作者：Morgane

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[Mail Call] 2017/03/25 – Chimes Edition

by Morgane 2017年3月26日

“What kind of music does the shipgirls like?”

Can I add my opinion?

Sure, Lou. Go ahead.

Okay. I really like the sound of wind chimes. 

Oh?

Yeah. Chimes, bells, that sort of thing. You know what’s beautiful about them is that they’re a little like how this world is today. They may be created by human hands, but it takes nature to utilize them to their full potential. All she has to is breath upon them, and music instantly joins the whispering wind. 

Without nature, the bells will never ring.

Yet, without humanity, the bells would never have existed in the first place.

It’s… something great, isn’t it? 

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[Mail Call] 2017/03/24 – Pearl Harbor Details

by Morgane 2017年3月25日

“Why does Nevada talk about clearing the channel in her profile? I mean why isthis an accomplishment??”

(I’m gonna start tagging with the historical inspirations and stuff later since this one gets into actual history)

I work with primary sources frequently and that’s the details you get sometimes. The Nevada happens to be fully loaded for exercises that was scheduled to begin tomorrow. It’s a literal powder keg with the extra ammo lying around. The officer that I read from they had to remove the 14” shells by hand, round by round, bit by bit, to make sure she doesn’t explode and block the channel for good since she was in shallow waters.

Add the fact that she was sank at the portion that is fairly narrow, and that the main munitions depot was very close by…

Think about it. Each 14” shell needs two bags of powder. There were 16” shells too. This isn’t accounting for the smokeless powders and all that other stuff. Nevada herself have hundreds shells on board and at least 1400 shells reserved for her at the depot. If they did things badly and she blew up, it’d “blow the windows out of every house in Kansas” (his words, not mine)

Of course, it got done in record time and obviously no accidents occurred. So I think it’s definitely an accomplishment.

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[Mail Call] 2017/03/23 – Outfit Design Edition

by Morgane 2017年3月24日

Sune here. It’s the beginning of spring break for many. We are busier around now as the team travels or slowly recuperates or in my case doing overtime for work.

Today’s question is a not so serious one. Someone asked me why is it that the Japanese shipgirls are heavier in fanservice in Pacific than the American ones.

My first answer is that they are not particularly more scantily clad than roughly a good 1/3rd of the Pacific cast. I happen to like sexy girls and think it is good to make them appealing to the eye.

My second answer is that I think it fits the characters. What a character is wearing says a lot about their personalities. Out of the ones shown almost all are fairly loud and energetic. Zao is prone to dramatic trolling so it works fine. To me it makes more sense to make their outfits be bold. In the times we live in to be bold means to show a little more skin than you would expect.

My third answer is that for many cases, it is a traditional Japanese thing to wear. While the fundoshi is a traditionally male garment it works well for a girl because it has the potential to be a sexy thong or loincloth. Pacific’s focus is on the American girls and I want to use motifs that is not entirely centered around the kimono to emphasize their Japaneseness.

Finally I have one really good answer. Because.

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[Mail Call] 2017/03/22 – Cardboard Enterprise Edition

by Morgane 2017年3月23日

“Hey Morgane, is the cardboard Enterprise for sale?”

No.

“If so, how big is it? How much is it? Can you ship to South Dakota?”

Er… I think we only made one of those. I can ask if we can ship something else to South Dakota?

(Sorry, I can’t upload to wordpress or our Chinese contraption, so this’ll have to do)

She’s about that big? In other words,probably not that much smaller than how tall she’d be normally?