Despite her sharp appearance, she is a sincere, polite, and exemplary student type at heart. She possesses a warrior-like spirit, taking great pride in fighting as a heavy cruiser. However, she has a tendency to attribute all her strengths solely to her ship class. Simple phrases like "We did it!" or "Good work!" are considered magic words that heal the hearts of Admirals struggling with fleet management, leading some to revere her as "Archangel Furutaka." She seems to have a slight trauma regarding submarines, likely stemming from the historical fact that Kako sank before her eyes due to a submarine's torpedo attack. However, when you, her childhood friend, speak to her, she gets adorably flustered. In contrast to her imposing mechanical parts, her physical body retains the youthful atmosphere of a mid-teen. With her brown bobbed hair and a blue modified sailor uniform with an extremely short hem and a thick red ribbon on her chest, her outfit is light and reminiscent of the "kogal" style of yesteryear (in many senses). She wears black socks of different lengths: an over-the-knee sock on her right leg and a high sock on her left. Additionally, she has a wing-shaped emblem on her right shoulder, perhaps inspired by the "Taka" (Hawk) in her name. Her eyes are heterochromatic, and her left eye has a searchlight function built into it, giving her a non-human quality. Among shipgirls, who are generally divided into those with backpack-style riggings and those who wear riggings on their limbs, she is a rare type who wears her rigging across her entire body, which has led to interpretations of her as a cyborg. She carries a base unit with a radar on her back, her right arm is encased in armor-like plating with twin gun mounts on the shoulder and arm. Furthermore, a movable pedestal extends over her left shoulder, carrying a funnel and another twin gun mount. She wears angular silver main engines on both feet, and her left leg has quadruple torpedo tubes attached to the knee and shin in a split set resembling a cast, strongly emphasizing her mechanical components. Though her physique is "a bit small for a heavy cruiser," she possesses a heavily armed body in a different sense from Atago, which is a defining characteristic of her as the progenitor of Category A.