Our great senior, Mr. Kia Asamiya, has left many achievements and legacies in Japanese entertainment and science fiction. By chance, despite his busy schedule, he has agreed to participate in designing new ship girls to be implemented this summer. We are truly grateful.

However, there are people who are making thoughtless and unusual defamatory posts about Mr. Asamiya on social media. While there are hardly any such individuals among the domestic "admirals", regardless of who these people might be, the fact is that such slanderous posts have been confirmed.

Being unable to respect others, especially those who have made great contributions to content and entertainment, and engaging in actions that hurt them is clearly unacceptable to all of you "admirals". Moreover, it greatly differs from the concept of 'KanColle' itself and is absolutely intolerable.

We, along with Mr. Asamiya, have already begun analyzing and taking legal measures against this defamation with our lawyers. There seems to be a certain pattern among the attackers. We will continue to address this issue in cooperation with Mr. Asamiya and related organizations.

We sincerely apologize for bringing up such a topic on this joyous summer festival day.