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"A Top KanColle Doujin"
 
   There are many of these. Some are great. Some are horrible. Some are funny. Some are tragic. (Many are stupid.)

This one is my favorite. It's sweet and silly, yet it will take you for a ride on the feels train. It's about an admiral who loves and values his ships. It often makes fun of the game's mechanics.

Oh yes. And the Admiral is a Shiba dog.

I'm torn whether to recommend that you watch this video after you've read it, or watch it first and then see how many things about it you didn't understand become clear as you read. I did the former, but I think it might work either way. I'll leave it up to you.

(Also, if you've had the kind of week I've had, you might find yourself just watching it six or eight times in a row because the song is so damn cheerful.)

--G.
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A Top KanColle Doujin [View All] Gryphonadmin Jan-07-17 TOP
  RE: A Top KanColle Doujin Berk Jan-07-17 1
     RE: A Top KanColle Doujin Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 9
         RE: A Top KanColle Doujin Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 13
     RE: A Top KanColle Doujin zwol Jan-09-17 10
         RE: A Top KanColle Doujin Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 11
             RE: A Top KanColle Doujin Berk Jan-09-17 14
  speaking of videos Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 2
     RE: speaking of videos Berk Jan-09-17 3
         RE: speaking of videos Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 4
             RE: speaking of videos Berk Jan-09-17 5
                 RE: speaking of videos Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 6
                     RE: speaking of videos Berk Jan-09-17 7
                         RE: speaking of videos Gryphonadmin Jan-09-17 8
                             RE: speaking of videos Berk Jan-09-17 12
  RE: A Top KanColle Doujin zwol Jan-10-17 15
     RE: A Top KanColle Doujin CdrMike Jan-11-17 17
  apropos of nothing Gryphonadmin Jan-11-17 16
     RE: apropos of nothing Berk Jan-11-17 19
         RE: apropos of nothing Gryphonadmin Jan-11-17 20
             RE: apropos of nothing Berk Jan-11-17 21
  RE: A Top KanColle Doujin CdrMike Jan-11-17 18
  Speaking of videos... Gryphonadmin Jan-13-17 22
     RE: Speaking of videos... Berk Jan-13-17 23
         RE: Speaking of videos... Gryphonadmin Jan-13-17 24
             RE: Speaking of videos... Berk Jan-13-17 25
     RE: Speaking of Thriller... Gryphonadmin Jan-14-17 26
  On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-17-17 27
     RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-17-17 28
         RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-18-17 29
         RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-21-17 36
             RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art SpottedKitty Jan-21-17 37
             RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-23-17 38
                 RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-23-17 39
                     RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-23-17 40
                         RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-24-17 41
                             RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-24-17 42
                                 RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-24-17 43
                                     RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-24-17 44
                                         RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art jonathanlennox Jan-24-17 45
     RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Hotaru Lind Jan-19-17 30
         RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-19-17 31
             RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-19-17 32
                 RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Gryphonadmin Jan-19-17 33
                     RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art Berk Jan-19-17 34
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1. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-07-17 AT 11:33 AM (EST)
 
There are some real gems out there among the KC fanworks.

My personal favorites at this point are boushi-ya's The Beginning which presents KC's game mechanics plainly, and then uses them to tell a Japanese horror/zombie apocalypse story. And Shino's Miss Akebono and the Shitty Admiral and Miss Abukuma and the Shitty Admiral, in which the Admiral is expressly not shitty.

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9. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-09-17 AT 03:59 PM (EST)
 
Oh yes, mustn't forget Macho Admiral. Not the most detailed art style, but the writing is good, and the setting is an interesting take on the game's premise.

Also Stern-Faced Admiral, whose adventures are... less dramatic.

--G.
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13. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   And of course Ushio's Picture Diary, which is really sweet, and all the more notable for being one of the relatively few doujinshi portrayals of Ushio in which she isn't either lewd on purpose or lewd against her will. Poor Ushio. So much horribleness.

