ibuki (azur lane)
Azur Lane's personification of the Japanese heavy cruiser Ibuki, as part of the World of Warships collaboration.
Character design by Maya G, voiced by Fukuen Misato.
Ibuki is a planned upgrade to the further Mogami-class cruisers, she was also planned to be a light carrier in the midst of 1944. in her appearance, she is a Heavy Cruiser armed with 203mm Type 5 in twin turrets, only the noticable change is that her Auxillary armament of 100mm Type 98 Dual purpose artillery and the 40mm Type 5 Bofors which is capable of Air attacks and powerful than the Swedish Twin 40mm Bofors.
Appearance
See gelbooru #4267965.
She is portrayed with long blue hair with horns, heterochromia eyes (red on left, blue on right), and large breasts.
Her default outfit consists of a sideless white dress, white detached sleeves, black thighhighs, white platform footwear, and a white hair ribbon. Her rigging consists of two separate pieces attached to her waist containing her five historical 20.3 cm twin gun mounts, 61 cm quad torpedo tubes concealed on the inner side of the hull rigs, two 10 cm twin DP mounts on where her rigs connect to the waist, and a katana attached to her left.
History
Historically, Ibuki and her sister, ultimately unnamed, were supposed to be successors to the Mogami-class cruisers, with a similar armament. However, due to the increasingly dire wartime situation for Japan, Ibuki was converted into a light aircraft carrier. The war came to an end before she could be completed, however, and she and her sister were scrapped on the slips shortly afterwards.
