Azur Lane's characters skins implications

BUR #15941 has been approved by @evazion.

create implication kursk_(lone_wolf_amid_the_steam)_(azur_lane) -> kursk_(azur_lane)

Since we went through the K-name shipgirls and Sevastopol's onsen skin had been dealt with (with Voroshilov to follow), we forgot Kursk's onsen skin in the implication BUR.

BUR #15942 has been approved by @evazion.

T-V

BUR #15944 has been approved by @evazion.

W-Z

Woohoo, now PR ships, and few small mistakes and I am free

The bulk update request #15941 (forum #236949) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #15942 (forum #236950) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #15944 (forum #236955) has been approved by @evazion.

BUR #15957 has been approved by @evazion.

PR ships + new Grozny skin

Almost 900 sins done.
Okay, now onto mistakes I've noticed and haven't touched, because I am lazy like that

1. Taihou's red dress is "forbidden feast" in JP but "forbidden fruit" How did we miss this? This is literally one of the most popular skins in AL fanart.
2. yamakaze's skin "magic_time_standby should be "Now for a magic trick"
3. Last is a bit weirder. Probably a genuine screw up during grand AL skin renaming thread. According to wiki "Sardegnian Shallows and Sunshine" is the bikini skin while "A Sip of Sardegnian Elegance" is the white dress. On booru, aquila_(a_sip_of_sardegnian_elegance) is the bikini skin while aquila_(green_garden_elegant_sadia) is the dress skin

P.S. Should META boats really be attached to their OG char? I assume no objections regarding muse versions.
P.P.S. Collab skins should be for communities of the game that collabed with AL to decide if they want to attach

Aken_Bosch said:

Almost 900 sins done.
Okay, now onto mistakes I've noticed and haven't touched, because I am lazy like that

1. Taihou's red dress is "forbidden feast" in JP but "forbidden fruit" How did we miss this? This is literally one of the most popular skins in AL fanart.
2. yamakaze's skin "magic_time_standby should be "Now for a magic trick"
3. Last is a bit weirder. Probably a genuine screw up during grand AL skin renaming thread. According to wiki "Sardegnian Shallows and Sunshine" is the bikini skin while "A Sip of Sardegnian Elegance" is the white dress. On booru, aquila_(a_sip_of_sardegnian_elegance) is the bikini skin while aquila_(green_garden_elegant_sadia) is the dress skin

P.S. Should META boats really be attached to their OG char? I assume no objections regarding muse versions.
P.P.S. Collab skins should be for communities of the game that collabed with AL to decide if they want to attach

META ships is a tricky case. They share the same name as "OG" ships but Azur Lane's dev does not considerate them as the same character unlike other version of the same character (Muse, II) and they can't share skins with "OG" version.
If I understand correctly (Azur Lane's lore is way too convoluted) each META ship come from a different timeline and each of them seem to be the last survivor of their respective timeline.
I don't know if Meta boats should be atttached to their OG char. (if this is the case then a code_g_(azur_lane) -> enterprise_(azur_lane) implication should be created)

Aken_Bosch said:
P.P.S. Collab skins should be for communities of the game that collabed with AL to decide if they want to attach

Then we'd also consider Hololive's vtubers had collab skins but we never bestowed tags onto them. post #3699077, for example, should have the tag shirakami_fubuki_(beachside_fox) and that would be implied to Shirakami Fubuki, but it would mean every post on the archive portraying her wearing the swimsuit, including the non-collab arts, would be tagged. We got topic #23520 on that whole subject matter so at least the vtuber side is being taken care of, not minding the fact that we'd have to submit implication BURs for those at some point.

As previously said, let's leave it to the DB builders/contribs involved in those franchises (Hyperdimension Neptune, DOA, IMAS, Gridman, Atelier Ryza) to decide since we only started placing skin name tags from DOA onward.

The bulk update request #15957 (forum #236999) has been approved by @evazion.

BUR #16000 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

From the point of view of game lore muse characters and standard are same shipgirls. (Like II versions which are connected) They share skins as well

Since someone made gem (azur lane) tag. I suggest creating implication to red gemstone tag

denliner27 said:

META ships is a tricky case. They share the same name as "OG" ships but Azur Lane's dev does not considerate them as the same character unlike other version of the same character (Muse, II) and they can't share skins with "OG" version.
If I understand correctly (Azur Lane's lore is way too convoluted) each META ship come from a different timeline and each of them seem to be the last survivor of their respective timeline.
I don't know if Meta boats should be atttached to their OG char. (if this is the case then a code_g_(azur_lane) -> enterprise_(azur_lane) implication should be created)

Long time player, but I somewhat stopped with trying to understand the lore and the story because it's all over the place. There's a video that explains the lore of the game, in order, up to events just prior to Shimakaze's premier event.

META ships were a creation from an alternative timeline, and I believe Code G (Enterprise META) was the first of such creations, followed by Ember (Takao META)... but then I've seen CG for Bon Homme Richard who may actually be the first ever to have a META form as well as the first ever KANSEN or something. (I'd have to re-read some of the OP Siren notes, there are mentions of Bon Homme specifically in there.)

Since there are Sirens of other timelines, as noted by Observer and Observer Zero, there seems to be some sort of "alliance" of sorts occasionally between the Ashes and Sirens. But it's real muddy because I don't really understand the story half the time.

For the issue at hand, I'd leave the META ships as a separate entry. Part of my reasoning is because the regular girls have their own personality, say Fusou or Yamashiro, but their META variants are completely different entities. One can see this with Helena as well. Some other girls I haven't dug into their voice lines, but personality differences may be less noticeable on some of them.

As for Muse and II ships, I'm fine with those implications as they are virtually the same ships. Though the II ships are more of a modern iteration of the same class of ship, by WWII standards anyway.

The bulk update request #16000 (forum #237231) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

How to correctly fix the little mistake regarding Aquila's bikini skin?
As I understand, it her correct name is aliased to the current name, so
step 1) it should be unalised
2) renaming (not aliasing) all current tagged arts to correct name
3) aliasing current dress skin to it's correct EN name (which is currently her bikini skin tag on booru)
Can it be done in 1 BUR, or does it have to be 3 separate?

BUR #16574 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create implication akagi_(precipice_of_sweetness)_(azur_lane) -> akagi_(azur_lane)
create implication mikasa_(beauty_in_indigo)_(azur_lane) -> mikasa_(azur_lane)

New skins, new implication. This forum topic would be our go-to for all AL skin implications and aliases from here on.
P.S. Didn't include the new DOA collab skins since we haven't resolved the case of collab characters yet

The bulk update request #16574 (forum #240211) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

BUR #17171 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

May 2023 Event BUR, in order of listing from the EN patch notes.

The bulk update request #17171 (forum #242851) has been approved by @nonamethanks.