History Characters / KanColleFour

** More noticeable in the anime, as she's usually the one Fubuki turns to whenever she has problems. She also acts as this towards other ships.

* TheNicknamer: In the anime, Kongou give nicknames to destroyers she meets. Ooyodo becomes "Yodo", Fubuki becomes "Bucky", Shimikaze is "Zekamashi", Akatsuki becomes "Zuki", and she combines Ikazuchi and Inazuma into "Raiden".

--->'''Nagato''': Unfortunately, the Admiral is away at the moment.\\

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Black Tea, of course!
* VerbalTic: A lot of fans believe her ''other'' lines end with "dess" (デース ''dēsu''), her Katakana variant of "desu".

* ACupAngst: Downplayed. While she's not exactly flat by any measure, her Type 91 bra makes her bust line appear considerably larger than it actually is. She's probably just jealous of Musashi.

* BerserkButton: Downplayed due to her reserved nature, but Yamato ''hates'' being reminded about how AwesomeButImpractical she is, with special mention towards calling her a 'hotel'.

-->'''Yamato''': ''Hotel, you say? N-no, you're wrong!''

%%* GeniusBonus: Yamato wears a Zulu flag armband on her left arm.

-->'''Yamato''': ''1200. Hotel Yamato's famous lunch time's... wait, I'm not a hotel.''

** Her Kai Ni remodel dethroned Musashi's to be the most resource intensive in the game. She has basically similar resource requirements as her younger sister's remodel (9900 ammo, 3 Remodel Blueprints, 3 New Model Artillery Improvement Materials, 1 Action Report,) but with higher steel at 9900, and 2 New Model High Temperature High Pressure Boilers (Which cannot be crafted and, apart from time-limited quests, can only be obtained from Amatsukaze (a RareRandomDrop) and Musashi post-Kai Ni (already a resource drain on her own.) Her resource consumption rate is also higher than Musashi Kai Ni's (275 Fuel, 350 Ammo), with her Kai Ni having 290 Fuel and 350 Ammo and her Kai Ni Juu having 300 Fuel and 400 Ammo, making her the ship with the highest resource consumption rate.

* NumberTwo: Along with Mutsu, she's this in the anime. Notably, she's the helper for her sister, who's the Admiral's Secretary, thus also making her the "number two" to the team's actual "number two".

* CatchPhrase: "Burning LOVE!", which is also [[CallingYourAttacks her attack call]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: Very clingy towards Admiral.
-->'''Kongou''': ''Even though I told you to not look away! Admiral, just what are you doing -dess!?''

** Her unique line [[spoiler: as your secretary, post-marriage:]]

* CatchPhrase: Loves doing things ''with all of her spirit!''

* CatchPhrase: "Haruna is alright" ("Haruna wa daijoubu desu"). It gets so bad, in the Drama CD's roll call she nearly introduces herself as Battleship Daijoubu.

* CatchPhrase: "Mic check...1, 2, 1, 2..." Doubles as her CharacterTic.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Especially in the anime. Downplayed in the game as she can be more open, though she's still generally reserved.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: If [[TheHero Fubuki]], [[WolverinePublicity Shimakaze]], [[FountainOfMemes Kongou]] ''and'' [[InfinityPlusOneSword Yamato]] were not as popular as they are now, Nagato would have effectively been the poster child of the game. Her standing in the fandom (well-loved) and the game proper (''number one'' in the sorting) are ''very'' high and well-appreciated, but unfortunately not enough to compete with the other characters.

** NotSoStoic: As exemplified by her CutenessProximity moment in Episode 8.

* BenevolentBoss: In the anime where she is Nagato's Second-In-Command; while Nagato is far from a tyrant, she is quite aloof, cold and stern. Mutsu has much better people skills.

* CatchPhrase: "''Ara? Ara-ara~''", a line usually associated with sweet big sisterly characters.

* CatchPhrase: Her equipment line "yarimashita" ("I did it") really catches on with the fans, such that it's associated with her. Her other iconic lines include "I won't give up here" (air battle line) and "Don't lump me in with the 5th Carrier Division's kids" (battle start line).

