[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]'s personification of the Japanese aircraft carrier [i]Katsuragi[/i], introduced in the April 2015 event. 
Character design by [[Kuuro Kuro]], voiced by [[Kayano Ai]].

h4. Appearance
[tn]See post #1996997 for base and post #1997016 for kai.[/tn]

Katsuragi has [[long_hair|long]] [[black hair]] with some tied in a small [[ponytail]] with a white [[hair ribbon]]. She has [[blue eyes]]. Underneath a green [[furisode]] with orange patterns that is only loosely tied around her waist by a [[camouflage]]-patterned [[obi]], she wears an odd piece of clothing that looks like a robe's front that seems mostly just tied to her chest with an [[armor]] protector over her chest.  Below, she wears a [[fundoshi]].  In her kai form, she disposes of the kimono entirely, and wears a [[pleated skirt]], [[uneven gloves|asymmetric]] [[fingerless gloves]], with one being [[elbow_gloves|an elbow glove]], and [[black thighhighs]] to create [[zettai ryouiki]].  Her armor also includes an armored belt and both forms show off her [[midriff]]. Like [[amagi (kancolle)|Amagi]] her green [[furisode]] reflects the fact that she spent almost her entire service camouflaged. 

Before remodel, she has a banner-rod like her sisters as well as an azusayumi, a sacred musical bow used for Shinto rituals, attached to her gear. She replaces these with a functional [[bow_(weapon)|bow]] upon remodel. Her pre-kai gear notably incorporates aspects of the real ship's flight tower, and houses [[turret|turrets]] for AA guns. Her quiver in kai form, however, has paper-charm-like arrowheads on her [[arrow (projectile)|]]s, giving her some hybrid relation to her sisters. Also in kai form, a [[flight deck]] is suspended off of the left of the rear of her armored belt, along with a mockup of her bridge and several AA turrets as a counterbalance on her right.

Unlike her sisters and cousins, she has a slim figure, complete with a [[flat chest]]. This is both due to her being fitted with destroyer machinery instead of her sisters' heavy cruiser machinery (though her machinery is the same as those on the Kagerou-class destroyers, whose some of their in-game counterparts are actually well-endowed;) and the fact that she never received a complement of planes ([[Katsuragi Kai (Kancolle)|her kai form]] is merely a what-if).

h4. History

Katsuragi spent nearly the entirety of her career at port because of American advances and oil shortages. Katsuragi was permanently moored at Kure, disguised as a city street by her crew. She was effectively hulked during the "Raid on Kure Harbor":[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Kure_(July_1945)], when an American Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dropped a 2,000 pound bomb into her aircraft elevator that blew off the entirety of her flight deck. Amazingly she did not sink, and ultimately had the skeleton of her hanger plated over and was used as a repatriation ship to return Japanese nationals home. Because of this, in KanColle Katsuragi seems to have a complex about being a "floating AA platform". 

h4. Trivia

She is a huge admirer of [[Zuikaku (kancolle)|]] and frequently calls her senpai. At the time of Katsuragi's completion, Zuikaku was the only remaining standard aircraft carrier in the IJN apart from the Unryuu-class.

She is named after "Mount Yamato Katsuragi":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Yamato_Katsuragi (lit. [i]Kudzu Castle[/i]).

h4. [i]Unryuu[/i]-class aircraft carriers
* [[Unryuu (Kancolle)|]]
* [[Amagi (Kancolle)|]]
* [b]Katsuragi[/b]

h4. See also
* [[Katsuragi (Azur Lane)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Katsuragi[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Katsuragi]
* "Kantai Collection Wiki: Katsuragi":[http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Katsuragi]
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