LAST EDITED ON Aug-04-15 AT 06:19 PM (EDT)
 
>It also uses the word chuunibyou a
>lot, i.e. "eighth grade syndrome" (lit. middle [school, class]
>two disease). I don't think I really need to explain that further

Weirdly, I just encountered that word for the first time the other day, in the context of - of all things - Kantai Collection characters. There are a couple of fleet girls who wear eyepatches, and there is evidently a branch of the fandom who choose to believe this is not for any technical reason, but rather because they suffer from this condition (which is evidently Japanese for "being a pretentious douchenozzle").

(In Kiso's case there is direct evidence against this, in the form of the scar that can be seen running under her eyepatch and the fact that, in one of her "damaged" artworks, it's come off, revealing that her right iris is discolored in the standard comics-art "this eye does not work" fashion. In Tenryū's case there's nothing arguing against it in the artwork, but a glance at history turns up the fact that the actual IJS Tenryū - one of the oldest ships in the fleet by 1941 - had battle scars aplenty even before the war. There is another theory that her eyepatch, which is quite techy-looking, is actually the plan position indicator for her radar, and so not unlike the targeting visor that's available for Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 2.)

At any rate, it's an unfair assumption for either of them, but then, a lot of the running jokes in Kantai Collection fanon are unfair and/or unkind (e.g., Akagi's gluttony extending to cannibalism, its commonly linked counterpart "Soylent Green is Naka-chan", horrible things happening to poor Ushio for no good reason, Kaga being the Admiral's doormat, et al.). That fandom has a mean streak.

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