Characters / Azur Lane - Eagle Union Aircraft Carriers (CV)

Azur Lane (Main Character Index)
Major Nations
Eagle Union (Destroyers (DD) | Light Cruisers (CL) | Heavy Cruisers (CA) | Large/Battlecruisers (CB/BC) | Battleships (BB) | Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL) | Aircraft Carriers (CV) | Submarines (SS) | Repair Ships (AR))
Royal Navy (Destroyers (DD) | Light Cruisers (CL) | Heavy Cruisers (CA) | Battleships (BB) | Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL) | Aircraft Carriers (CV))
Sakura Empire (Destroyers (DD) | Light Cruisers (CL) | Heavy Cruisers (CA) | Battlecruisers and Battleships (BB and BC) | Aircraft Carriers (CV/L))
Ironblood (Vanguard Ships (Destroyers, Light & Heavy Cruisers) | Main Fleet ships (Battlecruisers, Battleships, Light & Fleet Carriers) | Submarines)
Other Nations
Dragon Empery | North Union | Iris Libre | Vichya Dominion | Sardegna Empire
Other Characters
META | Ashes | Others | Sirens

The Lexington-class

• Idol Singer: Both are styled after one (until Saratoga's remodel) and are generally regarded as idols in various fanworks (and Slow Ahead). In game, Z35 is a fan of theirs.
• Jack of All Trades:
  • More or less how they play. They provide decent anti-air to the overall AA score, their air power is very respectable (and the Fighter-Dive Bomber-DB setup is quite potent against groups), their artillery skill isn't really a replacement for a battleship but it still does respectable damage (especially against mob waves and once leveled up some), they have a vanguard-buffing skill when launching planes, and they have higher HP than many of the Super Rare superstar carriers, both in and out of the Eagle Union. They're also farmable very early - Lexington drops from any node in 2-4, and Saratoga from 4-1. Put together, it makes them very, very good for general use even if nothing specific about them stands out that hard.
  • Saratoga's refit begins to take her into Master of All territory: in addition to gaining more HP (which genuinely takes her into battleship HP territory) and Aviation (which has her out-shooting even folks like Enterprise or Akagi/Kaga individually - the IJN carriers need to be deployed together to catch up to her stat-for-stat) she also gains a third skill that allows her to launch a further set of planes that cause fire and flood status. At that point, the only things she doesn't provide are defensive buffs or healing - she does literally everything else most other carriers do, and can do it better than a good number of them.
• Military Mashup Machine: Their Supporting Fire skill, which fires a barrage of 8-inch guns every 20 seconds (10 seconds at max level, and with damage scaling with level if not also their aviation), makes them act as a mashup of carriers and heavy cruisers or weaker battleships (while cruiser-caliber weapons, the way they're fired from the backline acts more like a battleship). While they had these guns in real life, they were actually a hindrance, as they wasted space and weight that could be used for more planes or anti-air guns instead, couldn't be used while carrying out flight operations, and as carriers, if they were in range to even fire their 8-inch guns, something had already gone horribly wrong, and such weapons were unlikely to be of any help at that point.
• Moveset Clone: Pre-retrofit, Saratoga and Lexington possess identical skills, stats, efficiencies, and rarity, although Lexington has lower luck than her sister due to the former got sunk earlier during the war. With the introduction of Saratoga's retrofit, this is finally Subverted, which makes her clearly superior to her big sister, who does not have a retrofit.
• Older Than They Look: Although they're both youthful-looking idols, Lex and Sara are the oldest Eagle Union carriers besides Langley.

Lexington (CV-2)

Voiced by: Minami Shinoda

ID: No. 073

Rarity: Elite

Artist: Saru

"Good day to you, Commander♪ I'm Lexington. I heard that my name comes from the place where the first battle of the War of Independence was fought. I think that as an idol, one must be rich at heart. Don't you agree?"

• BFG: While it looks and acts more like a staff, she's carrying a muzzleloading colonial long rifle, much like the Lexington Minuteman statues does, with her aircraft carrier island attached to the butt of the stock.
• Cool Big Sis: She is Saratoga's big sister, and acts this way towards her and everyone else, saying that she's everyone's older sister in her biography. She also refers to the Commander as a little sibling, either directly or by referring to herself as Onee-chan when talking to them.
• Hidden Buxom: Her Qipao skin shows her assets more clearly than her default skin, which showed some sign of bust.
• Historical In-Joke: Her first lines of dialogue in the main story is a reference to an iconic line spoken at her namesake battle ^note Hold your positions. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war... let it begin!
• Older Than She Looks: Despite her looks, her comments about being everyone's older sister are appropriate given she's the oldest Eagle Union carrier after Langley.
• Red Baron: Lady Lex, a line she uses to refer to herself when she's MVP. This is what the carrier was historically called, to boot.
• Sexual Euphemism: It's hard not to read her pledge line like this, when she says it's gonna be "showtime all the time" for her "personal show" for the commander.
• Smoking Is Glamorous: In her "Spring's Song" qipao outfit, Lexington is holding a lit, long-stem pipe, and the attire is considerably more elegant and glamorous than her default outfit.

Saratoga (CV-3)

Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka

^{Saratoga (Retrofit)}

ID: No. 074

Rarity: Elite

Artist: Saru

"Hey, good day, Commander! I'm Lexington… 's little sister, Saratoga~ If you don't really have anything for me to do then I'll get going."

