
DMM’s plans for a follow-up to it enormously popular Kantai Collection have surfaced by way of a quiet trademark application, for “Oshiro Collection” – “Castle Collection.”
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With the rising tide of Kantai Collection’s anthropomorphic popularity, Max Factory have seen to creating a 13cm Shimakaze figma, showing off her usual alluringly low-cut skirt and partially visible pantsu, due May.
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To honor the new year, multitudes of otaku have made pilgrimages to Shinto shrines for the privilege of scrawling (and in some cases, elegantly sketching) their wishes upon ema, (small wooden votive plaques) with the majority of their divine prayers being anime-centric – as is now classic Japanese tradition.
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Kantai Collection’s flagship FamilyMart store has made quite a splash on launch – putting even most anime stores to shame with the intensity of its livery and the profusion of goods on display.
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An “ultimate” (perhaps as in “final”) tie-up between the mouldering Lucky Star franchise and the shiny new Kantai Collection franchise has just put to sea, in the form of a Gamers Konata-Shimakaze crossover cover, with a Prisma Illya cover for Animate for good measure.
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Shimakaze, the flagship moe destroyer of social card game Kantai Collection, gets a new Nendoroid thanks to Good Smile Company, who plan her launch for late March 2014.
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WWII mecha-musume megahit Kantai Collection (“Battleship Collection,” or KanKore) is finally getting both an anime and handheld release.
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