#Azur Lane EN

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☆ Shimakaze // Azur Lane "The White Rabbit of Wonderland" ☆ F:Nex / 1/7 / FuRyu ☆ August 2025 ¥27,500 ☆ Sculpt Sakaki Kaoru / Honobo Yukotogaketo / ene Paint Takeuchi Ham

[callmeteci]

Black Friday Weeks everywhere, big Steam Autumn Sale and then there is what i bought...

All just for a future video!! I promise. ;D

[uss-edsall]

It's genuinely just bizarre the relation Kant-O-Celle Quest has with the rest of the English kancolle fanfic writing fandom (this is primarily a spacebattles/sufficient velocity thing, mind you).

I'd honestly, genuinely, phrase it as that for some time, EN KanColle fanfics were based not on the game, but on the 4chan quest based on the game, even if the author of the fanfic didn't know or read the 4chan quest.

Bare in mind that KanColle has very little worldbuilding or story, even with having several games (KC itself and KC Arcade), two anime seasons and a movie. It predates gacha games having a lot of story. There's a couple official mangas, but they're dubiously canon and don't usually have something to say about KC's universe. Any other official KC stuff that might be helpful for worldbuilding stuff has never been translated from Japanese into English. So English KC stuff has been essentially up to the reader/watcher/gamer to interpret and come up with stuff.

Enter Kant-O-Celle Quest in January 2015. This is about a year and a half into the game being out, and a year after it really got popular in English circles. The quest would die an ignominious death in January 2017, the writer having clearly been going through the motions for several threads before dropping it mid-plotline. Its existence spanned the time of KanColle's maximum popularity to a little before the release of Azur Lane (May 2017), which would drown KC due to DMM/KDKW refusing to let it become an international game, allowing Azur Lane to replace it in the international world.

Anyway, back to KCQ, Deme as a writer was ok at best. One thing he did decently was build, and what he built was, "modern world surprised by the abyssals; abyssals defeat modern ships with weird eldritch juju; shipgirls can effectively fight back; shipgirls appear spontaneously or are summoned in a shinto ritual; America has a guy named Admiral Richardson and Japan has a guy named Captain/Admiral Goto."

These are elements that are in almost every single EN fanfic on SB or other sites. KCQ really does feel like it set the baseline of the fandom. The thing is, this is true even if someone didn't read KCQ, because every other 'foundational' story was written by people who'd read KCQ.

Only relatively recently have KC fanfics, outside of crossovers, started to branch out and possibly show other concepts than that. This is in part because KCQ is now old enough that the people who read KCQ have not written KC fanfics in five or six years, their last gasps being around COVID. The people now writing KC didn't read KCQ, and haven't read most of the popular fanfics that had used its worldbuilding as a springboard.

[lilirot]

So, the whole situation with NTT, NTT West, NTT Solmare and Obey Me! seems to be: (Preface the Company structure is NTT > NTT West > Solmare > Shall We Date/Obey Me) NTT West is under performing and they were told by NTT that they have to get their shit together and specifically called out Solmare as a means in which they can increase growth for NTT West. Now Solmare has seemingly in a desire to earn more money decided to stop development on Obey Me! games as a whole (in part because they aren't doing well financially) and move their focus into Gal Games (with a new browser game Fantome Rapport, and a seeming revival of Moe!Ninja Girls). Those so far are mostly the facts. Opinions/Speculation below:

