Houshou

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鳳翔 (ほうしょう)		Houshou
25
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

鳳翔改 (ほうしょうかい)		Houshou Kai
25
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.
Introduction Play	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.^[1] I will do my best even though I'm a small ship.^[2]
Library 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。
Secretary 1 Play	It's a nice wind.
Secretary 1 Play	よい風ですね。
Secretary 1 Play	Shall I make some tea?
Secretary 1 Play	お茶にしましょうか。
Secretary 2 Play	Shall I make some tea?
Secretary 2 Play	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.
Secretary 2 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。
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.
Secretary 3 Play	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.
Secretary 3 Play	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.
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.
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。
Wedding Play	Someday... someday, I'd like to enjoy a relaxing cruise together.
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
Player's Score Play	it seems a notice for you has arrived, Admiral.
Player's Score Play	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.
Joining the Fleet Play	実戦ですか･･･致し方ありませんね。
Equipment 1 Play	Sorry for troubling you with strengthening my equipment.
Equipment 1 Play	すみません、私の武装を強化してくれるなんて。^[3]
Equipment 2 Play	Isn't this... a bit too grand for me?
Equipment 2 Play	私には･･･少し大袈裟ではないでしょうか？
Equipment 3^[4] Play	I'm fine!
Equipment 3^[4] Play	大丈夫ね！
Supply Play	Thank you very much, Admiral.
Supply Play	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.
Docking (Minor Damage) Play	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.
Docking (Major Damage) Play	私が無茶しては、ダメですね。
Construction Play	It seems that some new girls have arrived.
Construction Play	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.
Returning from Sortie Play	お疲れ様でした、艦隊が帰ってきましたね。
Starting a Sortie Play	Houshou, sortieing.
Starting a Sortie Play	鳳翔、出撃致します。
Starting a Battle Play	Wind direction, OK. Air wing, take off!^[5]
Starting a Battle Play	風向き、よし。航空部隊、発艦！
Attack Play	This isn't an exercise but a real battle!
Attack Play	これは、演習ではなくて実戦よっ！
Air Battle Play	I won't be doing exercises forever!^[6]
Air Battle Play	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!
Night Battle Play	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.
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。
Minor Damage 1 Play	Aaah! My flight deck!
Minor Damage 1 Play	ああっ！飛行甲板が！
Minor Damage 2 Play	Aaaah!
Minor Damage 2 Play	あぁぁっ！
Major Damage Play	I won't be sunk with just this!
Major Damage Play	このまま沈む訳には参りませんっ！
Sunk Play	So I'm... sinking too...^[7]
Sunk Play	私も…沈むのですね…

↑ HMS Hermes was actually laid down first but Houshou was completed first.
↑ She only displaced 7470 tons, around the size of a heavy cruiser.
↑ Shared with Supply before kai.
↑ This line is shared with expedition selection, resource collection, instant repair and development.
↑ Carriers would turn into the wind to make it easier to launch aircraft.
↑ She spent a significant part of her career as a training ship.
↑ She survived WW2 but was scrapped at the end.

Drop Locations

Ship	Rarity	Type	No.	World 1						World 2					World 3					World 7					World 4					World 5					World 6					Remarks
Ship	Rarity	Type	No.	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	Remarks
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).

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).