admiral, shimakaze, akashi, yuubari, shiratsuyu, and 3 more (kantai collection) drawn by yua_(checkmate)

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    Fleet Journal 228

    Naval Base's Hanged Man ranking:
    1. Shimakaze
    2. Shiratsuyu
    3. Admiral

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    WhiteCrow
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    sammyG said:

    Also, didn't the "Re-class" in this manga series had her own character tag? I wondered how and why that tag was deleted.

    You can search them by hayase_ruriko_(yua). I'm not sure this was the right decision, but I thought it was more consistent than the Re-class getting this tag. (You can see who the tag actually refers to in the search results)
    AFAIK Danbooru tagging standard is about "who you see", not "who it actually is on the inside". Like in body swaps. So my opinion on this is that we shouldn't use the same tag for both "actual" Ruriko and this Re-class, but either make a new tag or just use re-class_battleship for now.

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    ezekill
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    Something tells me... she won't be a happy camper about how the brass left them to die, Reiji nearly dying, the guys they know are gone, and might blame the shipgirls about why they 'took so long' to fight the abyssals due to memory lapse... despite by all intents and purposes her biological being is now shipgirl per se

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    Garrus
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    WhiteCrow said:

    AFAIK Danbooru tagging standard is about "who you see", not "who it actually is on the inside". Like in body swaps. So my opinion on this is that we shouldn't use the same tag for both "actual" Ruriko and this Re-class, but either make a new tag or just use re-class_battleship for now.

    Problem here is she now lacks almost every identifiable characteristic of the Re-Class Battleship. Tail's gone, clothing is gone, weaponry is gone. All we can tell is she has white hair, pale skin, and... that's it, since her eye color has not been confirmed to stay the same as a Re-Class Battleship. None of the remaining traits are unique to Re-Class Battleship, and are in fact shared in that combination by many abyssals. At least Sakiymiya's version from Level 1 Zuikaku has a scar where her tail was amputated, and dresses similarly to her original incarnation, making the connection obvious. Even the Wo-Class from the same series dresses in a way that evokes her rigging, complete with a beret in place of... whatever it is Wo-Class has on her head.

    Considering that, I think throwing her under Hayase_Ruriko or Hayase_Ruriko_(shipgirl) would be a better course of action, unless she gets disguised as some other shipgirl (Akitsu Maru, maybe?). Regardless, given her current state, I do not think she should be tagged as Re-Class Battleship as you would need meta knowledge to recognize she even was one in the first place.

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