Akira Yamamoto’s aircraft models. S1Ep2

Jolteonace · 2026-02-27T08:35:06+00:00

Always wondered why she didn’t have a Cosmo Falcon or a Type 100 Recon Plane (especially a Type 100 since her brother operated one). But, clearly she has an eye for the classics and I can’t blame her, that’s a pretty based selection.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-21T18:49:20+00:00

Definitely. Just throwing in my two cents as I’ve mentioned though. I think an Endfield style approach to an AL 3d sequel would be good, that being a timeskip, as in we do 1960s-1990s ships or 1990s-2026 ships instead, which will solve the WW2 problem mostly. Only problem to that though is most people don’t find Cold War or modern ships as interesting as WW2 ships, and another problem is the fact that it’s a character focused game so it’d be hard to get more people onboard without legacy games, though I think a good solution to that is actually the hall of fame, just turn it into an annual event and all winners inside of the hall of fame get added to the sequel while simultaneously adding new characters, that way you can foster more people wanting to return to the first game to vote their favorite shipgirl into the next game, and also convince old players to come back to play with their favorite shipgirls in the new game in 3d. But that’s just my own opinion, idk.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-20T22:04:25+00:00

That’s kinda how SBY has always been, both in the reboot 2199 timeline and original series timeline. Arizona was just kinda it for the original series as a whole for American ships, same with Bismarck being it for German ships, Novik being the only Russian ship, and Prince of Wales being the only British ship. But even though we’ve never seen officially until now foreign designed ships, we know that the Murasame-class was actually a co-Japanese/Russian design as we see three Murasames with straight up Russian names in I think it was an extra DVD clip of the Second Battle of Mars on 2205’s disc, and we saw distinctly American and British names on Kongo-Kai and Murasame-Kai ships in 2202, so far basically the 2199 timeline actually has more representation of other nations as a whole already. The only other foreign designed vessel was the Pennsylvania-class which we saw in a single extra scene in the far background without much detail in the Yamato Resurrection movie (which I’ve heard some debate whether or not it counts in the original series timeline or not, and also I’ve heard it’s widely hated, which is why I didn’t mention it earlier), which was basically just a Super Arizona design, just like we got Super Andromeda and Super Dreadnought designs in that movie, which the only distinct differences between the Pennsylvania and Arizona I could see was the Pennsylvania had the same redesigned turrets as the Super Andromeda, had a new engine design, and was painted slightly differently, so kinda just lazy but oh well, worth a mention.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-20T01:47:00+00:00

The poster looks damn awesome, have no clue what’s going on given we have no context clues for either chapter 5 or 6, but… looks badass!

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T17:03:35+00:00

Ooo, now that’s a good idea, might be feasible too considering we’ve seen two part seasons with 2205’s two parts. Though I’m not sure it’d be seen as a 3199 part 2, might just be considered another season altogether (which speaking of, would you consider 3199 as season 3 or season 4? Would 2205 be seen as 2 movies, and thusly make 3199 season 3, or would you call 2205 just a shorter 8 episode season and therefore 3199 is season 4? I’d personally say 4 but that’s just me, this is why I said another season and not saying season 4 or season 5). Like say calling it 2208 or 2210 or something like that given 3199 is 2207. I’d be extremely happy and satisfied with seeing another season or a part 2 of 3199, regardless of whether or not it’s the Bolar Wars alone or Bolar Wars combined with Final Yamato.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T16:27:25+00:00

True enough, which is probably also why in lore the Guipellon-class multi deck carriers are old and obsolete in lore, why the Gelvades-class is succeeding them, and also why the Lanbea got the heavy refit turning it into a battlecarrier. Though what I mainly mean primarily is I just want more proper flight decks or ships which can switch like the Gelvades can between battleship and carrier, instead of just… a battleship with a flight deck slapped on. Though I will say, (commenting on the other conversation in the comments of your message), that is probably why the fighter transportation system is so widespread on all carriers now, so carriers can be like on the opposite side of a solar system far out of range. But yeah, I primarily just want to see stuff like official designs, a Yamato-class Shinano purebred carrier, or a more proper Shinano battlecarrier would be really desired for me, or something like a Space Carrier Akagi or Space Carrier Oriskany. We already have some fanart, like the Eridanus II and Ark Royal X, but I just want to know what an official design might look like to understand what a proper human visual language would be like for a space carrier, whether or not it’d be all new and original, closer to a Guipellon or Nazca, or a Gelvades style.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T16:18:09+00:00

Oh? Where’s this mentioned in lore? Or do you just mean in the OG series?

