Waterskating battleship girls

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About

Waterskating Battleship Girls is a name given to a upcoming anime adaptation of Kantai Collection, or KanColle, an online a Japanese free-to-play online card game,^[1] and it’s subsequent twitter fad.

Origin

On August 4th, 2014 6:20am EST, the official KanColle Twitter account announced that the anime’s preview had gone online^[6]. The video preview on the anime subsequently gained over one million views in less than three days^[5]. While the anime had been anticipated, due to the large Japanese fandom already surrounding the game, one particular scene caught attention. This shot originally shows up 55 seconds in the preview, featuring the Aircraft Carrier Akagi holing a bow while skating on the water.

By 7:00am EST of August 4th^[2], this screenshot from the preview of the began to be used as a template for numerous parodies emerging from the anitwitter subculture. Many parodies feature other characters from the Kantai Collection game, while others used various other popular characters, often from different anime.

艦これはシンフォギアのパクリ pic.twitter.com/MGyfYH0VNc
— ふろん (@fron_figu) 4 agosto 2014

まぁこうなるわな pic.twitter.com/LeEtF4uP7k
— Matu (@Matu834) 4 agosto 2014

Other versions also began to emerge on the Japanese art site Pixiv beginning on the same day as the preview release, under the tag “艦これPVパ” ^[3] while appearing on Nico Nico Segia under the tag “水上スキーコラ” ^[4]