Mikazuki
Mikazuki is a ship-girl from Kantai Collection representing the tenth vessel of the Mutsuki-class destroyers. As a member of her class, she features low resource consumption, making her a standard pick for expedition fleets. She is depicted as a polite, hardworking girl who quietly does her best to protect her allies. Although her baseline stats are modest, her reliability and dedicated character have earned her a loyal following among players.
Overview
Mikazuki is a ship-girl from Kantai Collection representing the tenth vessel of the Mutsuki-class destroyers. As a member of her class, she features low resource consumption, making her a standard pick for expedition fleets. She is depicted as a polite, hardworking girl who quietly does her best to protect her allies. Although her baseline stats are modest, her reliability and dedicated character have earned her a loyal following among players.
Appearance
Mikazuki features shoulder-length slightly wavy black hair topped with a prominent ahoge, alongside yellow eyes. She wears a black serafuku equipped with a sailor collar, a white neckerchief, and a signature crescent-shaped pin attached to the right side of the collar. Unlike her sister ships who wear high socks, she wears plain black socks paired with grey shoes. Her rigging includes a single gun mount held in her left hand, a protective shield on her left shoulder, a funnel on her waist area, and triple torpedo tubes equipped on both ankles.
Personality
She possesses a polite and earnest personality, working tirelessly for the sake of her fleet. Despite her youthful visual age, she holds a grounded, strict view of battle and pushes herself hard to guard others. However, she severely lacks self-confidence, often rejecting her own achievements as impossible whenever she performs exceptionally well. She trusts the Admiral deeply, taking lighthearted affection in stride without taking offense.
Abilities
True to her class, Mikazuki features low fuel consumption, allowing her to serve efficiently in resource expeditions from an early level. Upon reaching her Remodel stage at level 20, she gains the rare utility among common destroyers to equip Daihatsu Landing Craft variants. This ability allows her to excel in both troop transport missions and anti-ground combat when equipped with specialized landing gear, though she lacks torpedo reloader capabilities.
Background
Her historical namesake served as an escort for carriers such as Houshou and Zuihou in the Third Carrier Division, took part in the Battle of Midway, and participated in the Tokyo Express resupply runs during the Battle of Kolombangara under the Second Torpedo Squadron. She eventually ran aground on a reef during a night transport mission and was rendered immobile before being air-attacked. In the game, these historical ties grant her specific routing advantages during certain event operations.
Relationships
She shares a warm relationship with her Mutsuki-class sister ships, particularly Mochizuki, whom she affectionately addresses by a nickname despite their contrasting personalities. She is also connected historically to Matsukaze, who calls her by a shortened nickname. Due to her duties guarding the light carrier Zuihou, fan depictions frequently place the two together. Additionally, her actions in battle mirror the tactics of Jintsuu, whom she accompanied in the Solomons.
Trivia
Because she shares her name with Mikazuki Munechika from Touken Ranbu, crossover fan art frequently depicts them together in a grandfather-and-granddaughter dynamic. She is also lightheartedly referenced alongside the protagonist of a mecha anime who shares the exact same name, with fans applying famous quotes from that series when she achieves victory in battle.
