>Secondly, I'm now very curious as to the story is with
>Megami/Mogami/'Mamoru'. I've got practically no idea what the deal is
>with her source material, even with the threads over in source, and I
>have a suspicion that it might not entirely follow that material
>anyway.

The nice, or maybe not-nice thing about Kantai Collection is the official materials say absolutely nothing about what the deal is. Your introduction is literally "So uh, there's these monsters smashing up the world, and here are some girls who are also battleships. Go and play."

>It's also nice to see that yes, people are
>noticing that there is something very odd going on over at the 501st
>and the man called Gryphon.

Nice to see from a storytelling perspective, but somewhere on the sliding scale between "annoying" and "apocalyptic" for the characters themselves.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."