Boatylicious
In your capacious Western home you probably have *two* display cases for prizes you have won in UFO catchers: one for the Japanese schoolgirl figurines and one for the model aircraft-carriers.
In Tokyo, space is at a premium, so Kantai Collection helpfully combines teens and warships in one weirdly sexualised miniature.
KanColle cleverly explores the trials of adolescence through simultaneous existence as a simpering waif and as a weaponised megastructure.
This raises metaphysical questions – indeed, logistical questions – which we would all do well to think about. 🤔
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people