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Oct 4, 2019 4:22 AM

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Surprisingly better than what I thought. Hope it continue to be good.
Oct 4, 2019 4:24 AM

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maybe this whole girls as ships made sense in the game but in the anime it just looks plain dumb. and that really is just the tip of the iceberg.

pass
Oct 4, 2019 4:30 AM

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this is a perfect anime replet of cute lolis and onee-san so beatiful >w< without any boy.
Oct 4, 2019 4:31 AM
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First, I loved Kaga and Akagi......, everything else failed to make a good impact on me. I haven't played the game so I am not sure what's it about but I find the anime to be a bit pointless.
I am having a hard time pinpointing what I found soo disagreeable with the anime so I will watch a few more episodes until I can put my finger on it.
Oct 4, 2019 4:36 AM
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The visuals look good... The OP was good.. the actual episode was okie... Looking forward to more!!

4/5
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Oct 4, 2019 4:48 AM

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I'm basically coming into this for pure fanservice being a fan of the game series. I'm surprised at how relatively well animated the fight sequences are. Sure there are derps and flaws but that's to be expected with a completely fresh studio. Hearing many of the girls' lines from the game when activating their powers is satisfying as well. The OP is straight fire too. As for gripes...well...someone already mentioned it but the dynamic between Akagi and Kaga is heavily flawed. Kaga is indeed the restrained one of the two. Her hot-blooded behavior came from her days as...welp that's a spoiler so I'll just say her past. Akagi is more the strategic one but also the one who gets yandere fired up if you piss her off. So I'm pretty sure they are just gonna force the yuri vibes for pure bait and pandering purposes. Also...it's not Red Axis...it's Crimson Axis. Not sure who wrote the script for that but...get slapped. Anywho, not bad, definitely gonna keep up with it out of love for the original title.
Don't believe the hype.
Oct 4, 2019 5:03 AM

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as a fan of the game who wants to collect every single ship, i have to say i'm loving this =D even tho i have a lot of problems remembering some of the names, but this anime is great so far <3

gotta love Laffey's line "Condition: green... Let's go." she is just so adorbs =D
waiting for some other of my favorites, like Saratoga, Nagato, Long Island (i bet she won't appear but whatever)

screw it, gonna go rewatch the episode LOL
winddevil1Oct 4, 2019 5:13 AM
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Oct 4, 2019 5:04 AM

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I really would like to know how can ppl say that Kancolle had a better ep.1 action scenes?? Kancolle fights were all using CG and a ugly one, here we had some really good sakuga cuts and the CG used in some scenes wasn't as bad as Kancolle CG. Storyboard wise probably wasn't the best, a lot of things were happening but at least they tried to make something interesting in 2D and they kinda did.
Also, at least we'll get actual villains with personality like Kaga and Akagi and not some dull characters like Kancolle had as villains.
I don't really know how this is going to progress story-wise but saying this was worse than Kancolle's episode 1 doesn't make sense at all, but that's only my take on it :)
Oct 4, 2019 5:38 AM
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What the heck did I watched, I'm really confused, I couldn't bear to watch this, what useless airplane carrier used as a bow, unicorn? fox girls? drop from my watch list
Oct 4, 2019 5:49 AM

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GunMute said:
I had literally no expectations and was fully prepared for the show to be terrible but I enjoyed this episode. The animation wasn't the best and the fanservice got annoying at times


Can't sum it up better than this
Oct 4, 2019 5:52 AM
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"War is the same, no matter what era we are in"
First episode on Azur Lane, was excellent. We though they'll fight together against Sirens, but instead they (Red Axis) state a war at the end of the episodes, we waiting for who's gonna win..
Akagi and Kaga's relationship somewhat confusing me, it's even more confusing when she said her body belongs to Akagi only, and considering Akagi is slipping her fingers to Kaga's clothes, i find this relationship somewhat, Yuri (idk what i say but that word is the only fits the condition)
I smell there'll be some betrayal from Ayanami, considering they (Laffey, Unicorn, and Javelin) is met before the statement war that Red Axis unleashed.
Enterprise, as we suspected, become Eagle Union's strongest fleets, known as Grey Ghost or Grey E, we'll see what heroism she'll pull off.
Overall, if u play the game itself, you'll see the similarity from the game on this anime, you'll see some common character in the anime, including the idol, San Diego herself..
9/10
RayTamaraOct 4, 2019 6:07 AM
Oct 4, 2019 6:38 AM