• A-Cup Angst: Saratoga is normally good at hiding it, but there are hints that she's not happy with her lack of bustline compared to other shipgirls:
  • While her "touch" line is about her height more than anything else, it is still possible to interpret it as this trope.
  • Putting her together with Illustrious or Ranger will make her a bit shy about her youth, despite being the senior ship.
  • In one of Monica's Juustagram posts during the Dead or Alive crossover event, Saratoga remarks that while Monica beat her and Cygnet in volleyball, Cygnet at least tied with Monica in the "bounciness" department. Cygnet's response is one of confusion, stating that "nobody told us we'd be graded on that too!"
  • In one of Kashino's Juustagram posts during the 2021 Chinese New Year event, Saratoga remarks "you are what you eat '_'", which Kashino gets puzzled by. Like her "touch" line, Saratoga was probably commenting on Kashino's cow motif, but it is also possible to interpret her message as this trope, considering Kashino's giant chest.
• Badass Adorable: Saratoga is both incredibly cute with an adorable personality, and a powerful carrier shipgirl that can deliver a huge amount of pain on the enemy.
• Balance Buff: After rather major one, as her Augment turned her from a middling carrier to one of the best in the game, competing with the likes of Shinano and Hakuryuu practically overnight.
• Crossover: The only character at the moment to have a skin directly from a character from a limited time crossover event, wearing Kizuna Ai's Elegant outfit. Initially only having her original lines, her "updated" lines have her try to even imitate the virtual idol.
• Demoted to Extra: In the games, she tends to play a rather big role when it comes to most events involving the Eagle Union, such as "Solomon Ranger" (alongside characters like Enterprise, Portland, and Atlanta), "Ashen Simulacrum", and "Northern Union" (where she's even the de-facto leader while the Commander is separated by an ice wall). In the anime? Her role happens to be minimal, where her major scenes (pranking Cygnet and fighting a shark) happened all off-screen or in the background. This is more ironic considering she appears in the credits since the first episode. All other appearances of her are non-speaking or cameos.
• Disk One Nuke: She's given (along with some other resources) as a first gem purchase bonus, meaning someone with enough for 60 gems (the lowest amount), which is to say one dollar can get her day one. And her skill-set and starting equipment (a 3-star dive bomber in one of her DB slots, double DB slots for that matter, and also her Artillery Support skill that allows her to also act like a pseudo-battleship) is more or less purpose-built for slinging big numbers from level one.
• Fanservice Pack: Zigzags depending on the skin. Her base and Kizuna Ai skin shows her with an slight bustline, her swimsuit makes her seem flat, the rest are generally posed/etc to be hard to tell.
• Hidden Depths: Does her best to keep Enterprise's spirits up during The Solomon Ranger event, knowing that it could be dangerous if she goes into battle stressed out and depressed, especially since she also knows what it's like to lose a sister. She also makes it clear that part of why she seems so cheerful even after losing Lexington is because she knows her sister would want her to remain cheerful and get revenge on the enemy for her. Her lines also reveal that she has a very good understanding of strategy and tactics. This actually does make some sense, once you realize she's actually one of the oldest and longest-serving carriers on the entire roster (lain down in 1920 as a BC, launched in '27 as a CV, and ended her career two decades later as a subject for nuclear tests, having fought in basically the entire Pacific Theater).
• Historical In-Joke:
  • During her introduction, she hesitates before saying she's Lexington's younger sister. The real Saratoga was laid down about four months before Lexington, launched seven months before her, and commissioned a month before Lexington, meaning she's actually the older of the two ships, despite being the second ship in the class and being ordered a year later than Lexington.
  • In Glorious's character story, she says she won't be called "Drydock Idol". Historically, she had to undergo repairs many times.
  • Her relationship with Enterprise, bonding over them both having lost their sister ships in battle. Saratoga and Enterprise were the only prewar American carriers deployed to the Pacific to survive to the war's end.
• Idiot Hair: Has a quite noticeable cowlick ... but she is by no means an idiot. However, she is very very mischievous, wanting to prank people for fun.
• In-Series Nickname: Just like in real life with crewmen, in-game ships refer to her as "Sister Sara" during her character quest or simply "Sara" during the "Solomon Ranger" event.
• Magical Girl: She self-styles as such after her remodel. Even her remodel skill's name makes a reference to that.
• No Kill like Overkill: In anime, she saved San Diego from the shark by sending her dive bombers to bomb the shark to oblivion.
• Odd Friendship: You'd think that the cheerful and seemingly carefree Saratoga wouldn't really get along with the extremely serious, driven Enterprise, but they get along quite well in the Solomon Ranger event. Sadly, part of this is due to them both knowing what it's like to lose a sister.
• Older Than They Look: Despite her generally childish attitude and looks, she's treated as a teacher and older sister by most of the rest of the fleet. This is a reference to her history, as her real-life counterpart was one of the first true aircraft carriers and one of the oldest in service during WW2 - she's actually the senpai to damn near every other carrier on the roster, even from other navies.
  • She mentions in "Solomon Ranger" that, following Lexington's sinking, she's the senior of the Eagle Union fleet carriers, and her actions during the event make it clear she has the skill and experience to back it up.
  • In her own character quest, "Sara's Work Never Ends!" shows her teaching other ships about the tactical importance of carriers. She outright shushes Illustrious and Queen Elizabeth for talking in class.
• Petite Pride: Putting her with Yorktown will make her proud of her cuteness, especially because Yorktown is younger than her.
• The Prankster: Her lines indicate her to be this. Her remodel skill's name also makes reference to this as it's separate airstrike (timed, not based on normal airstrike) that inflicts burning and flooding (a damage over time status that debuted with this skill). Cygnet ending up in a maid outfit was also one of her pranks.
• Precision F-Strike: In her Kizuna Ai outfit, she imitates Kizuna Ai's infamous "Fakkyu" line, in the exact same manner she said it from this video, if her affection is low.
• Series Mascot: She gets pushed as this to some degree in the CN and JP versions of the game - she's been the app icon since launch. The EN (US) version, unsurprisingly, opts for Enterprise instead. Her retrofit portrait is also the icon for events during quiet periods too.
• Survivor Guilt: It's possible to read a bit of this into her "Solomon Ranger" characterization and a few other spots - she really loves her sister Lex and feels a bit guilty that she survived when Lex didn't.
• Token Mini-Moe: She's the only Eagle Union fleet carrier to look more like a child than an adult (and until Bearn and Katsuragi, the only fleet carrier of any faction to look so childlike, Children's Day versions of existing ships like Zeppy and Little Enterprise not withstanding). Ironic, as the real Saratoga along with her sister Lexington were the largest carriers in service during the war (justified, given their battlecruiser origin), only beaten by Shinano in terms of displacement and the Midway-class carriers in overall size.

The Yorktown-class

• Jack of All Stats: All three Yorktown-class sisters share balanced 125% efficiency ratings for all three of their squadrons, one slot each of fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers. While useful early on, later content require more specialist builds.

Yorktown (CV-5)

Voiced by: Kana Yuuki

ID: No. 076

Rarity: Elite

Artist: Hao

"I'm Yorktown, the name ship of the Yorktown-class aircraft carriers. I was named after the Siege of Yorktown during the Union Independence War. Neutrality…? That's just pre-war etiquette."

