Azur Lane - A Journal (Doujinshi)

[ThisIsAGoodUsername]

@TrueGoddessReincarnation
Unicorn canonically has certain yandere tendencies, the emote where she sharpens ugean's horn on a whetstone is indicative of that. Furthermore, Atago's yandereness isn't one derived from wanting to kill others off, but rather to ensure that her loved one faces no difficulties as best she can manage it. Her extraction of the commander from the base onto their little getaway boat is her way of making sure the commander has nothing to worry about by removing her from the root cause of the problem: her inability to be stern when managing a fleet, by removing her from the fleet.

 

[TrueGoddessReincarnation]

@ThisIsAGoodUsername, Atago is a possessive older sister type at best. Unicorn has one edgy expression at best that doesn't automatically make her a yandere.

 

[ThisIsAGoodUsername]

@TrueGoddessReincarnation

Oh no muh characters aren't conforming to their one-dimensional canonical stereotypes this manga suuuuuuuuuuucks

The representation of Atago here is the natural conclusion of her personality archetype when applied to the circumstances of the story, her character motivations check out and the course of action taken seems entirely consistent with that motivation. Unicorn being possessive is definitely a bit of a stretch but note entirely derived from thin air, there does remain canonical basis.

 

[starburst98]

The main issue I have is the commander is made so incompetent seeming that I cannot figure out how they gained command in the first place. You need to be at least somewhat capable in order to gather these characters, to be good enough to do that but simultaneously bad enough that it falls apart is a contradiction.

 

[MangaFan10001]

I love this piece. The thing that makes it sad to some people is that the plot is so well done it seams plausable (on the charecter side of things) a 10 out of 10 from me.

 

[TrueGoddessReincarnation]

@ThisIsAGoodUsername, LMAO

 

[Isekaijin]

@starburst98
If I had to guess, it would be because she did show results when working with Takao and Atago, and probably the higher ups were that desperate for capable commanders. It's implied the war against the Sirens had already begun and that, as seen in Yorktown's memories, the conflict between Azur Lane and the Red Axis is somewhat recent, and left both navies severely weakened.

The problem is that the commander was still a kid with no military training. Sure, she might have gotten good results when things went okay, but she was not ready to do the heavy decisions that would end up in one of her new friends dying. Yet die they did, and not any shipgirl, but Takao who was one of her first. It's already bad enough that a friend dies but dying on her command is a burden not many can endure, trained military or not, let alone a schoolgirl. You're also forgetting most of the shipgirls had issues from the conflict, be it Zuikaku shutting her emotions off, Portland deluding herself with an illusion of a dead Indianapolis, Cleveland's suicide out of guilt or Yorktown brainwashing herself into not thinking about the lives she took. Many girls were broken from the beginning, and if you add the animosity and frustration between them, their collective burden was too much for the commander girl, who couldn't just distance from them enough for it not to affect her.

 

[Deathhappens]

Are you guys going to post Zuikaku's backstory anywhere?

 

[Lilith_Stormchaser]

@Deathhappens http://combinedfleet.com/Zuikak.htm

 

[Deathhappens]

@Lilith_Stormchaser

Pithy, but I mean the extra pages that were posted on reddit (possibly by Parker himself) explaining how /.\ came to be.

 

[Toassst]

I dont get the backstory
edit: nevermind the translator explains it in a reddit post.

 

[ShipfusEnthusiast]

so where is our resident protagonist Enty-kun when all of this shit goes down ? probably busy flirting with Belfast again because shitty yuri shipping...

 

[Tamaki-Of-Chaldea]

I can't wait to read more and see how this story will continue

 

[Ardanto]

is this show ended?

 

[RorqMayajo]

Considering the last comment on here is from over 4 years ago there's probably few if any people reading this any more, but I thought I'd just explain some things since I recently finished what exists of the series after hearing about it but then putting it off for a while because I'd heard it was very dark (spoiler alert: it is). For some reason, after the author made the announcement that they would be continuing the rest of the series in book format due to a lack of time to finish the comics, they went completely dark and deleted all traces of the series in its entirety from the internet. The twitter account they posted it on they took down, they wiped all of the related posts from their Pixiv account (though at least that account is still up), and currently the only places you can find the series are third-party sites like here and Danbooru. As far as I can tell they've not made any new accounts, I've never seen their artstyle under any other pen-names, and as you might expect that book never released either. Since they deleted their accounts there is, of course, no explanation why this happened. Maybe it became a copyright issue since Azur Lane is an established IP, maybe they didn't like the direction that the comic was going and thought that if they finished it they'd do nothing but disappoint people, maybe they never expected it to get this dark (seems unlikely but who knows), or maybe something weird happened in real life like being convicted of a crime. Or, perhaps, they discovered that making a novel was harder and more time-consuming than they thought and, realizing that due to being busy they wouldn't be able to finish the series that way either, decided to just wipe the thing from the internet rather than leaving it without a conclusive ending forever. Who knows. If this artist ever picks up a pen again or explains what happened, and anyone sees this comment, please pop me a message. I'd love to hear about it.