Kantai Collection: KanColle First Look!

Based on the highly popular KanKore game (only available in Japan, unfortunately), the story revolves around a rookie destroyer, Fubuki, who just assigned to be with the Third Torpedo Squadron. I was intrigued enough by the setting of cute girls as being possessed by warships to battle strange creatures of the sea to pick up the first 3 episodes. 

The story starts off normally to explain how the warship girls (KanMuSu) are the only thing that can battle Abyssals, a "deep sea fleet" that emerged from, well, the deep sea, saving mankind. The OP hints at a dark undercurrent the anime has, but it is not evident in the later scenes...yet.

Fubuki is introduced to the new navy school grounds by her mates as each one pop into the scene. Each girl, except perhaps Fubuki herself, who is just a normal down-to-earth hardworking rookie, could be described as a moe showcase in quite a one-dimensional way, for the moment.

On the other hand, the action scenes are pretty interesting. The girls has their own different "Outfit" which gives different weapon abilities. As you might have guessed from the picture above, Fubuki can shoot a machine gun and torpedoes. 

Here's another example:

Fun fact: The bigger the guns the more accentuated the body shape will be, if you get my drift.

For the moment, KanColle seems to hold some promise with an interesting setting, but hopefully the story and characters gets more fleshed out. The third episode does hold some promise that the story will change (Watch out during the sea battle near the end).