Hatsushimo

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Basic Hatsushimo No.78 初霜 Hatsuharu Class Destroyer Statistics HP 16 Firepower 10 (29) Armor 6 (19) Torpedo 27 (69) Evasion 43 (79) AA 9 (39) Aircraft 0 ASW 21 (49) Speed Fast LOS 5 (19) Range Short Luck 10 (49) Consumption Fuel no data Ammo no data Build Time Slots 20:00 2 Stock Equipment 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount -Unequipped- -Locked- -Locked-		Upgrade Hatsushimo Kai No.78 初霜改 Hatsuharu Class Destroyer Statistics HP 30 Firepower 12 (49) Armor 13 (49) Torpedo 28 (79) Evasion 45 (89) AA 15 (49) Aircraft 0 ASW 24 (59) Speed Fast LOS 7 (39) Range Short Luck 12 (59) Consumption Fuel no data Ammo no data Build Time Slots Lv20 Remodel 3 Stock Equipment 10cm Twin High-angle Mount 61cm Quad Torpedo Mount -Unequipped- -Locked-
Second upgrade Hatsushimo Kai Ni No.219 初霜改二 Hatsuharu Class Destroyer Statistics HP 31 Firepower 12 (50) Armor 14 (51) Torpedo 28 (84) Evasion 85 (94) AA 34 (79) Aircraft 0 ASW 56 (69) Speed Fast LOS 37 (48) Range Short Luck 53 (100) Consumption Fuel no data Ammo no data Build Time Slots Lv70 Remodel 3 Stock Equipment 12.7cm Twin High-Angle Mount (Late Model) Type 13 AIR RADAR Kai Type 91 Anti-Aircraft Fire Director - Locked -

