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@ftahgn on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-04-16T07:30:53-04:00

Just noticed Portland's Indy doll is impaled on her cheek with blood and all that.

@T34/38 on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-04-15T09:03:12-04:00

BarefeetChaser said:

@NNescio This series is being uploaded, and hopefully we'll get a whole set soon.
Would like to use your translation as template. You worked the first one of the series (on Danbooru, that is) after all.

EDIT: Also, seeing this strip is actually the 177th of the series, I wanted to link this comment section and all that stuff when the actual #1 strip is uploaded.
As for the name of this series, I'd go for Azur Lane For Dummies.

That is a good title.

Glad that it is somehow easy to find the artist in weibo.

@BarefeetChaser on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-04-15T08:25:00-04:00

@NNescio This series is being uploaded, and hopefully we'll get a whole set soon.
Would like to use your translation as template. You worked the first one of the series (on Danbooru, that is) after all.

EDIT: Also, seeing this strip is actually the 177th of the series, I wanted to link this comment section and all that stuff when the actual #1 strip is uploaded.
As for the name of this series, I'd go for Azur Lane For Dummies.

@laisy on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-03-08T06:11:21-05:00

Dandge said:

No sauce on the pic, and Artist no sauce too...

How am I supposed to enjoy the remaining 176(And probably more)...?

T34/38 said:

Likely on a CN site. Finding it is gonna be a pain though.

Luckily, this is posted on Weibo, which means the watermark of their usernames is always on the pictures.
His weibo ID is 偷菜佬TC
Weibo link:https://weibo.com/toucailao

Tried editing the pic source, but not sure if I did it right

@T34/38 on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-03-08T06:00:07-05:00

Dandge said:

No sauce on the pic, and Artist no sauce too...

How am I supposed to enjoy the remaining 176(And probably more)...?

Likely on a CN site. Finding it is gonna be a pain though.

@Dandge on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-03-08T05:38:22-05:00

No sauce on the pic, and Artist no sauce too...

How am I supposed to enjoy the remaining 176(And probably more)...?

@BarefeetChaser on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-03-05T18:46:11-05:00

As a matter of fact, "舰B" does not really came with the mocking manner now, it's a simple reference to the Chinese service provider of Azur Lane: Bilibili.com.

However, the mocking tone of this name is not completely lost, although Azur Lane fans now care little about it.
Back in the days before Azur Lane was born, KanColle was basicially dominating the market, while Warship Girls R was trying hard to catch on. At that time, KanColle was mockingly being referred as 舰女人(KanWomen / ShipBitches), differentiating from the real business threatening KanColle ripoff: Touken Ranbu, AKA KatanaMen. Warship Girls R was really never that big of a threat to KanColle.
Feud between KanColle and Warship Girls R fans is quite a long standing matter. For every single fan who plays both games for different kinds of fun, there are at least five other die hard fans who despise KanColle or Warship Girls R and its entire player base. When Azur Lane hit the market, it was only natural that it would face severe hostility from fans of other titles, mainly die hard KanColle fans. Check post #2746871 for a common KanColle enthusiast reaction, albeit not in Chinese, but the malicious tone is pretty much the same. The phrase 舰C and 舰R were allegedly invented around this time, differentiating two games from each other while acknowledging their ship-themed nature.
Azur Lane practically set sail in the booing of KanColle fans, and was first referred as BLHX (Azur Lane in pinyin: Bi Lan Hang Xian). This was soon abandoned because Granblue Fantasy, who already enjoys rather high popularity in China, is also being referred as BLHX (Granblue Fantasy in pinyin: Bi Lan Huan Xiang, although GBF is the more common reference name). At this time, the war of words had already erupted between fans, and the phrase 舰B was allegedly invented by KanColle fans as an insult, while Azur Lane fans adopted 舰女人 as a comeback, and invented the phrase 轴C (as in Axis Collection, for obvious reason) for extra spice. After Azur Lane's hit in both China and Japan, its fans reverse adopted the phrase 舰B as both a differentiating reference, and a mild mockery of all those hostilities in the past.

Mind you, all these "wars" are the behavior of only a small portion of die hard fans. There are people who enjoy these games for no other reason than having fun, and there are people who enjoy two or even all three games, for the different kinds of artwork and gameplay mechanic they offer.

@NNescio on post #3433772 (belfast, queen elizabeth, warspite, portland, indianapolis, and 1 more (azur lane) drawn by toucailao)

2019-03-05T12:00:08-05:00

Looking kinda Sakuya there, Bel.

Also ~~First-Class Lady~~ Queen of England (lol).

Edit: And seems like the author is from Guangdong (or Hong Kong/Macau), judging by some particular choices of vocabulary in the comic.

Edit2: Wait, there are people calling Azur Lane 舰B? That's... mean.

(Roughly, Kanbitches [贱婢], Kanripoff, KanBiliBili, etc. The term was coined back during the 70W fiasco, when Chinese pirates bribed Baidu admins to take over several Chinese Kancolle fansites to point users to a private server version of Kancolle. Said private server version got called 舰B. After that incident, Chinese users would also use 舰B to refer to any game they perceive as a Kancolle ripoff. For some reason Azur Lane still got stuck with this epithet, but genuine fans also seem to use the term in an affectionate self-mocking manner.

Note that Chinese users also use 舰[Insert Letter] to refer to shipgirl games in the style of Kancolle. Kancolle is 舰C (the first one coined, from 舰Collection), Warship Girls is 舰N，Warship Girls R is 舰R, and so on. )

@BarefeetChaser
Would appreciate some fact-checking for the above paragraphs in case I got anything wrong.