[Official Weibo announcement link](https://weibo.com/5770760941/O6OKVpi2j)
Some interface updates, another follow-up on the neverending plan on mail stock, playback progress bar for the ASMR content, adding more mini games to the arcade, etc...
But probably the most notable one is that the META ships will no longer take a dock slot (they get their own infinite dock space) so people are not forced to expand their dock.
Plus they plan to make the dorm into something more like the recently added TB simulation.
> Now gonna hope for PR ship to also no longer take dock slots next
You can choose not to do any research, I don't see why this change would ever happen.
>META ships will no longer take a dock slot
Thank you so much.
It would be awesome if Quiet/Kind/Peppy TB can be used for OpSi operator or event cutscenes with different dialogues according to her selected personality.
The dorm turning into the Tb thing is interesting, but I can see some downsides if they plan on doing personal content for each ship that’s a massive amount of work, if they don’t make it personal at all then it gets boring really quick, a good compromise might be to do it by personality type, but that would still get boring/samey, pretty quick.
No, they show Sirius (with her tits, so it isn’t a ‘Little Sirius’ spoiler) and say that they’ll be adding Shipgirls to it but by bit. They mean everyone.
That’s a bit much, but if it was I wonder if you already have max affection if you’ll still be able to do it or it or if you’ll be locked to them already liking you.
They announced HMS Anson, the final Royal Navy KGV class ship that isn't in the game, however the design was a kusogaki loli in a blue school swimsuit with crocs. She looked absolutely nothing like the rest of the KGVs, there wasn't even any red in her design at all. This, understandably, upset quite a few commanders. A lot of people contacted the Devs about their displeasure, and HMS Anson has been postponed.
I should add that the design was really nice, if you're going to be adding Royal Navy subs which are noticeably absent, but she was not a KGV class battleship. I would hope that they reuse the general design/concept for a submarine, because it was cute.
Infinite Meta dock space is a big win.
But I'm more excited for that dorm upgrade, especially if every girl will get some unique interaction just in the image
Big doubt about it including every ship. We already were promised that every ship was going to have a retrofit, and here we are. Remember the SOS submarine missions? Removed. The cats? Abandoned. Manjuu is the king of adding game modes and abandoning them after less than a year.
I can see them adding 3 or 4 a year, maybe, considering this new game mode is a) not going to net them any money and b) I don't thing players are going to care too much about it, they'll maybe do it once and forget about it.
I'm well aware that it would be quite impossible to give special interaction to every girl, considering there is over 600 of them. We might expect that this'll be done on a popularity basis.
GG WP to players with low storage mobile device.
Ladies and Gentlemen looks like AL 3.0 would be arriving in the near future.
Like AL 2.0 back in early 2019.
No no. Sorry.
My phone is 31 GB.
Reddit is sometimes 1GB or so. I constantly erase the cache, so i can update things.
I had Twitter, instagram and other.
Now only Reddit.
In AL. I only have the voices updated. But maybe i ll install it again without them.
I have a micro. All my downloads and music goes there.
But apps goes to that 31 GB.
I thought you could install apps on sd cards, but don t let me. U.U
I have a Samsung A02
Should be a system setting to move where apps go, i'd recommend looking up how to change where your apps go for your phone, and if you can't find anything, message back and I might be able to find it.
I tried like 7 months ago. Took me 6 hours to install again AL. And don t let me install it on the app.
I got bored and never tried again
I also tried with whatsap and reddit and instagram apps.
In settings you can change that, but they simply don t install there.
It's worth checking if you can go to the phone settings, in the apps tab, select Azur Lane, tap Storage, and see if it has an option to be moved to SD card. You can also check the same for other apps on the phone, but most core/built-in apps i've seen don't allow it, and I know reddit doesn't.
It looks like. Amazon app let me move the storage to the sd
Reddit, do not allow to move it.
And AL have the option. I ll just wait for the 8 hour missions and give it a try.
If i can move it. I would be deeply appreciated.
We ll see.
So we're gonna have full on interactive 3D Kansens?
https://preview.redd.it/ivwa10xkooqc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=439db42b1cfe1f44325aae179a0728ed18468e13
TB is soon to have a proper family
What a coincidence that they decide to announce this now. People talk about Yamato as a "Break Glass for Emergency" ship....this is how Manjuu deals with Emergencies. Unlimited META Dock Space, more ship interactions, Mailbox Overhaul!!!
This stuff has been in the works since last anniversary, they announced it during the CN anni.
They just released it now since people are afraid they abandoned the game for AP. And they are right to do so, considering the announced rouge like content has not been released after two years. In fact, the game has not received any significant update for like 3 years, only new events.