Quote

Event	Japanese	English	Note
Introduction Play Play	初春型四番艦、初霜です。皆さん、よろしくお願いします！ （改二） 初春型四番艦、初霜です。気力、振り絞って参りましょう！	Fourth ship of the Hatsuharu class, Hatsushimo. Everyone, I'm very pleased to meet you! (As Hatsushimo Kai Ni) Fourth ship of the Hatsuharu-class, Hatsushimo. Let's go and give it our all!
Library Intro Play	初春型駆逐艦の4番艦、初霜です。 アリューシャン作戦、アッツ島沖海戦、キスカ島撤退作戦、マリアナ沖海戦、 北号作戦、坊ノ岬沖海戦など、様々な激戦に参加しました！ ほんと、頑張ったんです！	Fourth of the Hatsuharu-class destroyers, Hatsushimo. I was in lots of hard battles like the Operation AL, the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, the occupation of Kiska, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Operation Kita and Ten-Ichi-Gō! I really did my best!	Hatsushimo was the very last Japanese destroyer lost in WWII.
Secretary(1) Play Play	はい、いつでもご質問どうぞ （改二） そうですね、できるだけ助けたいわ、提督だってそうでしょう？	Yes, you can ask a question any time. (As Hatsushimo Kai Ni) That's right, I want to save as many as I can...you're the same, aren't you, Admiral?
Secretary(2) Play	準備万端ですよ	Preparations, complete.
Secretary(3) Play Play	て、提督…？ああ、魚雷管の角度を直してくれてるんですね？いつもすみません （改二） て、提督？あぁ、電探の調整してくれてるんですね。私ったら、いつもすみません	A-Admiral? Oh, you fixed the angle of my torpedo tube? Thank you as always. (As Hatsushimo Kai Ni) A-Admiral? Ahh, you’re adjusting my RADAR, aren’t you? How silly of me; thank you as always.
Secretary(idle) Play	（改）浜風さん・・・矢矧さんも大丈夫かしら・・・。あっ！提督！私は大丈夫。提督も、お救いします！	(As Hatsushimo Kai or later) Hamakaze...Yahagi too, I wonder if they're okay...ah! Admiral! I'm just fine. I would save you too!	During Operation Ten-Ichi-Gō, Hatsushimo was directly responsible for rescuing both ships' survivors as they sunk.
Secretary(Married) Play Play	やっちゃいます！ （改）えっ？少し・・・悲しいですね。い、いいえ！大丈夫。提督は分かってくれますよね。それで十分です。私が・・・ありがとう、提督。	That did it! (As Hatsushimo Kai or later) Eh? I feel...a little sad. ...N-No, it's okay. You understand me, Admiral. That's more than enough for me... Thank you, Admiral...
Wedding Play	キスカ。……って、ごめんなさい！　今の私は、恋愛には興味が無いの……。それでも、待ってて……くれるの？	Kiska… Ah, I'm sorry! I'm not interested in romance right now...even so, will you wait for me...?
Show player's score Play Play	提督に、ご連絡があるみたい （改二） そうですね、戦況分析は大事です。無謀な作戦はダメ！ですからね？	It seems like there's a message for you, Admiral. (As Hatsushimo Kai Ni) Yes, our combat strategy is important. Say "no" to reckless plans! Right?
Joining a fleet Play	初霜、出撃します！	Hatsushimo, sortieing!
Equipment(1) Play	うん！ちょうどいいわ！	Yeah! Just right!
Equipment(2) Play	これはすごいわ！ありがとう！	This is awesome! Thank you!
Equipment(3) Play	やっちゃいます！	That did it!
Equipment(3) is shared with expedition selection, resource collection, instant repair and development.
Supply Play Play	うん、ちょうどいいわ！ （改） 補給ありがとうございます。可燃物、降ろしておきましょうか？	Yeah! Just right! (As Hatsushimo Kai or later) Thank you for resupplying me. Should I set down the flammable materials?
Docking Current HP ≥ 50% of Max HP Play	ちょっとだけ、休憩ね。	I'll take a break, just for a bit.
Docking Current HP < 50% of Max HP Play	これでまた、みんなを守れるわ。	With this, I'll be able to protect everyone again.
Docking completed
Ship construction Play	新しい仲間が誕生したようです	Looks like a new comrade has been born.
Return from sortie Play	艦隊が帰投したみたい、お疲れ様	It seems the fleet's returned to base. Good work!
Start a sortie Play Play	戦艦の護衛なら任せてね （改二） 出撃、ですね。気を引き締めて、頑張ります！	Leave the battleship escorting to me! (As Hatsushimo Kai Ni) A sortie, then? I'll brace myself and do my best!	Hatsushimo was responsible for escorting Ise, Hyuuga, Haruna and Yamato during the final stretch of the war.
Battle start Play	敵艦発見です！	Enemy spotted!
Air battle
Attack Play	見てなさい！	Watch this!
Night battle Play Play	ほんと詰めが甘いのね （改二） 水雷戦隊の本来の力、今こそ発揮です！	They really slack off near the end, you know? (As Hatsushimo Kai Ni) It's time to demonstrate the Torpedo Squadron's true power!
Night attack Play	私が、守ります！	I'll protect us!
MVP Play	一隻でも一人でも、救えるなら私は、それで満足なの	Even if it's just one boat, just one man, if can I save them, then I'm satisfied.	Hatsushimo rescued many survivors, including those from Yahagi, Hamakaze and Wakaba. Probably in part inspired by her final captain, Sakawa Masazou, an outspoken humanitarian as revealed by post-war interviews.
Minor damaged(1) Play	きゃっ！？	Kyaa!
Minor damaged(2) Play	信じられません…	Unbelievable...
≥Moderately damaged Play	ま…まだ…沈んだり……しないわ。	Not...not yet. I won't sink...!	Hatsushimo lasted later into the war than any other non-surviving Kanmusu. She did not actually go under but was rather wrecked by a mine and towed to harbour in 1948 where she was dismantled, around the same time as Ushio.
Sunk Play	提督...みんな...ご無事ですか...？　なら...いいの...	Admiral...everyone...are you okay...? Then...it's fine...

Seasonal Quotes

Event	Japanese	English	Note
Christmas 2013
Christmas 2014
Christmas 2015
End of Year 2014
End Of Year 2015 }}
New Year 2015 Play	謹賀新年、明けましておめでとうございますっ。初霜、今年も頑張ります！はいっ！}}	I wish you a Happy New Year! Hatsushimo will do her best this year as well!	Slightly awkward to translate; she's literally saying: "Happy New Year! A Happy New Year to you! Hatsushimo will do her best this year as well!" It sounds a lot less redundant in Japanese.
NewYear 2016 }}
Setsubun 2015 Play	鬼は外ー、福は内ー、えい！あっ提督に!?ごめんなさい、片付けますね。	Demons out! Luck in! Ei! Ahh, Teitoku?! I'm sorry; I'll clean this up.	She hit you with the beans.
Setsubun 2016 }}
Valentine's Day 2015
Valentine's Day 2016 }}
White Day 2015
White Day 2016 }}
Second Anniversary 2015
Third Anniversary 2016 }}
Early Summer 2015 Secretary
Early Summer 2015 Secretary (2)
Early Summer 2015 Secretary (3)
Early Summer 2015 Docking Current HP < 50% of Max HP
Early Summer 2015 Joining a fleet
EarlySummer 2016 }}
Autumn 2015 }}
Saury 2015 }}
Halloween 2015 }}
Spring Peach Festival 2016 }}
Spring 2016 }}