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Just like with KanColle back in 2015, I've gone into Azur Lane without every playing the mobile game and the only knowledge of some of the characters coming from popular fan art. My expectations for the first episode was exceeded. =)

Although we were introduced to quite a lot of characters, some of them were memorable, like Laffey, Javelin, Unicorn, Enterprise as well as the enemies, Akagi, Kaga and Ayanami. They have enough personality quirks that'll make it easier for me to remember them from now on. ^^;

Bibury Animation Studios is still new and this is their first T.V anime, so I do applaud them for their animation efforts in this first episode. Aside from some rough animation moments here and there, most of the animation was very good and the CGI used was decent too and a step up compared to KanColle's CGI quality.

My biggest praise goes to the soundtrack, though. The OP/ED songs were great, but the ost used during the episode was very impressive and really helped to make the fights more dramatic and exciting as the same time. =3

Overall, I really liked this first episode, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this story goes. Also, is it just me, but does the blonde girl at 08:10 looks VERY similar to Eriri Spencer from Saekano? Their eye colour, facial expression and even the hair style and colour look the same, too! XD
Oct 4, 2019 6:43 AM

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Thanks, I hate it.

I hate it so much I watched the entire first episode just to kind of sit and laugh at it. Oh god where do I even start?

Okay, this is coming from somebody who never bothered with Kantai Collection. It looked like dogshit and I hated the concept, and this seems to be exactly the same thing. This was made solely as masturbation fodder for sad teenage boys. No one would enjoy this unless they were lonely and depressed to the point of inceldom (and tbh, if you watch stuff like this you're probably gonna stay that way, cause I sure as hell won't be your friend).

Getting into the actual episode itself, the lighting is so bad. Everything is too bright and the characters blend together so much (and there's so fucking many of them) that I wouldn't be able to tell them apart even if I was paying attention. There were a few good cuts of animation sprinkled here and there, but I don't expect it to last beyond this episode. The character designs are terrible too (like I said, designed for masturbation) and their personalities are just as generic. There's an ojou-sama, a deadpan loli, a shy one, a clumsy one, BDSM-lesbians as the villains, done.

And all the while, they keep tying to have this supposedly serious theme of "war never changes" running throughout. MOTHERFUCKER YOU ARE PORNOGRAPHY! Don't give me that pseudo-serious bullshit when you're shoving T&A in my face at the same time, it won't work. If I wanted to watch an ecchi show that touches on serious themes and is actually good because it had effort put into it, then I'd just watch Kill la Kill again, or the Monogatari series, or Junketsu no Maria, or fuck, Keijo. Keijo is as brainless an ecchi show as you can get, but at least it's fun to watch. Azur Lane is just... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh......

BTW, tactically speaking, isn't taking away your massive fuck-off warships and turning them into armaments for one person to fly around on, like, a really bad idea? Like, they're faster sure, but one of the benefits of a ship is that it can take multiple good shots to disable it or blow it up. If one missile hits one of those girls, that girl is fucking dead, and you've just lost an entire ships worth of firepower. You've just made it way easier on your enemy.

Fuck this show, I hate anime now. (Also, this ended up being longer than my post for Carole & Tuesday's final episode ffs)
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Oct 4, 2019 6:54 AM

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Game is a snoozefest gacha game, doujinshis are the only place I know these characters from like a good handful of other people. My favorite part was when the aircraft carrier launched the jets, then proceeded to transform the ship only to ride on top of the jets that it launched. Very cheesy character dialogue from the enemies that I originally thought was intentional.

Lots of pedo fanservice. CGI was good but why the hell didn't that one chick just 1-shot that giant dog in the first place? Nobody knows
Oct 4, 2019 7:25 AM
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Love the character design, animation of this one. They also have introduced us to some of Azur lane characters...

Well im not an azur lane but this one sure have many CUTE WAIFU'S in this one
Oct 4, 2019 7:37 AM

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Fuck, man, I like the game, I really wanted to like the show, but this looks atrocious. I'm not exaggerating, it does. The fight 'choreography' is horrible. Some, actually, most of the animation sequences were shit. Yeah, it's cool seeing the ships and all, but fuck it, man. It would take a really hardcore AL fan to overlook all of this just for the sake of the characters.
KosmonautOct 4, 2019 7:40 AM
Oct 4, 2019 7:38 AM

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The Animation was amazing. You can already say that it will be a good adaptation based on this first episode. I'm playing the mobile game and that's why i can say that the character design is almost identical to their designs in-game. The plot was also interesting, the 4 factions were divided into two and an inner conflict were created. I know that Enterprise is a really good Aircraft Carrier in-game but the anime adaptation did a really good job to showcase her strength. Was looking forward to seeing more of the shipfus. It also looks like Ayanami's going to switch sides... I just feel it. Teehee
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Oct 4, 2019 7:43 AM

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Ah yes overhyped title as usual
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Oct 4, 2019 7:45 AM

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Didn't expect to hear May'n back.

