About
Moderately-Damaged Myoukou, also known as “Myoukou Pose”, refers to a series of parody photoshopped images utilizing an illustration of Myoukou[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection (KanColle). A vast amount of parody images had been created on Twitter with its own hashtag between October 2013 and early 2014.
Origin
In KanColle gameplay, dedicated illustrations of injured fleet girls are inserted when they suffer small/moderate/massive damages during the battles, and most of them are sexually suggestive illustrations depicting their condition after being caught the blast. However, those of several fleet girls drawn by a Japanese illustrator bob[2] are known for its non-standard rendition which depicts the moment of explosions dynamically. Among them, the moderately-damaged Myoukou getting blown from the behind is known as the the most epic one.
Left: Typical Damaged Fleet Girl (eg. Kongou[3]) | Right: Moderately-Damaged Myoukou
Spread
In the Japanese anonymous textboard community 2channel, many photoshopped images parodying fleet girls have been continually posted to the main thread series for KanColle in /gameswf/ (browser/smartphone games) board since the summer of 2013. Moderately-damaged Myoukou acrobatic pose and tortured expression which can be construed as sexual ecstasy was sometimes used as a resource in 2channel as well as many other fleet girls illustrations, but it wasn’t particularly notable one.
Early Photoshopped Myoukou Images in 2channel
What made moderately-damaged Myoukou parody increase explosively was a hashtag “#Myoko-ClassCrappyCollageGrand-Prix” (#妙高型クソコラグランプリ)[4] which came to circulate on Twitter around the middle of October 2013. Many ordinary internet users came to notice the epicness of her by the hashtag and joined onto it by their own “crappy” photoshopped images. This Twitter trend was soon covered by affi-blogs dedicated to the online game[5][6] and naver matome pages.[7] Additionally, dozens of parody illustrations inspired by moderately-damaged Myoukou were created on pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga tagged under the hashtag[8] and other names such as “Myoukou Mode” (妙高状態)[9] or “Myoukou Jump” (妙高飛び).[10]
However, this fad of Moderately-Damaged Myoukou on Twitter didn’t last so long because people soon got tired of the fleet girl who was overused in so many boring photoshopped images in a quite short period. It began losing its momentum gradually around the spring of the following year, and ended when people’s concern moved to her “Kai 2” version in July, 2014.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
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[2]びよんびよん堂 (bob’s official page, Japanese)
[4]Twitter – Search results for the hashtag #妙高型クソコラグランプリ
[5]艦これまとめ主義 – 【艦これ】あなたが選ぶ！輝け！第一回 妙高型クソコラグランプリ！！【画像１００枚】 / Posted on 10-24-2013 (Japanese)
[6]艦これまとめ主義 – 【艦これ】あなたが選ぶ！輝け！第２回 妙高型クソコラグランプリ！！【画像１８２枚】 / Posted on 01-04-2014 (Japanese)
[7]NAVER matome – 【艦これ】 #妙高型クソコラグランプリ が破壊力高すぎて草不可避ｗ / Posted on 10-22-2013 (Japanese)
[8]pixiv – Search results for the tag 妙高型クソコラグランプリ
[9]pixiv – Search results for the tag 妙高状態
[10]Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag 妙高飛び (Japanese)