[[Azur Lane]]'s personification of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]] [i]Shinano[/i].
Character design by [[Soaryuna]], voiced by [[Noto Mamiko]].

Shinano was introduced in [[Azur Lane]] as the first UR (Ultra-Rare) ship of the roster, by way of the [i]Dreamwaker's Butterfly[/i] event on September 17, 2020.

h4. Appearance
[tn]See post #4118891.[/tn]

In-game, [i]Shinano[/i] is portrayed with [[very long hair|very long]] [[white hair]] with fox features ([[fox ears|ears]] and [[fox tail|tail]]), and [[purple eyes]]. Her outfit is a traditional blue-white [[kimono]] with a [[white skirt]] and white [[thighhighs]].

Her [[rigging]] consists of her real-life [[flight deck]] with several 25 mm triple AA mounts and 12 cm 28-tube rocket launchers on each side, while she has three [[katana]] on a hull accessory to her back. She also has [[moon phases]] floating around her as a reference to her in-lore ability to [spoilers]see across multiple timelines[/spoilers] and the fact that she was historically sunk at night/early morning.

h4. History
The historical [i]Shinano[/i] was laid down May 4, 1940. She was originally planned to be the third [i]Yamato[/i]-class battleship, but after the loss of the aircraft carriers [i][[Akagi (Azur Lane)|Akagi]][/i], [i][[Kaga (Azur Lane)|Kaga]][/i], [i][[Hiryuu (Azur Lane)|Hiryuu]][/i], and [i][[Souryuu (Azur Lane)|Souryuu]][/i] after the [[Battle of Midway]] she was converted into a supercarrier as her hull was partially incomplete.

In theory, [i]Shinano[/i] was capable of fielding the largest airwing of any aircraft carrier constructed by the end of World War II and was kept secret as she was meant to be a strategic surprise. However, due to the advanced state of her construction as a battleship before conversion, [i]Shinano[/i] has a disproportionally small organic air group size of 47 aircraft. Due to this, the IJN planned to use [i]Shinano[/i] as a support carrier to tend the other fleet carrier's air wings, capable of stowing around 120 aircraft maximum.

[i]Shinano[/i] was launched on October 8, 1944 (originally planned for May 1945, but her construction was expedited due to the loss of [[Shoukaku (Azur Lane)|Shoukaku]] and [[Taihou (Azur Lane)|Taihou]] in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and commissioned November 19, 1944. [i]Shinano[/i] was dispatched from Yokosuka to Kure with an inexperienced crew to finish her fitting out and embark her aircraft, but she was sunk en-route by USS [[Archerfish (Azur Lane)|]] on November 29, 1944. [i]Shinano[/i] was the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.

h4. Skins
* !post #4118891: Default
* !post #4128666:  [[shinano_(dreams_of_the_hazy_moon)_(azur_lane)|Dreams of the Hazy Moon]] (Party Dress)
* !post #5710256: [[shinano_(moonlit_chrome)_(azur_lane)|Moonlit Chrome]] (Race Queen)
* !post #6703531: [[shinano (dreamy white sands) (azur lane)|Dreamy White Sands]] (Bikini)

h4. See also
* [[Shinano-Chan (Azur_Lane)]]
* [[Shinano (Kancolle)]] - her oldest, but yet-to-be-released counterpart in [[Kantai Collection]]
* [[Shinano (Warship Girls R)]] - the earliest confirmed and released shipgirl depiction of the same ship

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Shinano[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano]
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