Shipgirls in Azur Lane summon Fleet of Fog!? Nanja kore wa!?

So many cutie lolis〜 Lotsa panties〜 Cute voices〜 So colourful and diverse〜 Some decent interesting and creative action... Just what i hoped for from this anime... Especially the truth that is Loli Lane.

I really do appreciate that they take advantage ofthe fact they are people and allowing for all kinds of creative choreography (like using the fact that they are bipedal to jump up onto things to avoid torpedoes), and not just try to pretend they are ships with anthropomorphized representations, as it makes things way more interesting, and so much more room for creativity with the concept.

KanColle: battleships anthropomorphized into girls
Azur Lane: magical girls with battleship-themed powers
—it's rather pointless to try and compare them.

but most importantly, LOLIS!!!
so many delicious adorable lolis i could just gobble up〜
...gimme moar!

My main complaint is that the first episode was definitely structured to be a hype train, i could definitely feel the fan-hype power, and it did manage to fuel me up somewhat, but it also made this first ep a bit of an incoherent mess overall.


HaXXspetten said:
So it's basically KanColle except with the aliens taken straight out of Strike Witches?
nDroae said:
Not straight out - Strike Witches' Neuroi aren't cute girls ;)
https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Siren
They're more like Fleet of Fog (Arpeggio) and sorta Abyssal than Neuroi, from what i saw.
And as stated above, Azur Lane and KanColle are totally different animals.

RobertBobert said:
What? Is there a lesbian incest on this show?
There are lesbian characters in Azur Lane yes. I think at least one of them is a lolicon too.
@mascarpone @Ryuseishun i don't even play the game and i know this. i got friends that play the game and i really enjoy the fanart etc.

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I mean, you know that the whole style of Azur Lane is ship-themed magical girl gacha, right? Fanservice is kind of the point, because the product appeal is the characters. Also, it's not hard to figure out what is happening per se, but it's a bit hectic, and all over the place, and there's not really any explanation as to why anybody is here and what they are fighting over. Enterprise getting spotlight is not surprising, as that ship was a goddamn cockroach in the pacific front. Kinda why Star Trek's character ship is usually the Enterprise, because it's a survivor against all odds. From my understanding of the pacific front, the Enterprise was the main reason that Japan wasn't more successful. It is interesting though that they chose to bias the sides, at least in ep1 so far.
GenesisAriaOct 4, 2019 8:14 AM
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Oct 4, 2019 7:54 AM
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Ok firstly I wasn't expecting much, I think coming into shows like these with low expectations really helps out the experience and in this case it did for sure.

Of course there are a few things that annoy me about the first episode but overall I thought they did a pretty good job with this adaptation, the only big critique I have is that I find the colours a bit too bright and the face look derpy sometimes . But I mean this a show about historical ship girls fighting aliens from space so i'm just watching this show for a good time and well designed girls
Oct 4, 2019 7:55 AM

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̵M̵U̵R̵I̵C̵A̵'̵s̵ Cleveland's disbelieve reaction when Kaga's ship transformed captured my reaction to that or pretty much the entire episode pretty well lol
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Oct 4, 2019 8:00 AM

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I never played and seen game for me this show looks kinda boring ,but animation looked pretty good.I'm not expecting any revelations ,just want see where story is going
Oct 4, 2019 8:17 AM

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@GenesisAria you've got the concept wrong, Azur Lane is not a "magical girl gacha." The reason why people compare it to Kancolle is because their concepts are exactly the same: WWII warships anthropomorphized into cute girls. That's how it is in the source game, though the anime kind of changed it by adding the weird flying unicorn and Kaga's fox. On the whole the girls are still very similar to Kancolle's, even in the anime.


What's the difference?
Oct 4, 2019 8:19 AM

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Having not played the game before, I must say that this anime adaptation isn't half bad at all, no nada. In fact I'd say it met my expectations, above and beyond. With that being said the game isn't my taste so I won't dabble into it.

