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

Voice Lines

Quotes

Event	Japanese/English
Introduction Play	I'm the aircraft carrier, Houshou. I may not be good enough but please take good care of me.
	航空母艦、鳳翔です。不束者ですが、よろしくお願い致します。
Library Play	I'm the aircraft carrier, Houshou. I'm the world's first purpose built aircraft carrier. I will do my best even though I'm a small ship.
	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。
Secretary 1 Play	It's a nice wind.
	よい風ですね。
Secretary 1 Play	Shall I make some tea?
	お茶にしましょうか。
Secretary 2 Play	Shall I make some tea?
	お茶にしましょうか。
Secretary 2 Play	Thanks for your hard work. Would you like a bath? Or would you like some dinner? Or perhaps... Fufu~ I'm just joking.
	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。
Secretary 3 Play	Thanks for your hard work. Would you like a bath? Or would you like some dinner? Or perhaps... Fufu~ I'm just joking.
	お疲れ様です。お風呂にしますか？ご飯にしますか？それとも･･･ふふっ、冗談ですよ。
Secretary 3 Play	My dreams? That's right, I'd like to open a small shop together with you one day.... Oh my, excuse me. Please forget I said that.
	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。
Secretary Idle Play	I'll be waiting here so please come get me if you need anything, Admiral.
	提督、私ここに控えていますので、御用があればいつでもおしゃってくださいね。
Secretary (Married) Play	Thanks for all your hard work, Admiral. Please get a good rest now and then.
	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。
Wedding Play	Someday... someday, I'd like to enjoy a relaxing cruise together.
	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
Player's Score Play	it seems a notice for you has arrived, Admiral.
	提督にお知らせが届いていますね。
Joining the Fleet Play	A real battle... I guess I've got no choice then.
	実戦ですか･･･致し方ありませんね。
Equipment 1 Play	Thank you for reinforcing my equipment.
	すみません、私の武装を強化してくれるなんて。
Equipment 2 Play	Isn't this... a bit too grand for me?
	私には･･･少し大袈裟ではないでしょうか？
Equipment 3 Play	I'm fine!
	大丈夫ね！
Supply Play	Thank you very much, Admiral.
	提督、ありがとうございます。
Docking (Minor Damage) Play	That's right, I'll be taking a short rest.
	そうですね、少しだけお休みします。
Docking (Major Damage) Play	I shouldn't be pushing myself.
	私が無茶しては、ダメですね。
Construction Play	It seems that some new girls have arrived.
	新しい子たちが来るみたいね。
Returning from Sortie Play	Thanks for your hard work, the fleet has returned.
	お疲れ様でした、艦隊が帰ってきましたね。
Starting a Sortie Play	Houshou, sortieing.
	鳳翔、出撃致します。
Starting a Battle Play	Wind direction, OK. Air wing, take off!
	風向き、よし。航空部隊、発艦！
Attack Play	This isn't an exercise but a real battle!
	これは、演習ではなくて実戦よっ！
Air Battle Play	I won't be doing exercises forever!
	いつまでも演習って訳にもいきませんっ！
Night Battle Play	I need to do what I must!
	やるときは、やるのです！
MVP Play	Really, is that true!? I'm glad that I was able to be of use.
	そんな、本当ですか！？私もお役に立てたのなら、嬉しいです。
Minor Damage 1 Play	Aaah! My flight deck!
	ああっ！飛行甲板が！
Minor Damage 2 Play	Aaaah!
	あぁぁっ！
Major Damage Play	I won't be sunk with just this!
	このまま沈む訳には参りませんっ！
Sunk Play	So I'm... sinking too...
	私も…沈むのですね…

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