[b]日向[/b] ([i]Sunny Place[/i]) Named after the ancient Hyuuga Province (today Miyazaki Prefecture).

The personification of the Japanese battleship [i]Hyuuga[/i] in [i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]. 
Character design by [[shibafu (glock23)]], voiced by [[Ootsubo Yuka]]. 

h4. Appearance
[tn]See post #2910452 for base form and post #2765229 for kai form (Zuiun festival ver.).[/tn]

Hyuuga has [[short_hair|short]] [[brown hair]] and [[brown eyes]]. Like many battleships, she wears a [[nontraditional miko]] outfit, with a [[brown_hakama|brown hakama skirt]].  Somewhat like [[akagi (kancolle)|Akagi]], (who had the same artist,) the art style and mostly-brown clothing makes her notably plainer-looking than most battleships.  She is also drawn as rather broad-shouldered, so some artists make her a [[muscular female]] or a [[large breasts|busty]] one. When in a state of partial undress, she often is portrayed wearing a [[skin tight]] black [[undershirt]], although others up the "Japaneseness" and go for a [[fundoshi]] and [[sarashi]].  She often carries a sheathed [[katana]] at her side.

With her [[machinery|combat gear]] on, she is surrounded with [[turret|turrets]] and [[cannon|cannons]].  In her "Aviation Battleship" Kai, her top left turret is replaced with a small, triangular [[flight deck]].  

For her kai ni, see [[Hyuuga Kai Ni (kancolle)|]]. The Ise-class are the poster girls of KanColle Arcade, SEGA's card-based arcade adaptation of the browser game.

h4. Personality
Hyuuga has a forthright, diligent personality. Like truly disciplined military personnel, she speaks with a level-headed matter-of-factness and little emotion, even while attacking or injured. She is also known for occasionally getting awfully deep and cryptic, especially regarding her [[JS Hyuuga|JMSDF namesake]].

She is often portrayed as being obsessed about her [[e16a_zuiun|Zuiun]] seaplanes, sometimes to the point of worshipping them. The Zuiun Festivals in Summer 2017 and Spring 2018 along with the in-game portraits provided fans a massive amount of fodder to present Zuiun worship as a weird cult with Hyuuga as the guru and anyone wearing a green "Zuiun Spirit" happi being cultists.

h4. [i]Ise[/i]-class battleships
* [[Ise (Kancolle)|]]
* [b]Hyuuga[/b]

h4. See also
* [[Hyuuga (Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio)]] - Another personification of the battleship Hyuuga from the Aoki Hagane series. She notably has a personality so different they are not at all recognizable as the same character. 
* [[Hyuuga (Azur Lane)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Hyuuga[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Hyūga]
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