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*Her second remodel represents her performance during her final mission, a night battle where she formed a single 'prong' of a three-pronged attack alone (other prongs each contained a light cruiser and multiple destroyers), sank (or helped sink) three destroyers, heavily damaged a fourth, and assist Kirishima in trading fire with a battleship, the ''USS South Dakota''.
*Her second remodel represents her performance during her final mission, a night battle where she formed a single 'prong' of a three-pronged attack alone (other prongs each contained a light cruiser and multiple destroyers), sank (or helped sink) three destroyers, heavily damaged a fourth, and assist Kirishima in trading fire with a battleship, the ''USS South Dakota''.
* Received her Kai Ni on 20/06/2014
* Received her Kai Ni on 20/06/2014
*The Evangelion character Rei Ayanami takes her family name from this ship. In fact, almost all Evangelion characters has names connected to IJN ships in some way; [[Maya]] Ibuki (in this case a double reference because ''Ibuki'' is also the name of an IJN cruiser), Shigeru [[Aoba]], Ritsuko [[Akagi]], to name a few.
*The Evangelion character Rei Ayanami takes her family name from this ship. In fact, almost all Evangelion characters has names connected to vehicles (IJN ships in particular); [[Maya]] Ibuki (in this case a double reference because ''Ibuki'' is also the name of an IJN cruiser), Shigeru [[Aoba]], Ritsuko [[Akagi]], to name a few.
**Asuka Langley [[Souryuu]] and her End of Evangelion counterpart, Asuka Langley [[Shikinami]], are also named after IJN ships like the above names.
**In the ''Rebuild'' movies, Rei's family name formed a trifecta with Mari Illustrious ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Makinami_%281942%29 Makinami]'' and Asuka Langley ''[[Shikinami]]''; they are all Evangelion pilots named after IJN destroyers. Asuka's name in the series was Asuka Langley [[Souryuu]], and it's probable that her name was changed to make her fit the theme naming.
==See Also==
==See Also==