The two Scharnhorst

So these things happened after I'm sunk...

oh my god

Scharn also got killed...

Scharn ? You mean Scharnhorst ?

isn't "oh my god" English?

She's Bismarck's friend ?

You know Scharn ?

the artist don't know German

I know it. So Scharn's deeds are known even to Japan

Even to Japan ?

Well, she's in Japan after all

What!? Scharn went on expedition to Japan ?

Even with the Yamato class you're still short on battleship ? Just how bad is the Pacific anyway ?

She's converted to aircraft carrier on December 1943

Heh!? But I just read in the book that she's sunk in December 1943... Battle of the North Cape, December 26th 1943

Eh ? But you said aircraft carrier ? That's scary. Just how important has aircraft battle became anyway ?

No, no, she sunk much later

And in Japan her name is Shin'you

Naturalized ?

The girl Bismarck talk about is the battleship Scharnhorst, built by Germany after WW1. A famous ship with many "cursed ship"-style anecdotes attached to it.

The girl Zuikaku is talking about is Scharnhorst the German ocean liner. She's berthed in Kobe port when WW2 breaks out, making her unable to go home to Germany, so the IJN bought her. After the Battle of Midway, she's then converted into aircraft carrier and enrolled into IJN fleet as the Taiyou-class carrier Shinyou.

The History of Another Universe