Kantai Collection
2013 Japanese browser video game and its franchise
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| March 2023 | Second Kantai Collection anime season concluded its broadcast run. |
| November 2022 | Second season of the Kantai Collection anime television series premiered, continuing the franchise's animated storytelling. |
| July 10 2019 | Miki Morinaga's manga becomes available on Comic Walker. |
| January 4 2019 | Announcement of a second Kantai Collection anime season featuring Japanese destroyer Shigure as the main character. |
| 2018 | Kantai Collection's Kaga character became a mascot for the new JS Kaga, participating in the Indo Southeast Asia Deployment (ISEAD) exercise, sailing to the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka. |
| November 10 2018 | Miki Morinaga begins manga serialization in Comptiq, featuring a story about Gambier Bay, Tashkent, and Commandant Teste learning bartending skills. |
| 2016 | Android client of the original Kantai Collection game launched, increasing mobile accessibility for players. |
| November 2016 | Kantai Collection animated film released, further expanding the franchise's multimedia presence. |
| February 2016 | PlayStation Vita game version of Kantai Collection released, expanding the game's platform availability. |
| 2015 | The new JS Kaga (Izumo-class helicopter carrier destroyer) was launched, with Kantai Collection staff sharing official art of the game's Kaga character holding a scale model of the new ship. |
| March 2015 | First season of the Kantai Collection anime television series aired, bringing the game's characters to animated format. |
| January 2015 | First Kantai Collection anime television series began airing, animated by Diomedéa, directed by Keizou Kusakawa, and featuring the original game's voice cast. |
| May 27 2014 | A manga series by Hiroichi began serialization in Dengeki Daioh, focusing on the heavy cruisers Kumano and Suzuya. |
| March 28 2014 | A Weiß Schwarz trading card game expansion based on Kantai Collection was released, selling 1.7 million packets in its first shipment. |
| March 22 2014 | Sau Nitō and Sōta Wakui begin a webcomic serialization on Comic Walker, focusing on Kantai Collection gameplay. |
| January 9 2014 | Yasuhiro Miyama begins manga serialization in Comp Ace, focusing on the Akatsuki sisters. |
| 2013 | Kantai Collection launched as a browser video game in Japan, introducing a unique multimedia franchise featuring anthropomorphized warships as female characters. |
| December 27 2013 | A manga series by Kazuma Yamazaki began serialization in Dengeki Maoh magazine. |
| December 24 2013 | An Arpeggio of Blue Steel in-game special event for Kantai Collection began, running until January 8, 2014. |
| December 14 2013 | Ryōta Momoi's 4koma manga begins release in print book format. |
| December 9 2013 | A manga by Nanaroku began serialization in Age Premium, with Inazuma as the main character. |
| November 9 2013 | SASAYUKi begins manga serialization in Comptiq, focusing on battleship Kongō's adventures. |
| October 2013 | Ryōta Momoi's manga began weekly updates. |
| October 28 2013 | Kensuke Tanaka and Sakae Saitō begin manga serialization in Monthly Comic Alive, featuring an original story about Tenryū and Tatsuta. |
| September 2013 | A collaborative project between Kantai Collection and the Arpeggio of Blue Steel anime was announced, with Kantai Collection illustrators creating anime end cards featuring crossover characters. |
| August 23 2013 | Tadashi Mizumoto begins a webcomic on the Famitsu website focusing on Kantai Collection gameplay aspects. |
| July 9 2013 | Famitsu Comic Clear introduced a manga adaptation by Shōtarō Harada. |
| April 23 2013 | Ryōta Momoi began serializing a bi-monthly online web manga in Famitsu Comic Clear, featuring fleet girls in a school setting with senior girls teaching battle techniques. |
| April 23 2013 | Kantai Collection browser game officially launched by Kadokawa Games and DMM.com, introducing personified World War II warships as characters in a free-to-play web browser game. |
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