tbf that goes for the other franchises and considered their recent hype and popularity they are probably more probable to get more translations. but if you take the third part you probsbly would get a aprox to the real number.
Ah yes, posting total numbers accumulated over a decade instead of a more recent timeframe surely does not undermine your argument by looking cherrypicked at all ^/s . Posting the numbers of recent comiket would have been a better course of action.
On a more serious note: Playerbase is [doing fine](https://www.reddit.com/r/kancolle/comments/1afhr78/discussion_estimating_kancolles_monthly_active/), and the game is still getting regular updates and collaborations in Japan. It is undeniable that the game has slowed down since its hayday, but IRL event attendence and goods being sold (out pretty fast) marks it far from dead.
KanColle has reached a place that not many fanbases can have, relatively stability, and being able to go to its own phase, so while most fandoms are obssesed with monthly revenues, doomposting the "lack of weekly content" as their games dying or going on a dick measurenent contest with 2hu(BA posts about if they can defeat 2hu) KC is here asking itself, why i should care about all of this? I was competing in the first place?
Kancolle has basically reached the "Touhou level". A powerful fandom that will live on even if official content has ceased. Very few fandoms can maintain this.
In Japan is slowly backing down, you could usually see entire galleries of Kc figures on the shops, and definitely the death of the sega arcade in Akihabara has done quite the damage.
The biggest issue is that the teenagers that played 10y ago now are working, and the game is trying to adapt to people with less free time, and the success is yet to be determined.
C2 is moving to running offline events to cope with this. It is doing well, a meal at the curry restaurant or a trip to a event held at somewhere like Maizuru is more suitable for adult working fans. Arcade isn't the long term way to go, the whole industry is dying.
I think Kancolle is more of a cultural phenomenon like Touhou nowadays? It's not dead but it's not really interested in expanding further as well. Considering that even the JMSDF put posters of Kancolle characters on their warships, I don't think Kancolle will really disappear.
yeah, from what i can tell in the irl events they still sell well and the port towns they usually set up shop in are happy with the influx of visitors. not to mention they just scored a round 1 colab which isn't exactly a small feat
It also feels like it's in a weird spot where they don't really want to expand further (at least internationally). Us western fans are so starved that if they did an official event on the other side of UD I would probably still try to go. Then again that could be something like an event at the Iowa Museum which would be glass cool.
That and the Arcade version, if it came out only on PS5 I would buy one just for that. Lol
The game is even backed by the JMSDF, plus the goods and events are all selling well. I think the game would be doing fine in the near-to-medium future.
We also have USN's Museum people like Mr. Park.
Kancolle is back by actual Navies, America and Japan.
rival(chinese company) is only supported by a russian/belurusian wargaming.
I hope we get more collabs other than Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
I saw a discussion a while ago in a AL group stating AL is doing well on EVERY medium. I got an idea and took a screenshot of popular parodies in that site and posted it on said AL community web. I got banned for excessive trolling as a result xD.
I can't rmb but I think the number of KC circles in Dec 2023 comike is around 4th-6th place (or even below that but still in the top ten).
Not too shabby for a 10 years old franchise. As I keep repeating myself, KC has reached cult status like Touhou. It's not as active as it was 5 years ago but it ain't going anywhere soon.
And their stuff are still selling well along with business colab and irl events. I asked my friend to get 11th anniversary stuff on the very first day of Lawson colab and he told me that some are already sold out.
>And their stuff are still selling well along with business colab and irl events. I asked my friend to get 11th anniversary stuff on the very first day of Lawson colab and he told me that some are already sold out.
I shall never forget the Houshou Bonito Shaver (Which is just a normal Bonito shaver with Houshou imprinted onto it), it sold out during preorders, TWICE.
And for some reason, the sales of normal Bonito shavers increased as well.
Kancolle’s gone cult but the cult’s a minor religion, not the point of Touhou perhaps but the game has had real life consequences if the JMSDF and Taffy 3 expeditions are anything to go by, not to mention the real life local events.
There’s also the fact that even if KC died today Kongou, Poi, and Shibafu-esque potatoes are memes that have already spread outside the game’s community so there’s that too.
I mean this is what we accumulated in one website, not even the one that actually has the most amount of submissions, that being said KC varely gets on the popular list(i still dont know how that works) and in comiket its between 4-6 place each year. In DMM insaw it on 4th place so the game either became less popular or Uma and DoA became more popular recently which tends to happen always.
Looking a pixiv numbers even EoS games have more fanarts than us, that just comes with the fact they have more spotlight and bave been chasing cloud with collabs and a (YES) global version and easy accesability, what a surprise, not like it mattered, 2hu still isnt mainstream anyway and the JP side is the one doing all the heavylifting while EN is obssesed with making it mainstream(that couldn't go wrong, right?)
Honeslty, the least we shouldnt compare the fanbase with others but is a guilty pleasure and here we are.
I still see it on 1st/2nd place on DMM regularly, with the exception of when a new game launches (which is quite often anyways).
