Birthday
January 8 1945
Origin
Kure Naval District, Kure, Hiroshima, Japan
The Sen Toku-class I-401 (伊号第四百一潜水艦) was once the largest submarine in the world. It was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Nobukiyo Nambu of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Capable of carrying three two-seat Aichi M6A1 "Seiran" (Mountain Haze) float torpedo bombers, the Sen Tokus were built to launch a surprise air strike against the Panama Canal. She calls herself Shioi. While the "shi" and "i" in her name stands for 4 and 1 in Japanese respectively, the "o" in her name is just pronounced as the letter instead of an abbreviation of the number 0. The brainchild of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Sen Toku-class submarines were built to attack major US coastal cities by deploying specialized seaplane bombers, and were designed with the ability to operate for extended periods of time without refueling, allowing them to sail anywhere in the world to reach both the US Western and Eastern seaboards. With the death of Admiral Yamamoto however, the Sen Toku-class were repurposed to attack the Panama Canal in an attempt to stem US naval reinforcements from the Atlantic as the strategic situation had deteriorated for the Japanese since their defeat at the Battle of Midway. This plan would also be abandoned after the fall of Okinawa, and the submarines were tasked with attacking the invading US fleet assembling at Ulithi Atoll. Ultimately, the war ended before the Ulithi Atoll attack could be launched, and the Sen Toku-class submarines were surrendered to the US. She was used as a target ship by the US Navy to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union before the Cold War.
KanColle: Kantai Collection
Kantai Collection (艦隊これくしょん Kantai Korekushon, lit. "Fleet Collection", subtitled as "Combined Fleet Girls Collection"), abbreviated as KanColle (艦これ KanKore), is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by Kadokawa Games.[2][3] The game was launched on April 23, 2013.[4] As of April 2015, the game is available in Japan only and has 3 million registered players.[5] The game has developed into a much larger media franchise; various media including multiple manga series and light novels have been released, in addition to an officially licensed tabletop role-playing game. A PlayStation Vita game was released in February 2016,[6] and an anime television series began airing its first season in January 2015,[7] with an animated film[8] released in November 2016 as the sequel to the series.
