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The personification of the Japanese destroyer [i]Ushio[/i] in [i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]. 
Character design by [[Drew (drew213g)|]], voiced by [[Hayasaka Kozue]].

h4. Appearance
[tn]See post #2052159 for base form.[/tn]

She wears a [[serafuku]] and [[black_socks|black]] [[kneehighs]]. Her [[cannon|12.7 cm twin gun mount]] is colored pink, and which has a [[:3]] face upon its top so that looking down at it, the cannon barrels look like ears on a bunny. She normally hugs her cannon tightly to her chest (to hide her chest, presumably). She has [[long_hair|long]] [[black hair]] with a notable [[ahoge]]. The [[torpedo tubes]] strapped to her thighs have puppy, kitty, bunny, and other cartoon animal [[sticker]]s on them. 

Her most salient trait is that in her [[official art]], after reaching medium damage, she pulls her cannon away, and can see she's hiding [[large breasts|a sizable bust]] for a destroyer/young girl.  (The reason for this may be that "Ushi" is the word for "cow", so she has "Ushi Oppai", or "cow tits", which is how some Japanese mock women with large breasts.) As time (newer alternate outfits), she has gone from very developed girl to a young woman

She later received her [[Ushio Kai Ni (Kancolle)|second remodel]] (Kai Ni) on November 14, 2014. See the page for more details.

h5. Alternate outfits
She has an early summer seasonal CG like her comrades. Unlike them, she has a portrait for both base and kai ni. In both, she wears a [[blue one-piece swimsuit|blue]] [[one-piece swimsuit]] with [[polka_dot_swimsuit|polka dots]] with a red [[wrist scrunchie]], while holding her serafuku top. The main differences between the two is that she wears the corresponding gear for each version and she wears a straw hat on her second remodel portrait.

She also has a seasonal CG for Autumn for both base and kai ni. Her unremodeled version features her wearing a lavender [[cardigan]] with a bunny on a while holding a bag full of [[sweet_potato|sweet potatoes]] and a broom along with some dead leaves on and around her. For her second remodel, she also holds a grilled [[saury]] plate and a [[tairyou-bata]] is secured to her gear.

h4. History
Historically, the real-life Ushio took part in many of the IJN's operations and was one of the extremely few surviving Japanese destroyers of WW2, alongside only [[Yukikaze (kancolle)|Yukikaze]] and [[Hibiki (kancolle)|Hibiki]] of the ships in the game. Also famous for being a "lucky" ship, she is unlike Yukikaze and Shigure in the sense that she protected her companions instead of jinxing them.

She is also the only ship that was part of the 22-ship Japanese task force that attacked Pearl Harbor to survive the war.

After the war, Ushio was broken up for scrap in 1948.

h4. [i]Ayanami[/i]-class destroyers
* [[Ayanami (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Shikinami (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Amagiri (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Sagiri (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Oboro (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Akebono (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Sazanami (Kancolle)|]]
* [b]Ushio[/b]

h4. See also
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Ushio[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Ushio_(1930)]
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