HSF? Why not Kantai Collection?

[Lithium]

its beyond obvious Kantai Collection is far more popular than the failed anime High School Fleet. these kinds of promotions is basically kicking a dead horse so why not promote KC then?

[Crim]

casue Kancolles devs and publishers are extremely anti western plus they are shipgirls
Hsf is cute girls on warships

[Lithium]

Originally posted by Maid Belfast:

casue Kancolles devs and publishers are extremely anti western plus they are shipgirls
Hsf is cute girls on warships

Originally posted by Maid Belfast:

casue Kancolles devs and publishers are extremely anti western plus they are shipgirls
Hsf is cute girls on warships

waddya mean theyre" anti western"? they arent stupid to destroy their whole project.

[Crim]

Originally posted by Lithium:

Originally posted by Maid Belfast:

casue Kancolles devs and publishers are extremely anti western plus they are shipgirls
Hsf is cute girls on warships

Originally posted by Maid Belfast:

casue Kancolles devs and publishers are extremely anti western plus they are shipgirls
Hsf is cute girls on warships

waddya mean theyre" anti western"? they arent stupid to destroy their whole project.

no what i mean about anti western is the way their business model works

[Ryuu]

I don't know the details and whether WG tried contacting Kancolle owners or not.

But my guesses:
1) Kancolle is itself foremostly an online game, that was ITSELF created as a promotion for DMM.com Japanese website. Doesn't make a lot of sense to lure players out of your game to another, does it? Anime was created much later.
2) Yeah, you can say they are anti-western: the game does not have any other language than Japanese and was only accessible through Japanese VPN/proxies. At least it was the case for a long time, maybe something has changed.
3) And like you said - it's already well-known in the West and popular, so there's little need to promote it further.

HSF and ARP are on the other hand purely anime fandoms AFAIK, they don't have official games, so makes sense to provide their fans some place where they can sail with their favorite characters on their favorite ships.

You'd have more luck asking Kancolle creators to make an 3D AAA online game

[Dizzo]

Kancolle is dead anyways... bring on the Azur Lane girls. :3

[Ryuu]

Why Western animation does not have anything with WW2-ships? :) Seems unfair that it's mostly girls and IJN ships.

[Fireteam]

Once again botegirls =/= warships.

Furthermore, let's say it did happen. What would the content entail?
A bunch of special commanders with special voice track for your IJN botes? A bunch of cancerous "camo" for your existing botes?

You're not going to get your botegirls in an arcade naval game.

Considering how heavy the emphasis KC has on the IJN it would be another wave of content focused on the IJN to an even more ridiculous degree than the Aoki Hagane collab.

Originally posted by Ryuu:

You'd have more luck asking Kancolle creators to make an 3D AAA online game :hee:

Yep, and they don't even have to make another game; literally port KC arcade to PC with a few changes and voila, unlimited free money for Tanaka and Kadokawa.

But
>Kadokawa doing good things and not being completely retarded
There's a higher chance of pigs flying.

Originally posted by JDS_mirai:

Kancolle is dead anyways... bring on the Azur Lane girls. :3

God bless, my brethren. E-chan 4life

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Springfield and the Admiral:

Once again botegirls =/= warships.

Did you forget collaboration with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio_of_Blue_Steel ? Those were also kinda "boatgirls" unlike HSF.

Considering how heavy the emphasis KC has on the IJN it would be another wave of content focused on the IJN to an even more ridiculous degree than the Aoki Hagane collab.

Well, i think Kancolle is not only focused on IJN, so we'd have a chance to see special ships/camos for other nations too instead of only IJN(aside from Spee).

Yep, and they don't even have to make another game; literally port KC arcade to PC with a few changes and voila, unlimited free money for Tanaka and Kadokawa.

Yeah, wouldn't mind trying it out.

[Fireteam]

Originally posted by Ryuu:

Originally posted by Springfield and the Admiral:

Once again botegirls =/= warships.

Did you forget collaboration with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio_of_Blue_Steel ? Those were also kinda "boatgirls" unlike HSF.

Botegirls are distinct in that they're anthropomorphised versions of actual ships.
So their main draw is that they emphasize the 'human' aspect, with the imagery of their equipment strongly alluding to the ship they reference.
We don't see the actual ship in practice; as they're botegirls.

The girls in Aoki Hagane are the actual ships Well in universe, AI, and they present themselves as WW2-era military warships for some reason themselves creating a wholly human construct.
I'd say the girls in Aoki Hagane overlap heavily between the botegirl and warship, stressing far more on the warship aspect.

[Ryuu]

I still don't see why would that prevent placing Kancolle girls into WoWs, that human avatar would be a captain with voiceover. I guess you mean that ships appearance(camouflage) would be totally made up since Kancolle does not show that aspect. Well, that's true. Still don't think it's a hard block.

Or they could be added simply as captains, but that's kinda meh. Mods are enough to change captain portraits and voiceover.

[Crashbreaker]

well, I don't need KanColle. I just need more ARP

[Sex Referee]

Well, i've hear that ARP was popular and i want Wargaming to bring it back but, I think HSF is a bit of a flop the only reason I bought the Graf (not the ultimate bundle mind u) was because it seemed like a nice ship (which it is I would recommend it). But the captains voice is so dang ANNOYING!! Plus I saw one episode of the anime it was terrible.