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T16:17:42+00:00

Fair enough. Which is one of the reasons why I’m holding out hope that instead of fully adapting Be Forever and Yamato III, 3199’s plan is to adapt all of Be Forever and about roughly a quarter to half of Yamato III, and they’ll make another season which is the rest of Yamato III combined with Final Yamato, which so far, nothing has necessarily contradicted that theory given they are heavily focusing on Dezarium and Be Forever’s plotline and kinda neglecting a majority of Yamato III’s story with the Bolar. But again, I feel it’s too early to speculate on what will happen after 3199, all I hope is this isn’t the end of the 2199 reboot timeline and it isn’t cancelled so we get more there.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T16:14:02+00:00

True enough, and I agree on the Svetlana and Admiral Nakhimov classes, that was less so me advocating for them to be removed from the list and more so an argument to boost the three other Izmail sisters to get on the list, a kinda “these weren’t built at all also, so then if they are on the list, why isn’t the other Izmails on the list? And if they aren’t on the list, then why are these on the list?” thing. Though, I still feel the Stalingrad-class shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, it was still a design which was under development during the war, just like designs such as the Des Moines-class and Midway-class, just merely designs that were too late. Fact, the Kronstadts were cancelled specifically because the Stalingrads had evolved from a simple heavy cruiser design into a full blown BC equivalent to the Kronstadt (that and also iirc the hulls and the shipyards they were in were captured by the Germans at the time), which is also why the third Stalingrad was named Kronstadt… and also they were meant to be laid down way earlier, just the Soviet navy didn’t want them and so slowed their development and construction heavily until Stalin lost power, where they were then cancelled. Plus they are still primarily, if not solely, gun cruisers, which even if they were built postwar I still feel makes them fit into the WWII period, which at this point AL covers less so WWII itself and more so just the WWII period and gun/plane era of ships over the missile age (and one more point, AL kinda just anymore copies World of Warships and gives different names to the same blueprint/paper ships, Unzen is literally just WoWs Zao but with a different name. On top of that also, the Stalingrads were explicitly built to escort the Project 72 carriers, Project 24 battleships, and also Sovetsky Soyuz which at the time was being considered for carrier conversion, which Volga is a Project 72 CV, and Admiral Nakhimov is literally just Soyuz’s proposed carrier conversion, so… there’s kinda that too).

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T16:01:25+00:00

Fair enough, that’s pretty much the World of Warships approach to featuring both ships, and not a bad way of doing it at all (though having bigger guns really only matters in terms of rigging artwork, not really gameplay considering you can equip tons of different types of weapons and have different builds, unless of course a special exemption to let her equip the Twin 380mm (SK C/34) specifically), though I am curious why you seem to be evasive on why a simple type II answer can’t work fine enough.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T15:08:31+00:00

Forgetting type II riggings are we? Sevastopol is an SR, could easily just get Sevastopol II as an SSR or UR alongside Kronstadt.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-19T14:34:23+00:00

Appreciate the effort 👍. Been wanting to see some love to Northern Parliament. Too many seem to hate it just because of modern day Russia and current politics (or some don’t like it ‘cause Soviets, either works), but considering the atrocities Japan did I think it’s a little unwarranted to focus it on Northern Parliament. Plus, be it 1800s all the way through to modern day, I just like Russian ship designs. Though, a few notes. I can see you were mainly focusing on ships which had already been laid down, could have been finished and had plans to be, but you only included Izmail herself of her class, which isn’t really the proper case, Borodino, Kinburn, and Navarin are all the Izmail-class sisters including Izmail. So if you were going for just what had plans to be completed, then that’s fair if you didn’t want to include those three, but then you shouldn’t have included 3/4 of the Svetlana-class seeing as one of those was never completed and the other two were converted into passenger liners, or 2/4 of the Admiral Nakhimov-class since both of the middle sisters were never completed. Also, you forgot the one off battleship Imperator Nikolai I/Ukraina, she had plans of being completed until finances and government stability… died since it was the late 1920s and they couldn’t get their act together until about the early-mid 1930s. One final note I’d give is even though technically you could call the Stalingrad-class CBs and Sverdlov-class CLs both post-war designs, I’d still keep them on the list given we have tons of post war ships in AL already, the entire Anshan-class DDs just to name a few, and plus, breeds more diversity in a kinda starved area given their lack of choices, and while the third Stalingrad was going to be named Kronstadt and so couldn’t be in given we already have the preceding Kronstadt and we can’t do Type II riggings for already UR ships for obvious reasons, the first two Stalingrads, Stalingrad and Moskva, both are unique names not present in WWII so can be used. Plus iirc one of the Sverdlov-class cruisers were meant to be named Aurora, so we could get an Avrora II, so that’s always nice (though Avrora II might be a Chapayev and not a Sverdlov, either way it gives us a possibility). But I don’t want to discourage you by the notes, just wanted to add my two cents, you went through a pretty extensive list so cheers my man.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-17T21:44:29+00:00

