Talk:Ashigara/@comment-203.106.115.239-20140503105444/@comment-24782822-20140505213946

See her library intro and you can imagin why.

When Ashigara was invited to the naval review celebrating coronation of George Ⅵ, she was given a nickname "hungry wolf". In addition to it, as the impression of her, a british journalist wrote "Today, I saw a battleship for the first time in my life. What I have seen till now was a passenger liner." Japanese officials interpreted these comments as applause to Ashigara's great capacity of combat. However, they are black jokes toward the fact that she was designed only for combat and ignored livability (on the contrary, in British ships, livability was regarded as a very important element because UK had a lot of colonies and had to maintain long sealanes.) In fact, The Royal Naval Review evaluated Ashigara as "highly efficient but not beautiful".

That's why Ashigara is hot-blooded. As Japanese officials did, she is highly efficient in combat and also proud of it herself, but overlooks her lack of beauty. (I think Ashigara in Kancolle is cute, though…)