Could you even really hang a shipgirl? I'd like to think that the rope would snap and they would end up looking around with this look of "Sorry I didn't die just then".
As someone who loves Kirishima as his favorite shipgirl, this series makes me so conflicted.
On the one hand, she's shown as a total badass capable of single-handedly stopping whole navies.
On the other hand, she's portrayed as some sort of Rain Man "idiot savant", or a monster with a restraining bolt where she isn't capable of independent initiative until her sister tells her she's allowed to act upon her own ideas.
NWSiaCB said: On the other hand, she's portrayed as some sort of Rain Man "idiot savant", or a monster with a restraining bolt where she isn't capable of independent initiative until her sister tells her she's allowed to act upon her own ideas.
Sounds more like she respects Kongou's input and the chain of (familial) command. She offers her perspective and waits for an order to act.
Sounds more like she respects Kongou's input and the chain of (familial) command. She offers her perspective and waits for an order to act.
She does so to a robotic degree of inability to infer Kongou's actual intentions, however. Spoilers for stuff that happens later: Kongou tells her to "cool her head" in the lookout tower, so she stays up there all night until explicitly ordered to return. Kongou tells her to refrain from excessive violence or killing humans because of possible time warp problems, but when Kongou then sends her out to fight pirates, she refuses to actually FIGHT until Kongou explicitly countermands the "no hurting people" order... if your arbitrarily superior officer-by-birth-order tells you to fight, then don't you think any non-brain-damaged human would infer that meant actually hitting them is OK?
She does so to a robotic degree of inability to infer Kongou's actual intentions, however. Spoilers for stuff that happens later: Kongou tells her to "cool her head" in the lookout tower, so she stays up there all night until explicitly ordered to return. Kongou tells her to refrain from excessive violence or killing humans because of possible time warp problems, but when Kongou then sends her out to fight pirates, she refuses to actually FIGHT until Kongou explicitly countermands the "no hurting people" order... if your arbitrarily superior officer-by-birth-order tells you to fight, then don't you think any non-brain-damaged human would infer that meant actually hitting them is OK?
... Am I the only one who interpreted that as simply being the result of crushing guilt after Kongou - the big sister that she idolized and whom she probably assumed would've approved of her actions up until then - severely dressed her down for coming too close for comfort to using excessive force against the human soldiers (because of the time paradox risks)? She seemed like she believed she was walking on eggshells from that point on, and thus decided to follow Kongou's commands to the letter to avoid disastrous consequences of her making the wrong decision if she took the initiative.
Hmm... looks like this has something to do with the Abyssal ships...What do you think of a plan to stop that ship and save this town from danger?As expected!Now, quickly, your command.What is it, Kirishima?Kirishima...Yes, I'm only waiting for your approval, onee-sama.I have already taken that into consideration.Yes, if it keeps sailing this way...But this rope is still a problem.By the way, onee-sama, I just thought of something.