Her combat gear is unusually painted all black, with a hand-carried, twin-turretcannon in her left hand, a smokestack and antenna mast carried like a backpack, and twin torpedo turrets on machine arms from the smokestack.
For a collaboration with Lawson in September 2016, she was the one designated to wear the employee's uniform. This one uses her 2nd remodel form.
History
The real-life Kawakaze was the ninth of the Shiratsuyu-class, and third built to a slightly updated design. She had a more eventful campaign than most Japanese destroyers, and assisted in the sinking of the USS Pope, HMS Exeter, and HMS Encounter in the Second Battle of Java Sea, and rescued 35 survivors. She participated heavily in the Guadalcanal Campaign before she was forced out of combat due to a collision with a cargo ship. After repairs, she was finally sunk on the 7th of August, 1943 in the Battle of Vella Gulf alongside Arashi and Hagikaze by combined cannon and torpedo fire from the destroyers USS Dunlap, USS Craven, and USS Maury. 169 men, including her captain, were lost.
