| Fast battleship Hiei | |
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Mental Model (anime) | Mental Model (manga) | Vessel
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| Japanese name | 比叡 |
Mental Model information
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| Status | Active (anime) Reduced to Union core (manga) |
| Affiliation | "Fleet of Fog", Kongou |
Mental Model's Appearance
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| Eye color | Amber |
| Hair color | Reddish-brown |
Vessel Status
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| Status | Active (anime) Neutralized (manga) |
Vessel information
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| Type | "Fleet of Fog" Kongou II-class fast battleship |
| Displacement | 37,187 tons |
| Length | 222 m |
| Beam | 31 m |
| Draft | 9.7 m |
| Maximal Speed | 80 knots |
| Armament | 30x Torpedo tubes; 118x Photon cannons; 27x missile launchers; High-voltage discharger; Super-Graviton Cannon; Mirror-Ring system (anime only) |
| Wave-Force Armor | yes |
First Appearance
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| Manga | Chapter 42 |
| Anime | Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio DC movie |
Voice Actors
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| Japanese | Mao Ichimichi |
| German | Unknown |
Hiei is a "Fleet of Fog" battleship from the First Oriental Fleet. She is Kongou's second-in-command and is the de facto leader of the fleet.
Battleship Hiei[]
Hiei is a "Fleet of Fog" reincarnation of WWII Kongou-class battleship Hiei. She has three sisters - Kirishima, Haruna and Kongou - all of whom have made their appearance in the series.
As a battleship, Hiei has a huge arsenal at her disposal: a number of Photon cannons, 8 torpedo tubes and over one hundred missile launchers. Her Super-Graviton cannon is as powerful as her sisters', but has the unique ability to curve its beam. It is reasonable to assume that Hiei has a Wave-Force armor comparable to that of any other "Fleet of Fog" battleship.
Hiei has a single color page with her ship-body in manga; her hull's color-scheme is dark-pink. While she did not appear in the first season of the anime adaptation, it has been leaked that Hiei will make an appearance in the upcoming Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova - Cadenza OVA along with the Myoukou sisters.
Mental model[]
Battleship Hiei has one Mental Model. She appears as a girl in her late teens with dark-amber eyes, a pair of red framed glasses, and long reddish-brown hair arranged in a way that make them resemble cobra's hood. She wears red student dress-uniform with an armband reading "class representative" on her left sleeve. Underneath the dress she wears white shirt with a bow-tie.
Hiei is polite, respectful and dutiful, even if she's a bit mechanical about it. She's rather devoted to her sister Kongou and volunteers to accompany her on her hunt for I-401. While outside of combat, Hiei is the de facto commander of the First Oriental Fleet.
Role[]
Originally Kongou wanted to leave Hiei as the acting flagship of the First Oriental Fleet, but Hiei had insisted on accompanying her on her hunt for I-401. Hiei gave the role of the acting flagship to battleship Ise.
During the I-401 hunt, organized by Kongou, Hiei and Myoukou, together with a number of light cruisers were maintaining the middle line. They were attacked by one of I-401 active decoys at the same time with Haguro and Nachi being attacked by another decoy on the front line.
Hiei was able to quickly see through I-401 diversion and recognized that the real target of I-401 is Kongou.
A bit later, Hyuuga decided to act as a distraction in order to let Gunzou safely rejoin Iona while also dealing some damage to Kongou's detachment fleet with the SGCS's Super-Graviton Cannon. She directly attacks Hiei and the two exchange blows. Hyuuga loses her Mental Model and a recovered turret, while Hiei takes considerable damage to her hull, also loses her Mental Model and her Union core goes into autistic mode for self-diagnostics.
Both Hiei's and Hyuuga's cores are then collected by Yukikaze.
Relationships[]
- Kongou - Hiei's sister and the fleet flagship. Hiei is rather devoted to her.
- Ise - Hiei made her the acting flagship, because she wanted to accompany Kongou on her hunt.
- Myoukou - A member of the fog student council
- Nachi - A member of the fog student council
- Haguro - A member of the fog student council
- Ashigara - A member of the fog student council
Trivia[]
- Much like her sister Kirishima, Hiei doesn't have a radar antennae on top of her superstructure because her WWII prototype was sunk before she could receive this upgrade.
- The Student Council President affectations are likely an allusion to her WWII prototype spending most of her career as a training ship.
Gallery[]
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