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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the anime, see <a href="Kantai_Collection_(TV_series)" title="Kantai Collection (TV series)">Kantai Collection (TV series)</a> and <a href="KanColle%3A_The_Movie" title="KanColle: The Movie">KanColle: The Movie</a>.</div>
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</style><table class="infobox ib-video-game hproduct"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">Kantai Collection</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_developer" title="Video game developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Kadokawa_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadokawa Games">Kadokawa Games</a><br>KanColle Unei Chinjyufu Committee</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="DMM.com" title="DMM.com">DMM.com</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_creative_director" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game creative director">Director(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kensuke Tanaka <small> (C2 Preparat)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_producer" title="Video game producer">Producer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kensuke Tanaka <small>(C2 Preparat, KanColle Unei Chinjyufu Committee)</small><br>Michio Okamiya <small>(DMM.com)</small><br>Yoshimi Yasuda <small>(Kadokawa Games)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game designer">Designer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kensuke Tanaka</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_artist" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game artist">Artist(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">At least:
<ul><li>32 illustrators</li>
<li>74 <a href="Seiy%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Seiyū">seiyūs</a></li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_composer" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game composer">Composer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Hiroshi Usami<br>Kaori Ōkoshi<br>Michio Okamiya<sup id="cite_ref-whitepaper_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whitepaper-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a><br><a href="Adobe_Flash" title="Adobe Flash">Flash</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(formerly) </span><br><a href="Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span style="font-size:97%;"><a href="Japan" title="Japan">JP</a>:</span> April 23, 2013</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_genre" title="Video game genre">Genre(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="MMO_game" class="mw-redirect" title="MMO game">Online</a> <a href="Browser_game" title="Browser game">web browser game</a><br><a href="Construction_and_management_simulation" title="Construction and management simulation">Fleet raising simulation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mode(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Single-player" class="mw-redirect" title="Single-player">Single-player</a>, <a href="Multiplayer" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiplayer">Multiplayer</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><i><b>Kantai Collection</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<a href="Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>: <span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん</span>, <a href="Hepburn_romanization" title="Hepburn romanization">Hepburn</a>: <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kantai Korekushon</i></span>; <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Fleet Collection</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>)</span>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> abbreviated as <i><b>KanColle</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦これ</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanKore</i></span>)</span>, is a Japanese <a href="Free-to-play" title="Free-to-play">free-to-play</a> web browser game developed by <a href="Kadokawa_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadokawa Games">Kadokawa Games</a> and published by <a href="DMM.com" title="DMM.com">DMM.com</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kotaku_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kotaku-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The central theme of the game is the representation of <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> <a href="Warships" class="mw-redirect" title="Warships">warships</a> <a href="Moe_anthropomorphism" title="Moe anthropomorphism">personified as teenage girls and young adult women</a> with personality characteristics reflecting the history of each ship. All of the featured ships were originally Japanese, but ships from other nations, like America and Germany, have also been implemented as the game has developed. Gameplay involves all aspects of naval warfare, including not only combat but also maintenance, repair, upgrading, resupply, morale, logistics as well as mission planning.
</p><p>The game was launched on April 23, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game is available in Japan only and as of April 2015 has 3 million registered players.<sup id="cite_ref-playerstats_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-playerstats-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <a href="Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> client of the original game was released in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game has developed into a much larger media franchise; various media including multiple <a href="Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> series and <a href="Light_novel" title="Light novel">light novels</a> have been released, in addition to an officially licensed <a href="Tabletop_role-playing_game" title="Tabletop role-playing game">tabletop role-playing game</a>. A <a href="PlayStation_Vita" title="PlayStation Vita">PlayStation Vita</a> game was released in February 2016,<sup id="cite_ref-vitareleaseFeb_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vitareleaseFeb-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Kantai_Collection_(TV_series)" title="Kantai Collection (TV series)">an anime television series</a> aired its first anime from January to March 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-famiani_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-famiani-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="KanColle%3A_The_Movie" title="KanColle: The Movie">an animated film</a><sup id="cite_ref-annfilm_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-annfilm-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> released in November 2016, and a second anime that premiered in November 2022.
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<p>The gameplay is centered upon building squadrons composed of individual characters represented as cards with different attributes, and then sending said squadrons out on missions. Each of the characters are <a href="Moe_anthropomorphism" title="Moe anthropomorphism">moe anthropomorphisms</a> of <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> naval <a href="Warship" title="Warship">warships</a> which are depicted as cute girls, known as "Fleet girls"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦娘</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">kanmusu</i></span>)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-susume_intro_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-susume_intro-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These personified warships are based on real-life vessels which are explained in detail within the game; the physical characteristics, appearances and personalities of each of the girls correlate in some way to the real-life vessel (for example, ships with a larger <a href="Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displacement tonnage</a> such as cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers are usually depicted as young women, while smaller ships such as destroyers and <a href="Kaib%C5%8Dkan" title="Kaibōkan">coastal defense ships</a> look and behave like pubescent girls, with a few exceptions). The vast majority of these fleet girls are based on ships of the <a href="Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a>, with the remaining ships coming from the <a href="Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> and the navies of other nations. So far foreign navies represented in the game include <a href="Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a>, <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it"><a href="Regia_Marina" title="Regia Marina">Regia Marina</a></i></span>, <a href="United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>, <a href="Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>, <a href="Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a>, <a href="French_Navy" title="French Navy">Marine Nationale</a>, <a href="Swedish_Navy" title="Swedish Navy">Svenska Marinen</a>, <a href="Royal_Australian_Navy" title="Royal Australian Navy">Royal Australian Navy</a> and <a href="Royal_Netherlands_Navy" title="Royal Netherlands Navy">Koninklijke Marine</a>. The player takes on the role of an admiral<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">提督</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">teitoku</i></span>)</span> and organizes their fleets in battle in order to win. Combat is largely automated, and manual actions by the player include micromanagement such as building and repairing.<sup id="cite_ref-kotaku_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kotaku-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The player can organize up to four different fleets.<sup id="cite_ref-dannychoo_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dannychoo-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The player progresses through the game by advancing through maps, gaining experience points through <a href="Grinding_(video_gaming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grinding (video gaming)">grinding</a>, obtaining new fleet girls whilst repairing and resupplying existing ones, and fulfilling quests to obtain resources. New equipment can be crafted, allowing the fleet girls to equip different armaments depending on the situation.<sup id="cite_ref-susume_intro_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-susume_intro-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Acquisition of new <i>kanmusu</i> by the player can occur via drops on map or via crafting, and is heavily <a href="Random_number_generation" title="Random number generation">RNG</a>-based; randomization is also a key component of the battle mechanism, map progression and equipment development.<sup id="cite_ref-dannychoo_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dannychoo-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Construction, resupply and repair of ships is reliant upon four types of resources, namely <a href="Fuel" title="Fuel">fuel</a>, <a href="Ammunition" title="Ammunition">ammunition</a>, <a href="Steel" title="Steel">steel</a> and <a href="Bauxite" title="Bauxite">bauxite</a>; these supplies will gradually increase automatically as time passes. Players can choose to engage in expeditions, sorties, and quests to further increase their supplies as well.