Akagi's daughter's half-sister by another mother Aquila
And now, Akagi's adopted daughter Taiyou
more like Akagi's true daughter XD
Well, didn't expected it to be Shibafu doing the escort carriers
EDIT: Her name is Taiyou, she was called Kasuga Maru before her reconstruction (same as Ryuho was called Taigei, Zuiho was to be called Takasaki and Hiyou was called Izumo Maru).
EDIT2: She was to be a liner, but as with Zuiho, she was never finished as Kasuga Maru. She was requisitioned and reconstructed as an escort carrier
Can somebody shed me some light on why the fuck do the devs keep letting shibafu draw new art? What do they even see in his art? I have seen zero positive comment about the potatos. They have neither cuteness nor charm and certainly not giving out the image of someone who is in battle. It's just beyond me.
Can somebody shed me some light on why the fuck do the devs keep letting shibafu draw new art? What do they even see in his art? I have seen zero positive comment about the potatos. They have neither cuteness nor charm and certainly not giving out the image of someone who is in battle. It's just beyond me.
Can somebody shed me some light on why the fuck do the devs keep letting shibafu draw new art? What do they even see in his art? I have seen zero positive comment about the potatos. They have neither cuteness nor charm and certainly not giving out the image of someone who is in battle. It's just beyond me.
Can somebody shed me some light on why the fuck do the devs keep letting shibafu draw new art? What do they even see in his art? I have seen zero positive comment about the potatos. They have neither cuteness nor charm and certainly not giving out the image of someone who is in battle. It's just beyond me.
Come on now, don't be like that. True, Shibafu and his inability to draw more than 2 faces is hilarious and I love to make fun of his potatoes as much as the next guy but that is going a bit to far.
His charms, to me, has always been simple things, unlike other artist who try to do everything to stand out and just end up looking downright ridiculous. His artstyle has a feeling of "Wabisabi" to them. Very "old time Japanese", which is fitting for the game. There isn't much to his girls, but they are still beautiful(Houshou) and cute(any of the round face Fubuki clones) on their own and there are still alot of details put into them, just that you have to look hard and long at them. The only reason to really hate them would be that because they don't give fanboys a huge boner with their stupidly fanservice designs or that they don't jump out and scream laughably ridiculous.
Of course, it doesn't mean that it's all great. They're still bland as bland can be from time to time and god help this man whose faces all look like they were cute and pasted on to another body. Yet at the same time, I just can't imagine the idea of him doing too drastic changes.
Come on now, don't be like that. True, Shibafu and his inability to draw more than 2 faces is hilarious and I love to make fun of his potatoes as much as the next guy but that is going a bit to far.
No mention of anorexic summer Mikuma or the webbed fingers that plague his recent works?
No mention of anorexic summer Mikuma or the webbed fingers that plague his recent works?
I tried to focus on the good sides. It's hard, like trying to defend a semi-decent video game that you like but also knowing that there are parts that are less than great.
Can somebody shed me some light on why the fuck do the devs keep letting shibafu draw new art? What do they even see in his art? I have seen zero positive comment about the potatos. They have neither cuteness nor charm and certainly not giving out the image of someone who is in battle. It's just beyond me.
His art is cute and simple. You don't find it as cute? Mkay. Perhaps you like a bit more 'popular' artstyles then. Zero? Perhaps you mean zero in freaking 4chan? Fuck them. Also, look harder. Yes, it has its cuteness and charm. Not giving out the impression? The fuck dude, a lot of designs in this freaking game also give that impressions.
And yeah, just like what Keo said, his artworks were not always good. Some are bad, like Mikuma's summer CG for example.
For someone who has played this game since 2013 i,m pretty sure i have looked at them hard enough. It's true that i do prefer ''popular'' artstyle as you put it but it's also doesn't mean i cant appreciate other style. But this guy art, j just cant.
There are plenty of simple and cute works out there like yotsubato, nichijou or hell even doujin work like touhou a summer day dream, even 4chan argee that they are cute but not shibafu art. Why?