It is possible they may revive older otome titles (Most likely Wizardess Heart) but it seems very unlikely at the moment. They already shut down Story Jar. Frankly, I think they were trying to move away from otome for a while. The lacking romance in NB might have very well been trying to steer it into more Joseimuke territory, which considering that some of the top earning Joseimuke games are also Rhythm games (Enstars, and Idolish7) or have notable rhythm game elements (Twisted Wonderland) seems in line with NB being a rhythm game too. How will this go for Solmare? Who knows. Moe!Ninja Girls had a fanbase but it's been four years since they stopped content for the game. Fantome Rapport is a as-of-now japan-only browser title + audio drama series that they're definitely getting well-established VAs behind (the VA for Jolyne Kugo, and Paimon (Genshin) are both cast as side characters). The Gal Game genre (Boy x Girl, or even just "gooner bait") is very broad and absolutely stacked with competition. Like DMM.com already has cornered it with browser-based games (and they have porn) in japan. There is Nutaku for EN. DLsite and Erolabs are even more competition in that space. There is also Azur Lane, Blue Archive, Nikke: Goddess of Victory, Girl's Frontline 2, and plenty of other smaller titles (like Crush Crush). Visual Novels are not as popular as other game genres amongst Gal Games. They are popular ones but they tend to do better as non-mobile experiences. Also, Katawa Shoujo exists and is free. Meanwhile, the Otome, and Joseimuke genres are under served. Especially in NA. Like, Love and Deepspace isn't earning Genshin money because people don't like otome. If they were smart, and really didn't want to keep making Otome games; they'd try to tap both markets with a more inclusive game/series that aimed at both and male and female players with romance. There are games that kinda there (Genshin Impact/Honkai Star Rail/ZZZ, Wuthering Waves, Granblue Fantasy) but they all lack on romance (they also tend to lean more towards a male audience). As far as SWD/Obey Me dev's future; They're actually fighting for their life right now (figurative). They better have a real good plan for whatever they plan to continue OM with because I don't doubt for a minute that Solmare will nuke OM from existence if they don't start earning more/enough. So, like, remember to archive everything! Ex and Bee is also up in the air as their only other kinda-sorta otome project. There was at least a sign of life from the twitter account but at the moment no news on what's next.

[teecupangel]

I've been playing Reverse 1999 for about 3 days now absolutely because of the announcement that they're doing a collab with Assassin's Creed so I figured I would make this for those curious to play Reverse 1999 for the collab.

Before anything, this isn't a comprehensive guide. This is merely my experience and my tips as a 'veteran' gacha player (also a veteran "welp, we're starting this game while the current event is gonna end, guess we're going to accelerate our progress to try and clear it before it goes away lol" gacha player)

Should I try Reverse 1999 even if there's no AC collab? ... You should try it but it is a gacha game so be wary of the 'summon' mechanics because that is gambling with better rates than a casino. The story is pretty good especially if you like time travel and the gameplay is alright (there's also autobattle later on). the EN dub is awesome as well with lots of characters speaking their native language (like French and Russian) and have accents based on where they're from (the game is primarily set in Europe). If you're just here for the AC collab, you can skip the story but I would suggest at least going through the 1st main story to see if you enjoy Reverse 1999. Be warned though... this game is very angst-filled XD

When is the AC collab going to start? There have been no official date. There's a twitter post that says early 2025 so my best guess is before or during the first week of release of AC Shadows to promote the game (Feb 2025)

Will it be an event with playable characters or just skins? No idea. This is the first global event of Reverse 1999. Usually, gacha games that are released globally a year or so after the first server (like Blue Archive, Punishing Gray Raven... for now, Azur Lane before they integrated all servers to name a few), we would have a head's up using the first server's past events and collabs. This is a global collab though so there is no information at the moment. There is a possibility that this is just skins which would be sad. Only delivering skins after that teaser? ... Well... there's gonna be backlash for sure.

What should we prepare then? I would suggest preparing for the worst case scenario: 2 separate banners for Ezio and Kassandra as 6 star characters.

There's a possibility it will be a 1 banner with Ezio as a 6 star character together with Alexios and Kassandra as 5 star characters but I doubt they'd go down that route tbh.

There's also the possibility that they'd do 1 banner with Ezio and Kassandra in it as 6 stars characters like this:

This is the worst-worst case scenario because I cannot confirm if this setup will remove the other choice if you already have it (aka: if you pulled Kassandra, it's a guarantee that you'll pull Ezio as your next 6 star). If this is what happens, we shall have to pray to the RNGods.

Pity starts at 60 and guarantee is at 70 with a chance to lose the first one (if you get a 6 star that isn't the rate up character, let's say Ezio for this example, then your next 6 star will be Ezio) which means our worst case scenario would 140 pulls (losing the 6 star at 70).

So if we go for our worst case scenario of separate banners for Ezio and Kassandra, we'd need 280 pulls before or during the event.

