"能代" - Named after the Noshiro River. 

Second of the [i][[agano (kancolle)|Agano]][/i]-class light cruisers in [[Kantai Collection]].
Character design by [[Konishi (koconatu)]], voiced by [[Yamada Yuuki (voice Actor)|]].

h4. Personality
She has an earnest and fairly trusting attitude, and acts deferential to her older sister, Agano, which stands in stark contrast to Agano's teasing and sexual harassment.  Noshiro doesn't particularly fight back, so she's unusual in being one of the few light cruisers who are frequent targets of canon sexual harassment.  

h4. Appearance
Noshiro has [[brown hair]] with [[swept bangs]] in [[twin braids]], and [[blue eyes|blue]] or [[green eyes|green]] eyes (depends on the artist).  Like her sisters, she wears a sleeveless [[serafuku]] that exposes her [[midriff]] with a red [[pleated skirt]].  She wears a [[necktie]], [[white gloves]], [[belt]], and has [[uneven legwear]] where the left leg has a thighhigh stocking on a [[garter_straps|garter strap]].  

Her [[machinery|combat gear]] includes a bridge, [[smokestack]], and mast worn in a backpack-like arrangement, with two swing arms carrying [[cannon|twin cannons]] on three [[turret|turrets]] controlled by joysticks on their side.  She has another turret on her right ankle, and a [[flight deck]] on her left leg, and wears armored [[boots]].

h4. Noshiro Kai Ni
She was the first of the her class to be given a [[Noshiro Kai Ni (Kancolle)|second remodel]] on February 6, 2021. In this form, she switches to a new serafuku consisting of a [[black_skirt|black]] [[pleated skirt]], a [[black_shirt|black]] [[dress shirt]] worn under a [[long_sleeves|long-sleeved]] [[sailor shirt]] with a [[black sailor collar]], and a black stylized [[necktie]]. She now also wears a pair of black [[thighhighs]] held by garter straps. She now goes [[no gloves|gloveless]] as well.

h4. History
The real-life [i]Noshiro[/i] was commissioned in 1943 to replace [[Jintsuu (Kancolle)|]] as flagship of the Second Destroyer Squadron, lost in Kolombangara. She was later sunk by US carrier airstrikes in the day following the main battle of Leyte Gulf.

h4. [i]Agano[/i]-class Light Cruisers
* [[agano (kancolle)|Agano]]
* [b]Noshiro[/b]
* [[yahagi (kancolle)|Yahagi]]
* [[sakawa (kancolle)|Sakawa]]

h4.See Also
* [[Noshiro (Azur Lane)]]
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Noshiro[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Noshiro]
* "Kancolle Wiki article":http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Noshiro
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