When your favourite work of fiction has two shrine maidens in it, one of whom is the main character and the other is your favourite, you're not going to take the equivalent from its effective rival lying down, are you?
I was expecting the anime to be at least alright. The characters were what I thought would offend me. But it was the other way round. There just seems to be no flair to it whatsoever. It's a Toyota Corolla among anime. Whereas since I didn't know the mains that well, their personalities were extremely obnoxious but not offensive as such. The only one that I really took offence to was Kongou, for reasons set well outside the anime. Shimakaze would have followed suit if she had really featured.
Also, they are 'ships'. How else do they get over water? Who are you, Team Magma? IGN?! (7.8/10 - too much water?)
And yes, of course. They've gone down the money approach and like most anime coming from a franchise such as this you're not supposed to expect miracles. But you never know. It could have been a total deconstruction of the genre and been revered as one of the great anime of today. Stranger things have happened. If it went like that, I might have even liked it. Well, if the deconstruction in question involved the total suffering of all the characters involved, at any rate. But honestly. Just drop one of those Abyssals right onto the high school girls, force their lives into immediate jeopardy and you've got yourself something interesting, rather than just an anime. Please note I do not wish to condone this fate upon all characters in fiction; you know the score with me and this lot though