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10. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   Bewildered non-KC player here: can you explain the "shitty admiral" title please? He seems to be a bit of a disciplinarian and maybe also a bit of a troll, but he doesn't seem to be bad at his job or anything like that.


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11. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   >Bewildered non-KC player here: can you explain the "shitty admiral"
>title please?

In her game dialogue, Akebono always calls the admiral "shitty admiral" (kuso teitoku). The real-life destroyer Akebono was... not well served by the Admiralty over the course of the war, and her in-game incarnation is extremely bitter about it. (Kasumi is also very abusive to the admiral, and for similar reasons.)

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14. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   To explain it further: Akebono and Ushio, at one point during WWII, exchanged places in formation because Ushio was having equipment problems. Things went straight to hell and they took it out on Akebono's crew, because they were the ship closest at the time. This spiralled into a series of situations where Akebono and her crew were put into punishment details and were tasked with doing things a Destroyer was Not Suited For.

So Akebono continued to underperform.

And the beatings continued.

To take this ANOTHER step, the admiral from shiro's comics is called 'The Shitty Admiral' because he has a nasty expression, similar to a thug, and has a GLORIOUS talent for trolling misbehaving ship girls in just the right fashion to make them into better people.

Akebono is his long term project.

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2. "speaking of videos"
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   There is, naturally, a hell of a lot of dross to wade through in the vast field of KanColle-related MikuMikuDance videos, but I quite like this one. The choreography works nicely with the character, the model's really good, and the song is catchy as hell.

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3. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   That model of Prinz is amazing.

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4. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   >That model of Prinz is amazing.

Ain't it just? And unlike a lot of KanColle MMD models, she doesn't look like her uniform is made of PVC. :)

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5. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   This is a problem may have been inherited from MMD models in general, really. Because the Vocaloids MMD was originally cooked up for have a very distinctive 'plastic clothing' look since they very often incorporate electronics and wearable digital displays into their wardrobe.

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6. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   >This is a problem may have been inherited from MMD models in general,
>really. Because the Vocaloids MMD was originally cooked up for have a
>very distinctive 'plastic clothing' look since they very often
>incorporate electronics and wearable digital displays into their
>wardrobe.

Well, sure, it makes sense for them, since they're virtual characters as virtual characters. In the course of my little odyssey over the last few days, though, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...

Excuse me. Ahem. Anyway, yeah. I think the best example that didn't involve a character just wearing the wrong costume (which was, in the way of the Internet, basically no costume), was a version of Suzuya who was wearing her normal outfit, only every single part of it was smooth, stiff, and highly reflective, like she was cosplaying as a Suzuya action figure.

OTOH, there is a very adorable Yamato model out there whose clothes have actual fabric weave texture on them. ... I probably pay more attention to that kind of thing than I really should. And I probably shouldn't be admitting it on the Web. Oh well!

As an aside, I'm very amused by the (relatively few) English comments one sees on these videos. You have the people who don't recognize the characters; the people who do recognize them, but don't know what MikuMukuDance is... and, in one really impressive instance, someone who clearly was familiar with both KanColle and Vocaloid, but couldn't... quite... put it together. That person asked, "Why does Yamato's singing voice sound like Megurine Luka?" So close. So close to understanding. (Or maybe it was a joke. It's hard to tell on the Internet. :)

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7. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-09-17 AT 03:07 PM (EST) by Gryphon (admin)
 
Yamato is a legend in her own right in KC, to the extent that trying to get the resources to MAYBE get her in a crafting result has inspired song.

Seeing people getting REALLY OBSESSIVE with the detail on a Yamato model is not surprising.

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8. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-15-17 AT 08:10 PM (EST)
 
>Yamato is a legend in her own right in KC, to the extent that trying
>to get the resources to MAYBE get her in a crafting result has
>inspired song.

snrk. Poor submarines.

--G.
I shouldn't even be sortieing submarines here in the first place
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12. "RE: speaking of videos"
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   Submarines: causing KC's combat AI to become extremely confused since basically Day 1.

