Fourth and last of the four Shimushu-class Coastal Defense Ships as depicted in Kantai Collection. Named after Hachijou-jima (Hachijou Island), an island part of the Izu Archipelago 287 km (178 miles) south of Tokyo's special wards and is considered part of the capital (itself also an important setting in Ayashi no Ceres). Like Shimushu and Kunashiri before her, her official illustrator is Ugume. Her voice artist is Takao Kanon [高尾奏音].
As a coastal defense ship, her class is even smaller than destroyers, and as such, she is portrayed as an "elementary school student" character, even younger than the generally "middle school" appearances of the destroyers. Hachijou comes off as childish (as childish as Shimushu or even more) and having a sweet tooth, as shown in her default CG with a lollipop in her mouth and various sweets in the same bag as her depth charges.
Her rigging involves hip-mounted platforms, with single-cannonturrets on her sides with adjacent anti-air guns, and a mast and smokestack to her back. On her ankles, she has depth charge launchers.
The historical IJN Hachijou was commissioned in late March 1941, mostly patrolling the northern waters of Japan and escorted convoys. She survived an air attack in July 1944 and went on to survive the war, although she was scrapped in 1948 apparently having sat idle by that time.
