Second of the four [i]Shimushu[/i]-class Coastal Defense Ships as depicted in [i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]. 

h4. Appearance

Kunashiri has [[messy hair|messy]], [[two-tone_hair|two-tone]] [[pink hair]] with brown [[colored tips|tips]] on the [[two side up]] tails, and [[bangs]] that can come [[hair_between_eyes|down to between the eyes]]. She has [[orange eyes]] in the [[tsurime]] style. Like her elder sister-ship, her outfit consists of a variant of a green [[serafuku]] with a [[red ribbon|red]] [[neck ribbon]], a [[jacket]] with [[long sleeves|long]] [[fur-trimmed sleeves]], a [[pleated skirt|pleated]] [[green skirt]], [[white legwear|white]] [[pantyhose]], and black [[mary janes]]. 

Her [[machinery|rigging]] involves hip-mounted hull-like platforms, with single-[[cannon]] [[turret|turrets]] on her sides with adjacent anti-air guns, and a [[mast]] and [[smokestack]] to her back. On her ankles, she has [[depth charge]] [[depth charge projector|launchers]].

h4. Personality

As a coastal defense ship, her class is even smaller than destroyers, and as such, she is portrayed as an "elementary school student" character, even younger than the generally "middle school" appearances of the destroyers. Kunashiri has a distinctly [[tsundere]] personality, with official lines that betray she is extremely conscientious of how she is seen by other shipgirls like [[kamikaze (kancolle)|Kamikaze]], if not outright defensive. Her official lines portray relationships with both her sister ships [[shimushu (kancolle)|Shimushu]] and [[hachijou (kancolle)|Hachijou]], as well as [[nenohi (kancolle)|Nenohi]] and Kamikaze due to the real-life ship's history. 

She is voiced by Sasaki Hitomi [咲々木 瞳].

h4. History

The historical [i]IJN Kunashiri[/i] was commissioned on October 3rd, 1940, and served the entire length of the Pacific war.

When newly constructed, [i]Kunashiri[/i] served as a diplomatic escort for the envoy to Russia, meaning she had a chrysanthemum seal and full Commander as captain. When the [i]Nenohi[/i] came into the same port, the [i]Nenohi[/i] radioed to ask why their ship, normally higher-ranking, was not saluted, they found they (captained by a Lt. Commander) were actually outranked by the seemingly lower-ranked ship, and the [i]Nenohi[/i]'s captain swiftly went to apologize. (Kunashiri has a line about the importance of greetings because of this.)

Designed as an escort vessel without the speed or weaponry to fight on the front lines, Kunashiri spent a majority of her time in the vicinity of Hokkaido and the Kuril islands escorting transport convoys. Notable incidents were that she participated in the evacuation of Kiska Island, as well as an incident on July 28th, 1944 where she reported being damaged mysteriously. (She was actually hit by the [i]USS Tambor[/i].) 

After the war concluded, she was used as a repatriation vessel, but on the 4th of June, 1946, she ran aground. Efforts to save her wound up sinking the [i]Kamikaze[/i], as well. (The Kantai Collection Kunashiri has several lines relating to Kamikaze because of this event.)

h4. Trivia

She is named after "Kunashir Island":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunashir_Island ([i]Kunashiri[/i] in Japanese), the southernmost of the Kuril Islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka and one of four in territorial dispute by Japan and Russia.

h4. External links

* "Kancolle Wiki: Kunashiri":http://en.kancollewiki.net/Kunashiri
* "Kancolle English Wikia: Kunashiri":https://kancolle.fandom.com/wiki/Kunashiri
* "Wikipedia: Japanese escort Kunashiri":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_escort_Kunashiri
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