* TheSlacker: An instructor for the new, young destroyers but will use any excuse to ditch work and even when she does she puts the minimum amount of effort into her lessons, though Yamato noted that said personality makes Ise able to deal with destroyers easier than someone like herself.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Less frequently depicted by fandom compared to the CutenessProximity example, with most depictions having her accidentally break random things due to her SuperStrength (the [[JustifiedTrope justification]] for that strength being that she is one of the most powerful battleships both in RealLife and in-game). Still, the fandom depict her using that power to break things ''[[InvertedTrope intentionally]]''.

%% * CoolBigSis: To Zuihou.

* TogetherInDeath: If she gets sunk.

%% * TomboyishPonytail

%% * GirlishPigtails
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Her Kai Ni (E) upgrades make her one of the strongest light carriers in the game. The historical ship was poorly designed, poorly built, poorly converted, and had a less-than-impressive service record.

* RareRandomDrop: Attempting to get her is known as "Whaling" in both English and Japanese.

They are listed along with [[Characters/KanColleThree their other class-mates]]. While their conversion, a reversible alternate second remodel to a carrier, is ahistorical, it's however a reference to the incomplete Ibuki, whom started construction as an improved ''Mogami''-class but was converted during construction into a carrier. Their conversion, listed respectively as "Suzuya Carrier Kai Ni" and "Kumano Carrier Kai Ni" would be listed here if they weren't already best known as Heavy Cruisers.

* ThemeNaming: All but Akagi and Kaga[[note]]Akagi started as a battlecruiser and Kaga as a battleship.[[/note]] as well as Amagi and Katsuragi[[note]]The nomenclature had changed when they were in construction.[[/note]] use the same nomenclature as the Light Carriers. If we go by "during-war" designs, the ''Unryuu''-class, save for Unryuu herself, uses Mountain names as Akagi did and they are of a size between a heavy cruiser and a battleship of the era. The ''Shinano'' ([[VaporWare yet-to-be-released into the game as of 2024, even though she already has an alpha concept art dating back to]] '''[[VaporWare 2013]]''') is another conversion from a battleship hull (a ''Yamato''-class hull, no less), and has therefore kept her original name.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: See ''Nagato''-class below, ''Kongou''-class are really easy to get for medium-or-above Admirals, and the range drawback doesn't apply since long caliber guns are abundant. Together with some map's discrimination against Slow ships, the Kongou Fast Battleships are core of the fleet for most Admirals. However, obtaining both Nagato sisters is still highly desirable, due to unlocking of some tasks that give uncraftable strong items, and some Special Event maps (or task) have discrimination against ''Fast'' ships. The ''Nagato'' and ''Yamato''-class also fare better in ultra-hard maps like 5-5 and some Event maps.

** However, getting Nagato is anything but easy for medium-experienced players, who may get ship No.2~115 but not Nagato as No.1. While Mutsu is easy to get once you finish the 5-3 nightmare and dive into 5-4 repeatedly for easy EXP, Nagato is rare everywhere. Any map that drops her (5-4 not among them) either have random dead ends(2-4, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4) and/or outright hard (all of those except 3-3, plus 6-2 which do have a definite route to boss[[note]]5-5 is ''so'' hard that people would not even discuss as a method to get Nagato--merely get an S-win is a legendary achievement that would shock everyone[[/note]]). Unlucky players also won't get her through Normal construction (2% chance) or LSC (about 5% chance) for a while.

* AlternateCharacterReading: "[[RunningGag Nagamon]]" is the alternate reading of her name, and it is commonly used by the fandom whenever [[MemeticMutation she does something completely wacky (or perverted)]].

** While the game doesn't show this at all, the official 4-koma portrays her like this. Despite Nagato being the best battleship in the game after Yamato, and her supposedly being one of the Big 7, she finds her popularity easily overshadowed by Yamato's, even with Yamato's whole existence being kept secret before.

