What about ARP Kongou?

They both certainly have way more style, and make sense given their country of origin and the period they were built.

GoldSaw said:

They both certainly have way more style, and make sense given their country of origin and the period they were built.

Kongou was a ship specifically ordered to England by the japanese navy, so for all intents and purposes it was a Japanese ship (born elsewhere, but still). Her being "fully blonde and british" would be akin to expecting your child to be red headed just because he was born while you were traveling through Ireland, by example.

Braxat51 said:

Kongou was a ship specifically ordered to England by the japanese navy, so for all intents and purposes it was a Japanese ship (born elsewhere, but still). Her being "fully blonde and british" would be akin to expecting your child to be red headed just because he was born while you were traveling through Ireland, by example.

Kongou was BUILT in England, with british steel, to british specifications. So by all intents and purposes she´s british, sailing under a japanese flag.
Using the child analogy, it would be that she has a british father and a japanese mother.

Darkestvampire92 said:

Kongou was BUILT in England, with british steel, to british specifications. So by all intents and purposes she´s british, sailing under a japanese flag.
Using the child analogy, it would be that she has a british father and a japanese mother.

More like born to two British parents and then being adopted by Japanese ones after birth.

she's pure brit born, there is nothing Japanese about her build unlike her sister copies. More like a adopted child like above said

shade_30 said:

More like born to two British parents and then being adopted by Japanese ones after birth.

So where do her Japan-born sisters fall into this?

Anyway, I'm now picturing a younger Kongou wearing western style clothing before she switched to her current nontrad miko costume

Most people in England have brown hair though.

StorianCapi said:

Most people in England have brown hair though.

Don't say that so loud, you'll destroy Japan's dreams.

Sigfried666 said:

Don't say that so loud, you'll destroy Japan's dreams.

Isn't it the Chinese in this case though, seeing as both AZ and Warship Girls both originate from China?

NNescio said:

What about ARP Kongou?

So what these Kongou have in common are blond hair then.

Come to think, even Kujou Karen from Kin-iro Mosaic voiced by the same Seiyuu has blonde hair, and she's from England.

DaiFraga said:

So where do her Japan-born sisters fall into this?

Kirishima and Haruna were constructed in Japan, mostly from Japanese parts. Hiei was kind of a hybrid--she was assembled in Japan, but her constituent parts were imported from England.

Blondeness aside, I think they have captured this nicely in the design of the four sisters in Kancolle. Kongou and Hiei both have brown hair rather than black, and their faces, Kongou's in particular, look distinctly different from the younger pair's. Compared to the others, Kongou looks like a foreigner dressed in Japanese clothes, which is exactly what she was, and Hiei kind of splits the difference. It's subtler than the versions that just make her look like a Stereotypical Westerner, which is ironic, since Kongou and subtlety generally go together about as readily as chalk and cheese. :)

(An aside: In automobile manufacturing, building complete vehicles out of imported kits is called "CKD", for "complete knock-down", and used to be a common way of dressing up exports as foreign manufacture. A company would build a plant in a foreign country and begin "domestic" production there, but all the factory would really be doing was assembling CKD kits sent out from HQ. This was usually done to sidestep some regulation about importing completed vehicles--import duties would be less on "parts", or the like. It's still done, although not as commonly now as in earlier times.

In Hiei's case, I think it was more about giving the Japanese shipbuilding time to develop the supporting industry necessary to make the parts than about circumventing import-export law, but the actual practice was similar, albeit on a much larger scale.)

Such sour grapes from the artist. tut tut.

-Z- said:

Such sour grapes from the artist. tut tut.

A single joke and the artist's whole attitude is already regarded as sour grapes...

The artist goes on to call AZ and Warship girls Kongou cute in the commentary if google translate did its job right.

Because all brunettes were purged from England, amirite?

I don't know about you guys, but I kind of prefer it when every single European isn't the same giant-titted Aryan. Variety being the spice of life and all...

NWSiaCB said:

Because all brunettes were purged from England, amirite?

I don't know about you guys, but I kind of prefer it when every single European isn't the same giant-titted Aryan. Variety being the spice of life and all...

Ark Royal is a breath of fresh air because of that.

Genetically speaking, if Kongou truly is half-British and half-Japanese, she will more than likely have brown hair.

NWSiaCB said:

Because all brunettes were purged from England, amirite?

I don't know about you guys, but I kind of prefer it when every single European isn't the same giant-titted Aryan. Variety being the spice of life and all...

Well in AL British ships have hair colors ranging from white, to blue, to purple.
Like the Japanese ships in both games are not all black-haired.

I like AL for they treat all countries more evenly and treat western shipgirls as individuals the same as Japanese ones.
In KC they just fit western shipgirls into cheap gaijin stereotypes.

Just compare KC Iowa to AL Enterprise, or KC Richelieu to AL Jean Bart and you know what I mean.

S.P.Requiem said:

I like AL for they treat all countries more evenly and treat western shipgirls as individuals the same as Japanese ones.
In KC they just fit western shipgirls into cheap gaijin stereotypes.

Just compare KC Iowa to AL Enterprise, or KC Richelieu to AL Jean Bart and you know what I mean.

Iowa is an intentional case; Tanaka makes her as American as she gets because she's the first American. Sara, Intrepid, and Sam aren't as on-your-face while Gamby is as non-stereotypical as she could be. The German aren't Aryan supremacist nor emotionless robot obsessed with German efficiency (except maybe Max, but even she's not more militaristic than others). The only thing that the French fit the stereotype is that they're so goddamn beautiful and classy.

If you want to see national stereotype played to the hilt, look at Girls und Panzer. And the girls still end up very charming because of it.

i'm gravitating more to WG Kongou thanks to this image. that white and blue with a few black is luring me in big time. and also the cap.

an inquiry: how similar/different are all of these Kongous personality wise?

Tbh Azur Lane's Kongo is much outstanding especially her westernised uniform.
Aside KanColle's Kongo still number 1 :3