About
The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica (Japanese: ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦, Jamaica Kara Yattekita Kongō-gata Ichibankan), also called as “Jamai-Kan” (ジャマイ艦) and “Jan-Gou” (ジャンゴウ or ジャン剛), refers to a fanmade fleet “guy” inspired by Kongou[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection. This funky Jamaican has played a conspicuous part in the KanColle fandom since October, 2013.
Origin
This character was born from an illustration posted to pixiv by user Jugem-T[2] on October 5th, 2013.[3] According to the descriptions of the post, his illustration titled “The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica” was inspired by a description in a popular Kancolle doujin book “Haruna[4] has so white skin”. He construed that it means the rest of the Kongō-class sisters are not fair skin, but are dark skin. And he had a flash of inspiration of this dark-skinned Kongō-class fleet “guy”.
Additionally, the creator also explained his characteristics in the descriptions:
- Calls the admiral as “Brother” or “Bro”.
- Sorties arming with a sound system instead of weapons and carrying a huge boombox on his shoulder
- Plays Reggae music during battles.
- Calls battles as “Sound Clash”
- Smokes marijuana at the dock, but never allows it to other fleet girls.
- Perhaps gets along well with Tenryuu.[5]
Spread
Inspired by that Jugem-T’s startling idea, a bot account of The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica was launched on Twitter on October 12th, 2013.[6] His funky Jamaican-English tweets based on the creator’s settings succeeded to earn over 12,000 followers in its first year, and led to substantial increase in illustrations in pixiv[7] and Nico Nico Seiga[8] and Miku Miku Dance[9] in Nico Nico Douga.[10]
In addition, cosplay costumes for The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica has been already released for both males and females in the following month[11], and cosplayers wearing it are often found on Comiket and doujin conventions dedicated to Kantai Collection.
Appeal from the Creator
The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica is sometimes received nonsensical criticisms from people who misunderstand him as a parody of Kongou or the Jamaican version of her. The twitter account has constantly tweet an appeal from the creator not to mix him up with the fleet girl.[12]
Translation:
Yah-man. I’m not Kongou. I AM THE 1ST BATTLESHIP OF THE KONGŌ-ClASS FROMJAMAICA. OK? DO NOTMIX UP, BRO.
Various Examples
Videos
Niconico 【MMD艦これ】金剛三姉妹でEVERYBODYNiconico [MMD] 金剛型5兄妹？で「Kiss me 愛してる」
Left: Moymoy Palaboy’s “Everbody” | Right: Cute – "Kiss Me Aishiteru"
Illustrations
Cosplays
Search Interest
External References
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[2]pixiv – 「Jugem-T」s Profile
[3]pixiv – 「ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型１番艦」/「Jugem-T」 / Posted on 10-05-2013
[6]Twitter – ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型１番艦 (@Jamaican_Kongo) / Launched on 10-12-2013 (Japanese)
[7]pixiv – Search results for the tag ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦
[8]Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦
[9]Nico Nico Seiga – 【MMD】ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型１番艦 Hey! So? セット追加 / PiT / Posted on 10-27-2013 (MMD model data, Japanese)
[10]niconico Douga – Search results for the tag ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦
[11]Amazon.co.jp – cos1051艦これ ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦 コスプレ衣装 (Japanese)
[12]pixiv – 「提督「ドロップでジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦出た」」/「Jugem-T」 / Posted on 11-02-2013