Yuudachi

Appearance

 * Artist: Kujou Ichiso (玖条イチソ)
 * Yuudachi wears a black serafuku shared with the first four ship girls of her class. She has straight long blonde hair with a hair ribbon on top and green eyes.

Second Upgrade

 * Yuudachi's second remodel reflects her accomplishments in the Guadalcanal Campaign, where she assisted in sinking two destroyers and later damaging a cruiser before being sunk herself.
 * She bears the title 'Nightmare of Solomon' for reasons explained here.
 * Her hair becomes messy, gaining a hair clip on the left side, and her eye-color changes dramatically to red. Her artist tweeted that the "flaps" on her hair was to reflect her "ferocious hound (狂犬)"-like history during her final battle. Compare with Shigure.
 * She acquires a white scarf and a sail with a white flag attached.
 * Furthermore, her firepower is comparable to that of most Heavy Cruisers.

Personality

 * Seiyuu: Tanibe Yumi (タニベ ユミ)
 * She exhibits carefree behavior, fortified by her frequent use of "っぽい" (Poi) which can come off as very casual.
 * After her second remodel, she becomes very pugnacious.

Original ship

 * Sunk 13 November 1942 off Savo Island (09°14′S 159°52′E).
 * The wreck was discovered in 1992 by Dr. Robert Ballard.
 * Her wreck is around 800 m below the surface.
 * Claimed assisted kills on USS Gregory and USS Little.
 * Fourth of ten Shiratsuyu class destroyers.
 * Yuudachi was in fact sunk by US forces (USS Portland) despite failed attempts to scuttle her.

Appearances in derivative works

 * Yuudachi appears in the anime adaptation of Kantai Collection as a part of Torpedo Squad 3, alongside the Sendai sisters and Mutsuki. She helps welcome Fubuki to shared quarters with Mutsuki.
 * As of episode 9 of the animated series (Second Remodel, Poi!) Yuudachi received a Remodel explaining a little about its process.

Trivia

 * Her name means "sudden evening shower".
 * It was first carried by the sixteenth Torpedo Boat Destroyer of the First Kamikaze class in 1906.
 * Received her Kai Ni on October 16, 2013.
 * Yuudachi's white sail was incorrectly seen as a flag of surrender, a fact that angered the Americans when she kept on fighting despite raising it. This sail can be seen in her Kai Ni artwork, and reflects the significance. This eventually led to Yuudachi being sunk by USS Portland when she actually surrendered. The captain of the USS Portland was quoted to issue the order of "Sink the S.O.B" to which the gunnery officer obeyed, sinking the disabled (but evacuated) remnants of Yuudachi.
 * ~poi in Japanese means "maybe", "perhaps" or "seems like", it's something you throw in the end of the sentence if you aren't too sure of the result and end up concluding the sentence by guessing. The main reason behind Yuudachi's speech pattern is because no one actually had a clear record of what she actually accomplished in the Guadalcanal Campaign. It was technically a huge mess during the fight and no one actually knew what was happening. Even though Yuudachi did wreak havoc in the battle, there are other ships who also claimed the kills. Since her battle records were unclear and involved a lot of guess work from naval historians from both sides after the war, the game version of Yuudachi landed with the "poi" catchphrase just to reflect that little piece of history. (You can see from her introduction line that she wasn't so sure of her battle result in Guadalcanal either.)
 * Yuudachi also bears the nickname "the Nightmare of Solomon" because during the Battle of Solomon, she thwarts the American Fleet's attempt to intercept the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) task group by breaking their line and creating a tactical stalemate, allowing her allies to withdraw and survive.