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15. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-11-17 AT 12:21 PM (EST)
 
Fans of shipgirls, slapstick, and Skippy's List will probably appreciate Things Involving Shipgirls That Are No Longer Allowed.


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17. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   >Fans of kanmusu, Skippy's List, and slapstick will probably appreciate
>Things Involving Shipgirls That Are No Longer Allowed.

It's been good so far...then I got to the end of Rule 49...and nearly died laughing. It's good to see that even if it has become a bit of a dead-fic, Nobody Dies will have a long-lasting legacy.

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16. "apropos of nothing"
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   I'm really surprised not to have found more "Chairman Kaga" jokes in the giant heap of KanColle fan art on danbooru.

--G.
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19. "RE: apropos of nothing"
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   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.

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20. "RE: apropos of nothing"
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   >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.

Do they not have cable reruns in Japan? I mean, I've seen a ton of television that originally aired when I was too young to notice it...

--G.
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21. "RE: apropos of nothing"
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   Japan doesn't really do reruns. And a later attempt to restart Iron Chef in Japan on the heels of its success in the US only lasted 14 episodes.

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18. "RE: A Top KanColle Doujin"
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   I like to recommend this doujin, mostly because I like this depiction of Tatsuta as a troll with a heart of gold than the sadist personality that some fans have attributed to her.

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22. "Speaking of videos..."
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   This is basically brilliant, in an "... oh. Of course!" kind of way.

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23. "RE: Speaking of videos..."
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   Abyssals may be some of the most fun and original baddies I've seen in a while. And the Oni and Princess class ones all have a ton of character that you can see even in their combat stage forms.

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24. "RE: Speaking of videos..."
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   >Abyssals may be some of the most fun and original baddies I've seen in
>a while. And the Oni and Princess class ones all have a ton of
>character that you can see even in their combat stage forms.

I'm... not universally sold on the "undead teeth monster" aesthetic they have going on, but a few of them have grown on me—Re-class, Wo-class, and Hoppo most prominent among them. As usual for me, my favorite fan portrayals of them tend to be the comedy ones, where the war (if there even is one) kind of works like the old Warner Brothers cartoon about the wolf and the sheepdog. :)

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25. "RE: Speaking of videos..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-13-17 AT 02:19 AM (EST)
 
'Undead Teeth Monster' does good for the mooks, but there's a good translation from the mooks into the more humanoid ones, which is something that can be hard to pull off.

You can see an evolution of the enemies from the low end and into the higher end, until you get the very highest limits and they stop looking like monsters with some human parts and look like monstrous humans.

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26. "RE: Speaking of Thriller..."
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   ... Miku's face at the very beginning cracks me up every time. I should use it as my profile picture for the new payroll system at work that inexplicably demands we provide one.

--G.
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27. "On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   The idea of Shipgirls in Valhalla got me thinking. And then I chanced upon it.

There is a fanartist who is doing illustrations, mainly of the Kreigsmarine girls, as fantasy heroes.

Sure, Graf Zepplin has guns. But then consider that her Carrier rigging is controlled by the control interface for a card based arcade game. (Not unlike the arcade version of Kancolle, really...)

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28. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >There is a fanartist who is doing illustrations, mainly of the
>Kreigsmarine girls, as fantasy heroes.

Well, now we know what Princess Eugenie's Königswalküre dress uniform will look like.

--G.
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29. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   I saw this image on Reddit today just before I left for work and it nearly broke me utterly.

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36. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Meanwhile, Rule Britannia Intensifies.

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37. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Nice hats!

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38. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   In a similar vein, I read this one as "what if Kongou had stayed in England?"

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39. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Ah! The Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Indestructible.

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40. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >Ah! The Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Indestructible.

