ume (kancolle)
Kantai Collection character personifying the third of the Matsu-class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "plum," although it specifically refers to the Japanese apricot. Like the other Matsu-class girls already in the game, her illustrator is Watanabe Akio.
True to her namesake fruit, Ume has a short pink bob cut with streaks of green on the underside tied into a ponytail with a cowlick sticking out on top and another protruding to the side. She also has red eyes over which she wears large pink-framed glasses. She also has a large bosom. Like nameship siser Matsu, she wears a serafuku composed of a khaki sailor shirt with a gray sailor collar, a black corset, a gray pleated skirt, and black boots. She however differs from Matsu by having long juliet sleeves, the corset being held by two large buttons, a large red patterned bowtie at the front, no gloves, and no visible legwear. Her machinery consists of a handheld adapted turret, a torpedo launcher beside her right leg, as well as a smokestack and several other items behind her back.
History
The historical destroyer was launched on April 25, 1944 and completed on June 28, 1944 but had a relatively short unremarkable career, having been sunk by US aircraft 20 miles south of Taiwan on January 31, 1945.
Matsu-class destroyers
- Matsu (Kancolle) (松)
- Take (Kancolle) (竹)
- Ume (梅)
- Momo (Kancolle) (桃)
