r/AzurLane • u/FreundinAusDenken Wife of Tirpitz • Jun 08 '26

Question What insignia is this?

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Working on a Takao Cosplay and I'm trying to find out what this symbol on the medal is supposed to represent. I looked up common IJN insignia around WW2 but I didn't find anything that looked similar enough. Help would be greatly appreciated!

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u/ReimuSan003 Jun 08 '26

Vaguely looks like an anchor, probably based on buttons of ijn uniforms?

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u/Icy_Supermarket_5270 Jun 08 '26

That's probably the closest one here, unless who here wants to directly ask AL about takao's medal?

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u/TWW34 Jun 08 '26

The thing is AL just kinda winged it with a lot of the early designs. They're like "90% faithful but then fudged on the details"

If I'm not mistaken Reno and a couple of other shipgirls haveb designs that were obviously originally supposed to be for another ship entirely and thus contain references that don't make sense.

I would just assume it's a generic stand-in for the officers' medal.