Kimi no Na Iowa

Kimi no Na Iowa, also known as your (name is) Iowa, is a Kantai Collection/Your Name Alternate Universe, Continuation and Fusion Fic cowritten by max_and_emilytate and WarpObscura, with art from bapjart, Hiroki Ree and melisaongmiqin. It can be found at Archive of Our Own, FanFiction.Net, SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity. It ran from February 2017 to December 2021 and is now complete.

''' WARNING! Unmarked Late Arrival Spoilers ahead for Your Name and the rest of Makoto Shinkai's filmography. Beware. '''

In one universe, Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu reunite at a certain staircase, and their story ends.

In another, Uileag Greer and Ayaka Godai discover that theirs is not over yet. Aquatic hostiles emerge to wage war on mankind, while warships of old return in human form to defend us. Ayaka is thrust into the spotlight when she learns that she is really the reincarnation of USS Iowa (BB-61), specifically the Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls version thereof, and is forced to struggle with what this means both for herself and those around her.


 * A-Team Firing: Normal weapons have difficulty hitting abyssals.
 * Anyone Can Die: Dead major characters include
 * Atomic F-Bomb: Combined with Cluster F-Bomb and Punctuated! For! Emphasis!, Uileag shouts in Chapter 39 that all the medals he gained were not "WORTH A DAMN! FUCKING! CUNT! THING!"
 * Continuation: While there are some small changes because of the different setting, what came before is mostly adherent to what was depicted in Your Name.
 * Continuity Porn: There are many, many Call Backs to canon. The authors Shown Their Work on knowledge of canon, but it can be confusing to those coming in from the other fandom.
 * Death Seeker: As of Chapter 39,
 * Distant Finale: Chapter 39 takes place nine years after 38.
 * Downer Ending: By way of inverting Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending.
 * Inelegant Blubbering: crying in Chapter 39 is explicitly described as "loudly and uglily".
 * Libation for the Dead: In Chapter 39,
 * Shout Out:
 * Death toll... too many.
 * What do we have after 500 million?
 * Blood and gold? A broken throne?
 * There will not be generations because of the abyssals.
 * He was angry. He should be. It wasn't fair.