Also known as: コロラド, コロラド(艦これ), コロラド(艦隊これくしょん), Colorado, Colorado(艦これ), Colorado(艦隊これくしょん)
Kantai Collection's personification of the US Navy battleship USS Colorado (BB-45).
Character design by Parsley-F.
Appearance
Like Iowa before her, she is given traits, based upon some old WWII-era US Navy pin-ups such as: short Blonde Hair with Side Braids, Blue Eyes, and a well endowed yet petite body. She wears a grey Garrison Cap, yardarm Headgear that is already typical for the Big 7, a two-part gray Pleated Dress with blue accents and a Sleeveless White Shirt that exposes one side of each breast, a Blue Necktie with the number 45 on it, black and grey Elbow Gloves, Black Pantyhose, a grey Capelet with blue underside, and red high-heeled shoes.
Her machinery includes her famed 16-inch guns (four at each side in twin turrets), a Smokestack and a Lattice Mast with a large clock face among others. She is given a remodel which trades the clock face for a radar antenna atop the mast, paints her wooden deck grey and modernizes her secondary and anti-aircraft guns.
She is the first foreign shipgirl as well as the first personified battleship for her artist Parsley-F. She is also the fourth (second foreign) member of the so-called Big 7 (the seven battleships with 16-inch guns built before WWII) in the game, joining Nagato, Mutsu, and Nelson.
In comparison to the other Big 7 in the game, she is given a petite body and a more youthful appearance, reflecting the fact the Colorado-class battleships were the shortest of the Big 7 at 624 feet 3 inches (190.27 m) each, compared to the Nagato-class at 708 feet (215.8 m; later lengthened to 738 feet/224.94 m) each and the Nelson-class at 710 feet (216.4 m) each. In spite of this shorter length, their displacement was equal to that of her counterparts, at 32,600 long tons unloaded (compare the Nagato-class at 32,200 long tons and the Nelson-class at 33,300 long tons), which is reflected by her curvaceous figure and ample bosom.
Colorado-class battleships
- Colorado (BB-45)
- Maryland (Kancolle) (BB-46)