Fubuki (Kantai Collection)

"Nice to meet you! I'm Fubuki! Thanks for having me!"

- Fubuki Fubuki (吹雪 "Blizzard"?) was the lead ship of twenty-four Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into services, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War. Fubuki was a veteran of many of the major battles of the first year of the war, and was sunk in Ironbottom Sound during the Battle of Cape Esperance in World War II.

Appearance
Fubuki has black hair in a small ponytail and a payot in front, and black eyes. She along with her sister-ships wears a serafuku with a white and dark blue color scheme of blouse and skirt.

In her combat gear, she wears her rigging as a form of backpack, while carrying two torpedo mounts in both sides of her thighs. Her sole cannon turret is wrist-mounted and double-barreled.

She gained her second remodel with the January 9th 2015 update and thus, becomes the first starter ship to have one. Her serafuku becomes black with red stripes on white (like Ayanami before her) and replaces her standard 12.7cm twin turret with a long 10cm turret and wears a type 94 fire detector on her left wrist. Her use of this gear is fictive, however. She was sunk before she could ever had a chance to be refit with AA weaponry.

Personality
She is the main character of the game and anime. In the 4-koma she is portrayed as a newbie ship that tries her best at everything she does and is often weirded out about all the other ships' antics.

Trivia

 * Fubuki means blizzard or snowstorm.
 * When introduced, the Fubuki-class were among the most powerful destroyers in the world.
 * Some sources, due to design lineage, have the Ayanami-class (Type II) & Akatsuki-class (Type III) as a part of the Fubuki-class (Type I).
 * Sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance on October 11th, 1942.