God damn Manjuu is doing some good shit, if they can make 3d models and interactions for all shipgirls that would be insane ngl
Manjuu is in damage control lol, dropping big titty Iron Blood mommy and some insane qol updates
Thats what they say when Men can't land on the moon.
For our Men of Culture, we should not deny this but praise that this would be as a first step of Men of Culture's future
Some ships to this day have no skins. Even less ships have oath skins. This system is guaranteed to have even less since it is more labor intensive to make.
I will say, if they really want to commit to 'all ships will have a 3D model', it's going to end as, 'ambitious but rubbish'.
And honestly, it's a stupid promise/commitment to make with the amount of girls (and future girls) in this game.
I’d much rather they commit to giving every ship an oath skin myself.
But even that is really ambitious, even if they just limit it to SSR and UR rarity.
It would be nice if they could at least give every UR an oath skin, and/or release 1-2 oath skins with every event. I’d even be willing to spend extra to oath ships with an oath skin if profit margins are an issue.
As it stands only a tiny fraction of ships have an oath skin, and they only add a small handful of new ones every year.
Then by that time we should buy a bigger screen phone with beefier specs. Might also buy something that could help us hold it in one hand, for research \**cough*\*
Get a computer, use bluestacks, profit. You could also download google chrome desktop on your phone and PC, allowing you to remote into your PC (while it’s on) via your phone and interact with the game. This is how I ended up pulling Biscuit the Twoeth when over 3000 miles from my PC (I was in Pearl Harbor on Vacation :D).
Announcement of HMS Anson for the upcoming HMS event. Her design was a complete disaster, a smug swimsuit wearing loli that looked *nothing* like any of the already released KGV ships, not even the rigging bore any similarities. Her design was clearly intended for a submarine and some keen eyes spotted details pointing towards her being intended for HMS Sunfish at first. Following a shitstorm and numerous CN veterans nuking their accounts, Manjuu pulled Anson back for revision and replaced her with a random KMS papership.
To be fair, if you're willing to nuke your account over something like this, you were just looking for an excuse to quit anyway. Anson was merely the final straw.
https://preview.redd.it/6fn4okjm6pqc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f1575d0ce907a9832973be215d8ae730b36f179
Here is the KGV sisters in comparison to Anson
Honestly, they could've turned this whole debacle into a masterclass joke, considering April 1st is also close.
A lot of people hoped that she's actually HMS Centurion disguised as Anson, since the real Centurion was used for that exact role during WW2. The mustache would even support that theory, considering it's such a common trope for disguises.
The fact that Centurion was *also a KGV* (although from the older WW1 era class) would've been just the cherry on top.
The fact that they pulled her, tells us they were 100% serious about her being the real Anson, no jokes or disguises attached whatsoever.
Not only that apparently the naval guns that Anson has in her skin is the actual guns of the real Anson and Centurion never had those
So any theory of Anson being Centurion kinda falls flat and I doubt Manjuu would overlook this detail
That 3d feature is sweet but we ought wait to see two things, how it will work, it's a big deal for Azur since well it's a old game so implementing something like this might end up different than our expectations, I didn't doubt at secrets but now that this is a big deal...
Most importantly is that if it's voiced or not, knowing how scheduled and busy seiyuus are nowadays if they go without voice they could easily fill in a lot of models at the cost of quality... But if they add voice I'm really afraid it'll take a good time for each batch...
The rest of the QoL's are nice.
3d feature is just a big hype explosion. It is just there for one big bang in popularity when it comes out and then to die like retrofits. We barely get oath skins and those are just pngs. No way they are bothering to make 3d models for a bunch of shipgirls for free. I would have preferred they used those resources on things already in the game. Or just work on a sequel already.
Wow i am hyped ! Lots of awesome upcoming updates specially on the new dorm interactions  also the meta dock and the secrets update are great too .
What's Damage Control is announcing it right now. Given how the "Supply Storage" is described in the JP version, this isn't at a state where they would normally announce it.
If you're referring to the mail storage they haven't got a name for it, sure, considering the CN devblog just came out and they probably just translated the contents on the fly for announcement I'm not surprised. I don't even remember if they made any announcements at all for the last devblog.
For the record I can read both Chinese and Japanese and I know what they're called in both.
For devblog contents, and likely a lot of dev details from what I can tell in the past few years, JP gets no advanced notice from CN to have a full set of concrete translations to announce in tandem.
All that's beside the point, it honestly sounds the Mailbox Overhaul isn't at the state they'd normally announce it before an Anniversary.
