The escort ship Sado, the third of the Etorofu-class of coastal defense ships, as depicted in [i][[Kantai Collection]][/i].
Character design by [[Akasaka Yuzu]], voiced by [[Imamura Ayaka]] (initial) and [[Seto Asami]] (after Imamura's retirement).

h4. Appearance
Sado has [[long_hair|long]] hair that [[gradient_hair|transitions]] from [[blue_hair|blue]] to [[blonde_hair|blonde]] midway. She has [[red_eyes|red]] [[tsurime]] eyes. She wears a [[serafuku]] similar to [[Etorofu (kancolle)|]]'s: an elementary school serafuku with prominent [[buttons]], with a [[hat]] bearing a [[blue ribbon]], [[blue_neckerchief|light blue]] [[neckerchief]], [[white gloves]], and [[blue_skirt|blue]] [[pleated skirt]]. She differs from Etorofu by wearing a [[sleeveless shirt]] with a black undershirt underneath and [[black pantyhose]]. Her damaged CG shows that her undershirt only goes halfway down her chest.

Her [[machinery|rigging]] is similar to Etorofu's. It involves a pistol-like single-[[cannon]] [[turret]] held in her right hand. A [[mast]] and [[smokestack]] are carried on her back by straps like a backpack, while depth charge launchers are held like a purse from another strap. An anti-air gun is [[thigh_strap|strapped]] to her right thigh, and more depth charges are strapped to her left.

h4. Personality
As a coastal defense ship, her class is even smaller than destroyers, and as such, she is portrayed as an "elementary school student" character, even younger than the generally "middle school" appearances of the destroyers. Sado comes off as having a excitable and even tomboyish personality.

h4. History
The historical [i]IJN Sado[/i] was launched in late November 1942 and had an unremarkable service history escorting ships. She was torpedoed and sunk on August 22, 1944, the same day [[Matsuwa (kancolle)|Matsuwa]] was lost, after a series of submarine attacks by [i]USS Rasher[/i] and [i]USS Spadefish[/i] on her convoy.

h4. Trivia
She is named after "Sado Island":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sado,_Niigata] off the coast of Niigata Prefecture. She is the first of her class and the second kaiboukan in the game to be named after an island not currently disputed by Japan and another country. ([[Shimushu (kancolle)|]]'s namesake island is well within Russian territory, too far for Japan to reassert its claim.)

h4. Etorofu-class Escorts
* [[Etorofu (Kancolle)]] (択捉)
* [[Matsuwa (Kancolle)]] (松輪)
* [b]Sado[/b] (佐渡)
* [[Tsushima (Kancolle)]] (対馬, post-war Lin An (臨安))
* [[Hirato (Kancolle)]] (平戸)
* [[Fukae (Kancolle)]] (福江)

h4. External links

* "Kancolle Wiki: Sado":http://en.kancollewiki.net/Sado
* "Kancolle English Wikia: Sado":https://kancolle.fandom.com/wiki/Sado
佐渡 佐渡(艦これ) 佐渡(艦隊これくしょん)