Iona (Arpeggio of Blue Steel)

Iona, also known as I-401 and The Blue Steel, is the main female protagonist from the Arpeggio of Blue Steel series.
== Charactah Account ==
Iona is the Mental Model of the Fog Ship: I-401 submarine. After the great battle, she was placed on stasis and given order to follow and obey to Chigaya Gounzo. She's one of the oldest Mental Models in existence and, having spent around two years with humans, she is one of the most versed in the human way of life. Unless she reveals her abilities, it is practically impossible to distinguish her from a normal human.
Iona is usually calm and rather quiet; she's helpful towards her crew and is a dear friend of Gunzou. She doesn't like taking big risks, but often agrees that Gunzou's sometimes rather crazy plans are the best ones. Iona appears to be sharing various duties like cleaning and cooking with her crew. It doesn't look like she has any definite hobbies, but she likes watching anime.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova
* Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova Movie 1 - DC
* Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova Movie 2 - Cadenza
* Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life: Awakening Arc
=== Manga ===
* Arpeggio of Blue Steel
== Trivia ==
* Iona is the only known vessel in the "Fleet of Fog" that has a single Mental Model, with a name that differs from the name of the vessel itself.
* Iona is the first Mental Model seen in the series. I-401 is the first "Fog" vessel seen in manga.
* Iona can create her (lesser) copies so that she can help in different places simultaneously. These copies have numbers on their foreheads and are usually seen somewhere around Iori. The only other "Fog" vessel to show this ability is Takao.
* Iona is the only known "Fleet of Fog" vessel that had two human captains.
* According to anime, Iona was stored in warehouse 51. Considering that she's something that could not be studied by human scientists, this might be reference to the infamous Area 51.
* Iona is voiced by Aoi Yuuki in Drama CD and by Mai Fuchigami in Anime.
* Being a I-400 class submarine, Iona (the WWII one) was one of the biggest diesel submarines ever built. Submarines of this class are biggest submarines of the WWII.
* In the end-of-episode guest illustration of episode 1 of the anime, Iona is depicted with another I-401 from the Kantai Collection browser-based game.
* Iona is the only "Fleet of Fog" vessel that is shown to use warplanes offensively (happens in chapter 72). And as she controlled hers via direct immersion, the attack was quite effective.
* While neither Iona nor I-401 is directly present, Iona's voice replaces the standard announcer and adjutant's in the online naval action game World of Warships whenever an Arpeggio ship is in battle. She is also one of the first submarine commanders in WOWs, making her an anomaly because there are no submarines in WOWs and nobody knows if the creators of WOWs will ever create one. She is also specialized by default to the ARP I-401 Tier ~V Submarine (Originally Tier XI, which is reserved for special or event vessels, like the Bath Boats during the April Fool's Day Event). With use of certain mods to view non-standard and event ships, she can be found at the bottom of the Anime tree, which contains all ARP and HSF vessels at Tier X- the ARP I-401 has broken stats and a corrupt model of a Kuma-class cruiser that will move around and clip through objects while in port. It's icon is in Ars Nova mode. With the recent patch, she can be used on all Imperial Japanese Navy ships.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* I-401 at Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio Wiki
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