<sup id="cite_ref-dannychoo_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dannychoo-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Ships can be customised through the addition of various equipment within their empty slots, which add attribute bonuses and even provide special effects in some cases;<sup id="cite_ref-susume_intro_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-susume_intro-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such equipment include <a href="Naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval gun">naval guns</a>, <a href="Anti-aircraft_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-aircraft gun">anti-aircraft guns</a>, <a href="Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedoes</a>, <a href="Torpedo_bomber" title="Torpedo bomber">torpedo bombers</a>, <a href="Dive_bomber" title="Dive bomber">dive bombers</a>, <a href="Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">fighter aircraft</a>, <a href="Seaplane" title="Seaplane">seaplanes</a>, <a href="Recon_plane" class="mw-redirect" title="Recon plane">recon planes</a>, <a href="Radar" title="Radar">radars</a>, <a href="Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbines</a>, special artillery shells, <a href="Depth_charge" title="Depth charge">depth charges</a>, <a href="Sonar" title="Sonar">sonars</a>, <a href="Drum_(container)" title="Drum (container)">drum canisters</a>, <a href="Searchlight" title="Searchlight">searchlights</a> and <a href="Anti-torpedo_bulge" title="Anti-torpedo bulge">anti-torpedo bulges</a>. The effectiveness of ships in combat depend on its attribute parameters, namely hitpoints, armour, evasion, aircraft capacity, speed, attack range, firepower, torpedo, anti-air, anti-submarine, line-of-sight, and luck.<sup id="cite_ref-catalogue_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catalogue-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>Kanmusu</i> are capable of becoming stronger as they gain experience and level up after battles, and can also be remodeled into more advanced models once they reach a certain level. Unwanted <i>kanmusu</i> can also be "fed" to other <i>kanmusu</i> through a process known as "modernization"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">近代化改修</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">kindaika kaishu</i></span>)</span>, which grants attribute bonuses to one ship in exchange for losing another.<sup id="cite_ref-dannychoo_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dannychoo-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ships can become fatigued once it accumulates after sorties; fatigued ships have decreased attributes, whilst sparkling ships have increased attributes. Fatigue can be alleviated by allowing ships some time to rest, or by recovering the fleet's morale using <a href="Japanese_supply_ship_Mamiya" title="Japanese supply ship Mamiya">Japanese food supply ship&nbsp;<i>Mamiya</i></a>. As ships become damaged, their icons begin to blow off smoke and their clothing become visually torn and battered; in the event when a ship's durability drops down to zero, it is considered sunk, and the player will lose the fleet girl.<sup id="cite_ref-dannychoo_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dannychoo-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Players cannot resurrect fleet girls that have been lost unless they are in possession of an emergency repair item, and are only able to re-train ships that have been lost from scratch.
</p><p>Whilst the game is free-to-play, special premium bonuses can be obtained through prepaid game money and credit card <a href="Microtransaction" title="Microtransaction">microtransactions</a>, such as repair dock expansions, home shipyard furniture tokens, ship possession limit increases, and special consumable items.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although each ship in the game has an experience level cap of Lv.99, the player is able to obtain the "marriage papers and ring" item with a monetary purchase priced at 700 yen or via a one-time special quest, which allows the player to "marry" the girl, thereby breaking the original level cap and allowing a new maximum of Lv.175, in addition to other perks such as stat boosts and decreased operating costs; this process can be repeated as many times as the player wishes, and there is no limit to the number of girls that can be "married".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Players can choose to battle against the fleets of other real-life players on the same game server via the exercise maneuvers menu. Players are also able to compete with each other's scores via in-game ranking boards, with periodical prizes for top ranking players. As of January 2016, there are 20 servers that can be played on, each named after a World War II-era Japanese naval base.<sup id="cite_ref-catalogue_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catalogue-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game is currently intended to be played by a Japanese domestic audience only, with the interface exclusively in the Japanese language. As of present, the game cannot be played outside Japan without the use of a <a href="Virtual_private_network" title="Virtual private network">VPN</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> utilisation of such methods to circumvent country <a href="IP_address" title="IP address">IP</a> restrictions and access the game breach the DMM.com online game terms of use, however.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From August 2013 onwards, new player registrations were only available via periodic lottery, due to the servers being overloaded by large numbers of new registrants.<sup id="cite_ref-inside_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inside-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After July 2015, new registrants were able to join the 20th server without the need to partake in a lottery; due to excessive player numbers, however, the new server has closed on multiple occasions.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fleet_girls">Fleet girls</h3></div>
<p>Upon the debut of the game, there were a total of 94 different fleet girls available. Within an update introduced May 15–17, 2013, additional fleet girls were added. On September 11, 2013, the first non-Japanese vessel, <a href="Japanese_destroyer_Hibiki_(1932)#In_Soviet_service" title="Japanese destroyer Hibiki (1932)">Soviet destroyer <i>Verniy</i></a> (Верный), was introduced into the game.<sup id="cite_ref-800k_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-800k-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were plans during the early stages to eventually bring additional ships from other countries,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in March 2014, three German <a href="Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a> vessels were added.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two Italian ships were added as part of the 2015 Spring event in April 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with one more added in August.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first fully non-Axis ship, the American <a href="USS_Iowa_(BB-61)" title="USS Iowa (BB-61)">USS Iowa (BB-61)</a>, was introduced with KanColle Kai on February 18, 2016,<sup id="cite_ref-crunchyroll.com_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crunchyroll.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later becoming available in the browser game's 2016 Spring event.<sup id="cite_ref-CrunchySpring2016_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CrunchySpring2016-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Presently there are 164 original girls in addition to 72 upgraded variants, bringing the total number of fleet girls to 236. The game currently holds spaces for 250 different types of fleet girls. Different fleet girls are illustrated by different artists; artists involved in the drawing of various characters include Shibafu,<sup id="cite_ref-ASCIIPlus_20130830_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ASCIIPlus_20130830-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fami_voice_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fami_voice-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%97%E3%81%9A%E3%81%BE%E3%82%88%E3%81%97%E3%81%AE%E3%82%8A" class="extiw external" title="ja:しずまよしのり">Yoshinori Shizuma</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-comptiq20130910_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comptiq20130910-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%B2%E3%82%88%E3%81%93%E8%A5%BF" class="extiw external" title="ja:ひよこ西">Konishi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-comptiq20130910_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comptiq20130910-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kūrokuro,<sup id="cite_ref-comptiq20130910_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comptiq20130910-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcaxis30_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcaxis30-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%BF%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%82%E3%81%91%E3%81%BF" class="extiw external" title="ja:みことあけみ">Akemi Mikoto</a><sup id="cite_ref-whitepaper_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whitepaper-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 16 other artists. <a href="Fumikane_Shimada" title="Fumikane Shimada">Fumikane Shimada</a>, who was previously the lead character designer for <i><a href="Strike_Witches" title="Strike Witches">Strike Witches</a></i> and <i><a href="Girls_und_Panzer" title="Girls und Panzer">Girls und Panzer</a></i>, created the designs and illustrations for <a href="Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Taih%C5%8D" title="Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō">Japanese armored aircraft carrier <i>Taihō</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-twitter_taiho_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-twitter_taiho-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the five German vessels.<sup id="cite_ref-humikane_z1_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-humikane_z1-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The traits of each fleet girl are based on aspects of the historical ship they are based on; for instance, <a href="Japanese_battleship_Kong%C5%8D" title="Japanese battleship Kongō">Japanese battleship&nbsp;<i>Kongō</i></a> frequently adds English words and phrases into her dialog as a reference to her British origins, whilst <a href="Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_(1942)" title="Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942)">Japanese destroyer&nbsp;<i>Shimakaze</i></a> is depicted as a speedy girl in artworks and official print media, since <i>Shimakaze</i> was one of the fastest destroyers of World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Characters which share particular links also have similar physical traits: ships of the same class may have similar accessories or clothing, whilst all Imperial Japanese Navy submarines are depicted as wearing <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sukumizu" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:sukumizu">sukumizu</a>.
