潮 潮(艦隊これくしょん) 潮(艦これ) 潮っぱい
[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]'s personification of the Japanese destroyer [i]Ushio[/i]. Character design by [[Drew (drew213g)|]], voiced by [[Hayasaka Kozue]].

h4. Appearance
She is portrayed with [[long hair|long]] [[black hair]] with an [[ahoge]], and [[brown eyes]]. 

Her default outfit is the Special Type's [[serafuku]] and [[black_socks|black]] [[kneehighs]]. Her [[cannon|12.7 cm twin gun mount]] is colored pink, and which has a [[:3]] face upon its top so that looking down at it, the cannon barrels look like ears on a bunny. She normally hugs her cannon tightly to her chest (to hide her chest, presumably). She has [[long_hair|long]] [[black hair]] with a notable [[ahoge]]. The [[torpedo tubes]] strapped to her thighs have puppy, kitty, bunny, and other cartoon animal [[sticker]]s on them. 

Her most salient trait is that in her [[official art]], after reaching medium damage, she pulls her cannon away, and can see she's hiding [[large breasts|a sizable bust]] for a destroyer/young girl.  (The reason for this may be that "Ushi" is the word for "cow", so she has "Ushi Oppai", or "cow tits", which is how some Japanese mock women with larger-than-the-norm cup sizes.)

* !post #5779648: Reference sheet

h4. History

Historically, the real-life Ushio took part in many of the IJN's operations and was one of the extremely few surviving Japanese destroyers of WW2, alongside only [[Yukikaze (kancolle)|Yukikaze]] and [[Hibiki (kancolle)|Hibiki]] of the ships in the game. Also famous for being a "lucky" ship, she is unlike Yukikaze and Shigure in the sense that she protected her companions instead of jinxing them.

She is also the only ship that was part of the 22-ship Japanese task force that attacked Pearl Harbor to survive the war.

After the war, Ushio was broken up for scrap in 1948.

h4. Costumes (Base and Kai only)
* !post #2052159: Base and Kai
* [[ushio_(swimsuit_mode)_(kancolle)|Swimsuit Mode]] (post #2144683)
* Autumn 2015 (post #2144683)
* New Year (post #2229856)
* Hinamatsuri (post #2644428)
* [[ushio_(valentine_mode)_(kancolle)|Valentine]] (post #3010953)
* [[ushio_(autumn_mode)_(kancolle)|Autumn Mode/Saury Festival]] (post #3297898)
* 7th Anniversary (post #3917282)
* [[ushio_(christmas_mode)_(kancolle)|Christmas]] (post #4255148)
* 8th Anniversary (post #4480933)
* 9th Anniversary (post #5291193)
* Tsuyu Mode (post #5416358)
* 10th Anniversary (post #6248656)
* [[ushio_(setsubun)_(kancolle)|Setsubun]] (post #7137188)
* 11th Anniversary (post #7495879)

h4. [i]Ayanami[/i]-class destroyers

* [[Ayanami (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Shikinami (Kancolle)|]]
* Asagiri (<i>Yet to be implemented</i>)
* Yuugiri (<i>Yet to be implemented</i>)
* [[Amagiri (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Sagiri (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Oboro (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Akebono (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Sazanami (Kancolle)|]]
* [b]Ushio[/b]

h4. External links

* "Wikipedia: Japanese destroyer [i]Ushio[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Ushio_(1930)]
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