Browser Card Battle Game 'Kantai Collection -KanColle-' to Get TV Anime Adaptation Due Summer 2014

HauntingShock said:
Not that surprising after the barrage of manga and LN adaptations~

AiCon said:
So the anime will be like a naval version of Upotte!!
I'm already loving the cast in this. Hopefully this will be better than that Upotte and surprise me like Girls und Panzer.

symbv said:
I would say the game is like a mix of IdolM@ster, Girls und Panzer and Strike Witches, because like GirlPan it is pretty faithful to history when it comes to the attributes of the warships (in fact even the dialogues of the kanmusu reflects history) so the history and military buffs love it, just like GirlPan. On the other hand, it is like IdolM@ster where you recruit a bunch of girls and "produce" them, giving training in order to improve their professional/combat performance and then send them to concerts/missions. This creates a strong personal attachment to your ships/girls (I have read so many comments by players genuinely saddened by the loss of his ship/girl). Finally it is like Strike Witches with the anthropomorphizd all-female cast working as a team fighting some unknown and mysterious enemy.

game8910 said:
It was inevitable, but the speed at which this game has grown is truly monstrous. Truly this could become a new Touhou or Vocaloid at this rate.

Also there are like 10 characters voiced by Toyama Nao in this game, so I am certainly happy to see it grow.

I once again failed to get a spot in a server today ;_;

Amarrez said:
It's happening. A full season of cute Shimakaze doing fast things, oh boy.

People in the west are going to be wildly confused when this eclipses every other show next year in popularity.

game8910 said:

Also there are like 10 characters voiced by Toyama Nao in this game, so I am certainly happy to see it grow.

AiCon said:
Nao Toyoma has become another Ai Kayano in terms of how many roles she gets every season. I just hope that she'll branch out of her high school roles and not get typecast.

Siva said:
Eh, "PlayStation Vista"? What is that? Never heard of it.

symbv said:
Kan Colle PS Vista game website: http://www.kancolle-vita.com/

Hoppy said:
First the game gets uber popular and it hasn't been that long either, then there's not 1 but 2 manga announced, a light novel as well, then the anime and game.

symbv said:
It is not just one novel but at least three, all from different publishers.

From KanColle twitter on Sep 20th:

「艦これ」ノベライズ化プロジェクトのお知らせ！ スニーカー文庫(角川書店)、ファンタジア文庫(富士見書房)、ファミ通文庫(eb!)で「艦これ」ノベライズ化プロジェクトが進行中！それぞれがフューチャーする「艦娘」の視点アプローチで展開予定です。詳細は続報をお待ちください！
https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/statuses/380921745315598337

One from Sneaker Bunko of Kadokawa, one from Fantasia Bunko from Fujimi Shobo and then one from Famitsu Bunko from Enterbrain!

FOE-tan said:

So, PS Vitas are made by Microsoft now? But seriously, I'm just posting so that you can fix that typo. I can't blame you for making it, as that's pretty much the biggest non-chart news item I have ever seen on MAL

GuiltyKing said:
sym, give us those manga and LN sales already. '-' pretty please?

Kaioshin_Sama said:
but to be honest I don't even know if there's supposed to be a back story or mythos to everything other than the usual set of assigned moe personalities.

symbv said:
The ships Touyama voices in KanColle are mostly heavy battleships which are represented by girls looking older than high school girls, so it could be a good break for her.

phoenixalia said:
Well, recent game adaptations like Danganronpa, Devil Survivor 2 and Neptunia and otome adaptations have been lack luster and overall have not been well written IMO.

NekoHaruhi said:
Including Kongō, which was built in England.
http://i.imgur.com/FdvNozL.jpg

symbv said:
They are not even started, or started but not yet compiled and published as tankobon..... Sales of the only one that is published, the "anthology comic", can be found in the manga sales thread I posted earlier today http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=667911 .

GuiltyKing said:
I was talking about this week's manga and LN sales thread which has yet to be posted. :3 You mentioned something about you doing it instead of Snow, so I was wondering when you'll do it.

symbv said:
One thing I kind of love about KanColle and the massive output of fanart is how many of the "assigned moe personalities" actually have historical basis. Akagi was known to consume a lot of fuel and so she is a big eater. Shimakaze was considered the speediest among different classes of destroyers so she is a fast runner. The missions Sendai participated historically were mostly night battles, so she is obsessed with charging into the night. Mutsu was sunk by mysterious explosion inside the shiip and so she always gets caught in some fire hazard. And their dialogues also hint at trivia regarding history. It is kind of like the trivia hidden here and there in Girls und Panzer. The more you know about the history the more fun you have with the girls' personalities and things they talk. The assigning of the moe personalities is not really random. Some indeed are (or at least look that way to me) but a lot are not.

Kaioshin_Sama said:
Like is their some sort of back story or mythos to this game that they can work with or is it pretty much just cute girls, cute personalities with semi-historical references in flavor text and game play that defines Kantai Collection. For example Magic the Gathering actually has it's own companion comic series and expanded lore that has brought it well beyond the level of just a table top card game in terms of story line and some of the rare cards like Gerard and his Weatherlight crew have their own sagas to go with them which makes it all the more interesting.

JoksPacifist said:
Is there an english translated version of the game anywhere ? All I have see it's in Jap.

whymind said:
I would only watch this if the final arc is about a bunch of moe anthropomorphized American ships and airplanes beating the crap out of the Japanese ones.