Some say there's similarity to KanColle, I'd like to think that's the case, but it'll be different knowing the global hit that is the mobile game.

Bibury Animation Studio's 1st TV format anime is looking good, considering that Tensho is the director for this anime also (alongside his Grisaia and Rewrite series), noting that the Phantom Trigger movie is from Bibury as well. Because of this, the CGI can be wonky at times, and it seems a tad better than how Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Movie had.

Colour me surprised when this show that I was hesitating to watch became one of the surprises of the season.
Oct 4, 2019 8:23 AM

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Daemon said:
@GenesisAria you've got the concept wrong, Azur Lane is not a "magical girl gacha." The reason why people compare it to Kancolle is because their concepts are exactly the same: WWII warships anthropomorphized into cute girls. That's how it is in the source game, though the anime kind of changed it by adding the weird flying unicorn and Kaga's fox. On the whole the girls are still very similar to Kancolle's, even in the anime.
Not at all haha. KanColle's whole point is to craft the girls as plausibly and detailed as possible matching the ships, their design, particular traits that identify them, applying details realating to the ships and lines etc into their outfits and weapon rigs etc.

Azur Lane is not like this at all. The girls are totally open to creative freedom, and constantly employ aspects to them that have nothing to do with the real ships, including powers and abilities etc... They even include shift like the Eldridge, which is a conspiracy mystery story, more folklore than evident, and ingame i recall her being able to use her crazy energy guns for example... It's definitely battleship styled magical girl, in the sense Strike Witches was airplane styled magical girl. The anime exaggerated it in a similar sense to what fanart does.

For example, in KanColle, giving Tenryuu a sword was like an extreme stretch on the formula, whereas having stuff like that in Azur Lane's canon is not considered strange at all. Also all of the rigs in Azur Lane are extremely stylized, very non-pragmatic, artistic, flashy, and have all kinds of unnecessary stuff. The designs and logic are very magical.
GenesisAriaOct 4, 2019 8:31 AM
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Oct 4, 2019 8:27 AM

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@GenesisAria After a brief conversation with the fans, I can say that pure “lesbian” not. Bisexual and vaguely bisexual really are.
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GenesisAria said:
Not at all haha. KanColle's whole point is to craft the girls as plausibly and detailed as possible matching the ships, their design, particular traits that identify them, applying details realating to the ships and lines etc into their outfits and weapon rigs etc.


Azur Lane does all that too.

Azur Lane is not like this at all. The girls are totally open to creative freedom, and constantly employ aspects to them that have nothing to do with the real ships, including powers and abilities etc... They even include shift like the Eldridge, which is a conspiracy mystery story, more folklore than evident... It's definitely battleship styled magical girl, in the sense Strike Witches was airplane styled magical girl.


Um, no. Azur Lane characters are anthropomorphized WWII warships, just like Kancolle's are. Not sure where you got the idea that they have powers, abilities, and backgrounds that the original ships did not have, and the only time that occurs is in the anime. It never happens in the game, which is the original source material. I don't use Eldridge much, but she was a real ship. If you're talking about the Philadelphia Experiment, then yeah that may not have actually happened, but it is still a part of history and legend surrounding the ship, which proves that Azur Lane doesn't just randomly make things up because they incorporate aspects of the real historical ship.


What's the difference?
Oct 4, 2019 8:32 AM

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@RobertBobert as far as i know there are no males in Azur Lane, at all, period. You being the commander depends on whether you are male or female playing... unless there are specifically male silhouettes like in the case of KanColle.
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Oct 4, 2019 8:37 AM

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Daemon said:
GenesisAria said:
Not at all haha. KanColle's whole point is to craft the girls as plausibly and detailed as possible matching the ships, their design, particular traits that identify them, applying details realating to the ships and lines etc into their outfits and weapon rigs etc.
Azur Lane does all that too.

Azur Lane is not like this at all. The girls are totally open to creative freedom, and constantly employ aspects to them that have nothing to do with the real ships, including powers and abilities etc... They even include shift like the Eldridge, which is a conspiracy mystery story, more folklore than evident... It's definitely battleship styled magical girl, in the sense Strike Witches was airplane styled magical girl.
Um, no. Azur Lane characters are anthropomorphized WWII warships, just like Kancolle's are. Not sure where you got the idea that they have powers, abilities, and backgrounds that the original ships did not have, and the only time that occurs is in the anime. It never happens in the game, which is the original source material. I don't use Eldridge much, but she was a real ship. If you're talking about the Philadelphia Experiment, then yeah that may not have actually happened, but it is still a part of history and legend surrounding the ship, which proves that Azur Lane doesn't just randomly make things up because they incorporate aspects of the real historical ship.

