19. "RE: apropos of nothing"
In response to message #16
This may be because for us English speaking folks Iron Chef is a fairly recent thing, but for the Japanese, where most fanart for Kancolle comes from, the Iron Chef franchise was an early 90s thing.
Iron Chef was off the air in Japan by the time it was regularly on the air in the US. (This bit makes me feel a touch old.) Most Japanese Kancolle players were in gradeschool when Iron Chef was on the air.