Someone on the seiga thread made the valid point that 'hence' sounds rather old-fashioned/technical... (Even though I do actually speak like that in real life)

And now it's permanently in there from when I translated the first strip... sorry, Ido-san...

(And there's another revision up on twitter now...)

Oh, okay, 'cause I was gonna ask if you were just straight up trolling Ido now with the translation changes.

It may make some sense to have Bismarck sound a bit on the theatrical side, though.

But what exactly is the joke? Why would BB Warspite turn into SS Ro?

The joke is many foreign ships changed character when assigned to the Japan base. With Ro being the most radical transformation.

Allaire said:

But what exactly is the joke? Why would BB Warspite turn into SS Ro?

She will assimilate in that 1 year and become somewhat of a goofy and sloppy girl like how U turn into this Ro. And that's pretty much how it turned out to be.

Paracite said:

Someone on the seiga thread made the valid point that 'hence' sounds rather old-fashioned/technical... (Even though I do actually speak like that in real life)

And now it's permanently in there from when I translated the first strip... sorry, Ido-san...

(And there's another revision up on twitter now...)

'Hence' is fine. And correct.

pouting warspite is such a cutie :3