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Much of her personality may be based on her final and most significant captain, Sakawa Masazou (酒勾雅三), a devoted humanitarian. Many of Hatsushimo's traits seem to match up with his own, particularly her outspoken desire to protect the player and her fellow Kanmusu. Her dialogue is spoken in a polite, feminine but enthusiastic tone. She is protective, careful and kind to a fault. At the same time, though, Hatsushimo is brave and strong-willed, a reference to the ship's decorate service history and her crew's accomplishments during the late war.

Much of her personality may be based on her final and most significant captain, Sakawa Masazou (酒勾雅三), a devoted humanitarian. Many of Hatsushimo's traits seem to match up with his own, particularly her outspoken desire to protect the player and her fellow Kanmusu. Her dialogue is spoken in a polite, feminine but enthusiastic tone. She is protective, careful and kind to a fault. At the same time, though, Hatsushimo is brave and strong-willed, a reference to the ship's decorate service history and her crew's accomplishments during the late war.

==Trivia==

==Trivia==

*Was the last IJN destroyer to be lost in the Pacific War, outlasted in Kancolle only by the surviving [[Yukikaze]], [[Hibiki]], and [[Ushio]].

* Mined and critically damaged in action, July 30, 1945 at Miyazu Bay, Kyoto (35°33′N 135°12′E) with the loss of seventeen sailors. Towed to Maizuru and scrapped.

** The last IJN destroyer to be lost in the Pacific War, outlasted in Kancolle only by the surviving [[Yukikaze]], [[Hibiki]], and [[Ushio]]. Generally she is not considered "sunk" as she does not meet the definition of the word; she was run aground in critical condition rather than actually passing beneath the water's surface and scrapped around the same time as Ushio.

* Hatsushimo took part in Operation Ten-Gō, Yamato's final mission, and took even less damage during it than Yukikaze, emerging unscathed with two sailors injured. [http://www.geocities.jp/mineku_atoti/miyamoto_siryo/PF2_hatusimo/hatusimo_akatonbo_pf2.html#kantyo-sakawa By contrast she rescued nearly 2,400 people according to a later interview with her captain at the time.]

* Hatsushimo took part in Operation Ten-Gō, Yamato's final mission, and took even less damage during it than Yukikaze, emerging unscathed with two sailors injured. [http://www.geocities.jp/mineku_atoti/miyamoto_siryo/PF2_hatusimo/hatusimo_akatonbo_pf2.html#kantyo-sakawa By contrast she rescued nearly 2,400 people according to a later interview with her captain at the time.]

*Her name means "first frost of the year", often associated with the month November.

*Her name means "first frost of the year", often associated with the month November.

* An anchor was retrieved from her wreckage and is currently [https://www.google.co.jp/maps/@35.700884,139.801128,3a,21.7y,313.85h,84.8t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sobK61pe4i2PmS8lC2v0DoQ!2e0 displayed outside of the Yamada Memorial Hospital (Google Maps Street View)] in Sumida City, Tokyo. Interestingly, Yukikaze met a similar fate (memorialised via anchor, along with her rudder) after failed attempts to bring her full self back to Japan to be preserved as a museum ship.

* An anchor was retrieved from her wreckage and is currently [https://www.google.co.jp/maps/@35.700884,139.801128,3a,21.7y,313.85h,84.8t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sobK61pe4i2PmS8lC2v0DoQ!2e0 displayed outside of the Yamada Memorial Hospital (Google Maps Street View)] in Sumida City, Tokyo. Interestingly, Yukikaze met a similar fate (memorialised via anchor, along with her rudder) after failed attempts to bring her full self back to Japan to be preserved as a museum ship.