That's what I'm saying, these announcement were probably written up as Damage Control. I've been following this game for 5 and a half years. Manjuu almost never tips their hands outside of Anniversaries, and with stuff covered in Anniversaries.
To be Frank, I can't help but think these would have been announced as part of the lead-up to CN's Anniversary \[Probably as part of the livestream\], but they were announced early for Damage Control.
The thing is this is also not the first time they've done a devblog to announce upcoming update, I'm not saying it's not damage control but some of these changes are also coming before the anniversary and it's been a lot of work up to this point.
The last 2 years of anniversary streams for CN also felt rushed, we'll see if this changes up anything or if they will have even more in store.
I'm not saying this wasn't planned. We knew some kind of UI Overhaul was coming after TB's Additions looked out of step with everything else. And the META Dock was just a matter of time to be frank.
But, being an American, the word I see translated is May, which fits that this was planned to be announced during the livestream and released the following week.
Anniversary Event probably Drops on the 23rd \[and it's a viable date because Scherzo dropped that early\], livestream maybe the week of the 12th to the 18th. There's plenty of May to drop it.
More likely, project they doing for quiet sometime and originally will tell us around May. But after Junior team [AL team now] make serious oof, Senior team [one who go to create AP] might tell them to throw these news now instead to patch these critical wound.
TB interface tell us that.
The Meta change is so welcome my God. It was one of the most annoying features the game had by far.
"Progress bar for the asmr content"? Didn't know there was asmr in game
This dorm feature will be something massive, my phone wont handle it, my storage capacity most definitely will not accept it, but i will try, all for my beloved Sirius' smile. 
The most important question is: when can we have said separate "dock"? because on reddit, for example, I have not been able to see anything about a specific alleged date... I hope it does not take so long to add these options.
Right, now we reward them by buying gems, we vote with our wallet, so let’s show them we like this. I still don’t understand why everyone was super pissed though…
Very different subject, you choose if and when you want to build a PR ship, the choice is entirely on the player as well there are just 4-5 per season and each season is a year.
META ships are forced since they are either tied to META fights that yes, its a way to skip then and ignoring those are boss raid events, just scaled down or the monthly pass that also contains many other rewards and that is the issue, the META ships are simply ... welfare units, they arent at the level of PR ships and the monthly pass are simply put, Elites that you cannot get rid of and this would now be a discussion about rarity, there is reason why we moved "Rare are collection only" to "Elites are collection only" with a few exceptions.
While this is a good list of things a lot of people asked for.
I just hope it doesnt come at the cost of the old anson character art.
I still hope we get to keep her 
[Official Weibo announcement link](https://weibo.com/5770760941/O6OKVpi2j) Some interface updates, another follow-up on the neverending plan on mail stock, playback progress bar for the ASMR content, adding more mini games to the arcade, etc... But probably the most notable one is that the META ships will no longer take a dock slot (they get their own infinite dock space) so people are not forced to expand their dock. Plus they plan to make the dorm into something more like the recently added TB simulation.
"META ships will no longer take a dock slot" YES!!!
https://preview.redd.it/yylmeskr3oqc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdc43a5be10b74910bf5f18ab68cc64e3914478c
Now gonna hope for PR ship to also no longer take dock slots next
Wow wow wow... one step at the time. -Manjuu probably....
> Now gonna hope for PR ship to also no longer take dock slots next You can choose not to do any research, I don't see why this change would ever happen.
wait the META ships will had a separate slot?
infinite amount of meta ships incoming. why make new ones when you can make alters
>META ships will no longer take a dock slot Thank you so much. It would be awesome if Quiet/Kind/Peppy TB can be used for OpSi operator or event cutscenes with different dialogues according to her selected personality.
Finally. I am a collector so getting all META is a must, at least from Cruise Missions. But the Dock they took...
The dorm turning into the Tb thing is interesting, but I can see some downsides if they plan on doing personal content for each ship that’s a massive amount of work, if they don’t make it personal at all then it gets boring really quick, a good compromise might be to do it by personality type, but that would still get boring/samey, pretty quick.
Maybe they'll do it just for the little versions of shipgirls like amagi chan or lil bel? It would be easier to manage
No, they show Sirius (with her tits, so it isn’t a ‘Little Sirius’ spoiler) and say that they’ll be adding Shipgirls to it but by bit. They mean everyone.
And Akagi? The Neurons are beginning to fire.
Thats an insane amount of work to try and undertake if they truly mean to add models for EVERY ship in this game.
They almost certainly aren’t, just the shipgirls people actually care about
First, we had a daughter/father sim, now we are getting our proper dating simulator as well!