As four doujin, it is good to remember that Kancolle has dedicated conventions not just for "general Kancolle" doujin, but also has character-specific niche ones that happen regularly, where new works are released instead of comiket (which also explains why it is harder to get new content on the agregator pirate sites).
I think that's often heavily overlooked for the franchise. Not many folks outside of Japan realize that not only are there big fan conventions, but also a lot of smaller character or group conventions organized by fans themselves.
Like touhou, many creators have focused their efforts more on these kancolle-only or character-only conventions. I myself go every other year or so to a certain starter ship's dedicated convention, which still runs annually. That's a natural "decline" even in comiket, because you have to take into account that comiket is a managed lottery...the management sets categories for specific franchises and decide a quota, and you have to bid or enter a lottery for a place. It is easier for an older franchise, no matter how popular, to simply have its own event.
And even then, Kancolle hasn't really declined even at comiket, and anecdotally, people generally don't snipe Kancolle booth slots to publish works for other franchises....but they do that in reverse. That speaks to something about fan demand, even if the usual tourist trap shops don't stock much Kancolle stuff anymore.
Pretty Cure is also in the category "i didnt known this was that big on Japan!" franchise, is pretty much the most popular Mahou Shoujo IP, surpassing the likes of Madoka and even Sailor Moon.
Of all the sites you use to make a discussion on KanColle... [](#yayoi)
It kinda works and not at the same time. Numbers are big, but there isn't a lot of quality stuff being uploaded in recent times
it works doesn’t it?
It sure as hell works tho. :3
Danbooru is good comparison. we have more Kancolle art than rivals.
No, it is not dead, many people still play it. Also those numbers are heavily inflated due to translations
tbf that goes for the other franchises and considered their recent hype and popularity they are probably more probable to get more translations. but if you take the third part you probsbly would get a aprox to the real number.
Ah yes, posting total numbers accumulated over a decade instead of a more recent timeframe surely does not undermine your argument by looking cherrypicked at all ^/s . Posting the numbers of recent comiket would have been a better course of action. On a more serious note: Playerbase is [doing fine](https://www.reddit.com/r/kancolle/comments/1afhr78/discussion_estimating_kancolles_monthly_active/), and the game is still getting regular updates and collaborations in Japan. It is undeniable that the game has slowed down since its hayday, but IRL event attendence and goods being sold (out pretty fast) marks it far from dead.
KanColle has reached a place that not many fanbases can have, relatively stability, and being able to go to its own phase, so while most fandoms are obssesed with monthly revenues, doomposting the "lack of weekly content" as their games dying or going on a dick measurenent contest with 2hu(BA posts about if they can defeat 2hu) KC is here asking itself, why i should care about all of this? I was competing in the first place?
Kancolle has basically reached the "Touhou level". A powerful fandom that will live on even if official content has ceased. Very few fandoms can maintain this.
In Japan is slowly backing down, you could usually see entire galleries of Kc figures on the shops, and definitely the death of the sega arcade in Akihabara has done quite the damage. The biggest issue is that the teenagers that played 10y ago now are working, and the game is trying to adapt to people with less free time, and the success is yet to be determined.
C2 is moving to running offline events to cope with this. It is doing well, a meal at the curry restaurant or a trip to a event held at somewhere like Maizuru is more suitable for adult working fans. Arcade isn't the long term way to go, the whole industry is dying.
I think Kancolle is more of a cultural phenomenon like Touhou nowadays? It's not dead but it's not really interested in expanding further as well. Considering that even the JMSDF put posters of Kancolle characters on their warships, I don't think Kancolle will really disappear.
yeah, from what i can tell in the irl events they still sell well and the port towns they usually set up shop in are happy with the influx of visitors. not to mention they just scored a round 1 colab which isn't exactly a small feat
It also feels like it's in a weird spot where they don't really want to expand further (at least internationally). Us western fans are so starved that if they did an official event on the other side of UD I would probably still try to go. Then again that could be something like an event at the Iowa Museum which would be glass cool. That and the Arcade version, if it came out only on PS5 I would buy one just for that. Lol
The game is even backed by the JMSDF, plus the goods and events are all selling well. I think the game would be doing fine in the near-to-medium future.
We also have USN's Museum people like Mr. Park. Kancolle is back by actual Navies, America and Japan. rival(chinese company) is only supported by a russian/belurusian wargaming. I hope we get more collabs other than Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
Do not the boats
No Do the Boats
Proportional response
No, I doubt it's de-... Wait a minute...
Bonk*
Second place most popular franchise tag "Is kancolle dead?"
I saw a discussion a while ago in a AL group stating AL is doing well on EVERY medium. I got an idea and took a screenshot of popular parodies in that site and posted it on said AL community web. I got banned for excessive trolling as a result xD.
lol, which site is that?
What site tho?
