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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".

Created by "Jugem-T":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=396342 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38935584

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]

Created by "Jugem-T":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=396342 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=39496904

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

Videos

Left: Moymoy Palaboy's "Everbody" | Right: Cute – "Kiss Me Aishiteru"

Illustrations

Created by "Gentle_Wolf":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=754130 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=40336206

Created by "１３２":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=7178 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=39925917

Created by " ライ":http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/user/illust/19023073 via "Nico Nico Seiga":http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im3983009

Created by "Gia":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=34624 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=40218053

Created by "ワニ三":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1475551 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=39727575

Created by "モゲ":http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=665584 via "pixiv":http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=45962602

Cosplays

By "@Acoi_Sin":https://twitter.com/Acoi_Sin via "Twitter":https://twitter.com/Acoi_Sin/statuses/404513719796781056

Search Interest

External References

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^[1] Kancolle Wiki – Kongou

^[2] pixiv – 「Jugem-T」s Profile

^[3] pixiv – 「ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型１番艦」/「Jugem-T」 / Posted on 10-05-2013

^[4] Kancolle Wiki – Haruna

^[5] Kancolle Wiki – Tenryuu

^[6] Twitter – ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型１番艦 (@Jamaican_Kongo) / Launched on 10-12-2013 (Japanese)

^[7] pixiv – Search results for the tag ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦

^[8] Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦

^[9] Nico Nico Seiga – 【MMD】ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型１番艦 Hey! So? セット追加 / PiT / Posted on 10-27-2013 (MMD model data, Japanese)

^[10] niconico Douga – Search results for the tag ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦

^[11] Amazon.co.jp – cos1051艦これジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦コスプレ衣装 (Japanese)

^[12] pixiv – 「提督「ドロップでジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦出た」」/「Jugem-T」 / Posted on 11-02-2013

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