I am the queen of watching bad anime.
Admittedly, yes, I did watch all of Super Sonico The Animation, and three entire seasons of Zero no Tsukaima. Those were both horrible anime, but Sonico was really cute and … I can’t even think of a justification for ZnT.
Keep that in mind when I say Kantai Collection was bad, like really bad. I had high expectations when the anime adaptation was announced. I was excited for the glorious animation of fight scenes between these cute personified battleship girls as well as a thrilling plot about them taking down baddies.
What I was given was a slice-of-life anime about a girl who can’t fight very well and how she struggles to learn how to battle while discovering neat lessons about her comrades along the way — boring and lame.
I didn’t really know what the show was about. I just knew that I wanted Shimakaze. This character is the best girl in the whole series. Known for her skimpy outfit and huge head bow, Shimakaze has tons of merchandise just from the game alone.
She’s arguably the most popular KanColle girl. I fell in love with her before I even knew what the show was about. I even almost blew more than $100 on a figure of her. She is my anime waifu.
I was incredibly disappointed to find out that she only had short cameos in each episode. She hardly even had any lines.
I came for the Shimakaze and only got a boring brunette protagonist who can’t control her abilities. Maybe that made me salty about the anime, but I couldn’t stay awake watching it. I fell asleep before the second episode even ended. Even coming from the queen of bad anime, this anime was bad.
Will I pick it back up? Probably not, unless Shimakaze starts to play an actual role in the show. Kantai Collection is watchable via Crunchyroll’s simulcasts if you want to try it out, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