And what i mean by giving out the impression is either you are at battle ready state or you are a cute ''popular style'' character. Imo the potato have none of the above while most other ship have at least 1. I do argee with keo on houshou cause she have a motherly aura, but if your only defense is they are cute you just are not seeing it then you are grasping at straw there. Tell me when was the last time people having a fit over the popato as opposed to the graf=>aquila=>yamakaze=>hitomi fever.
Not that i dislike Shibafu (I love my bukki-class daughterus) but... is it just me or does Taiyou's kanmusu shoes look like they're sculpted out of clay?
For an audience that claim ''you need to be mature to appreciate his art'' but down vote every posts questioned your favorite artist's art. Look real mature there.
Not that i dislike Shibafu (I love my bukki-class daughterus) but... is it just me or does Taiyou's kanmusu shoes look like they're sculpted out of clay?
Looks almost like they're supposed to be rubber Jika Tabi or something
For someone who has played this game since 2013 i,m pretty sure i have looked at them hard enough.
>Okay, that's your decision.
There are plenty of simple and cute works out there like yotsubato, nichijou or hell even doujin work like touhou a summer day dream, even 4chan argee that they are cute but not shibafu art. Why?
>Because comparing manga/anime with storytelling and characterization & STATIC game artworks is not compatible. Try to compare apple to apple.
And what i mean by giving out the impression is either you are at battle ready state or you are a cute ''popular style'' character. Imo the potato have none of the above while most other ship have at least 1.
>His artstyle is cute, but not conform to popular looks, and that's RIGHT, his poses are bland, I admit that.
I do argee with keo on houshou cause she have a motherly aura, but if your only defense is they are cute you just are not seeing it then you are grasping at straw there.
>not only cute, but also unique and simple, that's it. It has certain charm to it. Don't get it? No problem. And yeah, that's my defense.
Tell me when was the last time people having a fit over the popato as opposed to the graf=>aquila=>yamakaze=>hitomi fever.
>I think it's when the Fubuki and Ayanami K2. Then, he never made designs as awesome as that. People generally prefer more 'popular' artstyle. Eventhough his latest designs are not really popular, it's not really a problem, right? Not many ships have that privilege.
On the topic of Shibafu's designs, I think he is kind of a acquired taste. I am one of those who was a little cold toward his designs before but some of them did grow on me. For me, it was Fubuki, and her short ponytail (then again she was the starter I was stuck with because I was fiddling around when I finally got through the lottery), Akagi, CarDiv2, Houshou and Ooi (who I think have the best hair among Shibafu girls).
That said, here is the reference pic to Kasugamaru
I still don't understand why there's all this hate for Shibafu, whose designs may be simple, but at least make sense and inform the baseline "tone" of what "KanColle looks like", while nobody bats an eye at the absolute trainwreck designs of Shizuma Yoshinori, basically all of which are the most impractical and far-fetched outfits in the game (excluding abyssals)...
I still don't understand why there's all this hate for Shibafu, whose designs may be simple, but at least make sense and inform the baseline "tone" of what "KanColle looks like", while nobody bats an eye at the absolute trainwreck designs of Shizuma Yoshinori, basically all of which are the most impractical and far-fetched outfits in the game (excluding abyssals)...
That may be exactly it, Shibafu art looks copy pasted between each other it could give a boring look. In the case of Shizuma Yoshinori (my favorite artist) while their faces are also too similar his designs have a distinctive touch. I personally don't dislike Shibafu art, but apparently he's the punching bag of all haters of KanColle art and it's annoying to read them complaining about something a) we don't care nor asked and b) the author can't read you. There's also c) there are as many doujin art and other artist interpretations you can fap to if you can't with the original author design, go bother with your personal fetishes somewhere else.
I still don't understand why there's all this hate for Shibafu, whose designs may be simple, but at least make sense and inform the baseline "tone" of what "KanColle looks like", while nobody bats an eye at the absolute trainwreck designs of Shizuma Yoshinori, basically all of which are the most impractical and far-fetched outfits in the game (excluding abyssals)...
This is a game where girls can somehow wield WW2 naval weaponry like they were actual ships, and you're complaining about the clothing?
