Subculture as a cultural phenomenon originally rose around 1900 in marginalized social groups in big cities like New York and Chicago. From 1950, mass media created a new subculture landscape by forming youth culture like Punk and Hippie. Different from the West, the Eastern world developed their own post-war subcultural phenomena. "Otaku" originally refers to "your home" in Japanese. However, as the ACG (animation, comic and game) industry developed quickly in Japan from the 1970s, this word came to indicate those deeply interested in ACG materials, who formed a new youth subcultural group.

Producers in ACG industry often integrate different types of cultural materials into the same intellectual property. Fleet Girls Collection also have its own game and anime series to which models and figures are to be added soon. If you feel interested in this topic, here are some relevant sources that will tell more about these beautiful fighting girls. What's more, to further understand these subcultural phenomena of Otaku, academic sources are provided, too.

Two seemingly opposite phenomena appear: on the one hand, it seems beautiful girls occupy the center of consuming desire in Otaku group; on the other hand, discussions from the producers themselves tell us they may prefer to convey deeper historical knowledge to players through a seemingly very superficial method.