[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i] character [[personification]] of the Japanese destroyer [i]Matsu[/i].
Character design by [[Watanabe Akio]], voiced by [[Taketatsu Ayana]].

h4. Appearance
In-game [i]Matsu[/i] has [[long_hair|long]] [[green hair]] which is [[hair_over_shoulder|draped over her left shoulder]] with [[antenna hair]] and [[green eyes]]. She wears a [[serafuku]] composed of a khaki [[sailor shirt]] with a [[grey sailor collar]] and black [[corset]] (with an [[anchor]] [[zipper pull tab]]), a [[grey_skirt|gray]] [[pleated skirt]], and [[black pantyhose]] as well as [[black gloves]], a [[single knee pad]] over her left knee, and a [[black choker]]. Her [[machinery]] consists of a handheld [[adapted turret]], a [[torpedo launcher]] beside her right leg, as well as a smokestack and several other items behind her back.

Remarkable for Matsu is her damaged CG which is reminiscent of the infamous [[Myoukou pose]] -- said CG shows her in the process of sustaining damage, disintegration of her machiney and clothing, and feeling the brunt of said damage as if hurting.

h4. History
The real-life [i]Matsu[/i] had a very short career; she was sunk during her first and only battle three months after she was completed by the combined firepower from three [i]Fletcher[/i]-class destroyers (USS [i]Cogswell[/i], [i]Ingersoll [/i], and [i]Knapp[/i]) on August 4, 1944, her own firepower being no match to those of the other side. This was after completing a convoy mission to Chichijima and en route back; her convoy was spotted by planes belonging to the US Navy's Task Group 58.1, resulting in an airstrike and subsequent face-off between destroyers.

h4. Matsu-class destroyers
* [b]Matsu[/b]
* [[Take (Kancolle)]]
* [[Ume (Kancolle)]]
* [[Momo (Kancolle)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Matsu[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Matsu_(1944)]
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