I've Got a Strange Question About the USS Guam (CB-2)

OK, there's a Japanese web-browser game called "Kancolle" (or "Kantai Collection"), which features players organizing fleets of warships anthropomorphized as moe girls. (Don't ask me to explain it, between this and things like Girls und Panzer, I suspect a long-suppressed Japanese militarism bubbling to the surface in an odd way, but that's just me playing Junior Freud.)

Anyhow, one of the criticisms of the game from non-Japanese fans was that it only contained Japanese ships. (I gather that this has subsequently begun to change a little.) Anyway, a Chinese company created a knock-off of this games called "Zhan Jian Shao Nyu" (or "Warship Girls"). This game contains a wider range of ships from both Axis and Allied powers. (There's a Turkish ship. too.)

In both games, the ship/girl characters will have some characteristics that reflect the real-life ship that they represent. So, now we get down to my question. Below is a picture of the "warship girl" corresponding to the U.S.S. Guam (CB-2). Now, assuming a reason beyond just "random nuttiness", why would the game creators have portrayed her having what looks like a keyboard?

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Captain Comics December 4, 2015 at 11:17am

Never having heard of the USS Guam, I can't answer your question. I just want to register my gape-mouthed brain freeze at seeing this image.
The Baron December 4, 2015 at 12:01pm

You understand of course that that's not even remotely the weirdest thing I've ever seen during my exploration of Japanese popular culture. There's stuff I wouldn't dare to post about here.

That said, I am genuinely curious about that keyboard.
Randy Jackson December 4, 2015 at 12:08pm

So she can play some tasty tunes while she's firing off all of those guns in random directions because there's no way those legs could support her?

*I got nuthin'
The Baron December 4, 2015 at 12:18pm

There's a "buoyancy" joke in there, somewhere.
Randy Jackson December 4, 2015 at 4:10pm

Actually, considering this comes from Japan, she looks surprisingly less buoyant than one would expect.
The Baron December 4, 2015 at 4:27pm

Randy Jackson said:

Actually, considering this comes from Japan, she looks surprisingly less buoyant than one would expect.

I don't know how much difference it makes, but this picture is from the Chinese knock-off.
Randy Jackson December 7, 2015 at 9:29am

I haven't read many Chinese comics, but I think they like buoyancy just as much as the Japanese.

The Baron said:

I don't know how much difference it makes, but this picture is from the Chinese knock-off.

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