Well, a harem protagonist he is. And I thought he could have been different.

Her eyes look weird in the 3rd panel

Hiei is definitely Hiei. Happy and carefree with no sense of personal space.

Pemano said:

Her eyes look weird in the 3rd panel

Looks like she was quite catlike in her youth. Would explain her adult behaviour quite well actually.

ship girl cadet?
If battleships join cadet from this young then what about destroyer girls? Since kindergarten?

thanghe said:

ship girl cadet?

yep

OH HO! Who's a "first shipgirl" NOW, Ooi?! Hiei's out-osananajimi-ing you!

Well Ooi... you probably weren't "detected" as a potential shipgirl although its kinda funny that all eight shipgirls he knew from his early days are currently his mainstay fleet although I'm curious if he did see old battleships like the Fusous or saw Akashi during the arsenal (something tells me it was he who had a hand in making the first shipgirl armor prototypes chibi Kongou had)

Jesus, the fangs on young Hiei kill me.

And poor Ooi, having her position as 'first' taken away provisionally. No wonder she's jelly.

Jarlath said:

Hiei is definitely Hiei. Happy and carefree with no sense of personal space.

So Hiei was always like this.

... So, to tag or not to tag tsundere?

thanghe said:

ship girl cadet?
If battleships join cadet from this young then what about destroyer girls? Since kindergarten?

See this pool, BBs are candidates when young...
pool #10141

Demundo said:

Well, a harem protagonist he is. And I thought he could have been different.

When?! He's been pretty flagrantly living with the Kongous as a functional harem (with Haruna and Kirishima wanting to be married to him like Kongou and Hiei were) since Kouji started drawing KanColle comics.

NWSiaCB said:

...since Kouji started drawing KanColle comics.

Oh no, he started drawing Kancolle before that strip. In one of the old Network volumes, but can't remember the number off the top of my head. Pretty sure it was still pretty much the same, though.

Welp that's definitely Hiei, there's the wedding band.

seriously??? no one's curious about his ages???

if i have to guess ,our boy is about somewhere between 6 to 12 years older then most of his fleet,including the battleships.

Huh? did my eyes playing trick on me? what is Araragi Koyomi doing here?

al_pacino said:

Huh? did my eyes playing trick on me? what is Araragi Koyomi doing here?

We don't know Admiral name do we?

noobmex said:

if i have to guess ,our boy is about somewhere between 6 to 12 years older then most of his fleet,including the battleships.

If he looked like that while they were young then I think your math is way off.

The guys must be an unaging immortal type or something.