Always a risky name for a warship, but especially ironic for a battlecruiser. :)

Heh, so I got curious and checked to see whether there had actually been an RN ship with that name. It appears there hasn't (the closest they got were Invincible and Indefatigable), but in the course of checking I ran across a mention of a minesweeper called HMS Wilton. She had a glass-reinforced-plastic hull, the idea being that she'd have a better chance of avoiding magnetic mines that way. (It seems to have worked, since she's now the Leigh-on-Sea Yacht Club.) One of her nicknames was HMS Indestructible as a result, although she was also known by the somewhat less reverent tag HMS Tupperware. :)

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41. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-24-17 AT 01:11 AM (EST)
 
The name 'Indestructible' is a one that popped up among Kancolle fans for 'British Kongou' because that is.. actually what her name MEANS (besides being named for Mt. Kongou): Adamant/Indestructible. That it fits the British naming conventions and ISN'T an existing ship just makes it all the more fun.

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42. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >The name 'Indestructible' is a one that popped up among Kancolle fans
>for 'British Kongou' because that is.. actually what her name MEANS
>(besides being named for Mt. Kongou): Adamant/Indestructible.

(The men at the table in the smoky room look up at Jeff Goldblum as he stands panting in the doorway.)

We know. Sit down.

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43. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Sorry, it's been that kind of day.

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44. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-24-17 AT 01:57 AM (EST)
 
>Sorry, it's been that kind of day.

Well, it's entirely possible somebody didn't know, which is why I put on the smiley. I just couldn't resist the reference :)

Also, it looks like there have been a few ships named HMS Adamant, although only one was a Proper Warship (the first was a fourth-rate in the late 1700s). The others were auxiliaries, a depot ship and a submarine tender, respectively.

(Also also, there is of course a Defiant-class destroyer by that name in the IPSF, because -ant word. :)

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45. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >Also, it looks like there have been a few ships named HMS
>Adamant, although only one was a Proper Warship (the first was
>a fourth-rate in the late 1700s). The others were auxiliaries, a
>depot ship and a submarine tender, respectively.
>
>(Also also, there is of course a Defiant-class destroyer by
>that name in the IPSF, because -ant word. :)

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30. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Holy crap Leberecht Maass gives off some pretty serious Erica Hartmann (of Strike Witches) vibes and U-511 reminds me of Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen.

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31. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >Holy crap Leberecht Maass gives off some pretty serious Erica Hartmann
>(of Strike Witches) vibes and U-511 reminds me of Eila Ilmatar
>Juutilainen.

Same designer. I think Shimada did all the European Axis ships in KanColle so far, in fact, which is the joke behind Princess Eugenie von Preußen in OWaW. The Italian destroyer Libeccio is basically Lucchini with a palette shift, which caused a lot of "oh come on, is he even trying?" type bitching when she came out.

That said, people in the fandom take poor Lebe for a trap a lot more often than they do Erica (ugh, fandom), and any resemblance Yuu has to Eila is... um... blunted somewhat by her remodel, Ro-500. :)

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32. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Littorio/Italia, Roma, Libeccio, Zara, Pola and Aquila were all done by an artist going by the handle 'Ji Ji.'

But all the Kreigsmarine ships were done by Shimada (thus the scarcity of pants).

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33. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >Littorio/Italia, Roma, Libeccio, Zara, Pola and Aquila were all done
>by an artist going by the handle 'Ji Ji.'
>
>But all the Kreigsmarine ships were done by Shimada (thus the scarcity
>of pants).

Huh, I could have sworn he did Libeccio, thus all the grumbling about her resemblance to Lucchini. (Also thought Aquila was one of his, but that may just be because of all the art shipping her with Graf Zeppelin.) I somehow managed to forget about the battleships and cruisers momentarily, though. And Commandant Teste, I suppose, if you count Vichy France as part of the Axis, and really, why wouldn't you.

Man, how could I forget Pola? How could ANYONE forget Pola? :)

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34. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   Pola, because Shimakaze needed competition on the 'Stripperboat' title.

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35. "RE: On The Topic Of Fan Art"
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   >Pola, because Shimakaze needed competition on the 'Stripperboat'
>title.

One important difference is that Pola is wearing plenty of clothes, but likes to take them off.

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