

As of April 2015, the game is available in Japan only and has 3 million registered players. Gameplay involves all aspects of naval warfare, including not only combat but also maintenance, repair, upgrading, resupply, morale, logistics and mission planning. Originally, all of these were Japanese, but ships from other nations have also been added as the game has developed. The central theme of the game is the representation of World War II warships personified as teenage girls and young adult women with personality characteristics reflecting the history of each ship. 'Fleet Collection'), abbreviated as KanColle ( 艦これ, KanKore), is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by Kadokawa Games and published by DMM.com.

Kantai Collection ( Japanese: 艦隊これくしょん, Hepburn: Kantai Korekushon, lit.