I don't really want to get into another debate/argument, and i'm not really ready to go back and dig up all of the indepth comparison arguments where the KanColle military otaku were very detailed in their criticism of Azur Lane as extremely unfaithful to the warships going over them with a fine-tooth comb. When i said stuff incorporated into their design, i didn't just mean learning some basics, i mean their entire histories and every last nook and cranny are considered in KanColle kanmusu designs. The similarities are mostly surface-level only. Azur Lane girls are INSPIRED by WW2 etc warships, they are not directly anthropomorphized in the sense kanmusu are.
ps: i just watched a video with Eldridge and i saw big-ass energy cannons.
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GenesisAria said:
@RobertBobert as far as i know there are no males in Azur Lane, at all, period. You being the commander depends on whether you are male or female playing... unless there are specifically male silhouettes like in the case of KanColle.


The player’s character is male, or at least perceived as such by the heroines. Given that almost all girls have a thing for him, do the math. This game is a typical mobage with a self-insert male protagonist.
Oct 4, 2019 8:44 AM
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Seeing as the appeal of Azur Lane for me is that it's the game with the biggest harem ever, if there's no commander I'm not going to enjoy the anime.
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GenesisAria said:
I don't really want to get into another debate/argument, and i'm not really ready to go back and dig up all of the indepth comparison arguments where the KanColle military otaku were very detailed in their criticism of Azur Lane as extremely unfaithful to the warships going over them with a fine-tooth comb.


Most of that is exaggeration by Kancolle fans, and I say that as someone who actually likes Kancolle better than Azur Lane. I've been playing both games for years AND I have been a WWII fan since before I started playing either one of them, and I'd say that they are very similar to each other in terms of faithfulness to the original concept of the ship. In general, Kancolle tends to have more detailed and more faithful rigging, but the design of the girls themselves are not any more faithful than Azur Lane's (aside from a rare exception or two). Azur Lane also has many character voice lines that show a clear understanding of the original historical background of the ships, and I'd actually say Azur Lane is more faithful than Kancolle in this regard.

When i said stuff incorporated into their design, i didn't just mean learning some basics, i mean their entire histories and every last nook and cranny are considered in KanColle kanmusu designs.


Kancolle's designs are not any more faithful than Azur Lane's, aside from maybe the rigging as I mentioned earlier.

Azur Lane girls are INSPIRED by WW2 etc warships, they are not directly anthropomorphized in the sense kanmusu are.


Yes they are. You completely made this up.

ps: i just watched a video with Eldridge and i saw big-ass energy cannons.


Uh, what? I don't use Eldridge myself, but I just watched a video of her gameplay and she uses regular guns like every single other destroyer does. Where did you see that?

Also, looking at Eldridge's lines, she seems pretty normal, and she even specifically says that she can't teleport (referring to the fact that the Philadelphia Experiment wasn't real). The only 'weird' thing about her is that she can emit small sparks, but I don't think she ever uses that in battle and it's not really a big thing.


What's the difference?
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Great first episode-- and I am not about to try and apply any logic to this show, I'm just going to relax and enjoy it.

Cleveland was fun.

Enterprise is the star for me in this episode. Looking forward to seeing more ships.
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Argh I'm late. That air time really doesn't work for me.

Surprisingly good quality. I expected it to look much cheaper.
Loved seeing some characters saying their in-game lines.
Level of fanservice is true to AL standards.
Akaga are weird. Akagi's main point was being yandere, but without player she can't really show it well. Kaga being somewhat siscon also doesn't fit too well imo.
Damn Enterprise. She is going to be hyped after all. She is so boring and has 0 waifu potential so I'm disappointed here.
As expected Nimi didn't join starter group. Hopefully she will be introduced soon.
Yukikaze in ED got my hopes up. I need my tsun cat.

Daemon said:
Uh, what? I don't use Eldridge myself, but I just watched a video of her gameplay and she uses regular guns like every single other destroyer does. Where did you see that?

Probably meant her barrage.

Aim1rR said:
Are there any male characters in few episodes later?

