Yamato (Kantai Collection)

Yamato (大和) is the major protagonist from the Kantai Collection series who was implemented into the game on August 8, 2013, as the E-4 completion reward for the Summer 2013 Event. She also appeared in her own short, Alongside the Admiral, where she narrates her life and how she sunk. Yamato is a sailor of the navy and a hotel manager of her own hotel.
She is a personified version of the real-life namesake battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
She is voiced by Ayana Taketatsu in the video game and the Japanese version of the anime, and by Christina Kelly in the English version of the anime.
==Biography==
Yamato, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato-class battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) main guns. Neither ship survived the war.
Laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. Throughout 1942 she served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year, and much of 1944, moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure Atolls in response to American threats. Although she was present at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, Yamato played no part in the battle.
The only time she fired her main guns at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when she was sent to engage American forces invading the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese were unaware that Admiral William Halsey Jr.'s entire massive fast carrier task force with battleships had been successfully lured away by a feint. Left behind was only a slow escort carrier task force armed against ground forces with no hope of protecting vulnerable troop transports from Yamato. 
But as the American light ships resembled larger cruisers and aircraft carriers, the Japanese believed they were fighting the main fleet. The massive guns of Yamato would not be turned against battleships, but in the Battle of Samar would instead be a seemingly mismatched showdown against the industrial production of small and inexpensive light ships and carriers. Nevertheless desperate sailors and aviators delivered accurate five in shellfire and torpedoes from ships as small as destroyer escorts. These attacks wrought enough havoc on the Japanese surface force to turn them back, but only after inflicting losses comparable in ships and men to the Battle of Midway.
During 1944, the balance of naval power in the Pacific decisively turned against Japan and, by early 1945, the Japanese fleet was much depleted and critically short of fuel stocks in the home islands, limiting its usefulness. In April 1945, in a desperate attempt to slow the Allied advance, Yamato was dispatched on a one way voyage to Okinawa, where it was intended that she should protect the island from invasion and fight until destroyed. The task force was spotted south of Kyushu by US submarines and aircraft, and on April 7, 1945 Yamato was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew.
==Appearance==
Yamato is depicted as a tall, lightly tanned woman with large breasts and brown eyes. She has very long dark brown hair tied into a long ponytail, with multiple cherry blossoms in her hair. She often carries an oriental umbrella with a shaft based on the battleship's distinctive mast. She wears a single black thighhigh with a single white stripe on the top. On her first remodel, she bears the slogan that her admiral posted for the suicidal Operation Ten-Go, the final operation the IJN undertook, where Yamato, Yahagi, and numerous destroyers were sunk by American aircraft. On her other leg, she wears a black knee-high sock. She wears grey shoes with red rudder heels.
==Personality==
Yamato is a shy, respectful and polite woman, who is also strong-willed and courageous. She frequently has to correct the Admiral about being called "Yamato Hotel", something she is sensitive towards. She is also bothered by the fact that she has no battlefield experience despite being the most powerful ship in the fleet.
==Anime==
In the anime, Yamato finally makes her appearance in episode 8, overseeing the management of the Truk Lagoon Base. The base, however, seems more like a four-star hotel than an anchorage on the front lines. Due to her management duties, Yamato has barely any battlefield experience. However, the truth is that despite being essentially the most powerful ship in the fleet, she's far too expensive resource-wise to sortie. 
She later appears in the battle against Airfield Princess, the enemy that transforms into Midway Princess. The battle ends with the Fleet Girls being successful.
==Gallery==
===Game===
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Yamato Kai Ni Juu Summer 2022.png|Kai Ni Juu Summer 2022
===Anime===
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===Music===
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===Magazines and calendars===
Yamato Summer Design Kantai Collection Catalogue Volume 2.jpg
Iowa and Yamato Kantai Collection 3rd Anniversary.jpg
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Yamato 2015 KanColle Calendar.jpg
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===Merchandise===
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==Trivia==
*Yamato requires 2.5 times more fuel compared to the Nagato-class battleships.
*Yamato was cynically referred as "Yamato Hotel", a hotel located in Dalian China during WW2 time, as she never took part in any major battle pre-1944 due to her high consumption and her status as IJN's flagship. Referred the same in-game as for same reason.
**In the Kancolle anime, Yamato seems to dislike being called a hotel as she felt that she was not fulfilling her duty as a kanmusu due to the same reason stated above.
*Yamato's remodel art features a 'Hirihoukenten (非理法権天)' kneesock (originally a flag). It reflects one of the old philosophy in feudal Japan where foolishness (非) is not above sensibility (理), sensibility is not above law (法), law is not above authority (権), and authority is not above divinity (天). As the emperor was treated as a divine figure in imperial Japan it has a meaning of "no men can oppose the divine emperor". A slogan adopted by the Imperial Japanese navy, this flag was hung on Yamato on her final voyage towards Okinawa.
*Yamato was sunk 7 April 1945 north of Okinawa (at 30° 22′ 0″ N, 128° 4′ 0″ E) in the famed Operation Ten-Go, along with Yahagi, Isokaze, Kasumi, Hamakaze and Asashimo.
*Yamato's wreck discovered on August 1, 1985, in 1,120 ft of water in the East China Sea 180 miles Southwest of Kyushu and North of Okinawa.
*She wears an Armband that resembles the Maritime signal Flag for the letter "Z", the Z flag played a major role in Japanese Naval History. On May 27, 1905, Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō raised the Z flag on his flagship the IJN Mikasa before the start of the Battle of Tsushima and the Z flag was raised on the Akagi on the eve of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The raising of the flag means the following: "The fate of Imperial Japan hangs on this one battle; all hands will exert themselves and do their best."
*Her Kai Ni is based on Design A-150 battleship or the Super Yamato-class battleship.
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