</p><p><a href="Voice_acting_in_Japan" title="Voice acting in Japan">Voice actors</a> have been employed to voice the fleet girls, with anywhere around 10 fleet girls being voiced by one actor.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2></div>
<p>Prior to <i>Kantai Collection</i>, the majority of games published by DMM.com were R-18+ adult online games. In an effort to attract customers from a wider audience, DMM.com experimented with <i>Kantai Collection</i> in partnership with Kadokawa Games; by November 2013, <i>Kantai Collection</i> accounted for 30-40% of DMM.com's total online game business.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Unlike other online games in Japan, <i>Kantai Collection</i> was designed with the intention of not requiring players to spend money or participate in "gacha" lotteries.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The purpose of this stems from Kadokawa desiring a larger target market and to establish the game as a well-known name, eventually allowing for merchandising and sales of franchise works.<sup id="cite_ref-huffpost_kancorebus_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-huffpost_kancorebus-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Kensuke Tanaka, who prior to <i>Kantai Collection</i> was involved in the production and public relations for <i><a href="Final_Fantasy_X" title="Final Fantasy X">Final Fantasy X</a></i>, <i><a href="Final_Fantasy_XI" title="Final Fantasy XI">XI</a></i> and <i><a href="Final_Fantasy_XIII" title="Final Fantasy XIII">XIII</a></i>, wished to create a game which involves historical elements while still appealing to the regular fans of DMM.com, namely fans of <a href="Anime" title="Anime">anime</a> and <a href="Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> culture, and this led him to the idea of developing a game centered on anthropomorphisms of warships.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Print_media">Print media</h3></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Manga">Manga</h4></div>
<p>A bi-monthly online web manga by Ryōta Momoi began serialization from April 23, 2013, in the <i><a href="Famitsu" title="Famitsu">Famitsu Comic Clear</a></i>. The manga follows a <a href="Yonkoma" title="Yonkoma">4koma</a> format, and features a storyline with the fleet girls enrolled in schools, where senior girls teach battle techniques to their juniors. It has been updated weekly since October 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ryōta Momoi's 4koma manga will be released in print book format under the title <i>KanColle 4 cell comic: Fubuki, I will do my best!</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 4コマコミック 吹雪、がんばります!</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Fubuki, Ganbarimasu!</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> beginning from December 14, 2013.
</p><p><i>Famitsu Comic Clear</i> has introduced an additional manga adaptation by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%9F%E7%94%B0%E5%B0%86%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E" class="extiw external" title="ja:原田将太郎">Shōtarō Harada</a> under the title <i>Issued! Naval Base Communications</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">発令!鎮守府通信</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Hatsurei! Chinjufu tsūshin</i></span>)</span> beginning from July 9, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-ann_ani_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ann_ani-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Famitsu website also hosts a webcomic titled KanColle Play Manga: Blazing Ships Weather<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦これプレイ漫画 艦々日和</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kankan Biyori</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> by Tadashi Mizumoto which focuses on gameplay aspects of <i>Kantai Collection</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It began serialization from August 23, 2013. In addition, illustrations column Kanmusu and ships large picture book<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦娘及ビ艦船大図鑑</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kanmusu oyobi Kansen Dai-zukan</i></span>)</span> with multiple illustrators at the same time as the manga has also been serialized.
</p><p>A manga by Kensuke Tanaka and illustrated by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%95%E3%81%84%E3%81%A8%E3%83%BC%E6%A0%84" class="extiw external" title="ja:さいとー栄">Sakae Saitō</a> titled <i>KanColle: Someday as the Seas turn Calm</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- いつか静かな海で</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Itsuka shizuka na umi de</i></span>)</span> began serialisation in <i><a href="Monthly_Comic_Alive" title="Monthly Comic Alive">Monthly Comic Alive</a></i> in the December 2013 issue (released October 28, 2013), with a focus on an original story revolving around Tenryū and Tatsuta.<sup id="cite_ref-ann_ani_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ann_ani-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In addition, another manga series by SASAYUKi featuring the title <i>KanColle side:Kongō</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- side:金剛</span></span>)</span> was serialized in <i><a href="Comptiq" title="Comptiq">Comptiq</a></i> from the December 2013 issue (released November 9, 2013) onwards,<sup id="cite_ref-comptiq20130910_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comptiq20130910-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a story based on the adventures of battleship Kongō.<sup id="cite_ref-dec2013pre_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dec2013pre-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It began serialisation within the May 2014 issue of <i>Comptiq</i> (released April 10, 2014) and was later terminated within the November 2014 issue (released October 10, 2014).
</p><p>A manga titled <i>KanColle: Torpedo Squadron Chronicles</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 水雷戦隊クロニクル</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Suirai sentai kuronikuru</i></span>)</span> and illustrated by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%B1%E5%B1%B1%E9%9D%96%E5%AE%99" class="extiw external" title="ja:深山靖宙">Yasuhiro Miyama</a> began serialisation in the January 2014 issue (released November 9, 2013) of <i><a href="Comp_Ace" title="Comp Ace">Comp Ace</a></i>, with the plot focusing on the <a href="Akatsuki-class_destroyer_(1931)" title="Akatsuki-class destroyer (1931)">Akatsuki sisters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i><a href="Fujimi_Shobo" title="Fujimi Shobo">Age Premium</a></i> featured a manga publication by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%83%E5%85%AD" class="extiw external" title="ja:七六">Nanaroku</a> titled <i>KanColle: nanodesu.</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- なのです。</span></span>)</span> starting from the January 2014 issue (delivered December 9, 2013), with Inazuma as the main character.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was serialized until the May 2014 issue (delivered April 9, 2014).
</p><p>A manga series titled <i>KanColle: Shimakaze Whirlwind Girl</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 島風 つむじ風の少女</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Shimakaze Tsumujikaze no shōjo</i></span>)</span> by Kazuma Yamazaki, Hyōbu Madoka later Kaname Yokoshima and illustrated by Kazuma Yamazaki began serialisation within the <i><a href="Dengeki_Maoh" title="Dengeki Maoh">Dengeki Maoh</a></i> magazine in the February 2014 issue (released December 27, 2013).<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A manga series by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%81" class="extiw external" title="ja:ヒロイチ">Hiroichi</a> titled <i>KanColle: The perched naval base</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 止まり木の鎮守府</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Tomarigi no chinjufu</i></span>)</span> began serialisation in the July 2014 issue (released May 27, 2014) of <i><a href="Dengeki_Daioh" title="Dengeki Daioh">Dengeki Daioh</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> focusing on a storyline revolving around the heavy cruisers Kumano and Suzuya.<sup id="cite_ref-kumanosuzuya_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kumanosuzuya-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Kadokawa website also hosts a webcomic titled <i>Loose Ship: Woman Admiral Play Diary</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">ゆる艦〜女提督プレイ日記〜</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Yuru Kan: Onna teitoku purei nikki</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> by Sau Nitō and illustrated by Sōta Wakui which focuses on gameplay aspects of <i>Kantai Collection</i>. It began serialization from March 22, 2014, in Comic Walker.