That may be exactly it, Shibafu art looks copy pasted between each other it could give a boring look. In the case of Shizuma Yoshinori (my favorite artist) while their faces are also too similar his designs have a distinctive touch. I personally don't dislike Shibafu art, but apparently he's the punching bag of all haters of KanColle art and it's annoying to read them complaining about something a) we don't care nor asked and b) the author can't read you. There's also c) there are as many doujin art and other artist interpretations you can fap to if you can't with the original author design, go bother with your personal fetishes somewhere else.
While Shibafu tend to be the punching bag, alot of the hate is actually purely ironic....well, mostly ironic. Some of them. Probably(?)
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Of course there are tons of people who DO hate his work, but for the most part hating on Shibafu's work is more for fun than for spite(at least for some people). The other hate might be because of how much attention his work gets compare to other better artists. Even at 4chan more people actually perfer Shibafu's new girls compared to the god fucking out of place new additions that is the 2 Chinese Warship girl ripoff. In the case of copy and paste, it seems to me that was only with his initial Fubuki destroyers and it seems a bit much to only focus on him, seeing as how many other artist did the same thing(I remembering hearing that Kancolle wasn't even suppose to be that of a hit when they initially planned it.) Otherwise, there really isn't much to talk about with Shibafu's art since they're just....plain. Like Fubuki. And just like Fubuki, it's hard to really imagine Kancolle without Shibafu(kindof like stockholm syndrome).
Shibafu's art is like Zun's art. It just god damn easy and fun to pick on, compare to the other artists'.
I also argue that Shizuma's faces are not really the problem. The only sameface he did was with his own personal doujin, plus some other, where his main character look like a Shimakaze expy, but I was sure that was intentional. His work is one of the more diverse ones.
Oh no, more words:
His problem seem to be that his work is very similar to Shimada's, who is a professional and is very well-known, making it so that his work comes off as a copy of his and that the only way his artwork would get attention would be to be over the top as possible. However, whether it was intentional or not, that his style is so similar to Shimada's(if he was his fan or whatever), I have no clue.
When I first got into Kancolle, I could never tell the two's apart(didn't help that their names were very similar as well) and just kept thinking Shizuma is just a ripoff of Shimada's. I still catch myself mistaking his work for Shimada's everytime he doesn't go over the top with the designs. Unlike someone like Shibafu, whose work you can easily recognize from a distance, Shizuma's work is hard to tell if you're not used to it.
This is a game where girls can somehow wield WW2 naval weaponry like they were actual ships, and you're complaining about the clothing?
This is a game where girls can somehow wield WW2 naval weaponry like they were actual ships, and people complain about drop rates, bugs, realism, art styles, and a whole host of other issues related to games. It's almost as though people will complain about things they care about in games, and saying it has something to do with WW2 is as utterly irrelevant as saying that nobody can comment on any games or anime in any way because they're fiction.
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Come on, the Akizuki are Yoshinori's best DDs, also Saratoga.
Certainly, I've always held that those four were the ships Yoshinori made after being restrained by four burly security officers and forced to actually take his meds that day.
That said, it still doesn't take away the fact that he puts armpit windows on Akitsushima or uses semi-transparent negligee, garter straps, and some windsocks for Amatsukaze's whole outfit.
In fact, to save time, I'll just quote previous criticisms of Yoshinori:
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While I'm at it, Akitsushima's design also bears special mention for being the most garishly over-designed character. Side ponytail but also having an (ergonomically insane) body-length ribbon with anchors AND a mini-hat plus, why not, throw an ahoge cherry on top! She wears a vesty-like thing that has semi-detached sleeves that ultimately make it a jacket that simply has no armpits for no good reason, apparently because he couldn't decide between detached sleeves or not, with green and black and white with extra black stripes and then some green polka-dots and then some frilly black-and-white bands over random, asymmetrical parts of her. She then holds a giant, detailed aircraft on one side, and a giant, detailed set of machinery off her other hip to the point she's half-buried out of view in her own image. One note is clear and distinct, but a thousand clashing notes makes nothing but static.
