Review of KanColle

Creating a story out of nothing is never easy, but that isn't an excuse to try everything at once. Kantai Collection tries to do too many things at once and ended up with nothing. It's like the idiom, Jack of all trade but master of none. Kancolle tried to tackle multiple genre but succeeded in none. [[Note: Spoilers might be included]] Personal rant below Kantai Collection, or Kancolle for short, is an attempt by a company to create an anime out of a game just like Hollywood creating Dragonball Z out of Dragonball. An attempt to make something that is "original" yet "fun" but ended up failing atboth. The problem is that Kantai Collection tried too hard to do everything.

I am speaking this from someone who plays the game, this anime is horrible if it is trying to teach a person about a game. This isn't like Pokemon, where the earlier episodes managed to tell you what the Pokemon is along with its mechanics. If they are trying to explain about the game, they'll need to make the anime more "militaristic" as that's what Kancolle is: A spreadsheet simulation with naval battle theme. Or at least try and explain, even if it's crazy (e.g. Bucket bath), some mechanics in the game. Kancolle didn't do any.

The story clearly shows that the directors don't know what path they want the anime to go with. It's like watching an indecisive kid. It has a mix between slice-of-life and comedy with an underlying "seriousness" smashed into each episode somewhere near the end just to try and remind the viewers that the story is still serious.

Now comes the part that is probably the reason why they continue watching Kancolle: CHARACTERS. Oh boy! Look at all these waifus you can get. But jokes aside, these characters and set-up are a mess. You have the main character that seems to always get the center-of-attention and get out of trouble (Fubuki), the comic relief (Yuudachi), and the try-to-be-serious-but-isn't (Mutsuk). Kitakami and Ooi are only there for daily lesbian service and all other characters are forgettable. How forgettable you might ask? Enough that they added another character at the end and you don't even know who.