kawakaze (kancolle)
江風, lit. "River Wind".
Ninth of the ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers in Kantai Collection.
Kawakaze has a fiery "delinquent girl"/sukeban personality.
Kawakaze has blue eyes and very long red hair tied into low twintails with red hair ribbons, wears a white hairband, has very long sidelocks, a long ahoge, and has asymmetrical bangs. Uniquely among the Kancolle cast she has pointy ears.
Her clothing has a distinct black and white contrast with blue trimming, with a white-and-black collared sleeveless shirt half-opened to reveal her navel, blue neckerchief, black fingerless elbow gloves, a black pleated skirt held by a thick white belt, black thighhighs, and loafers. She shares many of these characteristics with her sister-ship Umikaze.
Her combat gear is unusually painted all black, with a hand-carried, twin-turret cannon in her left hand, a smokestack and antenna mast carried like a backpack, and twin torpedo turrets on machine arms from the smokestack.
In her 2nd remodel, she now wears a more ornate version of her original uniform with red trimming, analogous to Yuudachi and Shigure's own remodeled uniform. Added to this is a tattered black and white scarf. She gains hair flaps, a gradient to her hair (it now fades to blue), twin braids in place of her twintails and her eyes changes color to golden yellow.
For a collaboration with Lawson in September 2016, she was the one designated to wear the employee's uniform. This one uses her 2nd remodel form.
The historical ship was built as part of the Circle Two Program, and was originally part of Destroyer Division 24 along with her sister ships Yamakaze, Umikaze, and Suzukaze. She had a more eventful campaign than most Japanese destroyers, and assisted in the sinking of the USS Pope, HMS Exeter, and HMS Encounter in the Battle of Java Sea, and rescued 35 survivors. She participated heavily in the Guadalcanal Campaign, sinking the USS Blue, ran several Tokyo Express missions, and in the First Battle of Guadalcanal rescued 550 survivors of the sunken transport ship Brisbane Maru. After colliding with the transport Toun Maru, she was forced to be towed out of the Guadalcanal area by the Kuroshio. After repairs, she was finally sunk on the 7th of August, 1943 in the Battle of Vella Gulf alongside Arashi and Hagikaze by combined cannon and torpedo fire from the destroyers USS Dunlap, USS Craven, and USS Maury. 169 men, including her captain, were lost.