Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27057904-20160504042316/@comment-27611520-20161009191221

Chiara25 wrote: @Kitsune-no-kamisama

Well,  I myself am not a fan of foreign swords fighting to guard Japanese history. But what I want and what the devs might do are completely different things...

Kancolle was all Japanese ships at first, and then they added Axis powers ships (German and Italian ships). All the important battlefields in Kancolle are based on well-known battles during WW2 (i.e. Axis vs Allied). Surely it doesn't make sense for the devs to add Allied powers' ships in the players' dock, right? I mean, that's basically making an Allied ship fighting a battle on the Axis side, right? Didn't stop the devs from implementing these girls though. And yes, this is a different game with different developer that just happens to be hosted in the same site. I'm just making an example of how seemingly "unjustified" settings won't stop the devs from implementing it.

I'm getting off-track. Let's get back to talking about swords, shall we?

The numbering we see so far is like: Tenka Goken and his clan-member(s) -> swords with at least another clan-member in-game -> swords with no clan-member in-game. What sword can be positioned higher than Tenka Goken? Either the oldest Japanese sword still around (Kogarasumaru) OR the legendary sword known as one of the Imperial Regalias of Japan (Kusanagi). At least that's what I thought because back then I was not sure if they're going to implement a sword of myths inside the game, but after seeing Imatsuru-chan's kiwame... *sobs*

So I'd also bet on Kusanagi for 1-2 and Kogarasumaru might be somewhere in between Shishiou and Doudanuki or somewhere after Otegine (or not implemented at all and this is just a missed guess).

But we might even be wrong and 1-2 turns out to be Doujigiri, who knows *shrugs*

Uhm, I think you might mean Onimaru Kunitsuna of Awataguchi being the one in between Nikkari and Nakigitsune? ^^

I doubt Doujigiri will have a brother-sword in game due to the numbering we've seen so far--he's most likely connected with Ookanehira only (being the swords Yokozuna of east and west).

I'm not completely sure about Yamanbagiri Chougi showing up, but I do hope he'll get implemented so we can see him interacting with Manba. And since Manba is a replica of him, it's possible that they look alike in-game, which makes for a lot of inteeeeresting headcanons. And who knows, he might even be a very-positive type of character, or an emo-type of character!

63-64 is definitely a Muramasa sword, no doubt.

Oh, you mean Iowa-chan, don't you? xD She sure makes things awkward at for Admiral-sama at the base. I can't imagine how the girls she sunk would react if they learned that she of all vessels was to blame for their reoccurring nightmares~ You're aware that regardless of their side during the Second World War that each and every girl included in KanColle were either present or in ship-shape when the naval battles transpired. Furthermore, WWII was a global conflict, not a domestic one. Unlike the Retrograde Army, the Abyssal Forces don't discriminate between Allied and Axis ships: their concern is for whether or not a craft is manned/afloat.

Argh... I totally meant Onimaru Kunitsuna! >< (Note to self: stop posting in the wee hours of the morn!) Yeah. I suppose Doujigiri Yasutsuna might go after Yagen--well, if he's member of the Kobizen school or a collaboration piece between the Bizen and Osafune. (Is he? I can't remember off the top of my head.)

I don't see why Kogarasumaru couldn't find his way to the back of the listing (even if I'm still holding out hope for Raikiri. orz)