Hello, Commander! I'm Yamato-class Aircraft Carrier, Shinano! I... I... I can't do anything right...

Name:
IJN Shinano

Class:
Yamato

Type:
Aircraft Carrier

Equipment:

A6M Zero Fighter
Magnificent dogfighters that could fell any opponent, until their opponents evolved, of course. Signatures of the Imperial Japanese Navy.


Ki67 Hiryu Bomber
An Army Type 4 Heavy Bomber. Each unleashes a torpedo upon opponents.


Yamato-class Warbow
An aircraft deployer that boosts the speed of aircraft shot through it.


Bamboo Leaf Harmonica
A single leaf improvised as a harmonica. If you have the talent to play this, you're probably better at a regular harmonica. Aircraft Carrier SENCO use the tunes of their harmonicas to command and control the aircraft they unleash.

Appearance:
Even though she was reputed as the largest ever ship to be sunk by a submarine, Shinano has been reborn as a petite girl of a mere 140 centimetres tall. She doesn't have much of a figure and wears wavy pigtails. Her primary outfit consists of a short, red skirt that she claims is the uniform of the Yamato class. However, this skirt seems to be partially torn on the left, with the torn area possessing some sort of skeleton, like a blueprint or a crinoline, representing her incomplete nature. Whatever was left of a white top seems to be in tatters with patches of nothing over and has the same visible 'skeleton' as her skirt, but thankfully, she wears an apron over herself that resembles the roads of an aircraft carrier to cover her front. Her pigtail ribbons resemble crane arms facing backwards, and at the collar area of her top is an anchor-shaped piece. Her shoes resemble the frontal lower area of a Yamato-class battleship, down to the colour scheme of red below and whitish-grey on top.

Personality:
Shinano is docile and quite a crybaby due to her lack of confidence, often seeing herself as a failure due to her lack of victory and her sole failure that cost her life. She often feels that everyone is looking down on her, even her sisters Yamato and Musashi wherever they might be, and that they either mock or judge her for being incompetent. As such, she prefers to spend time alone, talking to her aircraft to pass her freetime, and isn't very fond of socialising with other SENCO. She sees herself as a lesser SENCO and she often questions if she is even related to the Yamato & Musashi.

History:
The IJN Shinano's tale is a tragic tale. Originally built as the third of the Yamato-class Battleships, the IJN's most powerful at that era, she was forcefully and quickly repurposed into an Aircraft Carrier due to their dwindling numbers. When she was sent out and deployed however, she was shortly sunk by the USS Archerfish causing a leak before she could even begin to fight. Shinano had many flaws in her short time in service, such as not carrying a single aircraft, as well as the standard flaws of a Yamato-class battleship. Either way, the start of her service and the end of it was close together.

Other Information:
The third of the Yamato-class and what would've been the third Battleship.

"My big sisters Yamato & Musashi... they find me an embarassment to their name, don't they?"