This... actually makes a lot of sense as a characterization for Musashi. Yamato's infamous for being a theoretically powerful ship that accomplished little, but Musashi had an even worse record; she sank the only time she was in anything resembling a battle, with enemy ships hundreds of miles outside the range of her guns.

Kaktus_Lata said:

This... actually makes a lot of sense as a characterization for Musashi. Yamato's infamous for being a theoretically powerful ship that accomplished little, but Musashi had an even worse record; she sank the only time she was in anything resembling a battle, with enemy ships hundreds of miles outside the range of her guns.

Then you have Fubuki and her sisters, who when first came to, was one of the most advanced and most powerful destroyers at the time, becoming something of a revolutionary in designs for even modern warships and stayed that way for a very good chunk of the war and even far into the near end.

We really do tend to forget just how amazing and important the IJN Fubuki classes were and to tell the truth, I've always thought it was genius how they are portrayed as "normal" girls in Kancolle but at the same time that every other shipgirl take similar notes from their specific design (the whole seifuku school girl look), like how so many ships that came after were also based on them or that they were the "standard" which is a perfect representation in a game about personified warships of WW2. I don't know if it was on purpose, but it really does highlight how detailed and indepth parts of Kantai Collection can be. More than just Shipfu, they actually have real history behind almost everything they do.