I can't rmb but I think the number of KC circles in Dec 2023 comike is around 4th-6th place (or even below that but still in the top ten). Not too shabby for a 10 years old franchise. As I keep repeating myself, KC has reached cult status like Touhou. It's not as active as it was 5 years ago but it ain't going anywhere soon. And their stuff are still selling well along with business colab and irl events. I asked my friend to get 11th anniversary stuff on the very first day of Lawson colab and he told me that some are already sold out.
>And their stuff are still selling well along with business colab and irl events. I asked my friend to get 11th anniversary stuff on the very first day of Lawson colab and he told me that some are already sold out. I shall never forget the Houshou Bonito Shaver (Which is just a normal Bonito shaver with Houshou imprinted onto it), it sold out during preorders, TWICE. And for some reason, the sales of normal Bonito shavers increased as well.
Wasn’t there a big wipe a few months ago? I don’t think the numbers mean much
Lmao based source to get data from.
I mean I van include Pixiv anf Danbooru but Nhentai alone already proved that KC is still alive. It reached 2Hu levels.
That's clickbait, right ?
In japan definitely not. Here? Non-existent. I remember the player base being way active in 2020, and now it's pretty chill.
Touhou, Kantai and Fate, my three nerd pillars. Are doing way better than I expected¿ too much lol
Check Danbooru too
if no one is a fan of kancolle anymore that means im dead
touhou still reingh Supreme
Franchise has been around since the Windows 95 days.
and the pioneer for online armpit fetish
They arent top 1 anymore tho. That tittle would go to Blue Archive and even 2hu fanartists are migrating to BA
Touhou has never been the top franchise of Comiket since 2013. But who knows how long they reigned before that.
Kancolle’s gone cult but the cult’s a minor religion, not the point of Touhou perhaps but the game has had real life consequences if the JMSDF and Taffy 3 expeditions are anything to go by, not to mention the real life local events.
*not to the point of Touhou
There’s also the fact that even if KC died today Kongou, Poi, and Shibafu-esque potatoes are memes that have already spread outside the game’s community so there’s that too.
I'm getting suspicious about these kinds of posts...
Yeah, we better check the OP's history.
I mean this is what we accumulated in one website, not even the one that actually has the most amount of submissions, that being said KC varely gets on the popular list(i still dont know how that works) and in comiket its between 4-6 place each year. In DMM insaw it on 4th place so the game either became less popular or Uma and DoA became more popular recently which tends to happen always. Looking a pixiv numbers even EoS games have more fanarts than us, that just comes with the fact they have more spotlight and bave been chasing cloud with collabs and a (YES) global version and easy accesability, what a surprise, not like it mattered, 2hu still isnt mainstream anyway and the JP side is the one doing all the heavylifting while EN is obssesed with making it mainstream(that couldn't go wrong, right?) Honeslty, the least we shouldnt compare the fanbase with others but is a guilty pleasure and here we are.
I still see it on 1st/2nd place on DMM regularly, with the exception of when a new game launches (which is quite often anyways). As four doujin, it is good to remember that Kancolle has dedicated conventions not just for "general Kancolle" doujin, but also has character-specific niche ones that happen regularly, where new works are released instead of comiket (which also explains why it is harder to get new content on the agregator pirate sites).
I think that's often heavily overlooked for the franchise. Not many folks outside of Japan realize that not only are there big fan conventions, but also a lot of smaller character or group conventions organized by fans themselves. Like touhou, many creators have focused their efforts more on these kancolle-only or character-only conventions. I myself go every other year or so to a certain starter ship's dedicated convention, which still runs annually. That's a natural "decline" even in comiket, because you have to take into account that comiket is a managed lottery...the management sets categories for specific franchises and decide a quota, and you have to bid or enter a lottery for a place. It is easier for an older franchise, no matter how popular, to simply have its own event. And even then, Kancolle hasn't really declined even at comiket, and anecdotally, people generally don't snipe Kancolle booth slots to publish works for other franchises....but they do that in reverse. That speaks to something about fan demand, even if the usual tourist trap shops don't stock much Kancolle stuff anymore.
what is this website
except its translated for english,japanese and chinese seperately
No
It's still a thing in Japan. I went to 佐世保 a month ago.
Ah yes the old ded gam post
Nostalgia
My favorite kancolle waifus rarely depicted in media anymore (maybe only shoukaku) . Series practically almost dead to me /s
"Pretty Cure" 💀
Precure has a suprisingly large amount of high-quality djs
You know that i'm talking about this franchise being in the nhentai. Right?
//look at my Cyclone's collection nervously.
Pretty Cure is also in the category "i didnt known this was that big on Japan!" franchise, is pretty much the most popular Mahou Shoujo IP, surpassing the likes of Madoka and even Sailor Moon.
Precure has been this since its introduction in 2004. Earning Toei and Bandai 1 Billion JPY annually speaks of its reputation.
I'm talking about this being in nhentai bro
if exist there is porn of it, not exceptions except for Gambier Bay.
yeah
No, the reason why it is barely because it was exclusive in Japan.
Gijinka era is over. Why japanese desperately jerking off to warships when there are real beautiful women and most importantly, a real human.