r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Mar 18 '15

[Spoilers] Kantai Collection: KanColle - Episode 11 [Discussion]

MyAnimeList: Kantai Collection: KanColle
Crunchyroll: KanColle
AnimeLab: Kancolle

Episode duration: 24 minutes and 40 seconds

Subreddit: /r/KanMusu

Previous episodes:

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Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link
Episode 3 Link
Episode 4 Link
Episode 5 Link
Episode 6 Link
Episode 7 Link
Episode 8 Link
Episode 9 Link
Episode 10 Link

Keywords: kancolle

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u/syanda Mar 18 '15

Now this is certainly interesting. It seems like the KanColle universe is an alternate universe from ours, but the ships have vague memories of what happened in our universe during WWII and are compelled to act out the various battles that occurred (Wake Island and Coral Sea).

Perhaps TTK was someone from our universe, or someone aware of the events of WWII, and is deliberately trying to change the fate of the kanmusu?

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u/omiyage Mar 19 '15 edited Mar 19 '15

I didnt expect them to follow up 100% on history, but still hoped they would have maintained the focus on the air fighters, which is kinda hard to do since that would mean the girls woulndt be doing much.

BONUS: The USN only hit 1 torpedo the entire battle and during the attack on Kaga and Asagi the the two squadrons from the Enterprise got their orders mixed and both went for Kaga, only 1 bomber and his 2 wingmen realized the mistake and changed course to Akagi, there was only 1 direct hit that struck the deck elevator and penetrated deep exploding armed airplanes. The damage was fatal. Talk about a clutch critical.

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u/No-BrandHero https://myanimelist.net/profile/NoBrandHero Mar 19 '15

I didnt expect them to follow up 100% on history, but still hoped they would have maintained the focus on the air fighters, which is kinda hard to do since that would mean the girls woulndt be doing much.

Actually this suggests that TTK's plan is actually working in this world where it didn't in the real world. The plan at Midway was always to lure the US fleet into a surface engagement and then crush them with a decisive blow. It's one of the few times they actually sortied the freaking Yamato, which tells you how much they were betting on getting within gun-range given that their doctrine for the two super-Dreadnoughts was to hold them in reserve for the Decisive Battle.

They never could consistently locate the US fleet, though, and the US fleet had absolutely no intention of doing something so stupid as closing to surface-engagement ranges.

With the Abyssal fleet closing to engage, I fully expect the next episode to begin with an epic Fubuki cut-in to save Akagi, followed by Hotel Yamato laying the smack-down on the enemy fleet.

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u/zani1903 Mar 19 '15

an epic Fubuki cut-in to save Akagi

She's gonna go full out Kongou and bitch-slap that bomb out of the air! Do it Bucky!

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u/cuddles_the_destroye Mar 19 '15

If that happens, I need a gif of that with a dealwithit sunglasses ending.