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日向 (Sunny Place) Named after the ancient Hyuuga Province (today Miyazaki Prefecture).
In Kantai Collection, Hyuuga is the second ship of the Ise-class battleships.
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, constantly mentioning the new age of navy ships, frequently talking about the modern JMSDF helicopter destroyer Hyuuga that succeeds her name, mistaking Admiral for someone else in her second secretary line, and questioning what everyone is fighting for in her third.
Although less so than her sister-ship, Hyuuga is most notable for being an "Aviation Battleship" after problems with her fifth turret, (which detonated during gunnery practice) and the sinking of most major fleet carriers made the IJN desperate for more carrier capacity. Historically, this never panned out well, as the IJN was out of pilots and planes to launch by the time Hyuuga and Ise were ready. She's sensitive about her fifth turret.
Hyuuga has short brown hair and brown eyes. Like many battleships, she wears a nontraditional miko outfit, with a brown skirt instead of a hakama. Somewhat like 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 muscle girl or a 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 combat gear on, she is surrounded with turrets and cannons. In her "Aviation Battleship" Kai, her top left turret is replaced with a small, triangular flight deck.
She is often portrayed as being obsessed about her 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.
The Ise-class are the poster girls of KanColle Arcade, SEGA's card-based arcade adaptation of the browser game.
Her seiyuu is Ootsubo Yuka.
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.