Character

Voiced by: Kobayashi Motoko

Illustrated by: やどかり(Yadokari)

Appearance

Brick red eyes and long black hair held together with a red hair tie towards the end, though nevertheless a little messy all around. Dresses in a black suit jacket with a matching skirt over a white button-down shirt and red tie; wears black socks and brown penny loafers. She holds two small main cannons in both hands resembling dual 12.7cm naval guns, though the left one only has a single turret (which was the standard for Hatsuharu-class destroyers until post-1942 when they were replaced with additional anti-air guns), with 61cm triple torpedo mounts attached to either side of her torso. Her mainmast and funnel, mounted on her back, are apparent as well. Her design from the point of view of her armaments appears to reflect the real ship at the outset of the war rather than the later years. 

Hatsushimo Kai Ni gains a blue hachimaki along with a new (piped) blazer. In this outfit she's forgone her tie, rolled up her sleeves and appears to have followed in the example of Yahagi and Yamato (two of her Operation Ten-Gō comrades), wearing one thigh-high sock on the left leg and her usual on the right. Unlike her real-life counterpart, she's kept her single-turret 12.7cm gun and appears to have opted for the installation of a 40mm 2-pounder single-turret as well, another gun which the real Hatsushimo had replaced with 25mm AA weaponry. Like her latewar self, however, a Type 13 RADAR has been affixed to her mainmast. This old equipment being retained is perhaps a reference to gameplay more than anything; the loss of her single turret would serve to reduce her firepower considerably. The Vickers 40mm gun's heavier rounds could be more effective than the Hotchkiss 25mm's against Abyssal planes, which have sloped armour and tend to fly lower than the ones she fended off in real life, but that much is debatable. 

Personality

Much of her personality may be based on her final and most significant captain, Sakawa Masazou (酒匂雅三), 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 decorated service history and her crew's accomplishments during the late war.

Trivia

• Voices the beginning of the game tutorial.
• Mined and heavily 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 in 1948.
  • 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. For this reason she is sometimes included by fan-artists in group depictions of the surviving Kanmusu.
• Hatsushimo took part in Operation Ten-Ichi-Gō, Yamato's final mission, and took even less damage during it than Yukikaze, emerging unscathed with two sailors injured. By contrast she rescued approximately 310 people from the crews of the sinking Yahagi and Hamakaze.
• Her name means "first frost of the year", often associated with the month November.
• An anchor was retrieved from her wreckage and is currently displayed outside of the Yamada Memorial Hospital (Google Maps Street View) in Sumida City, Tokyo. Dr. Masaaki Yamada, the founder of the hospital, was a ship's doctor of Hatsushimo. Interestingly, Yukikaze met a similar fate (she also ran aground and was memorialised via anchor, along with her rudder in Taiwan) after failed attempts to bring her full self back to Japan to be preserved as a museum ship.
• The hachimaki is a likely reference to her communication officer's recollection of Hatsushimo's crew at the moment Yamato sank, as described in Abe Saburou's book 特攻大和艦隊 (Tokkou Yamato Kantai, lit. Yamato Suicide Fleet): "Even now, officer Matsui remembers clearly the faces of the hachimaki-donning troops, watching [her go down] with bitter expressions."
  • The hachimaki's stripes are a reference to the famous Second Torpedo Squadron. Hatsushimo was not originally a member, but out of necessity and a general lack of ships, joined their ranks at the end of the war. The Second Torpedo Squadron was officially dissolved in a ceremony on her deck, on 20 April 1945.
• Japanese fans have pointed out that Hatsushimo's hair tie is similar to the one worn by Yahagi. Given that other destroyers have often been given clothing similar to that of the larger ships whose survivors they rescued, it's entirely possible that this was intended from the start.
  • The same has also been said of Hatsushimo Kai Ni's hachimaki, resembling Yahagi's tie in colouration.

Quests

• Required by Quests A48, B37 and B38.

See Also

• View Hatsushimo CG
• List of Destroyers
• Wikipedia entry on destroyer Hatsushimo