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Chasing after more on the upcoming event!
I: Speaking of which, was the next limited-time event and batch of new shipgirls pushed back significantly?
T: No, preparations are well underway. We will start releasing information by the time this issue of Comptiq is on sale, but the next event's main operation will begin in the latter half of June. We internally refer to it as the "tsuyu event". That alone roughly corresponds to an ordinary medium-scale event, but next month in mid-July we plan to add the "summer event" extra operations. The main operation focuses on the waters near the naval base and is planned to be four maps. The extra operation heads southward and is planned to have three maps featuring joint operation with the land-based air corps. Right now preparations are being made. With these operations combined, the whole event as currently planned could be considered large-scale. We are also rushing to implement about ten new shipgirls and new voicelines.

I: Large-scale! And with nearly ten new shipgirls!?
T: Yes - as a result of the novel coronavirus, we've had to rearrange parts of the events planned for spring, summer, and after a bit and rebuilt everything within a month's cadence. We had originally planned for another visit to the European front this summer like a typical year, but that's been shifted to fall or later. Instead the southern event planned for fall was brought forward to this summer. The Kongou-class fast battleships have been getting their third remodels, and Hiei Kai Ni C's addition in honor of the seventh anniversary will certainly help anywhere, thanks to her significantly boosted night firepower. At this juncture we also plan to add the South Dakota-class battleship South Dakota (BB-57). And the motif of the final map will be... well, it's better everyone finds out next month, right?

I: Uhm, uhm, please do tell! We brought a lot of bread and cafe au lait, you see!
T: I think this has quickly gotten less formal and back to the usual... well okay! I'll tell you! The final map of the extra operations is quite simply the Battle of the South Pacific [Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands], with the great decisive battle of the Mobile Force comrades as the motif.

And about the new shipgirls added in the large-scale operation for both tsuyu and summer!?
I: That, that! That's the kind of scoop I want! So how about the new shipgirls there!?
T: Well now we're completely back to the normal atmosphere... weren't we supposed to be formal and everything to commemorate the anniversary...?
I: That's true, but since we're this far in, I'm fine with just some details on the main operation, so please do tell!
T: The main operation of the next event will revolve around strengthening the defenses of the various islands in the waters near the naval base. You'll send surface escort fleets and torpedo squadrons, as well as anti-submarine sweeps and, to a limited extent, your land-based air corps north, southwest, and east to each area. A new special-type destroyer, Usugumo, who was originally coming in the spring event and has a sort of shopgirl look to her, will be available to those who clear the first map covering from northern Hokkaido to the Chishima [Kuril] Islands, in the way you might catch up to a visitor you missed. The last map of the main operation will be an operation set in the Ogasawara [Bonin] Islands and will finally introduce the first of the Type D, Matsu-class destroyers, Matsu, who gave her life to protect her comrades. We will also implement one of the ships that made it back home due to Matsu's struggle to the death, a tiny coastal defense ship even smaller than shelved designs, a Type D coastal defense ship*. Furthermore, we will be implementing an I-type submarine who in the chaos of battle and in the middle of an operation miraculously rescued a life raft, who currently rests on the seafloor near the Gotou Islands, and who was equipped with eight bow-mounted torpedo launchers.** That I-type and tiny coastal defense ship, and more, are thanks to the hard efforts Akasaka Yuzu-san as well as two current furniture artists. Please cheer them on in their debut battles.
* Either CD-4 or CD-12. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_D_escort_ship
** From Combined Fleet's tabular records: 30 December 1944. 290 miles W of Guam. I-47 rescues eight starved Imperial Army soldiers who escaped from Guam on a raft after an attempt to storm the American airfield there and drifted in the open sea for 32 days.

I: I see! Looking forward to it. Thanks, that's plenty of preview information for us!
T: We ended up in the usual atmosphere, and then I was moved by the cafe au lait and bread, so I think I ended up saying more than I had planned...