Fujinami ("藤波", literally, "Wave of Wisteria" or "Purple Wave") is the twelfth of the nineteen Yuugumo-class destroyers as portrayed in Kantai Collection.
Character design by Fujikawa, voiced by Tanibe Yumi.
Fujinami has a laid-back and somewhat flippant attitude outside of battle, speaking with "middle school girl" jargon. She also refers to her sister-ship Okinami as "Okicchi", making her similar to Kitakami.
Fujinami wears the standard Yuugumo-class school uniform which consists of a purple sleeveless dress over a white shirt, a teal-blue bowtie and grey opaque pantyhose with lace-up boots. In her damaged art, she is shown to wear striped side-tie panties. She has yellow eyes and long purple-grey hair tied in a side ponytail with a white hair ribbon. Her bangs are asymmetric, partly blunt and short on the right, with some longer swept hair near the middle and to her left. She also sports a small ahoge.
Fujinami's rigging consists of a funnel and mast worn like a backpack with yellow straps. Quadruple torpedo launchers are strapped to her thighs, and she carries the usual Yuugumo-class twin-cannon 12.7cm turret resting against her hip.
In real life, she was completed in 1943, well halfway into the war. Fujinami's only major engagement was at The Battle of Leyte Gulf, where she was part of the main "Center Force". During the Battle off Samar, Fujinami rescued the survivors off of, then scuttled the IJN Choukai. Two days later, she attempted to rescue the survivors of her sister-ship IJN Hayashimo, but was struck by aerial attacks from the USS Essex, and was lost with all hands, including those from the Choukai.
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