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Is it a flashlight or a laser cannon ?

Ohlmann said in comment #2612013:

Is it a flashlight or a laser cannon ?

It's a lightsaber bayonet.

MANAZE said in comment #2612039:

Gotta love her, the first Chilean shipgirl in Azur Lane (she is about as much Chilean, as Kongō is Japanese)

Except that is a wrong comparison, Kongou was build in the UK to be sold directly to the IJN, meanwhile Valparaíso is Vanguard being sold in the same way General Belgrano(Phoenix) was sold to the Argentinean Navy and yes, Kancolle was the second one(WSGR being the first one) with a latinoamerican shipgirl, AL coming third.

Another issue is that Kongou wears a nontraditional miko outfit which you can associate with Japan, meanwhile here i fail to see what part of Valparaíso's design is supossed to tell me she is from Chile?

Kongou speaking bits of englishs and liking black tea alludes to her birthplace, but i wonder if Valparaíso would do the same.

Do you even play AL Shippai?
I'm getting the vibes that you play for the other side...

STRIKE_GUNDAM1 said in comment #2612092:

Do you even play AL Shippai?
I'm getting the vibes that you play for the other side...

Idunno he has a point of the "where's the chilean references" even if he's thinking more about "chilean vibe" in her outfit

Edit: also being critical is the gateway to improvement is what they say

STRIKE_GUNDAM1 said in comment #2612092:

Do you even play AL Shippai?
I'm getting the vibes that you play for the other side...

Not anymore, and the same goes for "the other side" more like taking a break after how brutal last event was, so far AL events and character releases havent been my cup of tea enough to make me install the game again and even more if my potato phone has storage issues and not being lucky with emulators on PC. Im looking forward to the next KC event tho, which as ironic as it sounds that excel spreadsheet of a game doesnt give me troubles setting it up to play even in my phone(Full UI EN translation included).

Being critical of the character design or clarifiying something like the similarities or differences between both characters isnt playing a side, is making an observation.

Admiral_Shippai said in comment #2612069:

Except that is a wrong comparison, Kongou was build in the UK to be sold directly to the IJN, meanwhile Valparaíso is Vanguard being sold in the same way General Belgrano(Phoenix) was sold to the Argentinean Navy and yes, Kancolle was the second one(WSGR being the first one) with a latinoamerican shipgirl, AL coming third.

Another issue is that Kongou wears a nontraditional miko outfit which you can associate with Japan, meanwhile here i fail to see what part of Valparaíso's design is supossed to tell me she is from Chile?

Kongou speaking bits of englishs and liking black tea alludes to her birthplace, but i wonder if Valparaíso would do the same.

i have to agree with you (i got that comparison wrong) but i would really like as a Chilean to see some kind of hints alluring to her “transformation” and new nationality

MANAZE said in comment #2612039:

Gotta love her, the first Chilean shipgirl in Azur Lane (she is about as much Chilean, as Kongō is Japanese)

She is a "what if". The british navy were in negotiations with Chile to sell Vanguard, and if the sale or negotiation were not cancelled by then Vanguard would be called Valparaiso.

I think that new faction symbol is similar to the "southen cross" and if I am not mistaken the bird is part of the coat of arms that represents Valparaiso.

PD: Probably I am incorrect, but all the silver in her maybe is because Valparaiso has been known as the "Jewel of the pacific" (for touristic reasons of course).

PD2: She shares VA with Vanguard, so expect two weebs of magical girls

Poor girl needs a nap.

Oh, I just get it: Tower has XVI on her armband and Moon has XVIII, while Judgement has XX, that mean that they are the 16th, 18th and 20th (and current) High Prosecutors of Hell.

That makes me wonder which one Justice was: the 19th, or the First?

For those who have been following Kazkitashima's series starring this girl on Twitter but aren't aware of recent developments, they've transferred further postings of said series and other illustrations starring her to Morimorimoriwo's Twitter account after suffering one increasingly arbitrary shadowban too many.

Source

The Fanbox box account is also now seemingly shared between them, going by how Morimorimoriwo's name has been added to it.

This is pretty much the plot of the flashback arc so far

Project zomboid?

I guess Mimi plans to make the big money.

Prequel:

This comic must be a prequel to this earlier one:

Wtf hijab

msmsms said in comment #2471715:

Wtf hijab

That's a fantasy nun, you idiot.

Hm

the evil gubby?…

Is that a gubby

My god, I haven't seen classic Toro Rosso livery in ages

Color scheme’s work well with those characters.

What even is this collab...

Every gacha game that does collabs has done a Nier Automata collab. I'm actually surprised it took this long for Azur Lane to join in. Now to see who the other 2 or so characters are, and what they do for the paid skins.

Can't understate the gravity of attention that bottom demands. The artists put their soul into it

Wonder how AL fans feel about the lack of boob focus

Searchwanted said in comment #2612094:

Wonder how AL fans feel about the lack of boob focus

At least it's not feet or armpits. So many skins ruined by footies.

Not gonna lie, I think the way this artist/animator draws Miku is really cute, and I wanna see more of it.

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BA girls can't see their halos, right? So even if they could paint them somehow, they wouldn't be able to disguise them?

Not quite, they see all halos as generic mob halos. Painting them should be possible in theory, though it begs the question of what would happen to the paint once the halo disappears because of sleep etc.

Incineration said in comment #2611095:

Not quite, they see all halos as generic mob halos. Painting them should be possible in theory, though it begs the question of what would happen to the paint once the halo disappears because of sleep etc.

Are their halos even tangible? Because if they are, then life must be very inconvenient, what with them constantly getting hit by or caught in things.

game2009 said in comment #2612040:

Are their halos even tangible? Because if they are, then life must be very inconvenient, what with them constantly getting hit by or caught in things.

They're intangible.

blindVigil said in comment #2612050:

They're intangible.

*incosistently tangible
We know that they can take damage from being hit directly and take permanent damage, as told during the Trinity story.
Though I am pretty sure that there's been official media where they've been shown to clip through objects.

Incineration said in comment #2612086:

*incosistently tangible
We know that they can take damage from being hit directly and take permanent damage, as told during the Trinity story.
Though I am pretty sure that there's been official media where they've been shown to clip through objects.

No, it's never actually stated that Halos can be damaged. The "Halo Destroying Bomb" was special specifically because it could "damage" halos, something normally not known to be possible.

In actuality, though, it was just a normal bomb with enough power to lethally injure a student. It didn't have any special properties beyond being stronger than what students are normally throwing at eachother on a daily basis.

If Halos could be damaged directly, students would be dying daily, because even if you're not aiming for it, bullets are going to hit them eventually, not to mention explosives. "Destroying a halo" is just a euphemism for taking a student's life. The Arius students confirm this.

This is a redraw of the Artemis II crew portrait