Iowa

Iowa is a ship girl in Kantai Collection based on the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa. She is depicted as a confident foreign member of the fleet who brings American naval identity into the largely Japanese cast.

Iowa as an American battleship girl

Outgoing, friendly, and energetic, Iowa mixes English expressions into her speech and approaches other ship girls with open enthusiasm. Her characterization emphasizes pride in firepower without making her distant from the combined fleet.

Naval firepower and a foreign presence in the fleet

Iowa fights with battleship-scale main guns, heavy armor, anti-aircraft capability, and long-range bombardment. As a personification rather than a single historical sailor, her story and relationships vary between the game, animation, and related media.