Can this be done? Maybe. XD

The next banner which will start this week is approximated to give 100 pulls for everyone but that does assume that you'll finish the next event (which means you'd have to have good characters) and that you do the dailies and weeklies for the entirety of the event. The AC event should also give free pulls and, if it does include it's own event, then it should give pulls as well by clearing the event. I cannot confirm how much though. The other pulls you might need will have to come from the main story content and the beginner bonuses but I'm not going to calculate that XD

Note that you need to build your characters to clear the events so make use of all the free candies that give extra stamina to speed up the process.

So what can we do to save up? Use free characters to clear content which is absolutely doable.

Here is my current team:

You only need to focus on 3 characters with the 4th character lagging behind. A main damage dealer (Eagle, who is free), a support (Sonetto, who is also free) and a healer (mine is Yenisei which I got by pulling BUT there is a free healer which you'll get on your 8th day of login so you can build her instead)

There's also this (from reddit):

Yenisei is in the 5 star selector so you can get her there. I read that the 6 star selector can only be picked if you've played for an entire year but I have no idea where it's from, so yeah, no getting our hopes up for that one hahahaha.

Build those three and you should have an alright time to clear the main story content and the events.

(this is for a f2p experience btw, you can buy stuff that can grant additional pulls in game but, if you really want to and you can take the hit, my suggestion is to buy the Roaring Month which grants 90 drops for 30 days as long as you log in daily, 1 pull = 180 drops so an additional of 15 pulls, anything else can ranged from a bit scummy to "this is a scam")

[pumpkin-paipai]

Sisterly Bonding Time with Howe and PoW

My entry for the Azur Lane 6th EN Anniversary art contest!

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[postoctobrist]

us navy uniform tiara girl smoking???

(sorry for the crazy url)

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me playing Azur Lane, getting Ark Royal as my first Super Rare, being really taken by her aesthetic, her carrying me for months, and becoming really fond of her:

me finding out anything about her lore or personality:

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533  -  Eldridge (Azur Lane)

23/12/23

[himecommunism]

my personal favorite absurdly miniscule fact is that the JP->EN translator for azur lane of all things is an extremely hardcore "fucking liberals"-ass leftist

just, the disconnect

[justiceb68]

Azur Lane 5th EN Anniversary Event

[sleepyhead-poll]

ROUND 1 INFORMATION

Thank you for your patience! I have finished making the match-ups for Round 1 which will be under the cut. A little information first.

Round 1 will be posted between Friday, January 19th and Thursday, January 25th. It will be split between 4 sets, each set being posted on a different day. There will be a total of 128 participants (32 participants in each individual set) divided in 64 polls (16 polls in each individual set). By the end of Round 1, 64 participants will make it to Round 2 while the rest will be sent to the Shadow Realm where their souls will be tormented for eternity. All polls will be queued between 12 PM EST and 1 PM EST of the day it has been assigned. Each poll will last a week.

I've double checked everything but I am only human, so if you notice any errors or have any questions, the ask box is open :)

ROUND 1A (Will be posted on Friday, 19th of January)

Tanaka (Tanaka-kun is Always Listless) vs. Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga (Azumanga Daioh)

Sanada Ryu (Kimi ni Todoke) vs. Ritsuka Uenoyama (Given)

Yumemi Nemu (Vocaloid) vs. Yokune Ruko (UTAUloid)

Ritsu Sakuma (Ensemble Stars) vs. Konoe Kanata (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)

Tsukasa Hiiragi (Lucky Star) vs. Snoozer (Hamtaro)

Yoshihito Usaida (Gakuen Babysitters) vs. Chayanne (QSMP)

Koshiba Kiri (Beauty Pop) vs. Yuuya Amane (Nukoduke!)

