[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]'s personification of the Japanese escort carrier [i]Kasuga Maru[/i]. Upon remodeling, her name changes to [[taiyou (kancolle)|Taiyou]]. 
Character design by [[Shibafu (glock23)|]]. 

h4. Appearance
[tn]See post #2711000 for Kasuga Maru base form.[/tn]

Kasuga Maru has [[long_hair|long]] dark [[brown hair]] in a [[folded ponytail]] held in place with a [[blue_ribbon|blue]] [[hair ribbon]], and [[swept bangs]].  She has [[brown_eyes|brown]] [[tareme]]-style eyes.  Similar to [[shibafu_(glock23)|Shibafu's]] [[akagi (kancolle)|fleet]] [[kaga (kancolle)|carriers]], Kasuga Maru wears a white [[dougi]] top with a red [[hakama short skirt]], and [[black socks]].  On her left hand, she wears a thick falconry [[gloves|glove]].  

Her [[machinery|rigging]] involves a [[flight deck]] strapped to her right arm, falconry-related steel pouches strapped to her torso, and steel [[platform boots]]. She is notably is modeled upon "classic Japanese falconry":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takagari] unlike the majority of carriers in-game that are either archers, onmyoji, or marksmen. 

h4. History
Historically, the [i]Kasuga Maru[/i] was last of the three [i]Nitta Maru[/i] class passenger-cargo liners, but was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted into a light aircraft carrier without ever seeing service as an ocean liner. One of her lines "references an advertisement where she was anthropomorphized alongside her sister-ships even back in the 1940's.":[http://otakei.otakuma.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/210.jpg] 

As the escort carrier [i]Taiyou[/i], the ship only served as a ferry for aircraft, bringing them from the mainland to strategic airbases in the various islands that Japan had occupied before being sunk by a US submarine on August 18, 1944.

h4. [i]Taiyou[/i]-class escort carriers
* [b]Kasuga Maru[/b]/[[Taiyou (kancolle)|]]
* [[Un'you (kancolle)|]]

h4. External links

* "Wikipedia: Japanese aircraft carrier Taiyou":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Taiy%C5%8D]
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