Azur Lane Gets New Trailer Introducing Russian Shipgirls from New Event

Today Yostar released a new trailer of its popular shipgirl-focused mobile game Azur Lane.

The trailer is about the new major event that will launch in the game tomorrow.

The event is titled Kouzen no Hokkai in Japanese, which translates in “Frozen Sea of the North” and focuses on shipgirls inspired by warships from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. At the moment of this writing, an English localization of the title has not been revealed yet.

Featured are Elite battleship Gangut, Elite destroyer Minsk, Super Rare light cruiser Chapayev, Elite Destroyer Grozny, Super Rare destroyer Tashkent  and the Elite light cruiser Pamiat Merkuria, and Super Rare battleship Sovetskaya Rossiya.

You can check it out below.

If you’re unfamiliar with Azur Lane, it’s is a free-to-play mobile horizontal scrolling shooter/RPG hybrid currently available for iOS and Android.

If you’d like to learn more about it, you can read our recent interview with Yostar’s director of operations.

If your interest leans more towards console and PC games, Azur Lane: Crosswave  has just been released for PS4 and PC. You should definitely read the interview we pubished a few weeks ago ago, in which Compile Heart President Norihisa Kochiwa talks in depth about the project, and check out our full review.

If you’re curious about the franchise’s popularity in Japan, you can check out my report about the recent anniversary event that pretty much literally invaded Akihabara.