• An Arm and a Leg: She'a a double amputee in the anime, losing both of her legs below her knees.
• A Taste of Power: Played with. Early Open Beta Stage, she was gifted to players after the number of registrants reached a certain milestone. Compared to many starter ships in the fleet, she is incredibly powerful, and even after more powerful ships join the fleet, she still remains solid choice in most situations.
• Balance Buff: Prior to an update in October 2018, both aspects of her Vengeance skill (the retaliatory airstrike and the healing) activated at the same time, which wasn't terribly useful. After the update, her retaliatory airstrike is launched whenever she takes damage, though there is a 20 second cooldown during which it cannot activate. This dramatically increases its utility, especially in PVE, as it can provide a noticeable increase to her overall damage output during boss fights and can now actually come into play against mobs.
• Beneath the Mask: While she hides it relatively well, her affection lines show she has some serious self-confidence issues, due to the circumstances of her sinking. She gets better as her affection grows.
• Broken Bird: Once the pride of the Eagle Union carrier fleet, Yorktown has been deeply affected by the long and drawn-out ordeal culminating in her sinking that befell her at Midway.
• Cool Big Sis: Towards both her younger sisters, who she loves dearly and always encourages, and Hammann, who is quite attached to her, to the point that Hammann states she's never regretted trying to save her, despite it leading to Hammann being sunk in the same submarine attack that finally doomed Yorktown. In the anime, Hammann even refers to her as "her sister" when asking Vestal how she's doing.
• Counter-Attack: Her Vengeance Skill does a counter airstrike upon getting damaged (20 second cool down between them), a reference to how, even after she had been crippled, her dive bomber wing, VB-3, operating from Enterprise, attacked and returned the favor to Hiryuu, whose planes were responsible to the damage to Yorktown.
• Despair Event Horizon: She's on the edge of it and describes it in terms of creeping darkness and falling into the abyss possibly making the depths of the despair she nearly falls to a reference to the literally abyssal depths - her hull rests on the abyssal plains, three miles beneath the surface of the ocean, one of the deepest shipwrecks ever found and so deep as to be in perpetual darkness. This is where she sunk after the Battle of Midway. And, since playable shipgirls are Wisdom Cube re-creations of the originals, she remembers everything about her painful death, knows how much agony it caused Enterprise and may even remember, to some degree, her time in total darkness. Getting her affection up helps restore her self-confidence.
• Disk One Nuke: Yorktown is given to players who join new servers early on for free, and an elite-rarity fleet carrier is an incredibly powerful addition to an early-game fleet. Even once she's joined by other fleet carriers, Yorktown remains a solid member of the fleet.
• Drowning My Sorrows: While the introduction for the "Evening I Can't Remember" skin implies she doesn't know she's getting plastered, much of the rest of her dialog with the skin (and her 2020 Valentine's Day message) implies this is hardly her first time getting drunk and some of her main screen dialog implies she does it to try to deal with her depression and loneliness.
• Foil: For her younger sister Enterprise. Everything that Enterprise now has — the fame, the prestige, the respect and adoration of her fellow Eagle Union comrades — is something that once belonged to Yorktown (or rather, was shared amongst all three sisters of the Yorktown class). Yorktown even had her moment to shine as the veteran Ace of the carrier fleet between Coral Sea and Midway, but where Enterprise would go on to survive the War, Yorktown would eventually succumb to the damage accumulated from multiple airstrikes and a submarine attack, being abandoned to her fate once it was clear she couldn't be saved.
• Giver of Lame Names: Her one-panel comic shows that in addition to her eagle, she has a pet dog and pet meowficer. They are named "Little Eagle," "Little Doggy," and "Little Kitty," respectively. The comic euphemistically refers to her naming sense as "very... distinct".
• Lady of War: The Eagle Union's representative in this department, and just below Royal Navy's Hood and Sakura Empire's Amagi in this aspect. She's easily one of the most elegant and traditionally feminine ships in the entire Eagle Union fleet, but she's every bit as willing to fight as the others, and with her stats and the great endurance her skill grants, she's very good at it.
• Last Chance Hit Point: Her Vengeance skill heals her at critical HP, a reference to her downright Rasputinian Death in which Hiryuu attacked her twice, landing three serious hits in the first wave ^note  the damage from this attack included extinguishing all but one of Yorktown's boilers and starting multiple fires that would likely have been catastrophic had the crew not purged the aviation fuel lines with carbon dioxide, but before the second attack an hour later, repairs had been so successful that the Japanese thought they were attacking another carrier entirely^note within that hour, Yorktown's crew had reignited all of her boilers, using the one boiler that wasn't extinguished to kickstart the others and bringing her speed back up from about 3 knots to 20 knots, got the fires under control, and patched up her flight deck enough to attempt to resume combat aviation operations in a feat of damage control considered to be nearly unmatched in the entire war. This attack also did not sink Yorktown, which was deemed salvageable despite extinguishing all of Yorktown's boilers and causing a 26-degree list that led to her captain giving the order to abandon ship. When she stopped listing further, crews reboarded her and a tug towed her back and began damage control. The crews managed to reduce her list by about 2 degrees by pumping out water and throwing weight, such as "5" turrets overboard, when the Japanese submarine I-168 spotted her and fired four torpedoes at her, hitting her two more times and blasting her escort, USS Hammann, in half, at which point Yorktown was finally deemed unsalvageable, but still stubbornly refused to sink for over twelve hours afterwards.
• Mutual Kill: In the story mode, she and Hiryuu kill each other with their final airstrikes. This is actually a minor divergence from history, as while Yorktown's dive bombers did kill Hiryuu, Hiryuu's torpedo bombers didn't quite kill Yorktown, who barely survived and wouldn't die until the submarine I-168 finished her off the next day.
• Old Maid: Yorktown is self-conscious about her age and if not already a "Christmas Cake", she's at least very concerned about becoming one, imploring the Commander not to confuse 24 and 42, and in keeping with her self-deprecating nature, suggesting that the Commander pursue one of her younger sisters instead.
• Plotline Death: Dies at the end of Chapter 3 of the normal story mode, and in other serious plotlines, she's absent or noted to have sunk.
• Sentimental Drunk: Most of the voice lines for her "Evening I Can't Remember" skin have her being a loud "happy drunk" and sharing embarassing stories and the like.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She's by far the most traditionally feminine member of her class and arguably the entire Eagle Union fleet, but no less willing to fight, and many of her lines are polite, yet also firm in a way that's clearly backed by strength. This becomes apparent as early as her introduction text, "Neutrality? That's just pre-war etiquette." Even her "special touch" line has shades of it, asking if the Commander is willing to make such a commitment, rather than expressing shock, disgust, admonishing the Commander for doing it in public, or being way too into it, which are the most common reactions of the other shipgirls.
• Status Buff: Her Fleet Carrier skill increases the damage output of the escort fleet after for 8 seconds launching an air strike.
• Take Up My Sword: She hands Enterprise her bald eagle as she's sinking.
• Unsuspectingly Soused: In her formal "Evening I Can't Remember" skin, Yorktown is convinced that what she's drinking is simply grape juice, so she won't get drunk, and the name of the skin implies that she got blackout drunk and couldn't remember anything that happened at the banquet, which would hardly be surprising if she personally drank all the glasses of wine depicted in the skin.

Enterprise (CV-6)

Voiced By: Yui Ishikawa (Japanese), Rachael Messer (English), Marisol Romero (Latin American Spanish)

ID: No. 077

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist: Hao

"Enterprise, the Yorktown-class' second ship, has arrived. I neither sympathize with nor hold back on my enemies, and always use my full strength. That is my way."