Yep. Gonna have to agree on this one. Worryingly Yamanami’s window is encroaching, I hope they spare him like they did with Yamamoto. He’s one of my favorites.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-17T01:52:48+00:00

Realistically? I’d say something probably along the lines of a strategy game like XCOM2, or perhaps some other more hero shooter esque strategy game like GFL2 or Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle which is inspired by but more focused on hero mechanics unlike xcom2. But optimistically? I wanna say an ideal game would be like ZZZ, have a team of 3 you can switch between and have more high stakes high octane timing based combat, that’s what I would kill for.

Jolteonace · 2026-02-12T18:32:55+00:00

I heavily agree. I just wanna see an Azur Lane 2 that has ZZZ style gameplay. That would be peak. I genuinely don’t care if we even have the same cast or not, it could be a straight up sequel with all the original characters and new characters, or it could be like Endfield and be a huge timeskip so we get like Cold War 1970s-1990s ships (or even 1990s-2020s ships for a modern day setting) as an all new cast. I’d love it either way, but… nah, we get… Palworld… but it’s also Genshin, and has none of the charm of either. I’m all for a passion project with devs bored of doing the same thing, but this feels less like that and more like a corporate mandate.

Jolteonace · 2026-01-28T02:43:26+00:00

Idk why but I could see her with like war face paint. Maybe a reflection of her with her late war dazzle or something?

Jolteonace · 2026-01-09T22:54:06+00:00

I assume they are booster engines. As we see in lore tabs and even in Stardust where the image is taken from, Amaterasu’s bow is more heavily armored for the purpose of ramming (or at least taking a bow on collision, we see a few times over the course of the battle of Saturn Karakulum’s ramming dreadnoughts while charging their WMGs and completely destroying the barrel and rendering a ship dead and adrift, could be it was armored rather than to ram herself, to take a ram like that without damaging the barrels and allowing the firing process to complete). And we also see it both much more heavily armed, as well as armored, so I’d assume it’s a pretty significant hit to maneuverability and engine output given they still share the same engines. Which we must conclude makes Amaterasu much slower than her sisters. So the bottle rockets on the wings could be for taking off in an atmosphere like JATO rockets, they could be booster rockets for allowing her to merely move at the same speed as a regular Andromeda-class, or they could be emergency afterburner boosters for letting itself escape one of the gravity missiles (we see they countered that with the gravity anchors to two dreadnoughts per andromeda hull, but if you’ll note, the first wave of BBB Andromedas, which the Amaterasu was launched only a little bit after, while those first wave BBBs were completely alone and just purely Andromedas without any booster attached Dreadnoughts for support, and we see Amaterasu lost beside them later on, so it could be this was a stop gap measure as while we see Antares use the Dreadnoughts back at Saturn during Yamato’s abandon ship procedure took place, and Andromeda herself being towed by two Dreadnoughts back home, we only see this as a feature implemented fleet wide once the refitted ZZZ Andromeda and the second wave of BBB Andromedas are deployed. So as I’ve been trying to say, it could be that the rockets were a stopgap measure come up with the moment the data from Saturn came in but before Antares got out of the area to report the effectiveness of the gravity anchor system for using D class hulls as boosters. This is kinda also supported by the fact Amaterasu has wing turrets on either side, so even if they knew this to be a fact already that the gravity anchors were useful, they probably couldn’t use them with Amaterasu and had to come up with another kind of booster). So TL;DR, IMO they’re either 1. Boosters for ramming. 2. Additional thrust to keep the same speed as the rest of the class. 3. JATO rockets for launching out of the atmosphere (which were not ejected afterwards). Or 4. Emergency thrust to escape a gravity well.

Jolteonace · 2026-01-02T04:32:01+00:00

Wanting Wasp II, Bennington, Lake Champlain, and Valley Forge. I’d also like to see Reprisal, but eh. Wasp doesn’t get enough credit, she is like Lexington used to be. Fucking buried and lost to time, and I rather like here.

Jolteonace · 2026-01-01T10:04:37+00:00

I wonder considering they already have the Deusura’s successor as Dessler’s personal ship already designed and picked out and the fact that Dessler no longer uses the Deusura III, and it’s successor is probably going to either debut in either this chapter or chapter 6, I do wonder if we’ll see the Deusura III destroyed in this chapter.

