The escort ship Sado, the third of the Etorofu-class of coastal defense ships, as depicted in Kantai Collection.
Character design by Akasaka Yuzu, voiced by Imamura Ayaka (initial) and Seto Asami (after Imamura's retirement).
Sado has long hair that transitions from blue to blonde midway. She has red tsurime eyes. She wears a serafuku similar to Etorofu's: an elementary school serafuku with prominent buttons, with a hat bearing a blue ribbon, light blue neckerchief, white gloves, and blue pleated skirt. She differs from Etorofu by wearing a sleeveless shirt with a black undershirt underneath and black pantyhose. Her damaged CG shows that her undershirt only goes halfway down her chest.
Her rigging is similar to Etorofu's. It involves a pistol-like single-cannon turret held in her right hand. A mast and smokestack are carried on her back by straps like a backpack, while depth charge launchers are held like a purse from another strap. An anti-air gun is strapped to her right thigh, and more depth charges are strapped to her left.
As a coastal defense ship, her class is even smaller than destroyers, and as such, she is portrayed as an "elementary school student" character, even younger than the generally "middle school" appearances of the destroyers. Sado comes off as having a excitable and even tomboyish personality.
The historical IJN Sado was launched in late November 1942 and had an unremarkable service history escorting ships. She was torpedoed and sunk on August 22, 1944, the same day Matsuwa was lost, after a series of submarine attacks by USS Rasher and USS Spadefish on her convoy.
She is named after Sado Island off the coast of Niigata Prefecture. She is the first of her class and the second kaiboukan in the game to be named after an island not currently disputed by Japan and another country. (Shimushu's namesake island is well within Russian territory, too far for Japan to reassert its claim.)
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