Kantai Collection's personification of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shin'you.
Character designed by Shibafu.
See post #3249524 for base and post #3249529 for kai.
Being originally German, she is portrayed with long blonde hair with blunt bangs and blue eyes. Her hair is tied to the left with a hair ornament that resembles a tumbler or drinking glass.
Her base outfit is almost identical to Kasuga Maru's, wearing a white dougi top with a red hakama short skirt, only to differentiate by wearing a yellow undershirt and yellow socks as opposed to Kasuga Maru's black. On her left hand, she wears a thick falconry glove.
For her second remodel, see Shin'you Kai Ni.
A popular outfit for her is the Green Maid uniform she wore in a promotional event for Isetan and Mitsukoshi in March 2019, effectively enmaiding her. She is the character featured on the promotional coffee pot she is carrying on her tray.
Shin'you and Kasuga Maru sharing the same artist and starting uniform stems from the common initial histories of their historical counterparts. In Shin'you's case, she was originally the SS Scharnhorst, the first big passenger liner built in the German Third Reich. Scharnhorst was stuck in Japan when World War II broke out in Europe. She was later purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted into an escort carrier. Conversion followed the same plans as the Taiyou-class carriers due to the similarity in design between Scharnhorst and the Nitta Maru-class passenger liners which included Kasuga Maru.
The historical Shin'you was sunk on November 17, 1944 at the East China Sea after being hit by four torpedo attacks from the submarine USS Spadefish.
The following tags are aliased to this tag: shin'you_(kantai_collection) (learn more).
The following tags implicate this tag: shin'you_(maid)_(kancolle) (learn more).