佐渡 佐渡(艦これ) 佐渡(艦隊これくしょん)
[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]'s personification of the Japanese escort ship [i]Sado[/i]. Character design by [[Akasaka Yuzu]], voiced by [[Imamura Ayaka]] (initial) and [[Seto Asami]] (after Imamura's retirement). 

Sado has [[long_hair|long]] hair that [[gradient_hair|transitions]] from [[blue_hair|blue]] to [[blonde_hair|blonde]] midway. She has [[red_eyes|red]] [[tsurime]] eyes. She wears a [[serafuku]] similar to [[Etorofu (kancolle)|]]'s: an elementary school serafuku with prominent [[buttons]], with a [[hat]] bearing a [[blue ribbon]], [[blue_neckerchief|light blue]] [[neckerchief]], [[white gloves]], and [[blue_skirt|blue]] [[pleated skirt]]. She differs from Etorofu by wearing a [[sleeveless shirt]] with a black undershirt underneath and [[black pantyhose]]. Her damaged CG shows that her undershirt only goes halfway down her chest.

Her [[machinery|rigging]] is similar to her sisters: a pistol-like single-[[cannon]] [[turret]] held in her right hand, [[mast]] and [[smokestack]] carried like a backpack, while depth charge launchers are held like a purse from another strap. An anti-air gun is [[thigh_strap|strapped]] to her right thigh, and more depth charges are strapped to her left.

h4. Costumes
* !post #2927656: Base form

h4. History
The historical [i]IJN Sado[/i] was launched in late November 1942 and had an unremarkable service history escorting ships. She was torpedoed and sunk on August 22, 1944, the same day [[Matsuwa (kancolle)|Matsuwa]] was lost, after a series of submarine attacks by [i]USS Rasher[/i] and [i]USS Spadefish[/i] on her convoy.

h4. [i]Etorofu[/i]-class escort ships
* [[Etorofu (Kancolle)|]] 
* [[Matsuwa (Kancolle)|]]
* [b]Sado[/b] 
* [[Tsushima (Kancolle)|]] (post-war Lin An)
* [[Hirato (Kancolle)|]] 
* [[Fukae (Kancolle)|]] 

h4. External links
* "English Wikipedia: [i]Etorofu[/i]-class":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etorofu-class_escort_ship]
* "Japanese Wikipedia: IJN [i]Sado[/i]":[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E6%B8%A1_(%E6%B5%B7%E9%98%B2%E8%89%A6)]
sado (kancolle)