• The Ace: She received the most battle stars of any ship for her World War II service in Real Life and is by far the best aircraft carrier in the game, rivaled only by the Akagi/Kaga pair and the Shoukaku/Zuikaku pairs at release and in the earliest events, all of whom are from the Sakura Empire and require their pair buffs to compete in terms of damage. It's only recently that late game (worlds 12 and 13) meta and the advent of the Essex-class, Centaur, and Formidable that she's started to be pushed out of "best carrier" category. It could be suggested said meta was shaped to prevent her from easily beating enemies in those levels. It would not be until Shinano was released as the first Ultra Rare carrier (and the first Ultra Rare ship obtained from construction rather than retrofitting a Super Rare or from PR research) that a carrier would fully eclipse her damage output.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Her anime version is notably more brooding and angst driven over less (Yorktown losing her legs) compared to her game counter part, there it takes both sisters sinking to have her hit a similar state.
• Adaptation Name Change: Depending on the region, her eagle is known as either Grim Reaper, Shinigami or God of Death, all three being pretty much synonyms.
• Action Pet: Grim Reaper, Enterprise's Bald Eagle. ^note Enterprise's Fighter Squadron were known as the VF-10 "Grim Reapers"
• Badass Longcoat: In her default appearance. Reindeer Master outfit changes it into a Badass Cape instead. As for the "badass" part... well, she's an aircraft carrier, and one of the most accomplished and notorious ones in history to boot.
• The Berserker: She is seen in the anime charging full-tilt at the enemy with a cool and ruthless demeanor, much to the concern of fellow Azur Lane fleet mates. She is even able to repel katana-wielding Zuikaku before her bow finally snaps and her rigging is disabled from sustained damage. In the "Solomon Ranger" event, Saratoga tries her best to (successfully) stop her from charging off similarly.
• Big Eater: Juustagram posts involving Enterprise suggest she has quite the appetite with a preference for meat and a disdain for greens, calling them rabbit food when Belfast forces her to eat a salad. Shangri-La even calls her voracious at one point. She also carries a secret soft spot for her commander's cooking, with Hornet almost gleefully revealing how much she always seems to look forward to it should the commander offer to make something for her.
• Born Lucky: True to her namesake, she has one of the highest luck in-game, and her skill Lucky E is named after the nickname earned for her extraordinary luck. Though she would ask if she could gave her luck to her sisters^note Her two sister ships, Yorktown and Hornet, didn't survive the war, as they were sank in Battle of Midway and Santa Cruz respectively. when asked about it.
• Broken Ace: While the anime shows her as the most formidable carrier of any faction, it has come with a cost. In fact, part of the plot of the anime is about Belfast trying to put her back together.
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: A variation with her Wind Catcher Race Queen CG.
• Catchphrase: "Owari da!"^note "It's over!", her skill activation line. Expect a PvE or PvP battle to end really quickly when you hear this line.
• Cleavage Window: Her "Diving Under Blue Skies" Summer CG exhibits this, with her diving suit unzipped at the middle.
• Clothing Damage: Her Summer CG actually has her pantyhose torn on her right thigh by default.
• Does Not Like Spam: Lemons ^note : According to her profile in the crossover event in Gothic wa Mahou Otome,
• Draw Aggro: In "The Solomon Ranger", she ends up being the focus of the IJN attacks, allowing Saratoga to attack Ryuujou in return. She is injured in the process but is able to make back to port.^note This actually matches the historical records of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, where after the battle, Enterprise had to return to Honolulu and spend two months going repairs, just in time for the Battle of Santa Cruz.
• Gamer Chick: In Crosswave, Enterprise is shown to be conversing with Long Island about a video game the both of them are playing and is keeping up with her like it's nothing. When the others show surprise Enterprise shrugs it off and jokingly asks if they thought that she didn't have any hobbies.
• Headbutting Heroes: With Akagi, though it is one sided since she doesn't mind Akagi otherwise. Akagi, however, frequently vocalizes her dislike for Enterprise (and the rest of the Eagle Union).
• Hidden Depths:
  • While seemingly an unflappable serious combatant, a good look at her lines reveals other aspects to her, in particular a desire for the fighting to end. It's quite clear that the loss of both her sisters and her half-sister have taken a toll on her, and for the playable/marry-able one, even though the miracle of Wisdom Cubes allows her to reunite with her sisters at your Azur Lane, the lessons she learned during the war remain.
  • Her Christmas skin (and the event that went with it) has her happily taking up the role of Santa Claus, and repeatedly insisting she IS Santa.
  • Her wedding skin reveals an earnest desire to do well as a wife, while her love line has her say that she wants to stay with the Commander once the war is over.
  • Both of her casual skins, Anniversary Ride and Bon Voyage!^*Available as a limited reward skin via the Fair Winds Cruise Pass has her expressing interest in peaceful activities, particularly travelling around the world preferably as a tourist.
• Hotter and Sexier: Her "Wind Catcher" Race Queen CG definitely fits, being the only special CG she has that shows a significant amount of skin. In the Live2D version of the same CG, her tank top can be slightly unzipped, eliciting an immediate reaction from her.
• Image Song: "Phantom 9" sung by Yui Ishikawa
• Insistent Terminology: During the Christmas event, she repeatedly insists that she IS Santa Claus and refuses to be addressed as Enterprise. Gridley's the only one who doesn't need to be corrected.
• It's Personal: In "Ashen Simulacrum" after hearing about her so much Enterprise finally confronts her Siren self face-to-face and the first thing both of them do is wordlessly draw their bows on one another. When Victorious tries to stop her Enterprise just yells at everyone else to stay out of it. Betraying her even-tempered behavior leading up to the moment it's quite obvious that Enterprise's blood is boiling at the sight of herself working with the Sirens and the attack on New York.
• Master of All: Enterprise has great stats, balanced efficiencies, and a powerful skill. In early versions, the only carriers that could credibly surpass her were the paired Sakura carrier divisions with their mutual buffs. While newer carriers have skills and efficiencies more friendly to the current late-world meta, Enterprise still has some of the highest stats around (only truly surpassed by Saratoga's retrofit) and Lucky E is nearly unmatched in raw damage output for carrier skills and is able to bulldoze through most of the game's content.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her Heroic Finery◊ skin, which is open in front almost to her navel.
• Necessary Drawback: For all her plus points under Master of All, she only has her Lucky E skill to rely on, compared to most other ships of her rarity which has about two or three skills to their name.
• No-Sell: For eight seconds after activating her skill, Lucky E, Enterprise is completely immune to damage.
  • Loophole Abuse: What it actually does is gives her perfect evasion. Ramming ignores evasion. If PvP was manually controlled, one could try ramming her to death.
• One-Man Army: One of her lines references the time she was the ONLY operational American carrier in the Pacific, to the point there was a sign on her flight deck that simply read: "Enterprise vs Japan".
• Purple Is Powerful: She's purple-eyed and one of the strongest characters.
• Red Baron: Enterprise is also known by her many historical nicknames, including The Grey Ghost, which she mentions in one of her secretary lines ^note  This is derived from nickname given to the ship by the Japanese, since on three separate occasions, they announced her to have been sunk. , and "Lucky E", which is also the name of her signature skill.
• The Rival: Zuikaku claims she's this to her, though not as hostile due to Zuikaku joining Azur Lane as part of La Résistance. However, Enterprise doesn't acknowledge her, viewing every hostile Sakura carrier as her rival.
• Series Mascot: The EN version has made her the outright app icon (as opposed to Sara), which is probably due to a combination of her relationship to America and her sheer popularity.
• Shout-Out:
  • Enterprise's MVP line "Commander, tell me: How many more ships do I have to sink?" is a reference to Heero Yuy's line from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. Which is weird on her part as she shares her Red Baron tag with Heero's fellow Gundam pilot Duo Maxwell, and also with Terry Sanders, Jr. from Mobile Suit Gundam The 08 Th MS Team.
  • Her casual attire skin has her giving the traditional Vulcan salute and several of her lines become Star Trek references, such as starting missions with "Enterprise, engage!" and her defeat line becoming "Sometimes there really is a no-win scenario...", a reference to the famous Kobayashi Maru test.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran:
  • Witnessing the sinking of her sisters, as well as many of her other fellow Union carriers has persuaded her that war is her only business, which has also caused her to adopt her characteristic Cold Sniper personality.
  • She says quite bluntly in her "Friendly" affinity quote, as well as her comments to Yorktown and Unicorn in the anime that the sea is merely a battlefield, and that there is nothing really "beautiful" about it, though compared to the game, the anime emphasizes this more heavily.
• Status Buff: Her Lucky E skill has a high chance of doubling the damage of her planes and avoiding all attacks for 8 seconds after launching an airstrike. Interestingly, this is currently her only skill, but it's the only one she needs to be the best aircraft carrier in the early game meta, as it allows her to survive counterstrikes and wipe out entire enemy fleets with ease in both PvE and PvP.
• Survivor Guilt: A lot like Saratoga, there's a lot of shades of this in both her playable version's lines and her lines in various parts of the story, both after chapter 3 (where we get to see Yorktown's death in all its agony) and during "Solomon Ranger" (at which point nearly everyone from the early classes of Union carriers is dead and Saratoga is having to try and convince E to not go on a suicide run from her fury).
• Tragic Keepsake: Her eagle, Grim Reaper belonged to Yorktown before her sinking at Midway.
• Unluckily Lucky: She's one of the luckiest and most capable ships in the war, surviving punishing battles with relative ease. Unfortunately, this comes at the cost of watching both of her sisters (and most of the Union's pre-War carrier fleet) fall in battle.
• Worthy Opponent: In Essex's side story, the two spar with one another to a draw. Enterprise later admits tells her that she is one her most esteemed mentees and one of few she considers to be a rival.