</p><p>A manga series by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E6%B0%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AD" class="extiw external" title="ja:森永ミキ">Miki Morinaga</a> titled <i>Tonight, Another Salute!</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 今宵もサルーテ!</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Koyoi mo saruute</i></span>)</span> began serialization in the December 2018 issue (released November 10, 2018) of <i>Comptiq</i>, focusing on a storyline where Gambier Bay, Tashkent, and Commandant Teste discover an old bar on the naval base they're stationed at, eventually learning the skills of being bartenders and the history of cocktails. Gambier Bay uses the opportunity as a way of learning to get over her fear of the Kurita Fleet, as well to pull herself out of being too self-deprecating. Two volumes of the collected chapters have been released, and the third volume is scheduled to be released in September 2020. Currently it's also available on Comic Walker since July 10, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Kadokawa has also announced a manga series titled <i>KanColle: Black Order (provisional)</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- ブラックオーダー(仮)</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Black Order (kari)</i></span>)</span>, created by Ōto Taguchi who was previously responsible for the <i><a href="Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00" title="Mobile Suit Gundam 00">Mobile Suit Gundam 00</a></i> manga.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the project was cancelled after a disagreement between the author and publisher.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>Famitsu Comic Clear</i>, <i>DNA Comics</i>, <i>Comptiq</i> and <i>Dengeki Comics</i> have also published numerous series of comic compilation books which each contain a collection of various <a href="One-shot_(comics)" title="One-shot (comics)">one-shot</a> manga.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Light_novels">Light novels</h4></div>
<p>A short story series featuring aircraft carriers Zuikaku and Shōkaku written by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E7%94%B0%E5%BC%98%E6%A8%B9" class="extiw external" title="ja:内田弘樹">Hiroki Uchida</a> and illustrated by Matarō, titled <i>KanColle: Bonds of the Wings of Cranes</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 鶴翼の絆</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kakuyoku no kizuna</i></span>)</span>, began serialization within the January 2014 issue (released November 20, 2013) of <i><a href="Dragon_Magazine_(Fujimi_Shobo)" title="Dragon Magazine (Fujimi Shobo)">Dragon Magazine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-dec2013pre_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dec2013pre-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A light novel based on the game with the title <i>KanColle: Kagerō, Setting Sail!</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 陽炎、抜錨します!</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kagerō, batsubyō shimasu!</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-ebnovel_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebnovel-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> written by Toshihiko Tsukiji and illustrated by NOCO,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-crunchy_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crunchy-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was released on November 30, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-ebnovel_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebnovel-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A novel project featuring aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi involving the illustrator Koruri and the authors Kei Shiide, <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B7%B9%E8%A6%8B%E4%B8%80%E5%B9%B8" class="extiw external" title="ja:鷹見一幸">Kazuyuki Takami</a> and Dai Akagane has been announced,<sup id="cite_ref-dec2013pre_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dec2013pre-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the title <i>KanColle: A day at a certain naval base</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- とある鎮守府の一日</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Toaru chinjufu no ichinichi</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span>. It was serialized in <i>Comptiq</i> between the January 2014 (released November 9, 2013) and August 2014 (released July 10, 2014) issues. A novel to share the view of the world, <i>KanColle: 1st Carrier Division, Heading Off!</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 一航戦、出ます!</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Ikkōsen demasu!</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> written by Kazuyuki Takami and illustrated by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUNP" class="extiw external" title="ja:GUNP">GUNP</a> was released on November 2, 2014.
</p><p>A novel series featuring light aircraft carriers Zuihō written by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%80%E3%82%89%E3%81%95%E3%81%8D%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D%E3%82%84" class="extiw external" title="ja:むらさきゆきや">Yukiya Murasaki</a> and illustrated by Satoru Arikawa, titled <i>KanColle: Beautiful sea, Phoenix sky</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 瑞の海、鳳の空</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Mizu no umi, ōtori no sora</i></span>)</span> was released on February 1, 2015.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="KanColle_Kai"><i>KanColle Kai</i></h4></div>
<table class="infobox ib-video-game hproduct"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">KanColle Kai</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Game cover featuring Yamato (front) and Akizuki (back)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_developer" title="Video game developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Kadokawa_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadokawa Games">Kadokawa Games</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kadokawa Games</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_producer" title="Video game producer">Producer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Kensuke Tanaka</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="PlayStation_Vita" title="PlayStation Vita">PlayStation Vita</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span style="font-size:97%;"><a href="Japan" title="Japan">JP</a>:</span> February 18, 2016</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_genre" title="Video game genre">Genre(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Turn-based strategy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mode(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Single-player" class="mw-redirect" title="Single-player">Single-player</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>A single-player turn-based strategy game titled <i>KanColle Kai</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦これ改</span></span>)</span> was announced for the <a href="PlayStation_Vita" title="PlayStation Vita">PlayStation Vita</a> during Kadokawa Games' 2013 Autumn media briefing, and following two launch delays, was finally released on February 18, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-vitareleaseFeb_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vitareleaseFeb-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game is the second title independently created by <a href="Kadokawa_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadokawa Games">Kadokawa Game Studio</a>, after <i><a href="Natural_Doctrine" title="Natural Doctrine">Natural Doctrine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-famiani_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-famiani-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sili_vita_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sili_vita-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>KanColle Kai</i> introduces various strategy elements such as hexagonal world maps, a new resource transfer system involving the escorting of supply ships over each game turn, player-selected difficulty settings, enemy counterattacks against the player's bases, control of over up to eight fleets on the world map, and the ability to simultaneously operate two separate fleets within some sortie maps. Existing functions from the original web browser game are also present, with major user interface changes.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menu screens feature <a href="Live2D" title="Live2D">Live2D</a> character animations, and the player will encounter a "game over" state if all of their territories are destroyed by the enemy. The Vita game contained the original debut of <a href="USS_Iowa_(BB-61)" title="USS Iowa (BB-61)">USS <i>Iowa</i> (BB-61)</a> as a playable ship, prior to her seasonal event implementation within the browser game.<sup id="cite_ref-crunchyroll.com_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crunchyroll.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In March 2014, financial analyst Fukuda Sōichirō of <a href="Citigroup_Global_Markets_Japan" title="Citigroup Global Markets Japan">Citigroup Global Markets Japan</a> made the prediction in a stock investor report that the PS Vita game would ship 500,000 copies, and expects that a profit of 1 billion yen be made. He also cites the ability to charge players for in-game premium items on the PS Vita platform as an upside for Kadokawa Corporation business-wise.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="Famitsu" title="Famitsu">Famitsu</a></i> gave the game a review score of 29/40.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game sold 140,757 physical retail copies within the first week of release in Japan, placing first within the Japanese software sales rankings for that particular week;<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="Dengeki_PlayStation" title="Dengeki PlayStation">Dengeki Online</a></i> and <i>Famitsu</i> both report that between 80-100% of the initial retail batch stock was sold out within the first week.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Kadokawa Games has announced that the game will be no longer sold physically in retail stores or digitally in the PlayStation Store by the end of January 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="KanColle_Arcade"><i>KanColle Arcade</i></h4></div>
