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島風(艦隊これくしょん) 島風(艦これ) 島風 ぜかまし しまかぜ ぜかましり なにこれぜかましい
Shimakaze (島風, lit. "Island Wind") is the personification of the Japanese destroyer Shimakaze in Kantai Collection.
Appearance
Shimakaze has long blonde hair and grey eyes. She wears a cropped serafuku, striped thighhighs, white elbow gloves, a short miniskirt with black highleg panties, and a black hairband with long floppy "ears". She has small robot familiars called Rensouhou-chans which represent her three twin 12.7 cm/50 naval gun turrets.
She is frequently portrayed as an otoko no ko (Shimakaze-kun) or as an unrelated boy crossdressing as her.
Personality
She often boasts about her speed and scolds the fleet and the Admiral for being too slow. She also often tends to her Rensouhou-chans. Artists tend to give her a loner personality due to her being the only ship of her class. With the introduction of Amatsukaze, a Kagerou-class destroyer which was used as the testbed for Shimakaze's turbine, the latter has come to be seen as Shimakaze's older sister.
History
The Japanese destroyer Shimakaze was a one-off super-destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was ordered in 1939 under the 4th Naval Armaments Supplement Program, laid down in Maizuru Naval Arsenal in August 1941, and completed on May 10, 1943. She was a testbed for an enormously-powerful, high-temperature, high-pressure steam engine that was able to develop nearly 80,000 shp (60,000 kW). This made her one of the fastest destroyers in the world, second only to the French WWII large destroyer Le Terrible which had a top speed of 45 knots, compared to Shimakaze's 40.9 knots.
She was the first of sixteen planned Super Shimakaze-class destroyers, but the remaining ships were never built due to the Japanese navy's heavy losses at the Battle of Midway, leaving her as the only ship in her class. She sank in the Battle of Ormoc Bay near Cebu, Philippines, on November 11, 1944.
Trivia
She was designed by Shizuma Yoshinori and voiced by Sakura Ayane.
Her fan-nickname is ぜかまし (Zekamashi, Shimakaze spelled backwards) after it was written on an innertube on a Rensouhou-chan.
She was once the most popular girl, though these days, she's best known and resented as the game's "newbie bait" character (attracts people, but said people's knowledge of the game is sorely limited and/or they don't actually play it; "secondaries"), similar to Touhou's Flandre Scarlet.
See also
- Rensouhou-chan
- Shimakaze-kun
- Shimakaze (destroyer)
- Shimakaze (seal)
- Shimakaze (Azur Lane)
- Shimakaze (Warship Girls R)
External links
- Kancolle Wiki: Shimakaze
- Pixiv Encyclopedia: Shimakaze (Kantai Collection)
- Wikipedia: Japanese destroyer Shimakaze
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The following tags implicate this tag: shimakaze_(seal) (learn more).