* HistoricalInJoke: Her ability to carry Landing Crafts in her Second Remodel is in reference to her real-life counterpart's involvement in relief transport duty after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Nagato was at Changshan archipelago, Korea Bay, preparing for a post-maneuvers inspection, when she received the radio message about the Earthquake on September 1, 1923, which killed about 140,000 people. She immediately departed for Uchinoura the day after, where they received the supplies of food, provisions and medical suppliesfor the victims. Together with Mutsu, they arrived at Yokosuka on September 5 and disembarked their supplies there.[[/labelnote]]
* LethalJokeItem: Nagato's second revision allows her to equip destroyer-caliber main guns. This might sound rather gimmicky at first, but with the ''Akizuki''-class's main guns [[note]]the 10cm Twin HA Gun Mount + AAFD, the best main guns for destroyer in-game with outstanding AA stats and enables AACI[[/note]] it allows her to effectively perform both Anti-Air Cut-In ''and'' retain a reliable artillery shelling setup (albeit with a significant firepower reduction compared to equipping battleship's large caliber main guns). The AACI itself was nowhere near in the league of Maya or the ''Akizuki''-class, but it nonetheless gives a multirole function to a battleship without crippling its main role.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: If [[TheHero Fubuki]], [[WolverinePublicity Shimakaze]], [[FountainOfMemes Kongou]], ''and'' [[InfinityPlusOneSword Yamato]] were not as popular as they are now, Nagato would have effectively been the poster child of the game. Her standing in the fandom (well-loved) and the game proper (''number one'' in the sorting) are ''very'' high and well-appreciated, but unfortunately not enough to compete with the other characters.

* HistoricalInJoke: The actual Fusou and Yamashiro were never remodeled into Aviation Battleships. They were planned for the conversion but it never went on. Their remodel represents what if they were actually converted. Their second remodel, however, is completely hypothetical, with their use of [[http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Prototype_41cm_Triple_Gun_Mount Prototype 41cm Triple Gun Mount]] among other things.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the July 2018 Rewards was the [[http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Ju_87C_Kai_Ni_(w/_KMX) Ju 87C Kai Ni]] "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87 Stuka]]" dive bomber, and its fairy is the same design as Shin'you's before her introduction. The Ju 87C Kai Ni is the bomber seen with Shin'you's Kai Ni form.

* UnknownRival: Kirishima's library line says she won't lose to Haruna.[[note]]Likely a reference to their confusing ship numbering.[[/note]] None of Haruna's lines acknowledge this rivalry.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Among all of the Fleet Girls introduced up to the Summer 2016 event (including ''[=KanColle Kai=]'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita), she has the least amount of body covering, with only a skirt, a CoatCape, and a budget {{Sarashi}} over the "important bits." Not even the pinup girl-inspired ''Iowa'' could contend for such distinction. This does get averted as of her Kai-2 art, though.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Being called 'Anti-Aircraft Gun Platform' is to her what being called a hotel is to Yamato. Despite being designed as a carrier, Japan's aircraft shortages meant she never carried any actual ''planes'', leaving her AA guns as her only real weapons. Katsuragi is still a little sore about never being able to fulfil her intended role.

* ThemeNaming: All but Akagi and Kaga[[note]]Akagi started as a battlecruiser and Kaga as a battleship.[[/note]] as well as Amagi and Katsuragi[[note]]The nomenclature had changed when they were in construction.[[/note]] use the same nomenclature as the Light Carriers. If we go by "during-war" designs, the ''Unryuu''-class, save for Unryuu herself, uses Mountain names as Akagi did and they are of a size between a heavy cruiser and a battleship of the era. The ''Shinano'' ([[VaporWare yet-to-be-released into the game]] as of 2023, but already has Alpha Art) is another conversion from a battleship hull (a ''Yamato''-class hull, no less), and has therefore kept her original name.

* ArcherArchetype: They both use a Japanese bow and flight deck like Houshou, [=CarDiv=]s 1, 2, and 5, while keeping two of the turrets in their Kai Ni form.

* ArcherArchetype: Houshou, the ''Shouhou''-class and Ryuuhou share the Samurai Archer style that the Fleet Carriers follow, but each has their own spin.