<table class="infobox ib-video-game hproduct"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">KanColle Arcade</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Four <i>KanColle Arcade</i> cabinets</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_developer" title="Video game developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Sega_AM2" title="Sega AM2">Sega Interactive AM2</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Sega" title="Sega">Sega Interactive</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">Arcade</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span style="font-size:97%;"><a href="Japan" title="Japan">JP</a>:</span> April&nbsp;26,&nbsp;2016<span style="display: none;">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2016-04-26</span>)</span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_genre" title="Video game genre">Genre(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Action_video_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Action video game">Action</a>, <a href="Collectible_card_game#Arcade" title="Collectible card game">Trading card</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mode(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Single-player" class="mw-redirect" title="Single-player">Single-player</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Arcade_system_board" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcade system board">Arcade system</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Nu1.1</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><i>KanColle Arcade</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦これアーケード</span></span>)</span> is a <a href="Collectible_card_game#Arcade" title="Collectible card game">trading card</a> <a href="Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">arcade game</a> developed by <a href="Sega_AM2" title="Sega AM2">Sega AM2</a> and launched on April 26, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game features fully modeled 3D characters, and involves the player taking control of the direction and speed of their ship in combat against Abyssal ships, in addition to collecting different shipgirls. The game charges players with a GP system akin to that of <i><a href="Border_Break" title="Border Break">Border Break</a></i>, where money is converted into GP at a specific rate, with these points consumed for each second of play or converted in exchange for various other game elements. The game is controlled using a steering wheel and speed lever, and the player is able to organize their fleet using <i>kanmusu</i> cards ejected by the arcade machine. While in combat, the player can choose between using primary and secondary armaments, torpedoes and airstrikes against foes.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tabletop_RPG">Tabletop RPG</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Saikoro_Fiction" title="Saikoro Fiction">Saikoro Fiction</a></div>
<p>An official KanColle <a href="Tabletop_role-playing_game" title="Tabletop role-playing game">tabletop RPG</a> has been developed; the introductory rulebook for the game was published by Kadokawa and <a href="Fujimi_Shobo" title="Fujimi Shobo">Fujimi Shobo</a>, and released on 18 March 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A first rule book written by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E5%B6%8B%E9%99%B6%E4%B8%80%E6%9C%97" class="extiw external" title="ja:河嶋陶一朗">Tōichiro Kawashima</a> and illustrated by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A6%E3%82%AD%E3%82%AA" class="extiw external" title="ja:ヒライユキオ">Yukio Hirai</a>, titled <i>Combined Fleet Girls Collection RPG: Introductory Book</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 艦これRPG 着任ノ書</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle RPG: Chakunin no Sho</i></span>)</span> was released on March 18, 2014.
</p><p>A replay series written by Shiei Akatoki and illustrated by Yebisu Daikanyama, titled <i>Combined Fleet Girls Collection RPG Replays: Wish Across the Sea</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 艦これRPGリプレイ 願いは海を越えて</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle RPG Replays: Negai wa Umi o Koete</i></span>)</span> was released on July 19, 2014.
</p><p>A lonely replay series written by Tōichiro Kawashima and illustrated by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B8%E5%AE%AE%E3%83%81%E3%83%8E" class="extiw external" title="ja:幸宮チノ">Chino Yukimiya</a>, titled <i>Combined Fleet Girls Collection RPG Replays of Lonely: Although the sky is so blue</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 艦これRPGぼっちリプレイ 空はあんなに青いのに</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle RPG Botchi Replays: Sora wa Anna ni Aoi no ni</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> was released on January 20, 2015.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anime">Anime</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Kantai_Collection_(TV_series)" title="Kantai Collection (TV series)">Kantai Collection (TV series)</a></div>
<p>An anime television series aired from January to March 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The series is animated by <a href="Diomed%C3%A9a" title="Diomedéa">Diomedéa</a>, and features <a href="Japanese_destroyer_Fubuki_(1927)" title="Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927)">Japanese destroyer&nbsp;<i>Fubuki</i></a> as the main character, with the storyline based on her point of view.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The show is directed by Keizou Kusakawa, with the script written by <a href="Jukki_Hanada" title="Jukki Hanada">Jukki Hanada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The anime series features the voice cast from the original game.<sup id="cite_ref-ann_ani_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ann_ani-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A second anime that features <a href="Japanese_destroyer_Shigure_(1935)" title="Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935)">Japanese destroyer Shigure</a> as the main character was announced on January 4, 2019. The series is produced by <a href="ENGI" title="ENGI">ENGI</a> and directed by Kazuya Miura, with scripts written by Kensuke Tanaka, the game's original writer, character designs handled by Chika Nomi, and music composed by Kaori Ohkoshi.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It aired from November 2022 to March 2023 and ran for eight episodes.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br>
The title is 『Fleet Girls Collection "KanColle" 1944 -I・TSU・KA・A・NO・U・MI・DE-』
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Audio_CDs">Audio CDs</h3></div>
<p>An original game soundtrack <i>KanColle Original Sound Track: Dawn</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- KanColle Original Sound Track 暁</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle Original Sound Track: Akatsuki</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> was released on August 3, 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Second original game soundtrack <i>KanColle Original Sound Track 2: Wind</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- KanColle Original Sound Track II 風</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle Original Sound Track 2: Kaze</i></span>)</span> was released on August 5, 2015.
</p><p>Two vocal music collection CDs <i>KanColle Ship Girl Feelings Song 1: KanColle Vocal Collection, Volume 1</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 艦娘想歌【壱】 KanColle Vocal Collection vol.1</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle Kanmusu Sōka 1: KanColle Vocal Collection, Vol.1</i></span>)</span> and <i>KanColle Ship Girl Feelings Song 2: KanColle Vocal Collection, Volume 2</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- 艦娘想歌【弐】 KanColle Vocal Collection vol.2</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">KanColle Kanmusu Sōka 2: KanColle Vocal Collection, Vol.2</i></span>)</span> have also been released on August 3, 2014.
</p><p>Limited edition versions of the <i>side:Kongō</i> and <i>Torpedo Squadron Chronicles</i> manga series <i>tankōbon</i> were bundled with drama CDs featuring original dialogue stories from the characters' original voice actors, titled "Hiei makes curry"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">比叡、カレーを作る</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Hiei, karē o tsukuru</i></span>)</span> and "Akatsuki's dream"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">暁の夢</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Akatsuki no yume</i></span>)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>An anime television soundtrack <i>Television Anime "KanColle" Original Sound Track: Ship Sound</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">TVアニメ「艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-」オリジナルサウンドトラック “艦響”</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">TV anime "KanColle" Original Sound Track: Kankyō</i></span>)</span> was released on March 25, 2015. An anime television vocal music collection CD <i>Television Anime "KanColle" Character Song: Ship Girl's Song</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">TVアニメ「艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-」キャラクターソング “艦娘乃歌”</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">TV anime "KanColle" Character Song: Kanmusu no Uta</i></span>)</span> was released on March 25, 2015.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="KanColle%3A_The_Movie" title="KanColle: The Movie">KanColle: The Movie</a></div>
<p>An animated film, titled <i>KanColle: The Movie</i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">劇場版 艦これ</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Gekijō-ban KanKore</i></span>)</span>, was released on November 26, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-annfilm_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-annfilm-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_and_setting">Plot and setting</h2></div>
<p>Whilst the original game does not have a particular storyline, and largely focuses on "gameplay", each of the official media works feature various settings with separate and differing canons. Not only do the stories differ, but also the depictions and interpretations of fleet girls and the manner in which they engage in combat. The game does not strictly define anything relating to its setting, allowing for a greater diversity of secondary literary adaptation works which cater to different audiences, and more artistic freedom among secondary works which can approach the setting of <i>Kantai Collection</i> differently.
