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The Anniversary discussion is quite similar to the May 28 2020 Famitsuu interview, you can skim most of this.

The signs of tsuyu were everywhere this season as the Comptiq Editorial Department made our customary visit to Producer Tanaka at KanColle Management Naval District C2 Preparat! Just how did our editorial department, without their bread and cafe au lait, do!?

Feelings as KanColle heads towards its eighth year at sea!
Interviewer (I): Comptiq here! Thank you for having us! Since we're discussing anniversary plans, I suppose I should speak formally from here. Congratulations on KanColle's seventh anniversary.
Producer/Director Tanaka Kensuke (T): Thank you. KanColle began in April 2013 and is now welcoming its seventh anniversary this April as it enters the first quarter of its eighth year. We have been able to run and develop KanColle far longer than we had originally hoped for. I extend my heartfelt thanks to the many Admirals who have loved their shipgirls, to the many, many people starting with our Admirals who have been moved by and supported KanColle.
This is 2020... roughly ten years ago, KanColle emerged in a prototype formas something of an extension of my own hobbies. The vessels and fleets that once cut through waves on the sea, that dashingly strided across it. And the ships and people that struggled in difficult conditions when the war took a turn for the worse and bitterly and regretfully sank beneath the waves. I started making KanColle out of a desire to share their existences, make sure they weren't forgotten. Who would've thought that in the Heisei and Reiwa eras we live in, so many would come to love and, miraculously, form many happy relationships with the shipgirls, who with their support continue to cross the seas for an eighth year? The shipgirls must truly be happy. Comptiq readers, and the Comptiq Editorial Department, have been supporting KanColle and her shipgirls since the first year. Once again, thank you very much.

I: It has become quite a long relationship, hasn't it? It's us who should be thanking you! While continuing for long might not be your objective per se, a tenth year is well within sight. It's rare for a franchise to remain active for close to ten years, and indicates it's very special. What do you make of this?
T: Those working with us didn't have such high expectations either at the beginning. It was the kind of plan where a year of operation would have been more than satisfactory. But Inoue-san over at Kadokawa [currently a Senior VP] and his people always had our back, rain or shine, and gave us many warm words of encouragement that made us very happy. I'm sure any Admirals who have been with us since the first year remember how tough a situation we were in. We would plug a leak in one part, only to get flooded from another! And when we managed to deal with things here, something over there would blow! ... that's the kind of situations we found ourselves in one after another, and with a much smaller staff than we have now. I was really pulling the "Mon-Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri-Fri" schedule... The launch itself, the flood of new Admirals in July just as we were launching four new naval district servers - we put our Admirals through a lot during that time. The fleet overcame those harsh times and continues to operate into the Reiwa thanks to our supportive Admirals. I wish I could thank each and every one of them in person, as if I was an old war buddy covered in injuries. It does feel satisfying to have, without realizing, made it this far from those daily struggles and surpassed the three year, eight month benchmark I quietly set for myself*. By that time we had shared enough that many already knew the capital ships, of course, but also affectionately the compositions of the individual torpedo squadrons, ship-by-ship, as if they were remembering them as their own experiences. At the time I thought, "Ahh, the reason why I made KanColle, why I continued it, is fulfilled" and found myself filled, to my surprise, with a strange sense of contentment from deep in my heart.
* The length of the Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender.