Houshou

Info

Basic Houshou No.25 鳳翔 Houshou Class Light Carrier Statistics HP 30 Firepower 0 (19) Armor 15 (39) Torpedo 0 Evasion 24 (?) AA 10 (?) Aircraft 19 ASW 0 Speed Slow LOS 32 (?) Range Short Luck 20 Consumption Fuel no data Ammo no data Build Time Slots 2:00:00 2 Stock Equipment Space Type 99 Bomber 8 -Unequipped- 11 -Locked- - -Locked- -

Upgrade Houshou Kai No.25 鳳翔改 Houshou Class Light Carrier Statistics HP 40 Firepower 6 (29) Armor 32 (49) Torpedo 0 Evasion 27 (59) AA 18 (39) Aircraft 42 ASW 0 Speed Slow LOS 46 (79) Range Short Luck 30 Consumption Fuel no data Ammo no data Build Time Slots Lv25 Remodel 3 Stock Equipment Space Type 52 Zero Fighter 14 Type 97 Torpedo Bomber 16 -Unequipped- 12 -Locked- -

• Weak and outdated (but this helped her to survive WWII)
• Low consumption, which is good for expeditions
• Her name literally translates as "phoenix in flight" (鳳=phoenix, 翔=soar/fly)

Quote

Event	Japanese	English	Note
Introduction	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
Secretary(1)	お茶にしましょうか	Shall we have some tea?	Probably green tea. Don't fight with Kongou
Secretary(2)	よい風ですね	Pleasant wind, isn't it?
Secretary(3)	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)
Secretary(Married)
Wedding
Show player's score	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	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)	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)	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)	大丈夫ね	All right!
Equipment(3) is shared with expedition selection, resource collection, instant repair and development.
Supply
Docking Current HP ≥ 50% of Max HP		Yes, I'll take a little rest.
Docking Current HP < 50% of Max HP		I shouldn't be the one acting recklessly.	Since she's the mother of all the CVs in IJN
Docking completed
Ship construction	新しい子たちが来るみたいね	It looks like a new girl is here!
Return from sortie	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	鳳翔、出撃いたします	Houshou will commence action!
Battle start	風向き･･･良し！航空部隊、発艦！	Wind direction... Check! Air unit, take off!
Air battle	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	これは･･･演習ではなくて実戦よ	This is an actual combat, not an exercise!
Night battle	やる時は･･･やるのです！	I shall do it when I must!
Night attack
MVP	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)		Uhn!? My flight deck...!
Minor damaged(2)		Eek!
≥Moderately damaged		I'm not going to sink like this
Sunk	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.

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).

Trivia

• Scrapped beginning 2 September 1946

• Houshou's 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 it's training aircraft a bright yellow or orange

See Also

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