This is admiral and here is my drawing.
A for ARTISTIC!

I don't even want to know why there's a spell pentagram(?) at panel 2 unless that- ookay, now let's focus on Admibro before he went full Admibro.

So this is when he still seriously try to become a ship girl

w-wait.... why!?

I mean... why!?

I did not expect it to become a supernatural thingy... s*** yuuji and kouji got me... :|

xSauriaNx said:

w-wait.... why!?

I mean... why!?

I did not expect it to become a supernatural thingy... s*** yuuji and kouji got me... :|

I think it's more that he's supreme chuunibyou.

if I met admibro for the first time, I'd just tell him off, since he is really giving a huge chuuni vibe with his choice of words haha

Ooi holds Admibro's weakness.

Ahhh. So that's what Admibro said to Kiyoshimo that he really want to fight against abyssal means. He's probably a ommyouji or something similar who can summon past warship spirit for fighting abyssal. I assume he want to contract the spirit himself yet the spirit reject him because he's a man.

I smell tragedy or vengeance from admibro

Serventia said:

Ahhh. So that what Admibro said to Kiyoshimo that he really want to fight against abyssal means. He's probably a ommyouji or something similar who can summon past warship spirit for fighting abyssal. I assume he want to contract the spirit himself yet the spirit reject him because he's a man.

I smell tragedy or vengeance from admibro

I feel like this is just his Chuu2 phase

Serventia said:

Ahhh. So that's what Admibro said to Kiyoshimo that he really want to fight against abyssal means. He's probably a ommyouji or something similar who can summon past warship spirit for fighting abyssal. I assume he want to contract the spirit himself yet the spirit reject him because he's a man.

I smell tragedy or vengeance from admibro

My thoughts exactly. Either that, or his chuuni instinct (back then) made him THINK he was doing just that.

Well played, Kouji. Well played.

seascrub said:

I feel like this is just his Chuu2 phase

Admibro's too old for chuuni. There's fairy out there so why not an ommyouji/summoner...

Serventia said:

Admibro's too old for chuuni. There's fairy out there so why not an ommyouji/summoner...

And whoever said there's a age limit too being a chuuni?

Serventia said:

Admibro's too old for chuuni. There's fairy out there so why not an ommyouji/summoner...

Deathmatcher said:

And whoever said there's a age limit too being a chuuni?

Honestly, what could be more chuuni than summoning ship-spirits in the middle of a public park? I figure your chuuni phase can last a lot longer when you actually do have access to supernatural abilities.

Anyway, looks like the last couple pages confirmed some of my speculations and invalidated others. Admibro is what I'm thinking of an "admiral candidate", someone who has a natural affinity for ship-spirits but a lack of formal training to turn him into a proper admiral. Contrary to my earlier spec, the Ooi-spirit actually is attached to the girl.

I'm still guessing that there's a formal kanmusu navy out there somewhere - and if that guess is correct, they surely must've detected Admibro's untutored summoning of Ooi, and are even now converging on these two to recruit them into the proper kanmusu/admiral training programs.

Further spec: this is all meant to correspond to how people normally become admirals in this universe: a young talented man summons a ship-spirit, it binds itself to the nearest available girl-who-can-see-fairies, and they then get recruited into the kanmusu program. The only glitch is that Ooi isn't supposed to be a starter; maybe Admibro is an exceptionally talented (but arrogant) summoner and skipped right over the normal step of summoning Fubuki, Murakumo, Sazanami, Inazuma, or Samidare?

Ooi already sees the fairies even before meeting chuu2 admibro, so that defeats the point that Admibro summoned Ooi to Ooi. I think admibro is also "chosen" or has an affinity but went far too chuu2, i.e he saw the fairies and began thinking like he is some special chosen one (believe me i have experience).

Chuuni kouji admiral and Ooi, cannot wait to see more.

I'd actually like Ooi a lot more if she had stayed in her original "likes KTKM and admiral" persona than her updated "KTKM 4 life" persona.

Mithiwithi said:

Honestly, what could be more chuuni than summoning ship-spirits in the middle of a public park? I figure your chuuni phase can last a lot longer when you actually do have access to supernatural abilities.

Would it still be considered chuuni though?

Admiral must have studied at the Sokka Academy of Art.

Passed first in his class too by the looks of it.