Named after a river in Chibu province. ("Yahagi" literally means "fletcher".) 

Yahagi is the third [[Agano (kancolle)|Agano-class]] light cruiser in [i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]. 
Character design by [[Konishi (koconatu)]], voiced by [[Yamada Yuuki (voice Actor)|]].

h4. Personality
She tends to speak in a serious tone, with militaristic terminology. (Which is strangely uncommon in a group of warships.)  She has a line about enjoying Sasebo burgers (served at, and named after her hometown) as an uncharacteristic mundane side to her, however.  While she acts mature around her sisters, she tends to play an awed junior to (or romantic interest to) [[yamato (kancolle)|Yamato]].

h4. Appearance
Yahagi has [[long_hair|long]] [[black hair]] tied into a [[ponytail]] with a red [[scrunchie]] and has notable [[sidelocks]] and [[red eyes]].  She and her sisters wear a sleeveless [[serafuku]] that exposes her [[midriff]] with a red [[pleated skirt]], which vaguely implies the sort of miko outfits that the battleships wear.  She wears a [[necktie]], [[gloves]], [[belt]], and has [[uneven legwear]] where the left leg has a [[single 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. Yahagi Kai Ni
Yahagi is the second of her class, after [[Noshiro_(kancolle)|]], to obtain her [[Yahagi Kai Ni (Kancolle)|second remodel]] on March 31, 2021, although her getting a second remodel had already been known before Noshiro's through a series of trailers for the second [i]Kantai Collection[/i] anime, starting with the one shown at the Kancolle Jazz Concert Festival in 2019. See the article for more details.

h4. History
The historical [i]IJN Yahagi[/i] was sunk by American aircraft a couple months before the end of the war off the coast of Kyushu in the horribly ill-fated and ill-advised "Operation Ten-Go", which sank Yamato and virtually everyone else involved.  (Her militaristic/dutiful personality is probably in homage to the "dutiful soldier" who knowingly goes on a suicide mission like Ten-Go.  Ten-Go is especially romanticized in Japan as the symbol of the fall of the IJN.) At the time, she was leading DesRon 2 (a destroyer squadron).  Because of this, she almost always appears either with Yamato, her sister ships, or guarding destroyers. 

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

h4.See Also:
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Yahagi[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Yahagi_(1942)]
* "Kancolle Wiki article":http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Yahagi
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