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When Shibafu makes a battleship, she wears a karate gi and bodysuit. When Konishi makes battleships, they are the best girls they wear stylized miko outfits with changes made to add sexy in the form of zettai ryouiki and detached sleeves. When Yoshinori makes a battleship, she wears an armored miniskirt bikini with carrots on her head, or becomes the Mutslug joke, points out she stuffs her bra with Type 91 shells, or has the insane quad-tailed pop idol haircut plus nerd glasses on the bodybuilder sarashi body. Oh, yeah, plus "HEY GAIS, LOOK AT MAH TITS!" Iowa, who has an outfit that must require glue not to be a constant source of nip-slips. (Compounded by the most painful-to-listen-to voice acting, but that's not directly an art problem, so let's set that aside for now.)
Hell, Yamato deserves special mention, because clearly, at some point, the idea of "Yamato Nadeshiko" was supposed to be the idea behind her, but Fusou and Yamashiro so blatantly pull it off better than Yamato does... because they had an artist that could restrain themselves to staying on-topic. When I look through for characters whose art design doesn't match their in-game personalities, over half of them are Yoshinori, because he just can't help himself but continue to throw crazy, self-contradictory bullshit on his designs long after he should have stopped.
Seriously, how many manga have you seen with jokes making fun of designs by any artists that aren't either Shibafu "potato ship" jokes (and again, people LIKE Shibafu's newer stuff ), or "what the fuck was Yoshinori smoking?!" Now how many jokes have you seen about Shimakaze running around in a thong that isn't even remotely hidden by her miniskirt, or any of those battleship design jokes I mentioned? Hell, if you narrow it down to non-rigging outfit in particular, rather than making fun of goofy poses (like Kinu or Myoukou's damage pose), then the only non-Yoshinori character I can recall jokes upon outfit upon was Shouhou. All of the stupidest outfits in KanColle come from Yoshinori. He is the one artist in KanColle I just want to see benched. (Give Konishi and Bob more girls!)
This is a game where girls can somehow wield WW2 naval weaponry like they were actual ships, and people complain about drop rates, bugs, realism, art styles, and a whole host of other issues related to games. It's almost as though people will complain about things they care about in games, and saying it has something to do with WW2 is as utterly irrelevant as saying that nobody can comment on any games or anime in any way because they're fiction.
Certainly, I've always held that those four were the ships Yoshinori made after being restrained by four burly security officers and forced to actually take his meds that day.
That said, it still doesn't take away the fact that he puts armpit windows on Akitsushima or uses semi-transparent negligee, garter straps, and some windsocks for Amatsukaze's whole outfit.
In fact, to save time, I'll just quote previous criticisms of Yoshinori:
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While I'm at it, Akitsushima's design also bears special mention for being the most garishly over-designed character. Side ponytail but also having an (ergonomically insane) body-length ribbon with anchors AND a mini-hat plus, why not, throw an ahoge cherry on top! She wears a vesty-like thing that has semi-detached sleeves that ultimately make it a jacket that simply has no armpits for no good reason, apparently because he couldn't decide between detached sleeves or not, with green and black and white with extra black stripes and then some green polka-dots and then some frilly black-and-white bands over random, asymmetrical parts of her. She then holds a giant, detailed aircraft on one side, and a giant, detailed set of machinery off her other hip to the point she's half-buried out of view in her own image. One note is clear and distinct, but a thousand clashing notes makes nothing but static.
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When Shibafu makes a battleship, she wears a karate gi and bodysuit. When Konishi makes battleships, they are the best girls they wear stylized miko outfits with changes made to add sexy in the form of zettai ryouiki and detached sleeves. When Yoshinori makes a battleship, she wears an armored miniskirt bikini with carrots on her head, or becomes the Mutslug joke, points out she stuffs her bra with Type 91 shells, or has the insane quad-tailed pop idol haircut plus nerd glasses on the bodybuilder sarashi body. Oh, yeah, plus "HEY GAIS, LOOK AT MAH TITS!" Iowa, who has an outfit that must require glue not to be a constant source of nip-slips. (Compounded by the most painful-to-listen-to voice acting, but that's not directly an art problem, so let's set that aside for now.)
