Makes me think about the recruiting since these two people are the ones operating the shipgirl candidacy:

Admibro is the one going into the field whilst the female Admiral Lez is handling the internal stuff like approving the paperwork at this time.

Wait,is that the lesbian Admiral?Oh how I miss her.

Oh wait. That summoning... he wants to be a ship-spirit host himself. And he hadn't accepted that ship-spirits only accept females as hosts, and that he needs to accept that as a male, his role is to be an admiral.

seascrub said:

I feel like this is just his Chuu2 phase

seascrub said:

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).

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

Hah. What did i said.. Who's the one that said admibro's chuuni....?

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so it's true they don't age huh, Murakumo didn't change much. I guess she does a transfer later onwards.

Though it's silly to think shipgirls are immortals when their ship counterpart would be lucky to reach past 30 years of service with aircraft carrier being on the 50+ before being decommissioned. Technically they have shorter life span than regular people.

Rust/corrosion = aging

Oteck said:

Though it's silly to think shipgirls are immortals when their ship counterpart would be lucky to reach past 30 years of service with aircraft carrier being on the 50+ before being decommissioned. Technically they have shorter life span than regular people.

Rust/corrosion = aging

Not really.
Technically speaking, a warship can last an indefinite period of time so long as somebody keeps putting money into them.

We have Wooden Warships that are still in 'combat capable' condition (for the time that they were meant to fight in) to this day.
All 4 Iowas are still 'combat capable'.
The museum Fletchers (and other DDs) are still technically capable (but in need of an overhaul).

The Nimitz is pushing that age and, by some accounts, could have another 50 years in her hull if they were to seriously try to extend the ship's service life (they're not).

The real thing that kills a ship is obsolescence.
Wooden Ships cannot keep pace with Steel, the Iowa hulls are too expensive to maintain in the modern navy, the WW2 DDs are too close to their hull-weight limits to allow for modern equipment and defenses, and the Nimitz is too expensive to repair.

The fact of the matter, for ships Technology Marches On = Aging.
If technological progress just suddenly ground to a halt tomorrow, all warships of today could easily outlive and out-serve their crews (assuming somebody had the cash to keep replacing their boilers/turbines).

Well, hard to die is relative. They're alive, so their body could take place of the regular ship maintenance, at cost of eating resources just like real ship.

They might not die when living like human, but when the battlefield weather forecast is raining shells and bombs they would still have the same life expectancy as front line soldier.

Mithiwithi said:

Oh wait. That summoning... he wants to be a ship-spirit host himself. And he hadn't accepted that ship-spirits only accept females as hosts, and that he needs to accept that as a male, his role is to be an admiral.

I'd say he ought to have tried summoning a Russian or German ship, but they're female in the KanColle setting as well, so it probably wouldn't have helped.

zgryphon said:

I'd say he ought to have tried summoning a Russian or German ship, but they're female in the KanColle setting as well, so it probably wouldn't have helped.

Wait kancolle has Russian ships!?

JohnDFord said:

Wait kancolle has Russian ships!?

Technically Hibiki/Verniy is a Russian ship after the war.

zgryphon said:

I'd say he ought to have tried summoning a Russian or German ship, but they're female in the KanColle setting as well, so it probably wouldn't have helped.

German ships are also female. Or at least, German sailors have a history of calling ships "she", like their English counterparts.

The key difference is that German has grammatical gender (for nouns, adjectives, etc.), so when an article refers to "der schwere Kreuzer Prinz Eugen", the next sentence is likely to start with an "er" (He), to agree with Kreuzer (cruiser), which is masculine. As the paragraph goes on, however, the author is likely to switch to "sie" (she).

This can be seen in the German wikipedia article for Prinz Eugen, as an example.

Note that the word for girl in German is Mädchen, which is neuter. When Mädchen is replaced by a pronoun within the same sentence (or the next sentence), the pronoun "es" (it) is common, but as the paragraph goes on most authors would switch to "sie" (again, she).

Bismarck was a notable exception (of sorts), since her skipper, Ernst Lindemann insisted on his crew calling the Bismarck a "he" because "So powerful a ship as this could only be a he, not a she." The fact that this is called out as a notable exception proves that ships are commonly referred to as female among German sailors, at least for that time. Also, note that a Schlachtschiff (battleship) is neuter, not feminine, but Lindemann said "not a she", and not "not an it", further lending credence to my point.

(*A ship in the general case, and not one specific ship, is still indeed neuter because Schiff is neuter.)

I'm not familiar with how Russian sailors call their ships. Most Russian articles I've read tend to use "the ship" instead of pronouns, and are sticklers for grammatical gender when they do use pronouns.

JohnDFord said:

Wait kancolle has Russian ships!?

mimeki said:

Technically Hibiki/Verniy is a Russian ship after the war.

2 years later, and we have a second Russian ship.

AnObservingShadow said:

2 years later, and we have a second Russian ship.

And indeed a third!