Hiryuu-class aircraft carrier, Hiryuu. Huh? Am I not an improved version of the Souryuu-class, you say? Don't worry about the details. More importantly, scouting is paramount. In carrier warfare, the first to strike wins! Don't let pride blind you. Let's carefully, and also boldly, fight on through![2]
I'm going to sink... Time to have a drink with the moon...[7]
沈むのね…最後に月を肴に一杯やるかな…
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Event
Japanese/English
Secretary 3
Is Tamon-maru... ah, not him? That's really fine then?
多聞丸に…ってあぁ、違うの? なら大丈夫ね、本当?
Secretary Idle
Ho~hoho... So this is the blueprint for the Unryuu-class, the new upgraded Hiryuu-class carriers. They're making a lot of them. Eh, this is amazing. Ah, oh, what is it Admiral? Sorry, I wasn't listening. Could you repeat that?
Admiral, I'm happy with new equipment but... I definitely prefer fighting with the Tomonaga Squadron... Eh? You have a solution? Thank you! ...Ah, I hugged you without thinking. Sorry!
Souryuu and Hiryuu, being originally designed as sister ships, share many similarities. Namely, they wear color-differentiated versions of the same clothes.
Hiryuu wears a yellow kimono top, with the bottom of the sleeves fading to gray with red stripes. Her bottom is a green pleated skirt. She also wears a flight deck apron like Akagi and Kaga (The kana "ヒ" is inscribed on it). Her full flight deck is attached to her left arm. Unlike most other archer carriers, she doesn't wear muneate.
She has short brown hair.
Trivia
She has exceptionally high luck probably because she was the only survivor in Midway while Akagi, Kaga and Souryuu were all sank by US air raids. Her planes raided and indirectly sank the U.S. Carrier Yorktown (Hiryuu herself was later sank, too. Yorktown was damaged by Hiryuu's attack and later sank together with DD Hammann by I-168's torpedoes).
The hole on her Kai Ni CG's flight deck when she gets damaged is a reference to the damage her real-life counterpart sustained when she was targeted by planes from the USS Enterprise, USS Hornet and survivors of USS Yorktown taken in by the former two. She was struck by bombs which caused the forward portion of her flight deck to cave in. Although her propulsion was unaffected and she wasn't holed, the fires from the attack were uncontrollable. She was scuttled by torpedoes from Makigumo and it took some time before she sunk, as reported by one of Houshou's aircraft.
Her planes were responsible for sinking the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
↑Hiryuu was the only carrier left after American air raid during Midway and her attack damaged CV Yorktown which later sank.
↑The second sentence is a reference to historians differing as to whether or not she is of her own Hiryuu-class or if she is a modified member of the Souryuu-class.
↑"Tamon-maru" was nickname of Tamon Yamaguchi, 2nd Carrier Div. commander.
↑The Red Brick referred to IJN headquarter office.