</p><p>Kadokawa has not officially announced whether any secondary work is absolute canon, nor have they released significant quantities of canonical material, with some official works even contradicting one another. For instance, some manga anthology depictions show the ship girls as ship-sized giants, while other serialized manga show them as human-sized. The television animation explains the ship girls as humans born with the ability to possess the spirits of World War II warships, while within the <i>Bonds of the Wings of Cranes</i> light novel, the girls refer to themselves as actual warships, and that their origin is unknown.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2015_anime_television_series">2015 anime television series</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Kantai_Collection_(TV_series)" title="Kantai Collection (TV series)">Kantai Collection (TV series)</a></div>
<p>The contents of the 2022-2023 second anime are also dealt with in this article.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016_anime_film">2016 anime film</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="KanColle%3A_The_Movie" title="KanColle: The Movie">KanColle: The Movie</a></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KanColle:_Bonds_of_the_Wings_of_Cranes"><i>KanColle: Bonds of the Wings of Cranes</i></h3></div>
<p>Within the story of the light novel <i>Bonds of the Wings of Cranes</i>, the setting is within an alternate universe where <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> never took place. The fleet of the Abyss, consisting of monster ships, lock down access to the seas and indiscriminately fire upon vessels and aircraft, and feed on the corpses of dead sailors in the water.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The large number of abyssals, along with their regenerating ability, allowed them to easily defeat the conventional navies and modern militaries of the world. Ship girls are the guardians of humanity and human-weapon hybrids that are summoned using spirit energy<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">霊力</span></span>)</span>, with female forms as the ships they represent have female souls.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Zuikaku</i>, having taken a humanoid form, remembers a time where she was once a ship, however, does not know the reason behind her human form.
</p><p>The fleet girls live within an old-fashioned Japanese-style hotel which doubles as the girls' dormitory and is close to a nearby factory which services combat equipment.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The admiral of the fleet is a young man who behaves like a pervert, fond of groping the ship girls and playing with their skirts, although his personality does become serious when commanding the fleet. As the ship girls and abyssal fleets engage in combat, both sides are guarded by a protective barrier. The aircraft carriers <i>Akagi</i> and <i>Kaga</i> are depicted as firing <a href="Arrow" title="Arrow">archery arrows</a> from a bow which then transform into fighter planes. Armaments are detachable equipment, and when not in combat gear the ships otherwise appear as ordinary girls.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KanColle:_Kagerō,_Setting_Sail!"><i>KanColle: Kagerō, Setting Sail!</i></h3></div>
<p>This light novel is set within a universe based on the real world, where normal girls undergo training to become ship girls. Hundreds of warships were destroyed by abyssal forces which spontaneously emerge from anywhere under the sea, and as a result, ship girls are employed to counter the threat.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KanColle:_Someday_as_the_Seas_turn_Calm"><i>KanColle: Someday as the Seas turn Calm</i></h3></div>
<p>A series of mini-arcs connecting a ship girl to her existing counterpart by gradually introducing characters and rotating the leads. Within this manga, ship girls are depicted as flying on the water surface whilst in combat against the abyss fleet of monster ships, and launch aircraft managed by tiny fairies in a <a href="Takeoff_and_landing" title="Takeoff and landing">conventional takeoff</a> manner from their body attachments. Artillery and torpedo combat is shown to be performed at long range, whilst anti-submarine warfare takes place in close quarters.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Torpedo_Squadron_Chronicles"><i>Torpedo Squadron Chronicles</i></h3></div>
<p>This manga adaptation focuses on the adventures of the Tenryū class and Akatsuki class, as it follows the newly assigned Tenryū and her new squadron in solving the mystery of the Abyssal Fleet.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KanColle:_Shimakaze_Whirlwind_Girl"><i>KanColle: Shimakaze Whirlwind Girl</i></h3></div>
<p>This manga depicts the story of a newly appointed, rookie officer by the name of Ensign Akai who arrives at the <a href="Maizuru_Naval_District" title="Maizuru Naval District">Maizuru Naval Base</a> for duty as the assistant to the vice-admiral, however has to deal with a stubborn and difficult <i>Shimakaze</i> who spends most of her time alone, and does not have any friends. Multiple nations around the world have developed ship girls for their navy power, and Maizuru is one of the major bases of Japan responsible for managing them.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KanColle:_Fubuki,_Ganbarimasu!"><i>KanColle: Fubuki, Ganbarimasu!</i></h3></div>
<p>This <a href="Slice_of_life" title="Slice of life">slice of life</a> 4koma depicts the everyday life of the ship girls at the fleet training school, where newly manufactured ship girls spend one year learning knowledge before setting out to sea. Most of the scenarios are taken from the point of view of <i>Fubuki</i>, and feature the girls doing fun things with one another, which include attending school, drinking tea, celebrating various holidays like Tanabata, Halloween and Christmas, in addition to the occasional sortie. The ship girls retain memories of their previous lives from World War II, at times displaying signs of <a href="Post-traumatic_stress_disorder" title="Post-traumatic stress disorder">post-traumatic stress disorder</a>. References to their personal histories and characteristics are common and usually used to comedic effect. This manga depicts the ship girls as being able to walk on the surface of the water in a manner akin to ice-skating, just like in the anime series.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Merchandise_and_other_collaborations">Merchandise and other collaborations</h2></div>
<p>Merchandise based on the game have been launched as a result of the success of the online game, proliferation of derivative works, and strong interest in the franchise. PVC figurines have been released, including <a href="Nendoroid" title="Nendoroid">Nendoroid</a> and <a href="Figma_(toy)" title="Figma (toy)">Figma</a> figurines of both Shimakaze and Akagi,<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in addition to a 1/7 scale PVC display figurine of a severely damaged Kongō designed and manufactured by Max Factory.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An expansion for a trading card game <a href="Wei%C3%9F_Schwarz" title="Weiß Schwarz">Weiß Schwarz</a> based on Kancolle theme was released on March 28, 2014, and reportedly sold 1.7 million packets within its first shipment.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In September 2013, a collaborative project between <i>Kantai Collection</i> and the <i><a href="Arpeggio_of_Blue_Steel" title="Arpeggio of Blue Steel">Arpeggio of Blue Steel</a></i> anime was announced.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Illustrators for <i>Kantai Collection</i> are responsible for drawing some of the anime end cards for <i>Arpeggio of Blue Steel</i>, which feature crossovers with <i>Kantai Collection</i> characters.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <i>Arpeggio of Blue Steel</i> in-game special event for <i>Kantai Collection</i> also took place from December 24, 2013, to January 8, 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>When the next ship to bear the <i>Kaga</i> name, the Izumo-class helicopter carrier destroyer <a href="JS_Kaga" title="JS Kaga">JS <i>Kaga</i></a>, was launched in 2015, the staff shared official art on Twitter of <i>Kantai Collection</i> Kaga holding a scale model of the new <i>Kaga</i> the day after she was launched.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has since become a mascot for her successor, which continued when <i>Kaga</i> participated in the Indo Southeast Asia Deployment (ISEAD) exercise in 2018 where she sailed to the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon her return to Kure, <i>Kantai Collection</i> provided new art of Kaga wearing her predecessor's insignia, with her rigging updated to match that of the new ship and featuring helicopters instead of World War II aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Player_population">Player population</h3></div>

