Akagi Squared is what you get when you create an Azur Lane fan comic, lay it out like an American newspaper strip and apply a Bill Wattersoneqsue, Calvin & Hobbes inspired sensibility to it:
Originally published on Reddit, the strip is now also available on Mangadex. The inspiration for this was an event in the game last year, in which for …reasons kid versions of some of the most popular ship girls were created. Ethan Forsythe took that idea and ran with it. Akagi-chan herself is a happy little floof who just wants the love of her big sister, but her original doesn’t want anything to do with her. One thing leads to another and she defects to the American faction.
Both the art style and the stories remind me of Bill Watterson’s work on Calvin & Hobbes. It has the same sort of anarchistic humour, just cuter. As it is a fan comic, it requires some knowledge of the game and its characters, but on the whole I feel you could enjoy it without this knowledge too.
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