Talk:Ashigara/@comment-60.241.239.174-20150118043839/@comment-26058113-20150126225639

^ Yes, I'm familiar with the story of the Hungry Wolf nickname. Buggyrcobra was asking for a citation of the source of it. There are quite a few articles on Ashigara's arrival and inspection at the coronation, but none of which I've read actually mention the Hungry Wolf nickname as far as written text goes. It could very well be like you mentioned, with the English reporter simply making off-hand comment that a member of the IJN got ear of. That would explain why the nickname is well-known in Japanese, but is relatively unknown/uncitable in English. While it's interesting to talk about, I'm not too sure if this info is important enough to put in the trivia section like as it is now...

As for the "Nightmare of Solomon", from what limited understanding of Japanese I have, there doesn't seem to be much to tie the actual IJN destroyer Yuudachi to that nickname, at least from a historical standpoint. I could be missing something, but none of the Japanese websites I've gone through (that don't also mention Kancolle or Gundam) with writeups on IJN Yuudachi seem to mention it. If I'm wrong about this and the Nightmare of Solomon nickname actually came from the historcal ship and its efforts, please let me know.

Speaking of the actual ship's efforts... while IJN Yuudachi's performance in the Guadacanal battle was pretty remarkable, whether she actually sank as many enemy vessels as she's sometimes credited for is a matter of some contention, even among Japanese sources. The battle was a slugfest, with IJN and USN ships firing on/crippling each other/finishing each other off, making it very difficult to accurately account for each ship's actions during the course of it, Yuudachi's included.