<p>Due to the high popularity of the game within Japan, game operators created larger numbers of servers in early 2013 to cope with the influx of players.<sup id="cite_ref-kotaku_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kotaku-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During August 2013, the number of new players spiked by 100,000 people within one week, to a total of 600,000 people, with 350,000 daily active players.<sup id="cite_ref-inside_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inside-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By September 2013, it was reported that there were more than 800,000 players regularly active.<sup id="cite_ref-800k_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-800k-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total number of players broke 1,000,000 on 9 October 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of April 2015, there were 3 million players.<sup id="cite_ref-playerstats_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-playerstats-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One commonly cited explanation behind the success of the game is that players are not forced to spend money to play, unlike other popular Japanese online games; the free-to-play nature of <i>Kantai Collection</i> makes in-game purchases optional, and not a necessity.<sup id="cite_ref-dannychoo_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dannychoo-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is estimated that on average, <i>Kantai Collection</i> players spend less money on the game compared to the popular Japanese games <i><a href="Puzzle_%26_Dragons" title="Puzzle &amp; Dragons">Puzzle &amp; Dragons</a></i>, <i><a href="The_Idolmaster_Cinderella_Girls" title="The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls">The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls</a></i> and <i><a href="Love_Live!_School_Idol_Project" title="Love Live! School Idol Project">Love Live! School Idol Festival</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cultural_trends_and_industry_reception">Cultural trends and industry reception</h3></div>
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<td style="text-align:left; font-size:85%;">A graph comparing the participation of <a href="D%C5%8Djinshi" class="mw-redirect" title="Dōjinshi">dōjin circles</a> at <a href="Comiket" title="Comiket">Comiket</a> 85 (Winter 2013),<br>the first Comiket event with a significant <i>KanColle</i> presence<sup id="cite_ref-c85_crunchy_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c85_crunchy-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div style="position:absolute;left:156px;top:31px;height:138px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:red;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid red;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="default: 2,456"></div>
<div style="position:absolute;left:206px;top:25px;height:144px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:red;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid red;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="default: 2,566"></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:132px;padding:0 2px">500</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:103px;padding:0 2px">1,000</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:75px;padding:0 2px">1,500</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:47px;padding:0 2px">2,000</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:18px;padding:0 2px">2,500</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;left:1px;top:10px;min-width:48px;max-width:48px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">C84<br><small>(Summer 2013)</small></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;left:51px;top:10px;min-width:48px;max-width:48px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">C85<br><small>(Winter 2013)</small></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;left:101px;top:10px;min-width:48px;max-width:48px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">C86<br><small>(Summer 2014)</small></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;left:151px;top:10px;min-width:48px;max-width:48px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">C87<br><small>(Winter 2014)</small></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;left:201px;top:10px;min-width:48px;max-width:48px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">C88<br><small>(Summer 2015)</small></div>
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<td style="text-align:left; font-size:85%;">A graph comparing the number of dōjin circles with <i>Kantai Collection</i> works<br>from Comiket 84 onwards<sup id="cite_ref-c85_crunchy_101-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c85_crunchy-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-snn_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snn-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Interest in <i>Kantai Collection</i> has significantly risen over the months following its release, to the point where it has often been compared with the fandom of <i><a href="Touhou_Project" title="Touhou Project">Touhou Project</a></i> as an emerging viral fandom. There has been a large increase in online activity and fan-created material relating to the game, such as fan-made artworks, <a href="Doujinshi" title="Doujinshi">doujinshi</a> and other derivative content.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of April 2015, there are over 345,000 different artworks on <a href="Pixiv" title="Pixiv">Pixiv</a> tagged with "KanColle" created by 67,000 individual artists, and KanColle-related videos on <a href="Niconico" title="Niconico">Niconico</a> were watched 460 million times.<sup id="cite_ref-playerstats_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-playerstats-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="Comiket" title="Comiket">Comiket</a> 85, there were 1,136 <a href="D%C5%8Djinshi" class="mw-redirect" title="Dōjinshi">dōjin circles</a> producing works for <i>Kantai Collection</i>, placing third behind <i>Touhou Project</i> (2,272 circles) and <i><a href="Kuroko's_Basketball" title="Kuroko's Basketball">Kuroko's Basketball</a></i> (1,462 circles), and ahead of <i><a href="The_Idolmaster" title="The Idolmaster">The Idolmaster</a></i> and <i><a href="Vocaloid" title="Vocaloid">Vocaloid</a></i>;<sup id="cite_ref-c85_crunchy_101-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c85_crunchy-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this is a significant increase over the previous Comiket 84 event, which only had just over 100 circles with <i>Kantai Collection</i> works.<sup id="cite_ref-snn_102-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snn-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dōjin material relating to the game have also gained traction overseas; KanColle-exclusive dōjin events have been held in <a href="Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a> on 22 February 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a> on 29 March 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>On 12 December 2013, <a href="Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> officially released the top hashtags of 2013; <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF; font-family:monospace; color:DarkSlateGray;border:1px solid #007FFF">#艦これ</span> was the most used hashtag among Japanese Twitter users.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game was also the eighth most searched term within Japan on Google in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 December 2013, GameSpark named <i>Kantai Collection</i> as the online game category title for its game of the year awards of 2013, ahead of runners-up <i><a href="League_of_Legends" title="League of Legends">League of Legends</a></i>, <i><a href="World_of_Tanks" title="World of Tanks">World of Tanks</a></i> and <i><a href="Final_Fantasy_XIV%3A_A_Realm_Reborn" class="mw-redirect" title="Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn">Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A survey of 151 different prominent Japanese game developers conducted by 4gamer asked what each developer considered to be the best game of 2013; nine of these developers selected <i>Kantai Collection</i>. Among these developers, <a href="Naoki_Yoshida" title="Naoki Yoshida">Naoki Yoshida</a> of <a href="Square_Enix" title="Square Enix">Square Enix</a>, who produced and directed <i>Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn</i>, stated that <i>Kantai Collection</i> is Japan's answer to <i>World of Tanks</i>, and that he was impressed by the business model;<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> meanwhile, <i><a href="Hatsune_Miku%3A_Project_DIVA" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA">Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA</a></i> director Seiji Hayashi of <a href="Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a> referred to the game as "innovative".<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Kantai Collection</i> was named "Rookie of the Year" during the <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%96%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BC" class="extiw external" title="ja:ウェブマネー">WebMoney</a> 2013 Awards, as a new entrant to the games market.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Financial_reception_and_sales_figures">Financial reception and sales figures</h3></div>