Hell, Yamato deserves special mention, because clearly, at some point, the idea of "Yamato Nadeshiko" was supposed to be the idea behind her, but Fusou and Yamashiro so blatantly pull it off better than Yamato does... because they had an artist that could restrain themselves to staying on-topic. When I look through for characters whose art design doesn't match their in-game personalities, over half of them are Yoshinori, because he just can't help himself but continue to throw crazy, self-contradictory bullshit on his designs long after he should have stopped.
Seriously, how many manga have you seen with jokes making fun of designs by any artists that aren't either Shibafu "potato ship" jokes (and again, people LIKE Shibafu's newer stuff ), or "what the fuck was Yoshinori smoking?!" Now how many jokes have you seen about Shimakaze running around in a thong that isn't even remotely hidden by her miniskirt, or any of those battleship design jokes I mentioned? Hell, if you narrow it down to non-rigging outfit in particular, rather than making fun of goofy poses (like Kinu or Myoukou's damage pose), then the only non-Yoshinori character I can recall jokes upon outfit upon was Shouhou. All of the stupidest outfits in KanColle come from Yoshinori. He is the one artist in KanColle I just want to see benched. (Give Konishi and Bob more girls!)
If you don't mind me asking, why do these designs trigger you so much? Because at this point, you're starting to sound like video game "journalists" who squawk about video games with skimpy female designs are "oppressing" women.
If you don't mind me asking, why do these designs trigger you so much? Because at this point, you're starting to sound like video game "journalists" who squawk about video games with skimpy female designs are "oppressing" women.
As I linked in the expand block, he doesn't know when to stop.
I can't easily find it at the moment, but I remember a YouTube video expressly on how so many game songs form the 8-bit or 16-bit era are still iconic, but nobody can remember most game music today. That's because there was only the capacity to play three notes at a time on something like the Super Nintendo, so you basically have to go with the beat, base, and melody as the three notes. It's simple, and people inherently focus in on the melody. Now, however, people try to make overcomplex orchestral numbers nobody can fully easily grasp, and therefore, can't remember, and therefore fade out of memory the instant you stop listening to it.
Shibafu's image have a strong, central theme that isn't cluttered up by noise. Maybe they could be more emotive, but you can get the point of Kaga's super-traditional and stoic personality from a glance. Akitsushima or Musashi are so much noise that you can't even tell what the point was supposed to be. Was Musashi supposed to be the toughest of the toughs? Then why does she have that stupid pop idol hairstyle and nerd glasses? Akitsushima has by far the most over-designed outfit in the game.
This is exactly how Michael Bay ruined action movies. There are people too easily distracted by the shiny, who think that throwing lots of action and unnecessary detail everywhere makes everything better, when it just makes it so that nobody can understand the point. It's just a bunch of stuff that happens.
Shibafu's image have a strong, central theme that isn't cluttered up by noise. Maybe they could be more emotive, but you can get the point of Kaga's super-traditional and stoic personality from a glance. Akitsushima or Musashi are so much noise that you can't even tell what the point was supposed to be. Was Musashi supposed to be the toughest of the toughs? Then why does she have that stupid pop idol hairstyle and nerd glasses? Akitsushima has by far the most over-designed outfit in the game.
Would you rather have something like the Yuugumo class, which is basically the same body with a different head for every girl?
Would you rather have something like the Yuugumo class, which is basically the same body with a different head for every girl?
As we went over just a couple months ago on the last Yuugumo class, YES!
The Yuugumo class has excellent variety based around a single, central theme. If you can look at Yuugumo and Makigumo and tell me they look the same, or give off the same impression, you're a liar. The characters' artworks are tremendously expressive, and while there are some flukes, you can generally tell their personalities from a glance.
By contrast, even when expressly given the goal of making "Yamato Nadeshiko" for Yamato, Yoshinori throws in so much unnecessary shit that it gets completely lost, and Fusou and Yamashiro are vastly better examples of the goal Yoshinori was supposed to have gone after.
