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Here's what's known so far about the Mutsuki-class kai-ni:

- There will be one; it's already confirmed by staff twitter. This is important to note, so no "butbutbut it might be another ship class" debates, please.

- The Mutsuki-class kai-ni was previously hinted at by a staff leak twitter leak asking in public (by accident) for Kusada Souta to turn in artwork. Kusada-sensei is the illustrator for MUTSUKI, KISARAGI, YAYOI, UZUKI. Only those four. He was also recently active doing Valentine's illustrations for both Mutsuki and Kisaragi.

- Because the above tweet predated White Day in Japan, originally there was doubt that this new artwork was for a kai-ni, because it could also have been for a White Day special. However, nobody got White Day artwork, so it's safe to assume that the leak was talking about a kai-ni artwork.

- Of the four Kusada Souta Mutsukis, Mutsuki herself, Kisaragi, and Yayoi are featured in the anime. Notably, Mutsuki is part of the anime main cast and the only one of the three main DDs without a kai-ni atm.

- However, the kai-ni seems to be taking place in April, which is Uzuki's month. Yayoi's month (March) already passed, and the next in line is Satsuki (May) but she's a Yadokari girl.

- Twitter also mentioned already that the ship in question "participated in ALL SORTS OF battles", not MANY battles.

- This precludes Kisaragi, who sunk right at the start of Japanese WW2 operations. Both Yayoi and Uzuki had long combat records and fought more battles each than the majority of their sisters. However, Mutsuki did have a varied (all sorts of battle) combat record as well, so she's not exactly out yet.

Based on the above, the order of likelihood will be Mutsuki-Uzuki-Yayoi. Mutsuki is ahead because she's had more exposure recently, but it is Uzuki's month and she does have a longer service record. Of course, devs can probably just troll us anyway and give Yayoi a kai-ni.