1st Battleship of the Kongo-Class from Jamaica

About

The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica (Japanese: ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦, Jamaica Kara Yattekita Kongō-gata Ichibankan), also called as "Jamai-Kan" (ジャマイ艦) and "Jan-Gou" (ジャンゴウ or ジャン剛), refers to a fanmade fleet "guy" inspired by Kongou^[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection. This funky Jamaican has played a conspicuous part in the KanColle fandom since October, 2013.

Origin

This character was born from an illustration posted to pixiv by user Jugem-T^[2] on October 5th, 2013.^[3] According to the descriptions of the post, his illustration titled "The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica" was inspired by a description in a popular Kancolle doujin book "Haruna^[4] has so white skin". He construed that it means the rest of the Kongō-class sisters are not fair skin, but are dark skin. And he had a flash of inspiration of this dark-skinned Kongō-class fleet "guy".

Additionally, the creator also explained his characteristics in the descriptions:

• Calls the admiral as "Brother" or "Bro".
• Sorties arming with a sound system instead of weapons and carrying a huge boombox on his shoulder
• Plays Reggae music during battles.
• Calls battles as "Sound Clash"
• Smokes marijuana at the dock, but never allows it to other fleet girls.
• Perhaps gets along well with Tenryuu.^[5]

Spread

Inspired by that Jugem-T's startling idea, a bot account of The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica was launched on Twitter on October 12th, 2013.^[6] His funky Jamaican-English tweets based on the creator's settings succeeded to earn over 12,000 followers in its first year, and led to substantial increase in illustrations in pixiv^[7] and Nico Nico Seiga^[8] and Miku Miku Dance^[9] in Nico Nico Douga.^[10]

In addition, cosplay costumes for The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica has been already released for both males and females in the following month^[11], and cosplayers wearing it are often found on Comiket and doujin conventions dedicated to Kantai Collection.

Appeal from the Creator

The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica is sometimes received nonsensical criticisms from people who misunderstand him as a parody of Kongou or the Jamaican version of her. The twitter account has constantly tweet an appeal from the creator not to mix him up with the fleet girl.^[12]

Translation:

Yah-man. I'm not Kongou. I AM THE 1ST BATTLESHIP OF THE KONGŌ-ClASS FROM JAMAICA. OK? DO NOT MIX UP, BRO.

Various Examples

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Illustrations

Cosplays

Search Interest

External References

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