All of the Yuugumo designs are vastly superior to all but maybe the 'zukis from Yoshinori. (Which, again, I presume they had to bring in burly men just to yank him away from the design table when they SAID he was DONE DESIGNING.)
Don't you think you're being a bit too hard on Shimada? I mean yeah, overly designing and going overboard is a problem every now and then, but can you really blame the guy for trying to be recognized for his work? The main reason why many people even remember his ships like Shimakaze is because of how ridiculous he made her(plus fetish fuel) so I can see why he would constantly make wild as wild designs.
As stupidly stereotypically 'MURICA Iowa looked, the first day she came out she was an instant hit to many. Compare to some ship designs, like the Yuugumos, who people don't even notice whenever a new one come out, Shimada's characters does well to attract people, even if only like a fad, and do damn well to stand out. He is competing with other artists afterall and it is pretty hard to always be the one to get attention and recognition if all you do is normal, when normal for you is almost nothing. He's already set in place for his absurdity in design. If he doesn't crap out something that can gather tons of gawks, then he easily lose his place to some of the other artist, while not better than him in terms of drawing, that are better in almost everything else.
If anything, that's how everything is nowadays. What I always see is people complaining and wanting something simple, yet they never actually look to see it and instead the only way for anything to be accepted in today's time, to stand out, whether negatively or postively, is to dazzle and wow through absurdity. Even if it is only a fad, it is sometimes better to be notice for a period of time then forgotten than completely overlooked and forgotten.
Don't you think you're being a bit too hard on Shimada? I mean yeah, overly designing and going overboard is a problem every now and then, but can you really blame the guy for trying to be recognized for his work? The main reason why many people even remember his ships like Shimakaze is because of how ridiculous he made her(plus fetish fuel) so I can see why he would constantly make wild as wild designs.
As stupidly stereotypically 'MURICA Iowa looked, the first day she came out she was an instant hit to many. Compare to some ship designs, like the Yuugumos, who people don't even notice whenever a new one come out, Shimada's characters does well to attract people, even if only like a fad, and do damn well to stand out. He is competing with other artists afterall and it is pretty hard to always be the one to get attention and recognition if all you do is normal, when normal for you is almost nothing. He's already set in place for his absurdity in design. If he doesn't crap out something that can gather tons of gawks, then he easily lose his place to some of the other artist, while not better than him in terms of drawing, that are better in almost everything else.
If anything, that's how everything is nowadays. What I always see is people complaining and wanting something simple, yet they never actually look to see it and instead the only way for anything to be accepted in today's time, to stand out, whether negatively or postively, is to dazzle and wow through absurdity. Even if it is only a fad, it is sometimes better to be notice for a period of time then forgotten than completely overlooked and forgotten.
Sometimes anyway. At least that's what I think.
Well, if you say that Shimada goes overboard to because fetish fuel, that kind of implies that the other artists aren't making fetishized designs. To go back to Kongou, she basically wears a miko outfit with detached sleeves and a zettai ryouiki, and also happens to be one of the most recognized characters in Kan Colle, as well.
For that matter, if we go with the fetish of "glasses girls", Kirishima fills the role of the confident, pushes her scary shiny glasses up her nose as she makes a bold proclamation glasses girl. Choukai and Ooyodo are in a similar, but more "cool glasses" role. Mochizuki has the nerdy glasses girl down. Roma's old-style glasses add to her sense of stuffiness and formality. Makigumo, by art style, has the goofy, klutzy glasses girl role. This post just showcases how adding specific types of glasses to characters who don't normally wear them can highlight different aspects of their personalities.
But what does Musashi's glasses say about her? Again, the fetish around those is that they play to certain character archetypes, which underline certain traits that people might fetishize. But how do Musashi's glasses impact her character? Like, at all? I half get the feeling Musashi was designed by one of those random character trait charts where you roll dice a certain number of times and try to make sense of the random traits you're given, and glasses were on there, but weren't really made part of the main focus in a way that made sense. After having gone for the bodybuilder-in-a-sarashi sukeban look, most artists would have gone with traits that reinforce that idea, or only added subtle hints towards some hidden personality aspects. (I.E. Akebono's stern appearance, but girly hair flower and bells.) They'd make her have short, boyish hair, or super-long hair with a hachimaki to go for the biker girl look. Instead, Musashi has strange animal ears with pigtails, plus glasses that don't seem to say anything about her.
