Shuba?

Shuba.

SHUBA!

Despite the fact that she looks like a certain bird vtuber, I am more hyped with Mimorin finally entering the Azur Lane.

Subaru has the most generic and grounded design, there are tons of TONS of characters with a similar design, we can't go around comparing all of those to Subaru.

Sigfried666 said:

Subaru has the most generic and grounded design, there are tons of TONS of characters with a similar design, we can't go around comparing all of those to Subaru.

People are bound to always compare things to someone who is popular, even if said popular person isn't actually unique, whether you like it or not.

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game2009 said:

People are bound to always compare things to someone who is popular, even if said popular person isn't actually unique, whether you like it or not.

I guess...
But it's like the only point of note for this character in an Azur Lane x SSSS. event being closely resembling an entirely unrelated franchise.
Why?

Sigfried666 said:

I guess...
But it's like the only point of note for this character in an Azur Lane x SSSS. event being closely resembling an entirely unrelated franchise.
Why?

Hololive is 'in' right now, and Azur Lane has never been shy about having parodies of other IPs.

IMO we didn't get Rikka squad because they wanted a shuba, at least it wasn't the priority reason. My guess is Anosillus 2nd doesn't have enough waifu-points/not shaggable enough. Namiko and Hass are at least high school girls. Hell, despite appearing in both series (albeit in different designs), she doesn't have nearly as much fanart on pixiv as Rikka's friends. Hass has roughly twice hers, and Namiko has roughly twice Hass's.

AL's first two collectible collabs (Neptunia and Uta) both had six collab ships, but the three that came after (Hololive, DoA VV and iM@S) all had seven collab ships, so it also could have been a numbers/profit thing.

Most importantly, people like finding reasons to poke at things people are emotionally invested and baiting for cope/seeth reactions, so there's that.

koltiron said:

Hololive is 'in' right now, and Azur Lane has never been shy about having parodies of other IPs.

IMO we didn't get Rikka squad because they wanted a shuba, at least it wasn't the priority reason. My guess is Anosillus 2nd doesn't have enough waifu-points/not shaggable enough. Namiko and Hass are at least high school girls. Hell, despite appearing in both series (albeit in different designs), she doesn't have nearly as much fanart on pixiv as Rikka's friends. Hass has roughly twice hers, and Namiko has roughly twice Hass's.

AL's first two collectible collabs (Neptunia and Uta) both had six collab ships, but the three that came after (Hololive, DoA VV and iM@S) all had seven collab ships, so it also could have been a numbers/profit thing.

Most importantly, people like finding reasons to poke at things people are emotionally invested and baiting for cope/seeth reactions, so there's that.

Azure Lane's age appearance go from kindergarteners to matured adults, so being high schoolers probably has nothing to do with this, though you probably aren't implying that is the real reason they got in over Anosillus II.

We can't also put all the responsibility on Manjuu, it's a crossover, so Trigger also had their say in it.
We won't figure the reason why Anosillus II isn't in the crossover with simple conjecture.
We'd need real internal data to understand how the crossover was planned and decided.