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The Blue Mermaids are coming!
Two sweet ships from the anime High School Fleet hit the Premium Shop next week: the tier VIII Japanese destroyer HSF Harekaze and tier VI German cruiser HSF Graf Spee.
The Fleet Arrives
July 10 at 04:20 PT (07:20 ET)
Commanders of the Fleet
Each ship comes with a cool Commander from the anime that can take command of any ship of her nation. Want your Yamato helmed by a schoolgirl or think your Tirpitz needs more pink? You’re in luck!
Both Commanders have Executive Officers voiced by talent from the anime! We sat down with them to learn more about their work:
Meet “Mashiro Munetani” – Interview with Lynn
What kind of character is Mashiro?
Mashiro is a calm, diligent Executive Office of the Kagero-class destroyer Harekaze. Despite her earnestness, bad luck seems to follow her everywhere she goes!
Do you have a behind-the-scenes story to share? How about a favorite line you recorded?
Recording the line “Enemy Aircraft Carrier” was very inspiring, since the anime didn’t have any aircraft carriers. For that same reason, recording the line for air groups made me a little bit nervous.
What was different about recording for World of Warships compared to High School Fleet?
In the anime, Mashiro rarely had any lines with military terms since other members of the crew gave most of the orders. I was nervous, but also had fun performing those lines as Mashiro!
Meet “Wilhelmina” aka “Mina” – Interview with Hiromi Igarashi
What kind of character is Mina?
Wilhelmina is the Executive Officer of Graf Spee. She’s worked with the Harekaze crew ever since her rescue while under attack. Since she learned Japanese through hard-boiled action dramas, she uses some Hiroshima dialect in her vocabulary.
Do you have a behind-the-scenes story to share? How about a favorite line you recorded?
Our staff supervised some phrases that needed to be read with German pronunciation. We also recorded the same phrases several times using my normal tone, a Mina-like tone, and several other patterns. My clips of choice were definitely the lines spoken in Mina’s unique tone!
What was different about recording for World of Warships compared to High School Fleet?
The major difference is that, unlike in the anime, Mina would actually be aboard the Graf Spee. Even though her lines are all spoken in Japanese, I had to act is if Mina was communicating fluently in German. Because of this, many of her Japanese phrases lack her usual accent and sound very clear. I volunteered to play several parts in Mina’s tone during the recording!
