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霰 (Hail)
Arare was the ninth ship launched (and the tenth, last, ship laid down) of IJN's Asashio-class destroyers. Not to be confused with the second of the Harusame class destroyers.
She was completed in April, 1939 and sunk in 1942. (Kasumi, the ninth ship laid down, was completed in June, 1939.)
In Kantai Collection, Arare is a timid girl with short black hair and brown eyes. She wears a hat, a short-sleeved white shirt, a skirt with suspenders and black kneehighs. On her second remodel, she wears the standard pinafore dress and long-sleeved white shirt with short white socks, but keeps her hat. Her voice actress is Miyagawa Wakana.
Her self-introduction is "霰です……。んちゃ、とかは言いません……。よろしく…… (I'm Arare… I don't say something like "N-cha"… Thank you…)"
However, she often says that phrase unthinkingly.
The historical Arare was sunk by USS Growler, in one of the few successful early war submarine attacks by the US Navy. Off the Alaskan coast at Kiska, Commander Howard W. Gilmore fired a spread of 4 torpedoes against Arare, Kasumi and Shiranui. Every torpedo hit, and Arare was sunk immediately, while the other ships were so badly damaged they had to be towed all the way back to Japan.
See also
- Pixiv tag search: 霰 (艦これ OR 艦隊これくしょん)
- Nicopedia article: http://dic.nicovideo.jp/id/5138886
- KanColle walkthrough & 2ch log wiki: http://www56.atwiki.jp/kancolle/pages/140.html
- Wikipedia article: Japanese destroyer Arare
- List of her sisters ~ Asashio-class destroyers / 朝潮型