Aoba

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Type	Heavy Cruiser
Class	Aoba
Nation	Japan
Voice	None
Level 1 HP	8300
Level 1 Weight Cap	1265
Vestures to Rescue	8
Traits	Adventurous Inquisitive

Assisted in the invasion of Guam and convoys to Guadalcanal. Faced Boise and Salt Lake City in the Battle of Cape Esperance and survived forty shells. Sunk in an American air raid on Kure harbor in 1945.

— In-game description

Aoba is a Japanese Belle available at the start of the game, September '39

Vestures

Vesture Type	Vesture Name	XP	Stat 1	Stat 2
Accoutrement	Tool/Utility Belt	1100	Gun Damage: MB2	None
Good Luck Charm	Fundama-Sama	400	Director Night Operations: MB1	None
Honor	Letter from the Inst. of E. Engineers of Japan	400	Gun Mount Weight: LB1	None
Library	Oshikawa Shunrō, Kaitō Bōken Kidan: Kaitei Gunkan	400	Torpedo Dud Rate: TB1	None
Music	Franz Liszt, "Les Preludes"	400	Crit Defense: Conn	None
Recreation	Oroshi Soba	1100	Detection Chance	None

Where Vestures Drop

Campaign Maps are permanent. Event Maps may no longer be available, see their active dates. An Event Map with no dates lacks start/end data.

HQ Level	Map Name	Map Type	Start	End
20	War Conditions	Belle Event Map	2023-03-09	2023-03-24
20	The Battle of Bangkok	Campaign Map	N/A	N/A
50	Well-Oiled Machines	Campaign Map	N/A	N/A
55	The Storm That Shouldn't Be	Campaign Map	N/A	N/A
25	Strange Lights at Hachijo	Event Map	2023-04-08	2023-04-24
30	The End of the World Retreat	Event Map	2023-04-08	2023-04-24
40	The Kuril Diamonds	Event Map	2023-04-08	2023-04-24
55	The Osaka Bay Probe	Event Map	2023-05-09	2023-05-24
60	Eyes on the Pacific	Event Map	2023-05-24	2023-06-24
80	Morgana's Night Out	Event Map	2023-03-09	2023-03-24

Stock Stats

Level 1 Hull Points	8300
Speed	34.5
Refit Capacity	40
Weight capacity	1265
Reserves	5
Waterline Length	595
Mean Beam	40.632
Mean Height	48.5
Sortie Cost	11
Compartments	11
Horizontal Armor: Citadel	1.309
Horizontal Armor: Conn	0.475
Horizontal Armor: Fore & Aft	0.475
Horizontal Armor: Superstructure	0.475
Vertical Armor: Barbette	2.02
Vertical Armor: Citadel	2.693
Vertical Armor: Conn	0.45
Vertical Armor: Fore & Aft	0.45
Vertical Armor: Superstructure	0.45

Starting Equipment

Main Battery 1

Item Type	Item Name
Director	Hoiban Type 94 Mod 2 A-Class
Rangekeeper	Type 92 Shagekiban
RDF	Not Equipped

Position	Barrels	Naval Gun
Centerline	2	3x 20cm/50 3rd Year Type No. 2

Main Battery 2

Item Type	Item Name
Director	Not Equipped
Rangekeeper	Not Equipped
RDF	Not Equipped

Position	Barrels	Naval Gun
Wing	1	4x 12cm/45 10th Year Type

Main Battery 3

Item Type	Item Name
Director	Not Equipped
Rangekeeper	Not Equipped
RDF	Not Equipped

Position	Barrels	Naval Gun
N/A	N/A	--

Light Battery I-III

Group	Position	Light Gun
I	Wing	2x 13mm/76 Type 93
II	N/A	Not Equipped
III	N/A	Not Equipped

Torpedoes

ASDIC	N/A
Quarterdeck	N/A
Torpedo #1	6x 61cm Type 93 Model 1 Mod 2 Pure Oxygen Dual Wing
Torpedo #2	N/A
Torpedo #3	N/A

Aircraft

Hangar Limit	Unknown
Hangar 1	2x Nakajima E8N2
Hangar 2	N/A
Hangar 3	N/A
Hangar 4	N/A
Deck Limit	Unknown
Deck	N/A
Deck	N/A
Deck	N/A
Deck	N/A
Air Warning RDF	N/A

Character Information

Personality and traits

Aoba is a happy, smart, and extremely creative Belle who has a knack for engineering and inventing things. She also has an adoration of science fiction media, especially Buck Rogers. She also has a massive celebrity crush on Buster Crabbe, the American Olympic swimming champion and actor that portrays him in the movies, even saying that she loves his arms and wants to measure his biceps. In her story she talks about how she wants to invent a revolutionary new invention to represent Japan and give it worldwide recognition, and uses captured Morgana technology to create some strange technologies like a suit that changes color and a kind of extremely powerful grenade launcher.

Tombstone quotes

Heroic	She fixed that which needed fixing.
Tragic	Even in destruction, there is hope for renewal.

Character Trivia

• She has no sister ships in game, either of her own Aoba-class or the Furutaka-class they are a subclass of.
• The writer and father of Japanese science fiction Sano Shōichi, better known by his pen name Unno Juza, served onboard Aoba during WWII as a news and propaganda writer despite the fact he was critical of Japan's expansionism. This is reason for Aoba's love for science fiction (and on the side, the reason that Aoba in KanColle and Azur Lane are news reporters).
• She is a big fan of American sci-fi franchise Buck Rogers. She also has a huge crush on champion Olympic swimmer and the actor of Buck Rogers in the films Buster Crabbe, and becomes flustered and embarrassed when asked about it by her captain.

Voice Lines

See Aoba/VoiceLines.

In-Game Historical Information

Commissioned	1927
Service	9.20.1927 - 7.28.1945
Namesake	Mount Aoba
Sisters	One
Notable Sisters	None
Builder	Mitsubishi Nagatsaki Nagatsaki, Japan
Fate	Sunk 1946-1947 Scrapped

History Trivia

• Named after Mt. Aoba, a volcano near Maizuru, Kyoto.
• Lead ship of her own class of heavy cruisers alongside her lone sister Kinugasa. Originally meant to be the next two Furutaka-class they had their designs changed to improve them which also got them classified as their own class. These improvements were later retrofitted to the Furutaka-class.
• They became the first class of ships in the IJN to have an aircraft catapult, with Kinugasa being given one in 1928 and Aoba a year later.
• Served extensively in the Pacific theater, fighting alongside her sisters in the invasion of Guam and Wake Island as well as the naval battles of the Coral Sea, Savo Island, and Cape Esperance.
• Crippled late in the war by submarine USS Bream and moored at Kure as a reserve ship. A USAAF air raid caused her to sink to the shallow bottom of the harbor but she was continued to be used as a stationary AA platform. Finally finished off by USAAF B-24s bombing and breaking off her stern on July 28th, 1945.