Houshou

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25 鳳翔 (ほうしょう) Houshou Houshou Class Light Carrier HP 30→35 FP 0→19 ARM 15→39 TORP 0 EVA 24→39 AA 10→29 PLA 19 ASW 0 SPD Slow LOS 32→69 RGE Short LUK 20→69 Aircraft Equipment 8 Type 99 Dive Bomber 11 -Unequipped- -Locked- -Locked- Modernization 0 0 1 2 Build Time 2:00 (Normal) Remodel Req Consumption 25 25 Dismantle 2 1 12 2 Illustrator Shibafu Seiyuu Suzaki Aya

25 鳳翔改 (ほうしょうかい) Houshou Kai Houshou Class Light Carrier HP 40→46 FP 0→29 ARM 25→49 TORP 0 EVA 24→59 AA 15→39 PLA 42 ASW 0 SPD Slow LOS 35→79 RGE Short LUK 30→79 Aircraft Equipment 14 Type 0 Fighter Model 52 16 Type 97 Torpedo Bomber 12 -Unequipped- -Locked- Modernization 0 0 2 2 Remodel Level 25 Remodel Req 150 350 Consumption 30 30 Dismantle 3 4 15 4 Illustrator Shibafu Seiyuu Suzaki Aya

Quote

Event	Japanese	English	Note
Introduction Play	航空母艦「鳳翔」です。不束者ですが、よろしくお願いいたします	Aircraft carrier, Houshou. Though I'm inexperienced, I look forward to your guidance.	The latter part was a common greeting when a bride greets her new husband (esp. back in the days when woman walked three steps behind her man).
Library Intro Play	航空母艦、鳳翔と申します。 最初から空母として建造された、世界で初めての航空母艦なんです。 小さな艦ですが、頑張りますね。	I am aircraft carrier Houshou. Built as CV from the begining, I'm the world's first aircraft carrier. I am a petite ship, but I'll do my best.
Secretary(1) Play	お茶にしましょうか	Shall we have some tea?	Probably green tea. Don't fight with Kongou
Secretary(2) Play	よい風ですね (after remodeling) 私の夢ですか？　そうですねぇ、いつか二人で小さなお店でも開きたいですね･･･って、あらやだ、ごめんなさい。忘れてください。	Pleasant wind, isn't it? (after remodeling) My dream? Well… I'd like to open a little restaurant someday with you…Oh, what am I saying! Sorry, please forget it!	Her remodeled line says she'd like to open a new restaurant, but according to Chitose's hourly notification at 19:00, it seems that she has already run one…
Secretary(3) Play	おつかれさまです。お風呂にしますか？御飯にしますか？それとも･･･ふふっ、冗談ですよ	You must be so tired. Should I prepare the bath? Or dinner? Or... hehe, just kidding.	Stereotypical line of an old-fashioned "good housewife". The third option is usually, well, you know.
Secretary(idle) Play	提督、私ここに控えていますので、御用があればいつでも仰ってくださいね。	Admiral, I stay here, so whenever you need my help, please tell me to support you.
Secretary(Married) Play	提督、何時もお疲れ様です。時には、ゆっくりお休みになってください	Admiral, thank you for your long service. Please, you should take a relaxing break sometimes.
Wedding Play	いつか…いつかふたりで、のんびりと船旅を楽しみたいものですね	Sometime... Sometime, just the two of us, I would like to take a laid-back sea cruise together.
Show player's score Play	提督にお知らせが届いていますね	There's a message for you, Admiral.
Joining a fleet Play	実戦ですか･･･致し方ありませんね	Actual combat...? I guess that's inevitable.	She didn't participate in actual naval battles until the end of WW2, because she was used only for drill maneuvers.
Equipment(1) Play	すみません、私の武装を強化してくれるなんて･･･	It's so kind of you that you're reinforcing my armament.
Equipment(2) Play	私には･･･少し大げさではないでしょうか？	Isn't this too... fancy for me?
Equipment(3) Play	大丈夫ね	All right!
Equipment(3) is shared with expedition selection, resource collection, instant repair and development.
Supply Play	提督、ありがとうございます。	Thanks, Admiral.
Docking Current HP ≥ 50% of Max HP Play	そうですね、少しだけお休みします。	Yes, I'll take a little rest.
Docking Current HP < 50% of Max HP Play	私が無茶しては、ダメですね。	I shouldn't be the one acting recklessly.	Since she's the mother of all the CVs in IJN
Docking completed	お洋服の、修繕が終わった娘がいるみたいね。
Ship construction Play	新しい子たちが来るみたいね	It looks like a new girl is here!
Return from sortie Play	おつかれさまでした、艦隊が帰って来ましたね	It was a busy day. The fleet is back.
Start a sortie Play	鳳翔、出撃いたします	Houshou will commence action!
Battle start Play	風向き･･･良し！航空部隊、発艦！	Wind direction... Check! Air unit, take off!
Air battle Play	いつまでも演習ってわけにも行きません	We can't be doing exercises forever!	Houshou spent a large part of her time during the WW2 near the mainlands as the practice vessel for newbie pilots.
Attack Play	これは･･･演習ではなくて実戦よ やる時は･･･やるのです！	This is an actual combat, not an exercise! I shall do it when I must!
Night battle Play	やる時は･･･やるのです！	I shall do it when I must!
Night attack
MVP Play	そんな･･･本当ですか？私もお役に立てたのなら･･･嬉しいです	What... Really? It's my pleasure to have been of some help to you!	She participated in Battle of Midway but did not actively engage in combat.
Minor damaged(1) Play	ああっ！　飛行甲板が！	Uhn!? My flight deck...!
Minor damaged(2) Play	あぁぁっ！	Eek!
≥Moderately damaged Play	このまま沈む訳には参りませんっ！	I'm not going to sink like this
Sunk Play	私も…沈むのですね…	Even I... sink as well, huh...	Houshou came unscathed during WW2 because she's outdated. In 1946, she was scrapped.

