| “ | I am Battleship Nagato, pleased to meet you. Leave the enemy battleships to me. | „ |
| ~ Nagato |
| “ | I, Nagato, still won't lose to newcomers. | „ |
| ~ Nagato |
Nagato (長門?) is a character and one of the heroes from the Kantai Collection series who was implemented into the game on the 23rd of April, 2013.
Alongside her sister ships USS Maryland, USS West Virginia, Colorado, Mutsu, Nelson and HMS Rodney, she is one of the Big Seven.
She is voiced by Ayane Sakura and drawn by Shizuma Yoshinori in the game. In the English dub of the anime, she is voiced by Elizabeth Maxwell.
Biography[]
Nagato, named after Nagato Province, was a dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1910s. The lead ship of her class, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923. The ship was modernized in 1934–36 with improvements to her armor and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Nagato briefly participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She covered the withdrawal of the attacking ships and did not participate in the attack itself.
Other than participating in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, where she did not see combat, the ship spent most of the first two years of the Pacific War training in home waters. She was transferred to Truk in mid-1943, but did not see any combat until the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944 when she was attacked by American aircraft. Nagato did not fire her main armament against enemy vessels until the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. She was lightly damaged during the battle and returned to Japan the following month. The IJN was running out of fuel by this time and decided not to fully repair her. Nagato was converted into a floating anti-aircraft platform and assigned to coastal defense duties. She was attacked in July 1945 as part of the American campaign to destroy the IJN's last remaining capital ships, but was only slightly damaged. In mid-1946, the ship was a target for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads. She survived the first test with little damage, but was sunk by the second.
Appearance[]
In Kantai Collection, Nagato has long black hair and red eyes. She wears a black and white japanese-style shirt with yellow trimming that expose her midriff. Her belly button is visible.Black fingerless elbow gloves (again with yellow trimming) and a short white pleated skirt with a black stripe along the brim. She also wears a metallic garterbelt which holds in place her black and maroon thighhighs. On her head is her peculiar headgear which features the various details of the top of her main tower.
Personality[]
Often portrayed as cool and a bit prideful, being one (and the first) of the Big Seven battleships allowed to mount 16-inch guns (along with Mutsu). Secretly likes cute things.
Nagato is the secretary (or Flagship) of the Admiral in the anime, which puts her in overall command of the naval base by proxy.
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- Sunk as a target during Operation Crossroads, 25 July 1946. Currently resting in 110 ft. of water, and upside-down, she is listed as one of the top 10 diving sites in the world.
- The "Giant Flash" she speaks of in her sunk and wedding lines is probably a reference to the Able Nuclear Test during Operation Crossroads, where a 23-kiloton air deployed nuclear weapon was detonated over Nagato and 94 other target ships. Nagato had been deliberately placed near the epicenter of both the Able and Baker detonations because the Pearl Harbor attack had been commanded from her bridge.
- Nagato managed to survive the Able Test unscathed, however she sprung a leak after the underwater detonation during the Baker Test, repair crews were unable to repair the leak due to high radiation levels and she capsized and sank during the night of 29/30 July 1946.
- Nagato was the only surviving Japanese Capital ship after World War II, as well as the only member of the Big Seven that still exists as a ship in some ways (the rest were either scrapped after the war or, in Mutsu's case, no longer in one piece).
- Her name goes after the Nagato province (western part of today's Yamaguchi prefecture) and is written with the kanji representing "Long" and "Gate."
- The real-life Nagato made a cameo in the animated movie, "The Wind Rises", shown with the serpentine funnel that came with her refitting between 1923-1925.
- In the anime, Nagato's voice is much deeper in comparison to her in-game voice.
- Her Japanese voice actor, Sakura Ayane, also voices Mutsu, Shimakaze, Kuma, Tama, Kiso, Sendai, Jintsuu and Naka.
- Her English voice actor, Elizabeth Maxwell, also voiced Caulifla and Kefla in Dragon Ball Super, Shakuyaku in One Piece, Ymir in Attack on Titan, Midnight in My Hero Academia, Arisa Uotani in Fruits Basket (2019 Series), Urbosa and Riju in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, Winter Schnee in RWBY, Sae Niijima in Persona 5, Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Albedo in Overlord, Nikki in Camp Camp, Bishamonten in Noragami, Belial in Seven Mortal Sins, Skout in Nomad of Nowhere, Ayano Kosaka in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, and Phoebe in Battleborn.