Hornet (CV-8)

Voiced by: Nozomi Yamamoto (Japanese), Kristi Rothrock (English), Ximena de Anda (Latin American Spanish)

ID: No. 078

Rarity: Elite

Artist: Hao

"Hello~ I'm Hornet! Ah, there's no need to be formal, you can go ahead and call me Miss Hornet~ It's tough having two great older sisters… But I'm great too!"

• Always Someone Better: Her sisters, she assumes you're interested in them at first and she generally strives to keep up with them.
• Badass Cape: She wears a cape similar in appearance to Enterprise's longcoat. As for "badass"... Well, she's an aircraft carrier.
• Balance Buff: Prior to an October 2018 update, her Doolittle Raid skill had half the activation rate it now has.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Hornet herself is one, and of the classical dead little sister type to boot. Yorktown being killed may have been traumatic for both of them, along with the loss of their half-sister Wasp, but Hornet dying is implied to be what really left Enterprise traumatized at the start of "Solomon Ranger", since Hornet's death leaves Lucky E as basically an orphan in ship terms.
• The Gadfly: She is this to Hammann in the anime, going from things like flipping Hammann's skirt (although partly to calm her down from freaking out over Enterprise) to Beach Bury Hammann in the beach episode.
• Genki Girl: Energetic and always raring to go. This makes for quite a contrast to her more buttoned-down sisters.
• Historical In-Joke: Her defeat line has her wonder if she'll meet "a new me". After USS Hornet (CV-8) was sunk, the Essex-class carrier CV-12 was renamed to Hornet in its honour prior to launch^note It was originally supposed to be USS Kearsarge. This finally comes to pass as of Parallel Superiposition, as she has been rebuilt as the very same Essex-class ship.
• Love Confession: Notable in that she doesn't beat around the bush even slightly, and tells you straight to your face in her Love line.
• Odd Friendship: She and Northampton are good friends, even if Hornet thinks Northampton is a bit too rigid and Northampton thinks Hornet is a bit too loud.
• Platonic Life-Partners: The game and Queen's Orders portray her and Northampton like this, in reference to Northampton being Hornet's escort ship in real life.
• Signature Move: Her Doolittle Raid which adds a second wave of B-25 bombers to her air strikes.
• Status Buff: Her Assault Carrier skill doubles the damage of her airstrike when it activates.
• Stealth Pun: Her appearance alludes to her name: She has green eyes and blond hair, making her look more like her older half-sister Wasp than her white-haired, blue-eyed sisters. Hornets are a subset of wasps. She also tells you in her summon line to not call her "Big Wasp" for this reason.
• Stripperiffic: Rather scantily clad compared to her sisters (under the coat is just a bikini top and short shorts). And her formal skin is a rather showy ensemble.
• Successful Sibling Syndrome: Downplayed. She feels the pressure to live up to her older sisters (Yorktown being the first ship of their class and known for her Dying Moment of Awesome at Midway, and Enterprise being the single most-decorated US ship in World War II), but has enough self-confidence in her ability to live up to her sisters' names (perhaps referencing her own position in history via the Doolittle Raid).
• Tsundere: Defied. Hornet comments that she is a twintailed blonde but is not a Tsundere, and further states that she is not a stereotypical woman. In fact, she's very honest about her feelings.
• Unblockable Attack: No amount of anti-air or fighter screening can stop her Doolittle Raid skill from doing its damage, as the B-25 it creates isn't actually a normal plane, but just a shadow.

Little Enterprise

Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa

ID: No. 516

Rarity: Elite

Artist: 豆芽菜

"Hello, Commander. I am Enterprise, aircraft carrier from the Eagle Union. I want to learn as much as I can here to be a stronger warrior... Commander, will you help me?"