The only male (tho I'm not even sure if gender is confirmed) in game is the commander - player. No idea if they adapt it or just skip his existence.
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Daemon said:
GenesisAria said:
I don't really want to get into another debate/argument, and i'm not really ready to go back and dig up all of the indepth comparison arguments where the KanColle military otaku were very detailed in their criticism of Azur Lane as extremely unfaithful to the warships going over them with a fine-tooth comb.
Most of that is exaggeration by Kancolle fans, and I say that as someone who actually likes Kancolle better than Azur Lane. I've been playing both games for years AND I have been a WWII fan since before I started playing either one of them, and I'd say that they are very similar to each other in terms of faithfulness to the original concept of the ship. In general, Kancolle tends to have more detailed and more faithful rigging, but the design of the girls themselves are not any more faithful than Azur Lane's (aside from a rare exception or two). Azur Lane also has many character voice lines that show a clear understanding of the original historical background of the ships, and I'd actually say Azur Lane is more faithful than Kancolle in this regard.

When i said stuff incorporated into their design, i didn't just mean learning some basics, i mean their entire histories and every last nook and cranny are considered in KanColle kanmusu designs.
Kancolle's designs are not any more faithful than Azur Lane's, aside from maybe the rigging as I mentioned earlier.

Azur Lane girls are INSPIRED by WW2 etc warships, they are not directly anthropomorphized in the sense kanmusu are.
Yes they are. You completely made this up.
No what i said has been a pretty widespread consensus since the old days when Azur Lane was just starting to get recognition. I've had a number of people more or less agree with this. Also the factor of there being actual ships in the game in juxtaposition to the ship girls, unlike KanColle where ships just are kanmusu, and there's no such thing as a ship that isn't a kanmusu.

Japanese military veterans have been known to appreciate the nature of KanColle and it's faithfulness and pragmatic attention to detail for the ships, while making them pretty girls, and while extrapolating on the way ships are usually referred to as female anyway. Azur Lane's formula is far too fantastic to be paralleled.

That is not meant to be a negative connotation, i personally much more appreciate the creativity and conceptual/artistic diversity that Azur Lane permits. They are much more diverse & unique, their personalities more dramatic and moefied, there is all kinds of lore and supernatural elements mixed in to many of the ship girls, and i really like that about Azur Lane.

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Also, looking at Eldridge's lines, she seems pretty normal, and she even specifically says that she can't teleport (referring to the fact that the Philadelphia Experiment wasn't real). The only 'weird' thing about her is that she can emit small sparks, but I don't think she ever uses that in battle and it's not really a big thing.
Well i got it confirmed from someone i know who plays saying that she does shoot her electrical cannon things. Alsoa lot of the other heavy ships with their special attacks are highly unrealistic and strange, like Ayanami can shoot a double sinusoidal pattern of bullet spam.

Also, saying she can't teleport is more an affirmation of the legend in the game, than a denial... I mean i could get into detail about the nature of atomic fields and phase fidelity and shit to explain how all of the described supposed results of the "experiment" are 100% physically possible and plausible under those conditions. The real answer is that it is unknown, and that the knowledge on the nature of what i would call an incoherence in permittivity phase, screwing with interctive fidelity yadda yadda would even come from. Even the craziest quantum crackpots would have difficulty cooking that up with any precision without it being retrospective.

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@RobertBobert as far as i know there are no males in Azur Lane, at all, period. You being the commander depends on whether you are male or female playing... unless there are specifically male silhouettes like in the case of KanColle.
The player’s character is male, or at least perceived as such by the heroines. Given that almost all girls have a thing for him, do the math. This game is a typical mobage with a self-insert male protagonist.
Just asked some friends that play the game, and apparently the silhouette that could be inferred to be the player is female, and that a number of the ships actually use female pronouns for the player. So even my presumption of the player being genderless is also incorrect, because evidence points to the player being female.
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WATASHI WA NAMBA WAN

Besides that.. There is way too much loli fanservice in Azur Lane and I don't like it.
I cannot wait to see best girl Shoukaku in action
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Pretty animation and colours, thrilling action scenes, full girl cast and no men around. Perfect show.
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@GenesisAria I repeat, this is a typical mobage with a self-insert protagonist. Since most of the audience of such games are male okatu, it is implied that he is also a male. If you are a girl, you can imagine that your protagonist is also a girl.

I don’t know what kind of pronouns you are talking about, but https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/b2h9i1/i_love_al_but_i_have_a_small_problem_with_it/ the game quite calmly uses the “young boy”.

