Well, funny story: it wasn't! Still isn't, in and of itself, the actual games themselves are not in a genre I'm interested in. I had heard of it, albeit mostly in the form of commenters on Danbooru declaring for the last five or six years that Kantai Collection would never be as popular. I'd seen a few of the characters, in crossover fan illustrations. I looked into a little, because it stands to reason that anything with that much of a following might bear investigating, but I wasn't particularly curious once I found it was a series of bullet hell games.

But the thing is (and I've said something like this recently in a different thread, but with a different metaphor), I have little patches of Velcro in my psyche, and occasionally, as media I'm not paying direct attention to flows past, random characters will come along and stick to one of them.

Approximately 14 days ago, thanks to a chance encounter while browsing the aforementioned art website looking for something else, Remilia Scarlet happened along and stuck to about eight of them. And here we are. :)

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