• Big Sister Worship: She greatly looks up to Hornet and Yorktown, though not quite to the level of worship.
• Born Lucky: Has a similar skill to her grown-up version in Lucky Little E, and has an even higher luck stat at 93. Considering that she hasn't lost either of her sisters yet, in addition to all of Enterprise's real life achievements, this makes sense.
• Children Are Innocent: Relatively so, compared to her adult version. She's far more enthusiastic about her goals (namely, becoming as strong as possible), and also has a few child-like voicelines, such as one where she remarks that her nickname of the Grey Ghost is "pretty awesome".
• Does Not Like Spam: Fully canonizes the Ascended Meme of Enterprise greatly disliking lemons, one of her secretary voicelines being the first mention of it in the game proper.

The Wasp-class

Wasp (CV-7)

Voiced by: Tomoyo Takayanagi

ID: No. 079

Rarity: Rare

Artist: MusyneXSK

"Hm? You're that so-called Commander? Hmm......as long as there's space in your fleet, then it's alright to have me join you~"

• Boring, but Practical: Wasp has, by far, the worst stats of any fleet carrier in every category (broadly similar to Ranger's - a light carrier - post-retrofit stats), save for her merely below-average reload, and she has a rather unimpressive skill (a moderate chance of launching some additional spitfires when she launches an airstrike), but she has one important thing going for her: she is the only rare (rather than elite or super rare) fleet carrier in the game, giving her the lowest oil consumption of any fleet carrier. This makes her quite practical when a map requires a carrier in the backline, but you want to field a battleship-focused backline, or if deploying two fleet carriers is required, but you only really need one, or even if your frontline can clear everything without help from the main fleet - just slot in Wasp to keep the oil costs down.
• Historical In-Joke: Her introductory line about it being alright for her to join so long as there's space in your fleet references the entire reason she was created: The Washington Naval Treaty limited the total combined tonnage each navy was allowed for building aircraft carriers. After Yorktown and Enterprise were built, they still had left over tonnage, but not enough for a third Yorktown-class, so they created the USS Wasp as a smaller, stripped down version of the Yorktown-class to use up the left-over tonnage^note USS Hornet was built later, in response to the possibility of war in Europe and Germany and Japan withdrawing from the treaty.
  • Her default fighters are British Spitfires, not an American plane like the Wildcat. This is a nod to her two ferry missions to the beleaguered island of Malta in April and May 1942, where she delivered almost a hundred of these planes to bolster the island's defense.
• Idiot Hair: Two of them, to invoke image of an insect.
• Jack of All Stats: Much like her Yorktown-class half-sisters, Wasp has balanced efficiencies for all aircraft types and one squadron each of fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers.
• Master of None: Unlike her half-sisters in the Yorktown-class, she doesn't have the stats or skills to back up her balanced proficiencies, and while the Yorktowns have medium-high stats and powerful skills (Yorktown and Hornet) or extremely high stats and incredibly powerful skills (Enterprise), Wasp has by far the worst stats of any fleet carrier (to the point many light carriers have better stats) and an unimpressive skill.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: She doesn't take kindly to a "special touch" when she's your secretary and threatens to shoot you anywhere and quite possibly everywhere that you don't specifically ask not to get shot.
• Stripperiffic: Wasp wears a very long jacket, which she keeps almost completely unzipped, so as to reveal everything above her waist, and under which, she's only wearing a bikini. It's likely a nod to the fact she's basically a stripped down version of the Yorktown Class meant to use up the remaining 15,000 tons of allowed carrier construction under the Washington Naval Treaty after the first two 20,000 ton Yorktown class carriers (Hornet was commissioned later, after Italy and Japan refused to sign the Second London Naval Treaty and activated its "escalator clause", permitting greater amounts of tonnage for the signatory nations and allowing the construction of new battleships with 16-inch cannons for the first time since the Washington Naval Treaty. As a result, Hornet was ordered to get something of the best available carrier design under construction while the follow-up class (the Essex-class) was being finalized). Even though she's about the same displacement as Ranger, Wasp isn't classified as a light carrier in-game, as all the extreme compromises in her design were to allow her to have the same air wing as full-sized Yorktown-class carriers in three-quarters the displacement, while Ranger had been designed around a smaller air wing than her Yorktown-class successors. Out of universe it's likely a nod to Hornet's style of dress who was built after her but added to the game earlier.
• Support Party Member: Inverted, as being around at least one royal navy ship enables a chance to launch some Seafighter planes on top of her normal air strikes.

The Essex-class

• Born Lucky: With the exception of Bunker Hill (see her entry for why) most of the Essex class have very high luck, since they all survived the war and all the currently preserved WWII era carriers^note Yorktown, Intrepid, Hornet and Lexington in the US are Essexes.
• Coat Cape: A common fashion preference among the sisters in their default art.
• Superior Successor: Made to be this to the Yorktown class and it actually shows in game as their statlines, efficiencies, and so forth are superior to the point of perhaps outdoing even Enterprise. And their more supportive skill kits lend themselves quite well to late game content (World 12 and 13) where aviation damage is dampened.

Essex (CV-9)

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi

ID: No. 357

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist:

"Is this where Enterprise… A-Ahem!—Essex, the Union's ground-breaking aircraft carrier, formally reporting for duty. Please, expect much from my combat performance! I would never let anyone be disappointed in me!"

