LAST EDITED ON Aug-27-17 AT 00:11 AM (EDT)
 
Not many people beyond her immediate wingmates, and a few of her former classmates from her time back at the Fusō Imperial Naval Academy on Etajima, know that Shizuka Hattori has a tattoo.

Illustration by Phil Moy, sourced by Doc at Wizard World Chicago this weekend

She got it during a port call in Inchōn, on the Koryō peninsula (which has been a province of the Fusō Empire since the First Neuroi War; it has been a much less messy and generally criminal enterprise than the real-life equivalent), during her freshman-year cruise aboard the training cruiser Katori, before she started aviation school. Despite the fact that she's a bit embarrassed by it, most of the people who've seen it think it's rather nice.

--G.
IRL, it's the package illustration from a Korean brand of cigarettes called, I kid you not, THIS PLUS.
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Ohhhh, damn, I love this pic. What exactly is she welding, I wonder, knowing she's not an engineer?

Is this an upcoming scene, I wonder? Between the tattoo and the request Gryphon received recently, perhaps it's time for a return to this universe.

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Another amazing piece of art for our favorite Witches.

>Ohhhh, damn, I love this pic. What exactly is she welding, I wonder,
>knowing she's not an engineer?
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Well, I seem to recall a teaser that indicated that UF-G got called in on a case that seemed to be the first ship girl appearing in the SW universe while the others were in new berline for Fritzchin's wedding...

>>Ohhhh, damn, I love this pic. What exactly is she welding, I wonder,
>>knowing she's not an engineer?
>>
>Well, I seem to recall a teaser that indicated that UF-G got called in
>on a case that seemed to be the first ship girl appearing in the SW
>universe while the others were in new berline for Fritzchin's
>wedding...

I didn't think they still had the two halves of the Mogami. =)

But hey, if they do, awesome!

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

>>>Ohhhh, damn, I love this pic. What exactly is she welding, I wonder,
>>>knowing she's not an engineer?
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>>Well, I seem to recall a teaser that indicated that UF-G got called in
>>on a case that seemed to be the first ship girl appearing in the SW
>>universe while the others were in new berline for Fritzchin's
>>wedding...
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>I didn't think they still had the two halves of the Mogami. =)
>
>But hey, if they do, awesome!
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Dunno about that, but there is a lot of speculation about just what DOES happen while a ship-girl is healing...

As many others have said, this pic is amazing — to my eyes it looks like Priss from the original Bubblegum Crisis. (It's definitely rocking' Kenichi Sonoda's style, that's for sure!)

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LAST EDITED ON Sep-08-22 AT 01:29 AM (EDT)
 
I just looked this one up again, and it occurred to me that although I showed exactly this scene in Sea Trials, the text doesn't mention her tattoo anywhere. Bad show!

Also, I found a higher-res image of the source picture for said tattoo, which is still the greatest piece of branding I think I've ever seen.

--G.
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>Not many people beyond her immediate wingmates, and a few of her
>former classmates from her time back at the Fusō Imperial Naval
>Academy on Etajima, know that Shizuka Hattori has a tattoo.
>She got it during a port call in Inchōn

Fun fact that just crossed my mind as I was looking at this post again:

In my original conception of this picture, I was envisioning the tattoo right-way-up on her arm, and was a little nonplussed when it came out the way it is. I thought about asking for it to be corrected, but then it occurred to me that the orientation it's in above has amusing implications for how she got it--namely, that in order for it to be that way up, she was probably lying down when it was applied.

This ties into Nishimura's remark to Mogami that he hadn't seen her as drunk as she was in Sea Trials since the time they were in Inchōn. Apparently stuff happens when IFN personnel are at large there. :)

--G.
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