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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Named after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kirishima Mount Kirishima] in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, an active volcano.</span>
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Sank following the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal Naval Battle of Guadalcanal] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">on 15 November 1942</span>
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Sank following the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal Naval Battle of Guadalcanal] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">on 15 November 1942</span>
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Her wreck was discovered and photographed in 1992 by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard Dr. Robert Ballard] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">the same man who discovered the RMS Titanic and the Bismarck.</span>
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Her wreck was discovered and photographed in 1992 by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard Dr. Robert Ballard] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">the same man who discovered the RMS Titanic and the Bismarck.</span>
*<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11.333333015441895px;line-height:17.27083396911621px;">Though a "glasses character", many fanart choose to depict her as a bespectacled brawler, tagged under [http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%81%AE%E6%99%82%E9%96%93%E3%81%A0%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A1%21 "マイクチェックの時間だオラァ!] " ("It's mic-check time, dammit!") in pixiv. This is a nod towards her performance in the aforementioned Battle of Guadalcanal, where she gave the newly built USS South Dakota a hard knock, taking out the much younger battleship's fire control systems and communications. Not too shabby, especially if one considers her age by then (she was launched in 1913 as a battlecruiser and was rebuilt in 1927 and 1934 as a battleship). Her exceptional firepower (for a non-Yamato ship) after her second remodel may also be a nod to this brutal side of her.</span>
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[[Category:Battleships]]
==See Also==
==See Also==