Review of KanColle

Imagine if Germany made a world war 2 show/cartoon showing showing the Nazis as the good guys and the allies as faceless monsters. That is essentially what happens in this anime. In world war 2 Japan commited genocide and war crimes on the same scale as the Nazis (look up korean comfort women, the rape of nanjing, unit 731 for more details). It shows the ships as cute anime girls that are trying to stop the monsters from attacking their homeland, completely glossing over that the war in the pacific was a war that Japan started and the huge amount of war crimes they werecommitting in the process.

Alternative history can be fun for a story telling device but this is not the way to go about it, the man in the high castle is a much better way of showing alternative history as they don't shy away from the genocide and somehow still manage to make a Nazi somewhat sympathetic.

Spoilers for the ending: The final battle is clearly meant to be a retelling of the battle at midway in which America defeated Japan in a naval battle so resoundingly, that the war was then unwinable for Japan at that point on. This battle happened in US territory as the Japanese were attacking but in the show is portrayed as the Japanese defending themselves and in the end they have the US lose. The entire anime just seems to be some kind of jingoistic wish fulfillment instead of an attempt to write a compelling story.