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Pretty animation and colours, thrilling action scenes, full girl cast and no men around. Perfect show.


A heterosexual girl with a bunch of bishonen on the page ... "no men around" - you are so ridiculously trying to please the guys in this thread that I’m even embarrassed.
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Some information i found on wiki about a Game function in Azure Lane ,,This show looks very pure lesbian and only girls ofc!! Like it should it be!!!,,,,YES!!!! This is Waifu Land and males are forbidden in Waifu Land!!!! Posting the information i found below


Marriage
When a character's affection points are raised to 100 through battle, secretary, or Dormitory, players may choose to give a "wedding ring" to this character. A "wedding ring" can be obtained through quests once. Additional rings can be purchased using in-game currency, essentially allowing polygamy. Players may also give customized names to married characters but may only do so every 30 days for each character.[12] Furthermore, a few of the most popular characters will also gain unique wedding dress costumes for the wedding. They will also gain additional stat bonuses after being married
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Yuri-Crusader said:
Some information i found on wiki about a Game function in Azure Lane ,,This show looks very pure lesbian and only girls ofc!! Like it should it be!!!,,,,YES!!!! This is Waifu Land and males are forbidden in Waifu Land!!!! Posting the information i found below


Marriage
When a character's affection points are raised to 100 through battle, secretary, or Dormitory, players may choose to give a "wedding ring" to this character. A "wedding ring" can be obtained through quests once. Additional rings can be purchased using in-game currency, essentially allowing polygamy. Players may also give customized names to married characters but may only do so every 30 days for each character.[12] Furthermore, a few of the most popular characters will also gain unique wedding dress costumes for the wedding. They will also gain additional stat bonuses after being married


I will disappoint you, protagonist are male, and 99% of heroines love him more than anyone else.
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- The real warships become Wisdom Cubes that become the ship-girls rigging and weapons', instead of the Wisdom
Cubes becoming the ship-girls themselves.

- Flying ships. What?

- What the hell is that CGI giant white fox, why not go with the same transformations you used for the other ships?

- If this is the equivalent to the attack on Pearl Harbor, then Bismarck cannot appear as part of the Iron Blood and we
don't get to see Hood's story nor the events of Scherzo of Iron and Blood unless it is in a flashback. I mean, the
game's story is still a mess and very cryptic, but following the WW2 chronology is the least they could do.

Also no soundtrack themes from the game were used smh.
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RobertBobert said:
Yuri-Crusader said:
Some information i found on wiki about a Game function in Azure Lane ,,This show looks very pure lesbian and only girls ofc!! Like it should it be!!!,,,,YES!!!! This is Waifu Land and males are forbidden in Waifu Land!!!! Posting the information i found below


Marriage
When a character's affection points are raised to 100 through battle, secretary, or Dormitory, players may choose to give a "wedding ring" to this character. A "wedding ring" can be obtained through quests once. Additional rings can be purchased using in-game currency, essentially allowing polygamy. Players may also give customized names to married characters but may only do so every 30 days for each character.[12] Furthermore, a few of the most popular characters will also gain unique wedding dress costumes for the wedding. They will also gain additional stat bonuses after being married


I will disappoint you, protagonist are male, and 99% of heroines love him more than anyone else.


You need to play a character to play a game ,,But here we watch other characters! And there for a playable charter are not needed,,To save money you often given only a fixed character in video games, rather than being able to chose sex ,So that may be the case here, but i cant find one single picture with a male in that game and i have been looking

And only the love in that manner so far is between two females in the first episode.Have you played the game? How can you be so sure? Not saying that i can guarantee its male free,, Absolutely not ,,,,But no male voice actors both in Japanese or English cast. There are noting that says a male is going to be in here



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anime was a mistake!
I think I don't know wtf I'm doing. Maybe. Probably.

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It's basically power rangers anime moe hot girls warship version.
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RobertBobert said:


I will disappoint you, protagonist are male, and 99% of heroines love him more than anyone else.


