Flame bait aside, time to get serious. There are two results when one adapt a game into an anime, one is when you create a watchable show by actually adapting, the other is when you create garbage by tossing in a bunch of references to the game. Here is the thing, most of the people who watch the show is not going to play the fricking game, when you make an anime you should be trying to appeal to the faction that isn't already in the fan-base. But who am I kidding, most anime writers are idiots anyway.
story - 3
Ship Waifu wacky hijink, some people say it is something about girls being reincarnation of ships and etc. But don't be fooled, it is ship Waifu wacky hijinks. I don't care how many references you make to WWII, or how accurate some of the details are, it is all dressing, if the meat of the show is wacky hijinks with ship waifu, then the details means nothing. It is all just fanservice for military otakus, and boring details for anyone who isn't a military otaku.
The show try to have a couple serious moment, but let's be honest here, I'm not going to care that a cardboard cut out was sunk. You don't take the scenario serious from the start, neither will I, SHOCK FACTOR is a really cheap trick.
Even the setting doesn't make much sense, but this was originally a browser game, so I'll let that pass. But I was still disappointed since I was expecting anthropomorphic ships, not girls with the souls of ships.
Art - 8
Jarring CG transitions during some of the combat scene, even though the cg isn't utter shit, it looks like f**king MMD so much that I question whether they really used MMD to make those scenes. Everything else was decent.
Sound - 7
Tracks okay, not much to say.
character - 3
POIPOIPOIPOIPOIPOIPOI, oh god I hate that sound. The characters are cardboard cutouts, and that is totally expected when you have so much character and so few episodes. A smart man would focus on a couple characters to flesh them out, but since Kantai exist only to rob the wallets of idiots who bought the BDs to see their ship Waifu, it shoves a bunch of them into the show. The result was that instead of characters, we have cardboard cutout with shiticks. And it gets insufferable, when you realize at the end of the day, you just want to see them all sunk, screw moe, I want a character not a bunch of cardboards.
Overall - 4
Some may ask, if you hate it why you watch it, the response would be, if you don't watch it you wouldn't know how to hate it and how it could have been better. Plus the major reason would be, to see how the current biggest doujin series turned out since it is a bit more popular than Touhou right now. Such a big doujin giant getting an official anime, I wanted to see how it would turn out, and god I am disappointed. When your anime is worse than your doujin manga, you know you f**ked up big time, in fact it made me doubt Kantai even deserve to have so many doujin artists, since a lot of Touhou artists jumped ship (pun intended) to try to flesh out Kantai. It is really disappointing to see that the actual people who made the thing cared so little about the show, turning it into a soulless cash-grab.
We could have gotten a emotional story about anthropomorphic ships in a war, with losses and philosophy, showing the cruelty of war while referencing WWII. But instead we got, fricking cute girls doing cute things #ILostCount with ship references throw in. So once again, screw you Modern Anime, this is why we can't have good things.