Panda (Polar Bear Cafe) vs. Towa Motosu (World Dai Star)

Jeff (The Wiggles) vs. Takenaka Hanbei (Samurai Warriors)

PJ Berri (Parappa the Rapper) vs. Budwin (Papa Louie)

Meguru Bachira (Blue Lock) vs. Nagi Seishiro (Blue Lock)

Judai Yuki (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) vs. Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sleepy Gary (Rick and Morty) vs. Sleepy Ernst (Destroy All Humans)

Vivia Twilight (Master Detective Archives: Rain Code) vs. Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair)

Snoopy (Charlie Brown) vs. Garfield (Garfield)

Peppermint Patty (Charlie Brown) vs. Shari (Wayside School)

ROUND 1B (Will be posted on Sunday, 21st of January)

Takane Enomoto (Kagerou Project) vs. Kuro / Sleepy Ash / Sloth (Servamp)

Howard Philips Lovecraft (Bungo Stray Dogs) vs. Saiko Yonebayashi (Tokyo Ghoul:re)

Belphegor (Obey Me! Shall we Date?) vs. Nanaki Kazuaki (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Kyoutarou Shuzenji (Cute High Earth Defense Club HAPPY KISS!) vs. En Yufuin (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Hotaru Yura (Magia Record) vs. Hyp (Touhou: Fantastic Danmaku Festival 2)

Hisoka Mikage (A3!) vs. Meitenkun (King of the Fighters)

Clorica (Rune Factory 4) vs. Mint (My Time at Portia)

Priscilla (Rune Factory 5) vs. Ryker (Rune Factory 5)

Dreamer / Protagonist (Melatonin) vs. Madotsuki (Yume Nikki)

Hypnos (Hades) vs. Clovis (Percy Jackson)

Talon (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) vs. Towtow (Super Smash Bros.)

Link (Legend of Zelda) vs. Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Shota Aizawa / Eraser Head (My Hero Academia) vs. Olruggio (Witch Hat Atelier)

Shikamaru Nara (Naruto) vs. Agares Picero (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Mr. Zzz (Batman) vs. Vooshvazool's Bat (The Neverending Story)

Enrico Pollini (Rat Race) vs. Unconscious Argentinean (Moulin Rogue)

ROUND 1C (Will be posted on Tuesday, 23rd of January)

Portgas D Ace (One Piece) vs. Denjiro Kyoshiro (One Piece)

Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) vs. Sans (Undertale)

Dino (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) vs. Midnight (Fairytale)

Ahito (Galactik Football) vs. Sloth (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Nemurin (Magical Girl Raising Project) vs. Laffey (Azur Lane)

Bedman (Guilty Gear) vs. Noelle (NieR Reincarnation)

Nemu (Haibane Renmei) vs. Sunny (Omori)

Siffrin (In Stars and Time) vs. Snoozing Carpenter (Sky: Children of the Light)

Aurora Sya Lis Goodreste (Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle) vs. Jade Harley (Homestuck)

Sakuma Fueko (Watashi no Sekai o Kousei suru Chiri no you na nani ka) vs. Eve (Eaternal Nocturnal)

Sleepytime Tea Bear (Celestial Sleepytime Tea) vs. Elle (Crush Crush)

Sleepy (Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) vs. Hastings (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Sleeping Beauty (Shrek) vs. Briar Beauty (Ever After)

Silver (Twisted Wonderland) vs. Jing Beiyuan (Lord Seventh)

Ganyu (Genshin Impact) vs. Sayu (Genshin Impact)

Layla (Genshin Impact) vs. Wonderland Sekai Megurine Luka (Project Sekai: Colorful Stage)

ROUND 1D (Will be posted on Thursday, 25th of January)

Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) vs. Snorlax (Pokemon)

Slakoth & Slaking (Pokemon) vs. Slowpoke Evolution Line (Pokemon)

Komala (Pokemon) vs. Musharna (Pokemon)

Caitlin (Pokemon) vs. Dreaming Nemleria (Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG)

Noddy (Kirby) vs. Kirby (Kirby)

Gudetama (Sanrio) vs. Nemukko Nyago (Sanrio)

Number 6 Floof (Monster Hunter Stories) vs. Citrus (Otherworldly Ravenous Beast)

Espinas (Monster Hunter) vs. Rainforest Dragons / RainWing (Wing of Fire)

Lazy Smurf (The Smurfs) vs. Bedtime Bear (Care Bears)

Paddi (Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf) vs. Flower (Bambi)

Vampire Cookie (Cookie Run) vs. Dozer (Cookie Run)

Forde (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones) vs. Haar (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance)

Mitama (Fire Emblem: Fates) vs. Trec (Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade)

Mirabilis (Fire Emblem: Heroes) vs. Durin (Arknights)

Linhardt von Hevring (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) vs. Sothis (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Judd (Splatoon) vs. Ladybird (King of the Hill)

[thetanemoia]

Tagged by @juneboat, thank you!