Drop Locations

Ship	Rarity	Type	No.	World 1						World 2					World 3					World 7					World 4					World 5					World 6					Remarks
				1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
Houshou	Uncommon	CVL	025			✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️				✔️					✔️	✔️			✔️		✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️				✔️	✔️			✔️	Buildable (no LSC)

Character

Voiced by: Aya Suzaki

Illustrated by: Shibafu (しばふ)

Appearance

Like some other carriers, her attire is based on kyūdo (Japanese archery) equipment. She wears a scarlet kimono, a dark hakama, and a matching tasuki (a rope to tuck up the kimono sleeves to prevent them from getting in the way). She holds a bow with her left hand, and she wears a yugake (deerskin glove) on the right hand. Her flight deck is attached to her left arm. She has a set of arrows on her back, with the Japanese aircraft insignia (red circle) on the arrow fletchings.

Personality

Hōshō (Houshou) was the world's first commissioned ship that was designed and built as an aircraft carrier. (Other carriers of her days were conversions from other types of ships.) For this reason, she can be considered to be the "mother" of all the other carriers, and hence has a very motherly, caring personality and is more reserved than the other ships.

Her quotes also suggest that she is a stereotypical "good wife" of the old days. You can bet she's a good cook too, and in fact Chitose Carrier Kai 2's hourly line on 7 pm indicates that she runs a restaurant or possibly an izakaya (something like a pub or a bar).

In-Game Tips

Houshou is a good carrier to use early in game when your trying to play through the early stages of the game. But within time as you gather more proficient light carriers, and Standard Carriers, she will slowly less useful, especially for later maps in the game.

This however does not mean that she should be rejected from your fleet as she can still be used for various needs. Once thing she is most noted for is having the lowest ammo consumption of all Carriers in the fleet. Which can make her perfect for using Houshou to help assist in training planes and building up thier Aircraft Expertise. By using her to help retrain bombers and Torpedo Bombers and go to 1-1 alone, you're bound to be able to max out your planes ranks in about 15 sorties roughly.

Also as an alternative, Houshou should also be considered being kept for a quest and modification purposes, as once a month she'll be needed for the Monthly Plane conversion quest and can also be needed to help modify a Type 96 Fighter to max through Akashi's Improvement Arsenal in order to earned Skilled Pilots from a quarterly questline.

Trivia

• Her name literally translates as "phoenix in flight" (鳳=phoenix, 翔=soar/fly)
• Weak and outdated (but this helped her to survive WWII)
• Due to her comments regarding opening a little store with the admiral, JP players often refer to her as おかみさん (Okami-san, lit. "boss lady" or the female owner of a typical Japanese store).
• Her arrows have orange-yellow fletching as apposed to the white and green arrow fletching of other carriers, this is a reference to her role as a training carrier as the IJN painted its training aircraft a bright yellow or orange
• Scrapped beginning 2 September 1946, after the mission of repatriation.
• She served as a repatriation transport to retrieve Japanese serviceman and civilians station overseas and return them to Japan.During her repatriation mission she was modified to cut her hangars to carry more passengers to continue her repatriation trips before August 15 1946 and carries transported more of about 40,000 passengers before she was scrapped.
• The original Houshou appeared in the animated movie "The Wind Rises", the aircraft carrier visited by Horikoshi Jiro and his supervisor Kurokawa. Nagato, with the serpentine funnel unique to her class, was shown as well, albeit briefly.
• Participated in the Battle of Midway with her task being to provide modest air protection, scouting, and anti-submarine support to the Main Body (consisting of Yamato, Nagato, Mutsu).

See Also

• View CG
• List of Light Carriers
• Wikipedia entry on carrier Hōshō