(L+CR) Arpeggio of blue steel

[MrTerrorist]

Mmmmmm..... Nano Curry.

[Tim yy]

Konguo is the do-er type in the manga and takes her job seriously. She doesn't procrastinate, she doesn't stay back and cook up elaborate schemes. She is confident in her own abilities, disciplined and highly respected among her ranks. (and is she British? XD) The anime has yet to show this one way or another.

Just hope that curry is not cooked personally by Konguo-sama, else you better eat all of it.

[MrTerrorist]

^Is that an injoke about Kongou's VA Yukana, who also voiced Cecilia Alcott from Infinite Stratos, whose is a terrible cook?

[AC-Phoenix]

^
The original fast battleship Kongou was built in the UK due to a treaty, as someone remarked soon after the first 'Kongou's tearoom' scene

[Tenzen12]

... I am absolutely sure I saw Kongou with chief hat on one omake page. Now is everything clear

[Myssa Rei]

Actually, wasn't the red curry joke something from Akagi instead?

*ducks bricks thrown by fellow KanColle players*

[SeaDoor]

Liking this series way more than I expected. Hope they are able to keep this production up all the way through. A few thoughts so far...

Kirishima is going to be hard to take seriously now that she's a teddy bear. After listening to her laugh and teasing Haruna, I wonder did her model pick up a sense of humor? Her faceplant during the tea meeting with Kongou was very funny.

Considering the end of the last episode, I hope that Haruna has some remaining defensive and offensive capabilities. Appears they will be needing them.

Iona's continuing to say "I don't know" to questions. Each time she does sounds increasingly ominous.

Oh please don't relegate my favorite heavy cruiser to comic relief. She deserves better!

[D-Joe]

Welp

Spoiler for Ep 6-10 preview:

[Myssa Rei]

Originally Posted by D-Joe

Welp

*snips image*

Welp, it looks like episode 10 will have 400 and 402 attacking the Blue Fleet. Yeah, there's your answer about 2501's participation!

[D-Joe]

And ep 6 preview pictures

Spoiler for EP6:

http://tokyo-anime-news.jp/?p=16760

[Tim yy]

Spoiler for No No No no....no says Maya:

Why does Kongo-sama has to be so evil...
401+ Hyuuga + Takao + Haruna + Kirishima +..... vs.........
~~~sinking...with Gunzo
...it's a carnival........It's a bloodbath

[gaiar31]

Thank you Picture From CV.Uchiyama Yumi (Kirishima) to Blue Steel Fan.

Spoiler:

[Kaoru Chujo]

Here's a characters/seiyuus page for this show, with pics of 14 characters and their voice actors, and a bit of info about each voice actor.

Uchiyama Yumi (Kirishima) is just getting better and better. She's had lots of work this year. I'm very impressed with her as the teacher/baseball scout in Diamond no Ace.

Yamamura Hibiku (Haruna) is the singer "hibiku," and sings the ED as part of Trident (with Numakura Manami and Fuchigami Mai). Fuchigami Mai herself is quite good as Iona. Probably better than she is as Petralka in Outbreak Company.

[wavehawk]

Originally Posted by gaiar31

Spoiler:

- Kirishima can't get any more 3D that that!

Also, my local hobby shop just got a 1/350 I-400 Submarine kit (The WWII one, not the Arpeggio one) in. The guys remarked: "When did you get interested in ships and subs?" When I found I was staring at it for more than three minutes.

[bigdeath]

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

I didn't think I liked this show, but watching eps 3-5 has convinced me otherwise. It's a strange way of getting a bunch of cute girls to star in your story, but it works. The image of Iona sitting there like a little child with her legs so pliably folded back, impassively running the ship, is strangely mythical.

I liked it in ep5 that the humans played second-fiddle, and the mental models and another artificial being were the main subject. Come to think of it, the mental models have been at centre stage the whole way through.

Why is it so easy to identify with artificial beings? Has our integration with computers, phones, etc., carried us further in that direction ourselves? This humanization of artificial beings, and their confusion over human feelings, goes right back to Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein, two hundred years ago. But maybe we are further along on that road now.

I like episode 5 for the exact same reason, the fascinating focus on the mental models. However, I believe you underestimate just how human these metal models are. Its the same fascination people had with Data from Star Trek, using a proxy "robot" to exam human emotion and what exactly it means to be human.

People might think pure random chaos is alien to a human mind but in truth pure logic is just as alien. As anyone whos tried to program a computer can tell you, trying to think in the rigid logic of a computer is rather exhausting and not a natural way to think for a human. The mental models display reasoning and emotional skill that already make the more human like then they are clearly willing to admit.

I think that was the whole point of giving mental model technology to the fog. It is a human technology after all. Theres hope now for turning more Fog ships to the human side of this bizarre war. We still have no clue whats the purpose of this war is, if there even is one.

[gaiar31]

Fanart

Spoiler:

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by D-Joe

And ep 6 preview pictures

-snip-

Spoiler for Reply:

OMG! They kept the Spider Tanks!

[Tenzen12]

Good! finaly something that didn't got ommited!

[whitecloud]

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Takao and Takao

[EroKing]