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

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?
>
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?
>>>
>>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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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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The One True Evil Overlord

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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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.