Hiyou

"My name is Izumo Ma...no, Hiyou. I'm an aircraft carrier. Pleased to meet you, Admiral!" Hiyō (飛鷹 "Flying Hawk"?)[1] was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Begun as the ocean liner Izumo Maru (出雲丸?) in 1939, she was purchased by the Navy Ministry in 1941 for conversion to an aircraft carrier. Completed shortly after the Battle of Midway in June 1942, she participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign in October and missed the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands later that month because of an electrical generator fire. Her aircraft were disembarked several times and used from land bases in a number of battles in the South West Pacific. Hiyō was torpedoed in mid-1943 and spent three months under repair. She spent most of the next six months training and ferrying aircraft before returning to combat. She was sunk by a gasoline vapor explosion caused by an American torpedo hit during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944.

Appearance
The Hiyou-class ships wear a white blouse with red trimmings over a red dress shirt for the top, reminiscing their past as army-subsidized luxury passenger ships, and a magatama. The bottom is a wide red hakama trimmed to calf-length. They wear platform shoes. For their flight decks, they both use scrolls, the airplanes are shikigami, controlling them as onmyouji. They also emit colored flames with text reading "Imperial Edict".

Hiyou herself has long black hair in a hime cut accessorized with two hair ribbons. Her hakama is cut as a skirt and her flame color is pink.

Trivia

 * Izumo Maru (出雲丸) was planned by the Nippon Yuusen Kaisha as an ocean liner for the San Francisco-Yokohama run.
 * Before completion in June 1941, the IJN bought her for conversion into an aircraft carrier.
 * Was sunk by a gasoline vapor explosion caused by an American torpedo hit during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944.