 Btw, just for laughs, a Japanese fan tweeted sometime back about how his late grandfather was a signaler on the Yuubari, the experiences he shared with his grandson.... and how he, the grandson, had, errr, "used" the R-18 Yuubari doujin he bought at C85 (thrice at that too) and was now too ashamed to admit it at his grandpa's grave
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2015-02-26, 17:07 | Link #75 | |
Otaku Apprentice
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Wait, "used"?
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2015-02-27, 03:24 | Link #77 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
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First it was Yamato's "I'm not a hotel" . Then it's Zuikaga. Then KTKM-sama in swimsuit. Followed with Nagamon. and capped with Yamato again in full rig...
*die, no regret* *revive myself when heard about Poi Kai Ni next week*
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2015-02-27, 07:53 | Link #78 | |
The slacking one
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Oh right, Kitakami-sama went with a surprisingly showy one. Also, gotta say I was surprised seeing Ooi getting some breast envy when she's often portrayed as being stacked. |
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2015-02-27, 08:03 | Link #80 | |
物語は、もう、おしまい……?
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In the Horizon
Age: 43
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*hears thunder in the horizon* Here they come again *dives into the nearest hole*
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