It does come down to tone, though. There are two artists that give off that questions of is this even KanColle? One is Ayaki, with all that hovering, glowing equipment, and the other is Shimada Yoshinori, who has the ridiculous outfits plus the lets-make-this-a-game-about-magic apparent humunculus-gun Rensouhou-chans. While Shibafu established the CVs as traditional archers, BBs as judo practitioners, and DDs as traditional Japanese middle school girls, what does Shibafu do? Let's make a girl with a thong stolen from 90's Brittney Spears! Let's make destroyers that look absolutely NOTHING like the other girls in their class! Let's completely detonate the whole concept people have of what KanColle looks like for no good reason, because there is no rhyme or reason to what Shimada does!
Again, you kind of get blinded to the ridiculousness of it, but just LOOK at what Nagato is wearing. Mutsu can, if you ignore the armor parts, at least make the skimpy skirt make sense with her being a coquettish type, but what the Hell is Nagato wearing what she's wearing for? Again, it's like a pair of metal carrots and a tomato on her head, a metal horse's bridle on her shoulders, some navel-baring cheerleader outfit clothing with a metal belt, and boots and gloves. What does this say about her character (other than that she's insane) to wear something like this? In what way does it help convey her stoic-but-secretly-in-love-with-cute-stuff personality?
If you're talking about how you have to cross the line twice and drown in the absurd, then I have to ask why the 'zukis and Saratoga, the ones that are both the most tame and the ones held up as the "good ones" against what I was saying about going overboard are the most recent ones? (And even Iowa's seasonal outfit was relatively much more simple and modest...) That implies either Shimada himself, or at least the people who commission his work, realized they had to pull him back. Because it's not like all the attention for those characters was admiration, I've been linking all the jokes on how ridiculous these design choices are for a reason. Likewise, I'd again point to how Kongou is probably the most recognized shipgirl alongside the likes of Yuudachi to people who don't even know anything about KanColle.
If you want to talk about all the Yuugumos wearing the same uniform, then... well, let me introduce you to anime, where 80% of it takes place in high schools where all the characters of the same gender wear basically the same clothes all the time. Nobody complained that Haruhi needed to change things up because Haruhi, Yuki, Mikuru, and all the supporting cast all wore the same outfit for all the school-centric stuff. And it's not like they all had bland personalities and the same face or "were just different heads on the same outfit", either.
There's also a difference in kind comparing the popularity of Yuugumos to Iowa. Pretty much all the BBs and CVs are popular, while the more numerous lighter ships are less popular except for a few smash hits like the 6th and (to a lesser extent) 7th DesDivs or RJ. Plus, Iowa is basically the stand-in for the USA, while Bismarck is Germany, Littorio and Roma are Italy, Hibiki (and now Gangut) is the USSR, and Warspite is the UK. Meanwhile, just a quick look says Teruzuki's on fairly even footing with Yuugumo so far as own images go.
And no, I don't see a lot of people asking for simplicity, at least, unless they're interested in design. A lot of people just stop at whether the girl has big tits or not, or whatever their own particular fetish is. But even so, that's still part of my point - Ooyodo isn't just a girl who has glasses, she's a character focused around being THE brainy girl with glasses/class rep character, and if that's your fetish, you REALLY like Ooyodo, and will remember her easily. What do you remember of Akitsushima's design, however? (HER design, not her plane or crane.) Anyone familiar with politics will tell you that if you're trying to rally the masses around a single idea, you need to get your message condensed down to the point where it will fit on a bumper sticker. Nuance is important, but it needs to be built around a strong, central theme.
EDIT: Oh, and look, Nagato got a Kai-Ni where she gets to wear more clothes, and everyone loves it and thinks it far better suits what she's supposed to be when she's wearing an outfit that isn't skimpy just for skimpyness's sake.