• Adorkable: When she's not trying to one-up Enterprise, this is how she comes off most of the time.
• Ascended Meme: For many of the myriad reasons listed below, Essex had gained fame within the Azur Lane community as a sort of quirky Butt-Monkey, which itself was more or less officially recognized when she was featured in two April Fools title screen animations. Incidentally, the detective outfit she wore on the official April Fools comic The Adventure of the Missing Eagles became a purchasable skin in the form of "Detective Essex."
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: In her party skin she insists she isn't drunk then immediately admits that she did drink "just a bit" too much. Some of her expressions, such as being cartoonishly jumpy or intoxicated drooling, betray the fact that she's well beyond "just a bit" drunk.
  • One of the lines in her skin may subvert this, though, as she claims she was caught up in greeting people and participating in too many toasts.
  • Her office skin, meanwhile, doesn't even bother hiding the fact that she's really plastered off her ass, having consumed several cans, practically tilting her chair, and openly fantasizing that she's a pirate. Though if Shangri-La, ominously looming in the background with chair held above her head, has anything to say about that...
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Enterprise calls out Essex's choice of "hand-picked" ingredients she added to the Valentines Chocolate such as Torpedo Tempura and Oxy-cola in Valentine Special Mission. Downplayed in that Essex actually eats one of her own chocolates before offering them to the Commander.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Butt-Monkey reputation aside, Essex is the personification of a 37,000 ton fleet carrier and is perfectly capable of bringing the hurt to whatever's ahead of her.
• Dare to Be Badass: Enterprise gives her this late in Essex's character story, saying she shouldn't settle for merely being better than her, but to go beyond that.
• Hero Worship: For Enterprise. Unfortunately aspiring to be like her often hurts Essex more than it helps. During Microlayer Medley Intrepid correctly guesses that Essex is more worried about Enterprise's disappearance and what she would do were she present more than the actual situation at hand. Intrepid finally tells her that she needs to stop thinking about Enterprise, remember the basics, and just fight.
• Massively Numbered Siblings: She remarks on her sisters and how she should be a good example. The Essex class had twenty-four ships in it by the time production ended (and eight more cancelled in various stages of completion), with a number of these participating in WW2!
• No-Sell: Her "Absolute Evasion" skill makes it so that if you have at least four Union ships in the fleet (counting herself), there's a chance that any airstrikes done against the fleet will only do 1 damage.
• Overshadowed by Awesome:
  • The root of her general envy of Enterprise, who receives all the praise in spite of the sound efforts that Essex and her sisters put in. In gameplay she might suffer this as to get the most out of her Status Buff skill, she needs to make kills with her planes and thus, can be hindered by kill stealing, although the general consensus amongst players is that she's one of the absolute best carriers in the game for later maps along with Centaur and Enterprise.
  • She even suffered this in real life on her release with Taihou, resulting in her getting a fraction of the fanart she got. Thankfully she herself has been getting more fanart since the release of her biker skin - and her popularity seems to be pretty high in recent polls.
• Sentimental Drunk: She's very drunk in her party skin, and at the same time is extremely cheerful, prone to goofy facial expressions, and physically affectionate with the Commander should they have her at a high affinity. To a lesser extent in her office skin, but she's much more devolved into a childish daydreaming lunatic there.
• Support Party Member: Has her No-Sell skill but at the same time gets small boosts from fellow Eagle Union carriers of any type.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Anything with lemon in it, because Enterprise doesn't like lemons.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • She mentions in one of her Secretary lines that Musashi and Yamato were formidable opponents that she would like to meet again, given the chance; a reference to their clash at Leyte Gulf.
  • Enterprise, who she sees as someone she must surpass to prove the strength of the Essex-class carriers. Enterprise actually returns some of the sentiment as she expects Essex to ultimately surpass her by a great margin.

Yorktown II (CV-10)

Voiced by: Kana Yuuki

ID: No. 574

Rarity: Ultra Rare

Artist: kurumi普拉斯

"The second ship of the Essex class, "The Fighting Lady" Yorktown, has returned to your side. Even the darkest night must always give way to the resplendent dawn of happiness. Commander, let us step into the future together!"

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• Angelic Beauty: Wings feature prominently in her design, and the Commander's narration explicitly calls her angelic.
• Barely-There Swimwear: Even ignoring the fact that it's halfway fallen off, her swimsuit amounts to little more than some strings and a small curtain over her breasts that is completely translucent.
• Came Back Strong: The gacha Yorktown II represents the same Yorktown the Commander and other shipgirls know in-story, finally repaired at the end of her event using the Type II hull data extracted from Anchorage and the Reality Lens.
• Doppelmerger: As she remembers both her ill-fate and her time with the commander in the simulation, considering We Can Rebuild Him below, she is in effect a fusion of two alternate selves.
• Fanservice Pack: Her new Essex class rigging also increased her bust, most obviously in her swimsuit skin.
• Heroic Sacrifice: During the final stage of "Parallel Superimposition", Yorktown II stays behind and stalls Arbiter: The Devil XV to buy time for the Commander to escape the Reality Lens, despite knowing that her entire existence was a fabrication and that she and her whole world will be deleted by Arbiter: The Tower XVI.
• One-Steve Limit: In game, she is referred to as 'Yorktown II', but she is essentially still Yorktown in everything but Class, Rarity & Name.
• Red Baron: The Fighting Lady.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Has a moment of this when she questions her very existence as mere data after the true nature of the Parallel Superimposition event is revealed to her.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: While Yorktown was still traumatised by the memory of her death at Midway and teetering on the edge of the Despair Event Horizon, as Yorktown II she's more optimistic and happy. Her lines imply it's the Commander's support that helped her come this far, which makes sense considering the Doppelmerger she went through in canon.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: In her swimsuit skin, her bikini top comes off and only her hand keeps her decent. Though considerling the material is mostly see-through, one has to wonder how 'decent' she was beforehand...

• We Can Rebuild Her: Unlike our Yorktown in the main timeline, this Yorktown managed to avoid her fate at Midway (along with Hammann and Hornet) and was repaired by fitting her with experimental Type II rigging and a second Wisdom Cube. Her data is used to repair the real Yorktown at the end of her debut event.

Intrepid (CV-11)

Voiced by: Fairouz Ai

ID: No. 442

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist:

"'The Fighting I' of the Essex-class, Intrepid, is here! Commander, leave the combat missions to me! I'll bring home victory and glory!"

• Casual Danger Dialogue: The Special Touch line of her sports skin has her remark that a certain Commander of hers is rather unsafe inside her effective throwing range.
• Critical Status Buff: She gets temporary damage reduction and immunity from burn ddamage upon hitting less than 20% hp.
• Embarrassing Nickname: She mentions picking up a few unflattering nicknames during her career. In real life due to taking damage and having to go into dry dock for repairs the crew dubbed her "Decrepit" and "the Dry I".
• Genki Girl: Especially when compared to her sisters Essex and Bunker Hill, Intrepid stands out for having a bright, cheerful and even playful personality, casually cracking jokes with the Commander when serving as the Secretary.
• Gratuitous English: Several of her lines contain a few words or phrases in English, particularly when she's teasing the Commander or getting excited.
• Historical In-Joke: Has a number of lines that reveal an interest in astronomy and stargazing, reflecting both her postwar role as a recovery ship for NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs and her current status as a museum ship. Her kit reflects her history of victorious but messy battles, often ending with some noticable damage to her.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: In a manner similar to her sister Essex, despite being the marquee ship of the event she debuted in, Interpid was completely overtaken by Bremerton in terms of popularity. In terms of gameplay, she also doesn't quite stack up to other carriers for engame content or PvP to the point where Casablanca was noted more. She is still a pretty solid ship.
• Red Baron: "The Fighting I"
• Shout-Out: One of her expressions is identical to Last Samurai's memetic "I see you're a man of culture" scene. Her base skin has her bring up the James Bond's martini preference.
• Stance System: On Odd-numbered battles, she'll self-buff her AVI stat, on Even-numbered battles, she'll increase her DMG resistance.

