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High School Fleet (ハイスクール・フリート, Haisukūru Furīto), also known as Haifuri (はいふり), is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production IMS. Yuu Nobuta directed the anime and Reiko Yoshida handled the series composition, with character designs by Naoto Nakamura and original character designs by Atto.
Hiei (Japanese: 比叡, named after Mount Hiei) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II.Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, she was the second launched of four Kongō-class battlecruisers, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built.
Hiei began another cadet cruise on 30 September 1891 and visited Australia and Manila before returning to Shinagawa on 10 April 1892. The ship was not in service in 1893, but she was recommissioned before the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894. [14] Hiei was assigned to the Standing Fleet on 2 July. [15]
High School Fleet: The Movie held its premiere at the United Cinemas Toyosu theater in Tokyo on January 12, 2020, [23] and was released in 96 theaters in Japan on January 18. [6] It was reported that the second part of the film had uncorrected parts from the original key animation due to tight deadlines following A-1 Pictures' take over.
The United Kingdom, hard-pressed in Europe and enjoying only a narrow margin of superiority against the German High Seas Fleet, asked to be loaned Japan's four newly-built Kongō-class battlecruisers (Kongō, Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima), some of the first ships in the world to be equipped with 356 mm (14 in) guns, and the most formidable ...
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the strategy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was underpinned by several key assumptions.The most fundamental was that just as the Russo-Japanese War had been decided by a single naval battle at Tsushima (May 27–28, 1905), the war against the United States would also be decided by a single, decisive battle at sea, or Kantai Kessen. [14]
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
Until the end of 1936, Shigure served as an escort ship for the Japanese battleship Hiei, the favorite ship of Emperor Hirohito, escorting Hiei on several voyages and taking part in a fleet review off Kobe on the 29th of October, before escorting Hiei back to Yokosuka.