
Another anthropomorphic battleship battler of blockbuster browser game Kantai Collection has received a figure courtesy, this time with the majestic Nagato being portrayed by Max Factory in all her heavily armed glory – Nagato will arrive to help fortify the fleet next January.
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Another cataclysmic battle on the Kantai Collection front has brought about yet another battle damaged casualty, this time in the form of the unfortunate sukumizu sub I-58 as shown by Max Factory’s 16cm figure – buyers can expect her to grace their dry docks this October.
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Military model makers are celebrating unprecedented increases in sales thanks to the massive success of DMM’s Kantai Collection franchise, with fans obediently buying up even the very un-moe warships the KanMusu are themselves modeled on.
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The NHK has been highlighting the surprising news that Kantai Collection eclipsed Obama’s visit to Japan in popularity amongst the Twitter populace, going so far as to air an introduction to the game for those who have been stuck on the seabed this last year.
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Sexily decked-out battleship Kongo of Kantai Collection fame seems to have undergone heavy fire as demonstrated by this 12cm Max Factory figure, with some severely revealing battle damage suffered – and with the advent of her release this September, otaku can look forward to assisting in her “repair”.
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Kantai Collection’s loveliest carrier has been the subject of a new 14cm Figma by Max Factory, sporting her signature bow of massive proportions and clad in classical kyudo attire – Akagi’s expertise at shooting down the most definitely non-American adversary can be boldly put to the test this coming August.
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Battleship game and cultural phenomenon Kantai Collection has received a new 10cm nendoroid by Good Smile Company, this time capturing a cute and puchi side of familiar anthropomorphized 37,000 ton 36 gun battlecruiser Kongo (“indestructible,” explaining why it was sunk by a US sub in 1945), and decked out with an armament of deadly weapons to reinforce the fleet in August.
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The first glimpse of Kantai Collection‘s much anticipated anime adaptation has sailed into view in the form of character designs for three ships – bearing a suspiciously if not promisingly close resemblance to the style which propelled another mecha-musume anime to victory.
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Devoted followers of the hastily growing moe battleship game Kantai Collection will likely be interested in this newly released 22cm Yukikaze figure by FunnyKnights, with Yukikaze shown in her signature seifuku and armed to the teeth with her trusty spotting binoculars in hand; the figure will be ready to scout ahead for opposing fleets this July.
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DMM’s battleship moe mega-blockbuster Kantai Collection is reputedly the (only) reason Microsoft’s Windows tablets enjoy a 15% market share in Japan where elsewhere they languish under Google’s boot with a pathetic 2%.
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The ever increasing popularity of moe anthropomorphized battleship game Kantai Collection has roused further interest in otaku, leading them on a journey to the Maizuru Naval Arsenal Shipyard where Shimakaze‘s impressively equivalent WWII battleship was constructed.
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Narrowly avoiding wintery wipeout from the record-breaking blizzard which carpeted Kanto the day before, Wonder Festival 2014 Winter has gone off without a hitch, showing off all the gorgeous figures due to hit stores over the coming year.
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