Hornet II (CV-12)

Voiced by: Nozomi Yamamoto

ID: No. 572

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist: kurumi普拉斯

"It's me, the mighty, new-and-improved Hornet, now an Essex-class aircraft carrier! Well, to be honest, besides the history, the outfit, and the combat power, I'm still pretty much the same girl inside! ...Hey, just because I look a little different doesn't mean I'm not real grateful to you~"

• Boring, but Practical: In terms of gameplay. Hornet II trades out the stronger-but-unreliable Assault Carrier skill for increased stats and a set of smaller-but-guaranteed buffs.
• Fanservice Pack: Like Yorktown II, her new rigging upgraded her bust too.
• Historical In-Joke: She refers to a "Magic Carpet Delivery system" for the mail, a reference to how she participated in the operation of the same name to repatriate American troops after the war.
• Hotter and Sexier: As a Yorktown class she already had the most revealing outfit of her sisters, but her new rigging takes it up a notch with even more cleavage on display.
• Kill It with Fire: She trades her Doolittle Raid for Hornet's Sting, a guaranteed rocket airstrike that inflicts a special burn damage over time that scales with her Aviation stat.
• Red Baron: She's now called "The Grey Ghost" and is not as worried about catching up to Enterprise anymore, now she wants to surpass her.
• Trash Talk: Engages in this with The Devil prior to the start of the versus part of the exercise. She insists it's friendly, but given what happens later on it might not have been on Devil's part.
• Vapor Wear: The translucent jacket in her swimsuit skin makes it very apparent that she's not wearing a top, with only the blue trim of her hood maintaining any sense of modesty.

Ticonderoga (CV-14)

Voiced by: Kana Ichinose

ID: No. 511

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist: Tomohiro Kai

"Hi there~ I'm Ticonderoga, the newest arrival at your port. Hmm, you look just as friendly as they said you'd be~ Thank goodness. So, how about a hug to start us off on the right foot? Hehe~"

• Coat Cape: Wears her cape in this manner.
• Cuddle Bug: Is very physically affectionate toward the commander from the get-go, offering him a hug in her acquisition quote and letting him snuggle up to her if he's tired.
• Curtains Match the Window: Has a pair of blue eyes to complement her long, blue hair.
• Fanservice Pack: Based on her default art, she arguably shows the most amount of skin out of her sisters. In her "Show Stopper!" special CG, she wears a red Playboy Bunny attire.^*It also helps that her CG artist is well-known among doujin circles.
• Kill It with Fire: Her first skill, "Wings of the Soaring Flames". Every time she launches an Airstrike, she can launches an additional special airstrike that has a chance to Burn enemies hit by it^NoteAirstrike DMG is based on the skill's level; Burn DMG is based on this ship's AVI stat.
• Meaningful Rename: Initially named as USS Hancock, her rename was in honor of the battle of Fort Ticonderoga
• Mythology Gag: One of her Secretary lines make mention of the moon. Her real-life counterpart had been instrumental in recovery of astronauts from space, particularly the crews of Apollo 17 and Skylab.
  Ticonderoga: What's on the moon, you wonder? A rabbit? Aliens? Hehe. Whatever it is, I'd like to see it for myself one day.

Bunker Hill (CV-17)

Voiced by: Kana Ichinose

ID: No. 380

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist:

"Bunker Hill, a member of the Essex Class. From now on I will be part of the fleet, and will listen to your commands. Be at ease, you will have the chance to see my abilities."

• Action Pet: She's always seen with a great horned owl.
• Born Unlucky: Compared to her sisters, most of whom have above average luck (with Essex topping out at 90) Bunker Hill's is noticeably low at only 35, a reference to her taking two Kamikaze strikes during the Battle of Okinawa that cost her over 600 lives. (Both Bunker Hill and Franklin, which had suffered massive damage and casualties in a bombing attack, returned to the US for extensive repairs. They would not be completed until after Japan's surrender, so both ships were promptly mothballed. They would languish there until they were scrapped, the only two of the Essex's to not see postwar service.)
• Emotionless Girl: This appears to be a result of originally only seeing herself as a weapon. As her affection grows, she starts to get better, though not by much.
• Gamer Chick: Her Mission Relaxation skin reveals her to be such, depicting her sitting around in a messy room eating potato chips and other junk food, ramen, and soda while playing video games.
• Rare Random Drop: To get her you're going to have to get lucky when beating the boss of 13-4, the latest main storyline level in Japan, China, and the English version.
• Support Party Member: Depending on your fleet composition, she is able to provide one of a number of buffs, allowing her to be used with a number of builds. Unusually for the faction, it's a faction specific buff.

Shangri-La (CV-38)

Voiced by: Akane Fujita

ID: No. 378

Rarity: Super Rare

Artist:

"CV-38, Shangri-La has officially fallen in line. I recorded many stories to be shared with you in my notebook, but before that first let us finish the work in front of us then."

• Always Someone Better: A better Hornet in every practical way. She not only has superior stats but her "Doolittle Raid Plus" skill has a better proc rate than Hornet's version of the skill.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Downplayed. "Observer of the Sky and Ocean" launches an aerial barrage if the remote plane was destroyed during a battle, but if left alone, will increase her stats and can be stacked up to five times. The problem is that it will rarely happened during PvE since enemy ships never attacks planes unless there is a chapter filled with carriers or AA boats (World 13). And in such a scenario, there's a decent chance that it'll get shot down wasting both effects. In PvP, the counter aspect becomes more reliable.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Implied in Essex's office skin, where Shangri-La is about to throw a chair at her boisterously drunk sister.
• Counter-Attack: Her "Observer of the Sky and Ocean" launches a spotter plane that will give her a stacking buff as long as it's out, but should it get shot down, a bombing run will occur.
• Gathering Steam: The spotter plane if left alone will increase her air power and accuracy in stacking buffs.
• Hipster: It would not be hard to mistake her as one given her "Collector's Paradise" skin.
• Historical In-Joke: Her name came as a result of Franklin D. Roosevelt saying that the "Doolittle Raid" had launched from Shangri-La. ^note The Doolittle Raid originally launched from the USS Hornet (CV-8), but this was kept secret until a year afterwards As such, she is pretty much a better Hornet. Ironically, in real life, USS Hornet (CV-12), her sister ship named in honour of the sunken carrier, far outshined her, earning nine battle stars to Shangri-La's two^note Shangri-La earned five throughout her lifespan, but only two of them were during WW2, the other three were earned in Vietnam, a Presidential Unit Citation, recovering the astronauts from Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 after they landed, and being preserved as a museum.
  • The "Observer of the Sky and Ocean" skill is based on how she had spotter planes observe nuked shipwrecks' radioactivity.
  • Oh, and her entire record-keeping schtick? The real USS Shangri-La was often used by her crew as a platform to photograph and film (thus, keeping records) naval formations and battles (and they were often ordered by the commanding admirals to do so, most notably William Halsey's order to take pictures of USN ship formations during the surrender of Japan). She was also frequently used as a testbed platform for carrier qualification for experimental aircraft, both entirely new prototypes and navalized versions of land-based designs.

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