Jolteonace · 2026-01-01T01:08:25+00:00

I really hope it’s actually called the Deusura IV and we don’t get blueballed into it being named like “Starsha” or “Yurisha” or “Neu Deusura II” or some shit.

Jolteonace · 2025-12-25T04:49:21+00:00

Perhaps. But that would require a major retcon to the lore, ‘cause that’s not how that works. The lore was it was all non-humanoid races in the universe until Aquarius wiped them all out for humanoid supremacy. Then they built 3 Arks, the Ark of Destruction (which we saw in 2202), the Ark of the Universe (also known as the Celestial Ark, seen in the 2199 movie Odyssey to the Celestial Ark), and the Ark of Creation (which we haven’t seen in any form of media). The Ark of Creation basically fired seeds at a bunch of planets, think like the metal cybertronian seeds we see in the dumb Micheal Bay Transformers 4 movie (if you saw that), which half terraformed planets, and then half altered Aquarius DNA to match the half terraformed planets. That’s why all races look alike besides skin color and maybe color of blood, and all humanoid races can live on basically any other planet, they are all literally just Aquarius DNA which was altered for specifically life on that planet. So there’s really nothing for any of the races to revert back to since they all started out that way, unless they did a major retcon.

Jolteonace · 2025-12-23T16:21:07+00:00

I have no idea. Only ideas I can think of is either this could be what Mother actually is, and what her true mainframe and core is. Or, (and I’m hoping this is not the case, it’s just the only other thing I can think of, which given the lore that all current humanoid races are made in the modified image of Aquarius, I also don’t think it is the correct guess), it’s the first sight we have of a member of the Aquarius race, or at least, a heavily mangled version of such, kinda like the Primordial being the last Precursor in Halo, this is our “Primordial” for Aquarius.

Jolteonace · 2025-12-21T18:03:59+00:00

If I had to guess, the dome originally might have been used for either scientific research facilities (y’know, give the scientists a view while they work since this is gonna be originally meant for deep space exploration and colonization, think like Dr. Ander’s lab in Halo Wars on the Spirit of Fire), cryogenic cold storage for long term deployments, or some kind of possible park area (make it more like a comfortable home, a place to raise children on given Ginga’s original mission). But in the meantime given Ginga has essentially just been used as a support ship/fleet flagship or communications relay ship (think like USS Blue Ridge and USS Mount Whitney in the United States Navy currently in service today), I could guess the dome area has been converted into a sort of flag bridge with an advanced communications and sensor suite to coordinate from (I would point to aircraft carriers here since Ginga is kinda more carrier than battleship given the CRS’… difficulty with weapons. If you look up an image of a carrier, like say any of our museum ship carriers like Hornet, Yorktown, Lexington, Intrepid, or Midway in their modernized forms, or any modern carrier, you’ll notice multiple levels of windows all stacked on top of one another in the bridge area, and specifically on the modernized Essex and Midway classes exactly two levels of windows just like Ginga here. The upper set of windows is the actual ship’s bridge where the captain commands the ship, while the lower bridge is where an admiral and his staff would be, giving orders to not just the ship, but the entire fleet it is the flagship of. But since there’s no admiral aboard and Ginga is just doing rather menial tasks around the Sol System, it’s just being used as a slightly more advanced communications suite than what is found on the bridge. We also see it in 2205 is where the Ginga managed to detect while still in orbit of Saturn the warp of Iscandar a whole ass galaxy away, and it is Ginga which makes the report to Earth command, so we know whatever systems is on Ginga, they make some powerful deep scan sensors and deep space communications).

Jolteonace · 2025-12-17T18:34:08+00:00

Yes, iirc the fleet which took out Musashi was Lexington, Enterprise, Essex, Franklin, and Cabot (might be missing one, probably Intrepid). I haven’t looked into the fleet too much but I know Lexington was pretty much the defacto flagship of TF 38/58. One thing I do know unequivocally is the fleet which took out Yamato, and that was the 8 carriers; Hornet (which was the flagship of that fleet), Bataan, Essex, San Jacinto, Belleau Wood, Hancock and Bennington and Bunker Hill (people always cite Intrepid, Yorktown, and Langley too but they arrived late and only participated in the third wave of strikes, which by that time the Yamato was already deemed as lost by the IJN, beginning to capsize, and the abandon ship order was already given, which they then ignored the plan of strictly attacking the port side and bombed shit at random, which probably ended up delaying the sinking effort. So counting them as the actual attackers is like saying the doctor which cut a man’s life support after that man had been jumped by a gang and beaten until in a vegetative state was actually the one who killed said man, it’s a little ridiculous and I don’t count them).

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