* ArcherArchetype: All of the Fleet Carriers besides Taihou and the ''Unryuu''-class[[note]]Taihou has a futuristic design and wields a crossbow. the ''Unryuu''-class are [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} Onmyouji]].[[/note]] are themed around being Samurai Archers, down to being equipped with the tradional ''yumi'' and ''muneate''.

* ArcherArchetype: She is the only one of her sisters who took on archery. Her thematic object is the Azusa Yumi, a ceremonial bow. While this is represented as a tiny bow in her base form, presumably using the banner rod on her back like her elder sisters, it's replaced by the full-sized thing upon remodel along with paper-shikigami-tipped arrows. Whatever power that is used to transform the shikigami into planes is now around ther wrist of her bow-holding arm, represented as three energy torii. Whether or not she wanted to emulate her senpai (Zuikaku) is unclear.

* {{Lightning Bruiser}}s: As their class [[MeaningfulName namesake]] would imply[[note]]While Kongou herself was named after Mt. Kongou in Nara prefecture, the name itself also the Japanese word for "vajra", which in turn is means both "diamond/adamantine" and "thunderbolt" in Sanskrit, a fitting name for a class of fast battleships[[/note]], they are the only Japanese battleships with a listed speed of Fast. Justified in that they are converted from battlecruisers, which can move faster than a battleship would.

* OlderThanTheyLook: They are the second oldest ships in the entire IJN fleet available in the game after the introduction of repair-ship Asahi, although this isn't usually referenced in both official and fan works. [[labelnote:Historic note]]Kongou was laid down on January 17, 1911, at Barrow-in-Furness in England, launching on May 18, 1912, and completed on August 1, 1913. Hiei was completed in 1914, while Haruna and Kirishima were both completed in 1915. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Asahi Asahi]] was a pre-dreadnought battleship laid down on August 1, 1898, in Clydebank, Scotland, before launching on March 13, 1899, and being completed on July 31, 1900. Asahi would later be converted into a repair ship in 1938 after a test run as a submarine rescue ship from 1925 to 1928 before being sunk by torpedoes in May 1942.[[/labelnote]]

* TookALevelInBadass: They all got their second remodels which increases their overall stats to rival the ''Nagato''-class (at least before their remodel). Kongou especially gets a significant boost in Line of Sight (from 15 to 41). Hiei gets the most HP and Armor value. Haruna, in exchange for slightly lower HP and firepower value than others, has higher AA and luck. Kirishima gets slight loss in evasion in exchange for having the most firepower.
** And then they are scheduled to get yet another remodel to keep up with the PowerCreep caused by the additions of more foreign battleships and second remodels. Kongou in particular gets a Type-C remodel, which trades off some of her armor for the ability to equip seaplane fighters and launch torpedoes.

* ThemeNaming: All but Akagi and Kaga[[note]]Akagi started as a battlecruiser and Kaga as a battleship.[[/note]] as well as Amagi and Katsuragi[[note]]The nomenclature had changed when they were in construction.[[/note]] use the same nomenclature as the Light Carriers. If we go by "during-war" designs, the ''Unryuu''-class, save for Unryuu herself, uses Mountain names as Akagi did and they are of a size between a heavy cruiser and a battleship of the era. The ''Shinano'' ([[VaporWare yet-to-be-released into the game]] as of 2022, but already has Alpha Art) is another conversion from a battleship hull (a ''Yamato''-class hull, no less), and has therefore kept her original name.

-->'''Kongou''': Aaaaad-miiiii-raaaaal~! Ehee~! Burning... LOVE! LOVE! LOVE~! ''(glomps Ooyodo)'' Mmmmmmm~! [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Chu chu! Chu chu!!]] Admiral~! Huh? This isn't the Admiral. Oh! Yodo-dess!\\
'''Ooyodo''': I'm ''Ooyodo'', yes.

--->'''Nagato''': Unfortunately, the Admiral is away at this time.\\

** In Episode 10 of the first anime, she dislikes how, despite being the Admiral's flagship, he actually expects more from Fubuki. Mutsu bluntly says Nagato is jealous of Fubuki.

* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:Her sinking line evokes this, particularly to her sister battleship and her half-sister carrier]]. Doubles as a sick {{Irony}} on her part.[[note]]The real-life ''Musashi'' and ''Shinano'' sank way ahead of ''Yamato''.[[/note]]

* BornLucky: Her base form has the highest luck amongst all aircraft carriers at 40 (until it is matched by Hiryuu Kai, but Zuikaku remains the luckiest by 2 points upon remodel). She lasted the longest of Japan's fleet carriers and managed to escape the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot with her life, unlike Shokaku and Taihou.

* JustAKid: While Kaga is dismissive of the 5th Carrier Division as the whole, she's especially severe toward Zuikaku mostly because Zuikaku is the runt of the standard carriers at the time.

* CoolBigSis: More noticeable in the anime, as she's usually THE one Fubuki turns to whenever she has problems. The game also implies she's like this for the rest of her sisters, though Hiei over-exaggerates this.

-->'''Kongou''': Aaaaad-miiiii-raaaaal~! Ehee~! Burning... LOVE! LOVE! LOVE~! ''(glomps Ooyodo)'' Mmmmmmm~! Chu chu! Chu chu!! Admiral~! Huh? This isn't the Admiral. Oh! Yodo-dess!\\
'''Ooyodo''': It's ''Ooyodo''.

* TheNicknamer: In the anime, Kongou give nicknames to destroyers she meets. Ooyodo becomes "Yodo", Fubuki becomes "Buki", Shimikaze is "Zekamashi", Akatsuki becomes "Zuki", and she combines Ikazuchi and Inazuma into "Raiden."
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The movie has her drop a lot of her hammy tendencies, showing that she can be quite serious.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Narrowly averted this in the movie when an Abyssal shot struck her in the head.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: The most awesome ship class, but also the most impractical of them all. They have the highest firepower stats in the game, as well as formidable armor and AA, but devour even more resources than the other battleships for maintenance and take an eternity to repair, especially when under heavy damage. Not to mention you can only get them through Large Ship Construction, meaning you're gonna have to pump ''tons and tons'' of resources just to have a chance to obtain them. Rational Admirals not particularly interested in the ''Yamato''-class would build an experienced and balanced fleet before devoting such amount of resources. Devoting at least 18,000 resources (four types combined) only for a 2.5% chance each to get Yamato or Musashi, many players get frustrated and desperate from LSC failures, some to the extent of outright abandoning the game, making the two truly impractical.

** Her Kai Ni is the most resource-intensive remodel in the game, requiring not only her level to be 89, one level higher than Nagato’s and the highest remodel level of the bettleships in the game, but also needing 9600 steel, 9900 ammo, ''3'' blueprints, 3 New Type Artillery Armament Materials, and an action report. In addition her consumption is increased by 25 units in both fuel and ammo, making her the most resource-heavy ship behind Yamato. Her plane count also drops to 5 in the first three slots and her fifth. Though by 2022, her remodel is no longer the most resource intensive in the game (Dethroned by her sister ship, Yamato).

* SignatureHeadgear: Their hair decs seemingly refering to the radar spires beside their real-life counterparts' command towers. Nagato's has hers mounted behind her head, while Mutsu's has hers on top (see {{Animal Motif}}s on her entry for further interpretation). As it turns out, horned headgear is one of two common denominators of the Big Seven, the other being a LimitBreak (which Nagato and Mutsu only obtain upon their second remodels, see [[Characters/KanColleSix Nelson and Colorado]]).

* ThoseTwoGuys: With Hiryuu, since they formed the 2nd Carrier Division. And because Hiryuu was built to a modified Souryuu design, to the point that they're sometimes considered sister ships.

** Her luck is second only to Zuikaku due to surviving the ambush that had devastated the rest of the carriers during the Battle of Midway.

* ThoseTwoGuys: With Souryuu, due to Hiryuu being a part of the 2nd Carrier Division and since Hiryuu is based on a modified Souryuu design.