

A PlayStation Vita game was released in February 2016, and an anime television series aired its first season from January to March 2015, with an animated film released in November 2016, and a second season that will premiere in November 2022. The game has developed into a much larger media franchise various media including multiple manga series and light novels have been released, in addition to an officially licensed tabletop role-playing game. An Android client of the original game was released in 2016. As of April 2015, the game is available in Japan only and has 3 million registered players.


Gameplay involves all aspects of naval warfare, including not only combat but also maintenance, repair, upgrading, resupply, morale, logistics and mission planning. Originally, all of these were Japanese, but ships from other nations have also been added as the game has developed. The central theme of the game is the representation of World War II warships personified as teenage girls and young adult women with personality characteristics reflecting the history of each ship. 'Fleet Collection'), abbreviated as KanColle ( 艦これ, KanKore), is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by Kadokawa Games and published by DMM.com. Kantai Collection ( Japanese: 艦隊これくしょん, Hepburn: Kantai Korekushon, lit.
