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“Kantai Collection” Anime Finally Confirmed

Kantai Collection has made it to the anime stage, upcoming from Diomedea and likely to debut next year, the animation already has everything against it to suggest a catastrophe lies ahead.



Diomedea has better works to their name, like Ika Musume, but they’re not inherently a great studio despite having the capacity for greater creations. It ultimately depends on the source material, and in this case, we have Kantai Collection, a massive marketing scheme turned overnight sensation as every otaku wants to try touching themselves to battleships anthropomorphised as girls. The assorted manga series are dull 4koma comedy disappointments with unappetizing efforts at eyecandy, and just take a look at this promotional sketch.

It feels inappropriate to even call this a “key visual”. It wouldn’t betray any expectations if this was indeed the level of quality found with this upcoming anime, but it’s still baffling nonetheless. They could have readily choosen a more popular battleship bishoujo, like Shimakaze, and just have recycled an older artwork even, and there would have been no complaints. Of all the skilled artists they like to flaunt in the manga, they couldn’t get one to make a half-decent announcement promo image?

Imagining Kantai Collection as an anime series, it’ll surely turn out to be a moe-empowered action show, trying to be diehard serious despite all the cuteness and skin exposure – essentially, a spin on Strike Witches, although this one is bound to be the lesser of the two.

If nothing else, this should be amusing for one reason or another.

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