The Aleutian Islands are barely American but I get the idea. The real problem is that Hoppo-chan is essentially an enemy combatant and I don't think the Americans would want to consider her "one of us" in-universe, depending on what she's done. There's also the question of how she even came into being in the first place since that would have a significant role in interpreting laws concerning citizenship. All in all, we don't know enough to say for sure.
The Aleutian Islands are barely American but I get the idea. The real problem is that Hoppo-chan is essentially an enemy combatant and I don't think the Americans would want to consider her "one of us" in-universe, depending on what she's done. There's also the question of how she even came into being in the first place since that would have a significant role in interpreting laws concerning citizenship. All in all, we don't know enough to say for sure.
Alaska was a territory back in the 1940s. Purchased from Russia in the 1860s.
Waiiit, aren't the abyssals supposed to represent...
Allied battleships, right? These were also my thoughts when I saw Iowa officially being in Kantai Collection.
If you have played KanColle which I still don't now due to no official English translation or official wiki in English made by Kadokawa, it's player speculation that the Abyssals represent Allied ships and islands in Allied territories or else Iowa would had replaced Battleship Hime as a playable ship girl who's also a enemy combatant.
It's only 'tamer' cuz we ain't got many humans there, and for good reason. In fact, when the American commander in charge of defending the Aleutian Islands heard that the Japanese Navy was planning to launch an attack there, he was perplexed since he could not think of any reason why they would want that rathole. And his basic strategy was to just let them have it.
Allied battleships, right? These were also my thoughts when I saw Iowa officially being in Kantai Collection.
If you have played KanColle which I still don't now due to no official English translation or official wiki in English made by Kadokawa, it's player speculation that the Abyssals represent Allied ships and islands in Allied territories or else Iowa would had replaced Battleship Hime as a playable ship girl who's also a enemy combatant.
I think Kancolle is going with abyssals as corrupted/possessed shipgirls (or shipgirls as purified/recoverd abyssals), as the more recent abyssal ships resembling/has a shipgirl counterpart.
It's only 'tamer' cuz we ain't got many humans there, and for good reason. In fact, when the American commander in charge of defending the Aleutian Islands heard that the Japanese Navy was planning to launch an attack there, he was perplexed since he could not think of any reason why they would want that rathole. And his basic strategy was to just let them have it.
Though we did eventually engage in an equally farcical operation to retake it.
Honestly, if war weren't so tragic, it would be the most hilarious thing.
As far as who represents what in Kancolle, they can talk around the Abyssal Kanmusu, but there's no denying who the land installations are.
Unless the devs do some major retconning, the late-model Wos still have those Most Definitely Not Late War American planes.
What's there to retcon? The Abyss being made up of ships and bases from both sides of WW2 looks to be their origin now. CA Hime also shows that they use Axis equipment too, since she has the abyssal version of Zara's gun; It even has similar stats too, poor accuracy and all.
Unless the devs do some major retconning, the late-model Wos still have those Most Definitely Not Late War American planes.
If Iowa starts referring to "Chi-Class Anti-Aircraft Cruisers" or says that the CV Oni/Hime looks very different than from what she remembers, that may be enough of an explanation.
What's there to retcon? The Abyss being made up of ships and bases from both sides of WW2 looks to be their origin now. CA Hime also shows that they use Axis equipment too, since she has the abyssal version of Zara's gun; It even has similar stats too, poor accuracy and all.
When I first started playing Kantai Collection, I bought that the Abyssal ships were to represent the Allies. It made sense, np, especially with the ship girls all being representations of IJN ships (no Kriegsmarine yet).
Then came along Summer Event / Operation MI with new Abyssals that clouded that "Abyssals = Allies" line of thinking. Every event added more Abyssal bosses that ever increasingly alluded to an original IJN version. It's at a point right now where the Abyssals are a mixing pot. Just like the ship girls/players' fleets are (IJN/Kriegsmarine/Italian/USN).
