// On-Rabu, 31 Agustus 2016
Historical note:
Yamato (大和?) was the lead ship of the Yamato class of Imperial Japanese Navy World War II battleships. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) 45 Caliber Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. Neither ship survived the war.
Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941. Throughout 1942, she served as the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year, and much of 1944, moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. Although present at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, she played no part in the battle.
The only time Yamato fired her main guns at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when she was sent to engage American forces invading the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On the verge of success, the Japanese force turned back, believing they were engaging an entire US carrier fleet rather than the light escort carrier group that was all that stood between the battleship and the vulnerable troop transports.
During 1944, the balance of naval power in the Pacific decisively turned against Japan, and by early 1945, its fleet was much depleted and badly hobbled by critical fuel shortages in the home islands. In a desperate attempt to slow the Allied advance,Yamato was dispatched on a one-way mission to Okinawa in April 1945, with orders to beach herself and fight until destroyed protecting the island. The task force was spotted south of Kyushu by US submarines and aircraft, and on 7 April 1945 she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato
Character:
Appearance:
Artist: Shizuma Yoshinori (しずまよしのり)
Depicted as having long brown hair in a ponytail with multiple cherry blossoms in her hair, and often carrying an oriental umbrella with a shaft based on the battleship's distinctive mast while in her left hand she is seen to bring three AP shell and wearing and armband that reference to maritime signal flag for letter "Z". The head gear that she wear is the radar on her bridge with little ornament on the left side. On her neck she wear a iron collar with an Imperial Chrysanthemum Seal off on it. She appear to wear that appears to be a string panties with anchor on it that sticking out from the hip vent on each side . She wears a single thighhigh, which, with her first remodel, bears the slogan that her admiral posted for the suicidal Operation Ten-Go, the final operation the IJN undertook, where Yamato, Yahagi, and numerous destroyers were sunk by American aircraft, also on her thigh, she has armor piercing with total of six ammo cartridges three in the left that strapped to metal garter straps and three attached to her thigh. She also has what appears to be two hollowed out AP shells with character "九一" on it that cover her breasts, which are in turn covered by her clothes. These are either some sort of strapless bra, compact strapless muneate or breast pads ,the AP shells become a common joke in many fan art either that she is just want to padding her breast or she just want hide her breast size , depending on who you ask. She wear high-heels with rudder as the heels.
Her combat gear design seems to be large "split hull" design with the smoke stack behind her back with three main guns 46 cm triple gun mount attach to it , two next to her shoulder and one behind the smoke stack while the secondaries 15.5 cm triple secondary gun is attached total of two in the sides of the hull and two in the hull. In the remodel the triple secondary gun on the side of hull is change into 12.7 cm twin high angle gun mount with total of three on each side for the reason Yamato change the secondary for better anti-air armament
Personality:
Seiyuu: Taketatsu Ayana (竹達彩奈)
Because her historical counterpart had a career mostly based around impressing people, Yamato is often depicted as a shy ( which also mention by her sister Musashi in hourly notification ) and soft-spoken housewife. While in the official 4-koma manga chapter 21 Fubuki mentioned Yamato as typical "Classical Japanese Beauty" or "Yamato Nadeshiko".
She is consider as a good cook that is mention both in her hourly notification and in the anime since this is a reference to her luxurious condition for the reason that she is used as meeting place for high-level officers. One of this luxurious condition is the full course meal.
She dislikes being a hotel that is shown both in her line and anime as she felt that she was not fulfilling her duty as a kanmusu for the reason as stated below.
While this is not shown in her line game, in the anime Yamato is shown having a huge appetite that she eats more than Akagi for the reason that having a short sortie with Fubuki in episode 8 ( this may reference to her fuel consumption ).
Source:http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Yamato
