Kaoru Furushou

:NOTE: This article focuses on Kaoru's overall role for the entire series. For information regarding Kaoru's villainous role for the first six episodes of the anime, click the following link.
 is a major character and a former antagonist in the High School Fleet series. She served as a minor antagonist and later a minor character in the 2016 anime series and a major character in the 2020 movie High School Fleet Movie.
She is the instructor of Akeno Misaki and the rest of the Harekaze Crew, as well as the captain of the destroyer ship Sarushima. However, after a failed expedition, she and the rest of the Sarushima crew members were infected with the RATt Virus, causing her to behave antagonistically against the Harekaze.
As an antagonist, Furushou and her brainwashed crew of the Sarushima played a major role in attacking the Harekaze during the crew's sea training, later incriminating the Harekaze's crew of mutiny, forcing the rest of them to be labelled as a fugitive.
Furushou is voiced by , who voiced other characters including Dawn from the Pokémon series, Sara Valestein from the Legends of Heroes series, Sari Tokiwa from HaNaYaMaTa, and Yukari Takeba from Persona 3.
==Appearance==
Furushou is a young woman who has midnight blue hair and blue eyes. She wears the standard Yokosuka staff uniform.
==Personality==
While not much is known about her personality, Furushou is a dignified instructor of Yokosuka and a loyal leader to the Sarushima crew.
Much like the victims of the RATt Virus, Furushou was among one of the infected, where she exhibits a rather aggressive and violent personality, firing at other friendly ships including Harekaze, and later resorted to falsely labelling the crew of the Harekaze as mutineers.
==Background==
Prior to to the events of the anime, Furushou's underclassman Mashimo Munetani attended Yokosuka Girls about the same period. Throughout their school years, the two grew close. She then became a teacher at Yokosuka at an unknown amount of time.
Furushou was tasked with coordinating the semester's maritime drills, as well as a mission to ferry a team of scientists to the Nishinoshima New Islands for ecological research. However, things did not go well, when the RATt virus infected her and the rest of the Sarushima crew along the journey, forcing them to assault the unwitting Harekaze. The latter was compelled to launch a false torpedo, which landed on the port side of Sarushima. Furushou, who was suffering from the sickness, transmitted a distress call to the mainland, informing them of the Harekaze's "mutiny."
The Blue Mermaids held Furushou, the crew, and the scientists participating in the trip in the hospital following the discovery of the RATt Virus and the subsequent epidemic. She acknowledged to assaulting the Harekaze and transmitting the distress signal, but she had no clue why.
Furushou returned to duty, commanding the Sarushima's sister ship Tenjin, during a major battle to keep the Musashi from approaching the Tokyo Bay region and spreading the RATt Virus. She drew fire from the Musashi while in charge of an ally combat group, allowing the Harekaze to close up on the Musashi.
Following the event, she continues to work at Yokosuka.
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