Katsuragi

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Personality

 * Seiyuu: Kayano Ai
 * Often likes to assert the fact that she's an aircraft carrier, stemming from wanting to serve in such a capacity due to being unable to do so during the war.
 * Appears to be a fan of Zuikaku.

Appearance

 * Artist: Kuuro Kuro (くーろくろ)
 * Unlike previous carriers portrayed as archers like Akagi, or shikigami-using onmyouji like her sister ships Unryuu and Amagi, Katsuragi uses bows combined with shikigami to launch her aircraft, making her a strange hybrid of aforementioned carrier styles. She uses a small gun-like device similar to Amagi's in her original form but with an attached bow, and a longbow in her Kai form.

History

 * Like her sister ship Amagi, Katsuragi never received aircraft because her intended fighter complement - the 601st Naval Air Group - was engaged in support of combat operations on Iwo Jima (properly known as Iwatou, Iwo Jima being a mistranslation of the compund word 硫黄島 which using literal translation equates to Sulphur Island), and a severe lack of replacement aircraft and flight crews. She was instead shuffled between ports until reaching Kure, where she was moored and camouflaged to be used in an anti-aircraft role using her AAA batteries. Katsuragi was one of the ships attacked during an air raid by the US Navy Task Force 38 on July 24, 1945, the same attack which heavily damaged her sister ship Amagi.
 * Struck from the navy list on 15 November 1945 before being scrapped from 22 December 1946 to 30 November 1947, making her the only Unryuu-class ship to survive the war.

Trivia

 * Refers to the Admiral as "Anata" while the on screen text reads "Teitoku".
 * Katsuragi's portrayal as having smaller breasts than her sister ships Unryuu and Amagi may refer to the fact that Katsuragi was fitted with less powerful engines than her sister ships. While Unryuu and Amagi both used heavy cruiser engines identical to the ones used by the Heavy Cruiser Suzuya, Katsuragi was only fitted with a less powerful destroyer engine, the same type used by the destroyer Akizuki.