<p>Speaking at a symposium held by Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute on 27 September 2013, the chairman of the board of directors of <a href="Kadokawa_Corporation" title="Kadokawa Corporation">Kadokawa Group Holdings</a>, <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A7%92%E5%B7%9D%E6%AD%B4%E5%BD%A6" class="extiw external" title="ja:角川歴彦">Tsuguhiko Kadokawa</a>, stated that despite the game's popularity, <i>Kantai Collection</i> is nearly unprofitable for the company, in part due to the game being funded by various company partnerships, such as the profit-sharing agreement made between Kadokawa Group and <a href="DMM_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="DMM Corporation">DMM Group</a>, given that none of the game's development fees were paid for by Kadokawa. Kadokawa's stock price rose by 1000 yen within June 2013, following the initial rise of the game. It is expected that Kadokawa will need to rely on sales of intellectual property media works such as books and manga in order to raise profits.<sup id="cite_ref-huffpost_kancorebus_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-huffpost_kancorebus-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kadokawa Games president Yoshimi Yasuda affirms that the free-to-play business model of the game will not change despite reports of a lack of revenue gain.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Meanwhile, game distributor <a href="DMM_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="DMM Corporation">DMM Corporation</a> gained 7 billion yen from the game as of June 2014, which is equivalent to 140 times the value of the game's development costs.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Toshihiko Tsukiji's light novel <i>Kantai Collection: Kagerō, Setting Sail!</i> sold 16,624 copies within its first week of release, placing 11th place within the <a href="Oricon" title="Oricon">Oricon</a> book ranking charts.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also debuting the same week were the <i>Sasebo Naval District Compilation Vol.1</i> and <i>Maizuru Naval District Compilation Vol.1</i> comic anthologies, which sold 59,552 copies and 58,110 copies respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In mid-November 2013, <i>Yokosuka Naval District Compilation Vol.1</i> sold 48,909 copies during its first week, placing 10th place among all comic sales.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first manga volume of <i>Fubuki, Ganbarimasu!</i> sold 28,324 copies within its first week in December 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>KanColle White Paper</i> official book published by Kadokawa placed third overall within the Oricon book charts during its debut week in October 2013, selling 46,039 copies.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_commentary">Political commentary</h3></div>
<p>An editorial within the South Korean <i><a href="Hankook_Ilbo" title="Hankook Ilbo">Hankook Ilbo</a></i> on 4 November 2013 accuses that the strong popularity of the game is due to a conservative political shift amongst young people in Japan following long-term economic recession and political instability, and that the game glorifies the wartime <a href="Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Addressing the <i>Hankook Ilbo</i> allegation, Akky Akimoto writing for <i><a href="The_Japan_Times" title="The Japan Times">The Japan Times</a></i> disagrees with the idea that the game's design deliberately facilitates any political shift, and argues that the 1970s anime series <i><a href="Space_Battleship_Yamato" title="Space Battleship Yamato">Space Battleship Yamato</a></i> was subject to similar criticisms despite having little effect on domestic politics.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Another opinion piece from the <i><a href="Asahi_Shimbun" class="mw-redirect" title="Asahi Shimbun">Asahi Shimbun</a></i> suggests that the game's unforgiving mechanics, such as ships permanently sinking, with some of them even tracing their grandparents' military service history, help players understand the brutality of war given the desperate situations, so that they can gain a more positive understanding of history or even oppose conflict itself.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intellectual_property_infringement_outside_Japan">Intellectual property infringement outside Japan</h3></div>
<p>In January 2015, allegations arose that the company Beijing Longzhu Digital Technology (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">北京龙珠数码科技</span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which runs an unofficial pirated KanColle server in mainland China, spent CN¥700,000 (<span style="white-space: nowrap">US$112,800</span>) in purchasing various Chinese-language KanColle internet forums such as the KanColle subforum on <a href="Baidu_Tieba" title="Baidu Tieba">Baidu Tieba</a>; online discussion boards intended for discussing the original Japanese game were closed down or placed under new management, while the forums of the pirated bootleg Chinese KanColle remained online. This led to widespread unrest amongst Chinese players of the original game, resulting in large-scale internet raids on forums and social media, <a href="Distributed_denial-of-service_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Distributed denial-of-service attack">distributed denial-of-service attacks</a>, and <a href="Website_defacement" title="Website defacement">website defacing</a> via <a href="SQL_injection" title="SQL injection">SQL injection</a><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by hackers against those running the bootleg server.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An article published by <a href="China_Central_Television" title="China Central Television">China Central Television</a> referred to the incident as the largest online mass boycott and protest against <a href="Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property">intellectual property</a> infringement in China, and a wake-up call for the Chinese gaming industry as a whole to strive for integrity and refrain from creating copycat works.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
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<ul><li><i><a href="Azur_Lane" title="Azur Lane">Azur Lane</a></i>, a <a href="Shoot_'em_up" title="Shoot 'em up">shoot 'em up</a> game also utilizing the concept of warship <a href="Moe_anthropomorphism" title="Moe anthropomorphism">moe anthropomorphization</a>, mainly featuring anthropomorphized American, British, Japanese and German warships of <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Girls'_Frontline" title="Girls' Frontline">Girls' Frontline</a></i>, a <a href="Strategy_role-playing_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Strategy role-playing game">strategy role-playing game</a> centred upon moe anthropomorphizations of <a href="Small_arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Small arms">firearms</a></li>
<li><i><a href="T%C5%8Dken_Ranbu" class="mw-redirect" title="Tōken Ranbu">Tōken Ranbu</a></i>, a clone of <i>Kantai Collection</i> anthropomorphizing <a href="Japanese_sword" title="Japanese sword">historical swords</a> as attractive young men</li></ul>
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<dl><dt>Official pages of the game</dt></dl>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dmm.com/netgame/feature/kancolle.html">Main site at DMM</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228155815/http://www.kadokawagames.co.jp/KanColle/">KanColle at Kadokawa Games</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF">"KanColle_STAFF" on Twitter</a></li></ul>
<dl><dt>Licensed web manga</dt></dl>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.famitsu.com/comic_clear/se_kancolle/">KanColle manga "Fubuki, Ganbarimasu!" at Famitsu Comic Clear</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.famitsu.com/comic_clear/se_kancolle_chin/">KanColle manga "Chinjufu tsūshin" at Famitsu Comic Clear</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.famitsu.com/blog/kancolle_ouen/">KanColle manga "Kankan Biyori" and Illustrations Column at Cominy</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_EB02000004010000_68/">KanColle manga "Fubuki, Ganbarimasu!" at Comic Walker</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_EB04000001010000_68/">KanColle manga "Kankan Biyori" at Comic Walker</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_MF02000009010000_68/">KanColle manga "Someday as the Seas turn Calm" at Comic Walker</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_KS04000003010000_68/">KanColle manga "Torpedo Squadron Chronicles" at Comic Walker</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_AM01100012010000_68/">KanColle manga "Shimakaze Whirlwind Girl" at Comic Walker</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_AM05000004010000_68/">KanColle manga "Naval base of the perch" at Comic Walker</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_CW01000004010000_68/">KanColle manga "Yuru Kan" at Comic Walker</a></li></ul>
<dl><dt>Official sites of secondary works</dt></dl>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170119120159/http://kancolle-vita.com/">Official Vita game website</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kancolle-anime.jp/">Official anime website</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210425181342/http://kancolle-anime.jp/">Archived</a> 2021-04-25 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kancolle-a.sega.jp/">Official arcade game website</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140222161131/https://ssl.fujimi-trpg-online.jp/freepage/91">Official Tabletop RPG website</a></li></ul>
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