Anime/Kancolle Anime (2015)/Notes & Trivia

Notes

Operation FS (series summary, essentially currently)

• Initiated by the successful destruction of a forward base
• Starts with the W Island capture operation
• Requires resources in the southwestern seas
• Leads to a fleet reorganization

Teitoku

• The Teitoku delegates many tasks to the Secretary Ship
  • Usually has a scene or two per episode
• Scenes with the Teitoku are either from the Teitoku's perspective, or an angled shot to the visitors
• Only their shadow is seen
• Makes many seemingly odd decisions

Secretary Ship

• Has an aide
• Intermediary between the teitoku & kanmusu
• Has operational control
  • Employs a Communications Officer
  • Communications between the naval base & operating fleets utilize morse code.

CG

• Only on sea scenes
  • Even then, certain shots are traditionally animated
    • Leads to frequent switching

Previews

• The title & its reading
• Kanmusu-related titles read by their seiyuu

All kanmusu & Abyssals are redesigned for the anime

• Probably for standardization purposes & ease of transfer into 3D
• Anime kanmusu & anime Abyssals versus game kanmusu or game Abyssals
• Shibafu Akagi into anime Akagi

Arrows transmogrify in a yellow aura after shooting into aircraft

The basic Kongou Class armaments can fire in the X-form or compact form.

Abyssal remodel is indeterminate unless noted

The Abyssal aircraft launch in a mini-form, then enlarge within a yellow aura

Abyssal shells are shown as cracked spheres.

Ship explosions are massive unless they are not

• Dramatic effect is large & in charge

Combat ranges are extremely close

Travel times are skipped

• Given the maps shown through the series

Episode Notes

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Trivia

Western

Eastern

• The initial broadcast was planned to be on Summer 2014, but due to reasons unknown, the date was pushed to Winter 2015.

• Western & Eastern Japanese print ads were compositionally reversed

Episode Trivia

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Timeline

Approximate episode days elapsed, disregarding timeskipping & travel times

 # starting (elapsed)
 1 : Day  1 (one day)
 2 : Day  2 (four days, counted from episode day/night cycles)
 3 : Day  6 (two days)
 4 : Day  8 (three days with the last seconds counted)
 5 : Day 11 (eight-ish, counting each battle as a different day)
 6 : Day 19 (one day)
 7 : Day 20 (one day)
 8 : Day 21 (two days)
 9 : Day 23 (two days)
 10: Day 25
 11: Day ##

Commerical Break Outro Illustrations

In each episode, the end of the commerical break has an illustration by a kanmusu artist

Shibafu           Fubuki
bob               Sendai, Naka, & Jintsuu
Yoshinori Shizuma Nagato & Mutsu
Konishi           Kongou
Konishi           Shoukaku & Zuikaku
Yadokari          Akatsuki, Inazuma, Ikazuchi, & Hibiki
Shibafu           Kaga
Yoshinori Shizuma Yamato

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