I just completed watching episode 1 of Kantai Collection (more info here)...

The animation was beautiful, but leaves much most of the cast (the source material has over 150 characters) off-screen or in cameos...

The story revolves around Fubuki as she joins the fleet as a newbie...

A comment that I can make on how the anime handled this is that the supposed admiral/commander of the fleet is a shitty admiral... He sent off a level 1 ship to an event map (the enemies that appeared match that of an event that happened in the game), equipped them with weak equipment, and expected them to sink the enemy in a single run...

This anime sort of requires some prior knowledge of the game's lore and some WWII history to fully enjoy it...

Even with these complaints, the first ep was good enough to have me wanting the next episodes already...

for now, enjoy Mustuki's pouting face...