You need to play a character to play a game ,,But here we watch other characters! And there for a playable charter are not needed,,To save money you often given only a fixed character in video games, rather than being able to chose sex ,So that may be the case here, but i cant find one single picture with a male in that game and i have been looking

And only the love in that manner so far is between two females in the first episode.Have you played the game? How can you be so sure? Not saying that i can guarantee its male free,, Absolutely not ,,,,But no male voice actors both in Japanese or English cast. There are noting that says a male is going to be in here





Is this the first time you see an all-female game adaptation? This is just an girl's advertisement for the target audience of the game. Most heroines are canonically straight or bisexual in one way or another.
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RobertBobert said:
I will disappoint you, protagonist are male, and 99% of heroines love him more than anyone else.
That's not sufficient reasoning.

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@GenesisAria I repeat, this is a typical mobage with a self-insert protagonist. Since most of the audience of such games are male okatu, it is implied that he is also a male. If you are a girl, you can imagine that your protagonist is also a girl.

I don’t know what kind of pronouns you are talking about, but https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/b2h9i1/i_love_al_but_i_have_a_small_problem_with_it/ the game quite calmly uses the “young boy”.
Nevada only says "shounen" in japanese, in chinese she says "shàonián", which is gender neutral "youngster" and could just be her thing. So that leaves only Unicorn who says "Onii-chan" in japanese, and "gēgē" in chinese, meaning older brother (the person confused onii with onee). For all we know that's just Unicorn's thing, to identify those she trusts as a surrogate brother figure. Every other ship says "shikikan"(japanese)/"zhǐhuī guān"(chinese) or "goshujinsama"(japanese)/"zhǔrén"(chinese) both gender-neutral.

@Yuri-Crusader so aside from Unicorn's dialogue, everyone else is gender neutral. But yeah other than that, i'm aware of the game having plenty of lesbionic charaters.

There is also this mystery character that could be the player or some kind of staff:
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GenesisAria said:
RobertBobert said:
I will disappoint you, protagonist are male, and 99% of heroines love him more than anyone else.
That's not sufficient reasoning.

RobertBobert said:
@GenesisAria I repeat, this is a typical mobage with a self-insert protagonist. Since most of the audience of such games are male okatu, it is implied that he is also a male. If you are a girl, you can imagine that your protagonist is also a girl.

I don’t know what kind of pronouns you are talking about, but https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/b2h9i1/i_love_al_but_i_have_a_small_problem_with_it/ the game quite calmly uses the “young boy”.
Nevada only says shounen in japanese, in chinese she says "shàonián", which is gender neutal "youngster". So that leaves only Unicorn who says "Onii-chan" in japanese, and "gēgē" in chinese, meaning older brother. For all we know that's just Unicorn's thing, to identify those she trusts as a surrogate brother figure.


One simple question, why doesn't she use Onee-chan? Why does the Japanese version have no problems with this? You want to say that Unicorn is a misgendering player? By the way, the Chinese version may also mean "young boy" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/少年#Chinese or https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/chinese-word-5addc4e4387ae42d3320f5b8b4908ee217061ac4.html.

Judging by fluent googling, this word is generally quite common as the Chinese version of "shonen" - https://www.echineselearning.com/blog/song-for-kids-xiaoxiao-shaonian-the-little-boy

Don't again make the thread personal just because you don't want to "lose".
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RobertBobert said:
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So that leaves only Unicorn who says "Onii-chan" in japanese, and "gēgē" in chinese, meaning older brother (the person confused onii with onee). For all we know that's just Unicorn's thing, to identify those she trusts as a surrogate brother figure.
One simple question, why doesn't she use Onee-chan? Why does the Japanese version have no problems with this? You want to say that Unicorn is a misgendering player?
I've actually seen young girls do exactly this in anime multiple times, that is a girl that is obsessed with finding a mystical non-existent brother figure, sometimes in boyish girls even, or is in general just a brocon. For all we know she might not even be aware of what gender (you) are and just assumes.

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By the way, the Chinese version may also mean "young boy"
Fun fact: most languages use the male gendered term for both male and for gender neutral, because most of human history is biased that way (and gender neutral terms considered afterthought or unimportant). That is the case in chinese, japanese, greek, and many other languages. That doesn't validate it as a counterargument.

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Don't again make the thread personal just because you don't want to "lose".
...says the person constantly replying to make sure they are always right.

Difference is, i don't care, i turned around and reassessed what i was looking at and referred to the quotes on the wiki in both languages to confirm. I simply want to be clear so that readers don't come by and absorbing some misleading nonsense.
protip: don't have to reply.
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so they really did remove the commander for the anime :(

how are we supposed to marry our ships now???!!
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Anyone else watch the first episode and stop to be sure this wasn't a sequel to the other girls as boats show with all the setup?
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