I am not quite sure what we are doing but I saw a poll of Faves so here is mine

I am not exactly sure what this is for but I am tagging @mrboatface and @populationthree to do this too.

[fuze-forge]

Retrouvez Azur Lane: Crosswave sur Fuze Forge

Plongez dans l'action avec le jeu PC Azur Lane: Crosswave sur Fuze Forge ! Des combats épiques en haute mer vous attendent. Rejoignez la bataille et montrez vos compétences !

[lasnoticiasdevesko-blog]

Atago y Takao: 20-25 años de encanto en Azur Lane.

¡Disfruta su dulzura!

#AtagoTakao #AzurLane

[pumpkin-paipai]

Happy 5th Anniversary, Azur Lane EN!! 🎉

Featuring Claire Ross (my SKK OC), Plymouth, Implacable, Prince of Wales, and Hood

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[corporativoarcanos]

El Videojuego de Azur Lane una ves mas atrae las miradas por su nuevo Video de Sirius muy provocativo

Como sabemos el videojuego de Azur Lane se ha convertido en uno de los videojuegos free to play estilo gacha más populares que existen a día de hoy, siendo que en estos 7 años en los que se encuentra en el mercado ha logrado entregar una gran cantidad y variedad de contenido a los jugadores. Pero hace unos pocos días añadió una nueva función, en este caso el de invitar a nuestras chicas favoritas a nuestra habitación, con un nivel de detalle muy alto, pero muchos quedaron sorprendidos con una animación, en el que la “waifu” interactúa con un objeto al mejor estilo H. https://twitter.com/i/status/1839308915294744698 Con una de sus más recientes actualizaciones, el videojuego Azur Lane le dio la opción a los fanáticos de invitar a algunas de las “waifus” presentes en el juego a su habitación, esto con un modelado en 3D que sorprende, repleto de interacciones, ya sea con la misma chica, como con el entorno. Pero es que un fanático en X, compartió una de estas tantas animaciones, siendo que en este caso comenzó a generar un debate sobre si este juego está rozando el género H, y es que los movimientos realizados por la “waifu”, en este caso Sirus, han dejado a más de uno impactado. La animación en cuestión es la misma chica tomando un jarrón que se encuentra sobre una mesa, siendo que hasta ese momento nada raro parecería suceder, pero es luego, cuando comienza a inspeccionarla, que las cosas escalan en cuanto a “antojación”: ella comienza a jugar con la punta del jarrón, el cual justamente tiene una anatomía más que curiosa, para luego ir tocándolo desde varios otros lugares, inclusive acariciándolo o hasta realizando unos sonidos llamativos. Ante esto fueron muchos los que vieron el doble sentido en esta animación, la cual no enseña imágenes que se puedan tomar como H, pero que recuerda mucho lo visto dentro de este género.

Sirius De la franquicia de Azur Lane

Sirius De la franquicia de Azur Lane Ante esta publicación fueron miles los jugadores o usuarios que se encontró con la animación de Azur Lane los que comenzaron a debatir sobre este aspecto, siendo que los que se mostraron más a favor aceptaron y alabaron este tipo de comportamiento por parte de Azur Lane, inclusive esperan que más chicas lo hagan. Pero, por otro lado, esto fue demasiado para algunos, y es que en las últimas semanas el videojuego estuvo tocando unos niveles de “antojación” de los más altos, por lo que parecería que se quieren acercarse a convertirse en un juego H cada vez más. Y es que Azur Lane es un título que se ha destacado dentro del género gacha por contar con una gran cantidad de “waifus” las cuales con sus voluptuosos cuerpos lograron enamorar a más de un fanático, pero es que las skins que se estrenaron en el último tiempo se han vuelto cada vez más “rikolinas”. Ahora habrá que esperar para ver que camino toma Azur Lane, y sin en el futuro seguirán trayendo este tipo de interacciones tan llamativas o si este fue el punto máximo al que llegarán para no convertirse en un juego del género H. Fuente: Cuenta de X de kaitenkakumei Read the full article