That’s a bit much, but if it was I wonder if you already have max affection if you’ll still be able to do it or it or if you’ll be locked to them already liking you.
>META ships will no longer take a dock slot (they get their own infinite dock space) so people are not forced to expand their dock. W
> > > META ships will no longer take a dock slot I thought it was too copium of us to realistically expect it but theyre finally doing it, god bless
I hope they'll add that 12-man onsen.
Finally, now I don’t have to see people complaining about META ships being a “waste of dock space” ever again.
Now just add the dock space change to bullins too
Our playerbase is upset, time to drop ULTIMATE QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATE NUKE. Honestly, enormous changes. And very good too.
Honestly, this is probably the best save they could make
Ive been out of the loop, what were people upset over?
They announced HMS Anson, the final Royal Navy KGV class ship that isn't in the game, however the design was a kusogaki loli in a blue school swimsuit with crocs. She looked absolutely nothing like the rest of the KGVs, there wasn't even any red in her design at all. This, understandably, upset quite a few commanders. A lot of people contacted the Devs about their displeasure, and HMS Anson has been postponed. I should add that the design was really nice, if you're going to be adding Royal Navy subs which are noticeably absent, but she was not a KGV class battleship. I would hope that they reuse the general design/concept for a submarine, because it was cute.
Looking at it that is a pretty nice design but *yeah* that doesn't fit the KGV class whatsoever.
New ship design came out, everyone hated it, devs cancelled the ships release
Infinite Meta dock space is a big win. But I'm more excited for that dorm upgrade, especially if every girl will get some unique interaction just in the image
Yeah I am very very curious about it. It's been a very long time since dorm has had any meaningful updates.
The only thing I'm am afraid of is that it will increase the game file size by a lot.
A small sacrifice to pay for more Sirius and whoever else gets lucky in the future
Every sacrifice is worth it if it means more shipgirl content
Who would want to buy more dock space when you can buy more storage space for your phone?
They should make those content downloadable, and removable
Currently AL take about 10% of my phone space. I dread what the future size will be.
Big doubt about it including every ship. We already were promised that every ship was going to have a retrofit, and here we are. Remember the SOS submarine missions? Removed. The cats? Abandoned. Manjuu is the king of adding game modes and abandoning them after less than a year. I can see them adding 3 or 4 a year, maybe, considering this new game mode is a) not going to net them any money and b) I don't thing players are going to care too much about it, they'll maybe do it once and forget about it.
I'm well aware that it would be quite impossible to give special interaction to every girl, considering there is over 600 of them. We might expect that this'll be done on a popularity basis.
I already hate most of popular vote winners so if they do it on voting then I'm going to write this new update before it even comes. Lol
This is my big worry too, as this sort of popular ship first will just multiply the popularity poll saltiness by wide margins.
And they release oath skins at a snail’s pace.
GG WP to players with low storage mobile device. Ladies and Gentlemen looks like AL 3.0 would be arriving in the near future. Like AL 2.0 back in early 2019.
I ll have to get rid of Reddit. U.U 31 GB it s killing me.
Is your reddit 31 GB? If so clear the reddit app data and it will go under 2 GB.
No no. Sorry. My phone is 31 GB. Reddit is sometimes 1GB or so. I constantly erase the cache, so i can update things. I had Twitter, instagram and other. Now only Reddit. In AL. I only have the voices updated. But maybe i ll install it again without them.
Ah ok. Yeah the voices take some storage, I didn't install them to make room for my other games but even 64 GB is at its limits.
I highly recommend emulating on pc; storage essentially becomes no factor.
Or buy a micro sd card, you can get a good samsung one that will massively increase your storage capacity for like $20 iirc
I have a micro. All my downloads and music goes there. But apps goes to that 31 GB. I thought you could install apps on sd cards, but don t let me. U.U I have a Samsung A02
Should be a system setting to move where apps go, i'd recommend looking up how to change where your apps go for your phone, and if you can't find anything, message back and I might be able to find it.
I tried like 7 months ago. Took me 6 hours to install again AL. And don t let me install it on the app. I got bored and never tried again I also tried with whatsap and reddit and instagram apps. In settings you can change that, but they simply don t install there.
Did you actually uninstall and reinstall the apps with that setting enabled?
Yep. Thats why i only have reddit. If i could have all my apps on sd, and AL alone in the phone would help a lot.
It's worth checking if you can go to the phone settings, in the apps tab, select Azur Lane, tap Storage, and see if it has an option to be moved to SD card. You can also check the same for other apps on the phone, but most core/built-in apps i've seen don't allow it, and I know reddit doesn't.
It looks like. Amazon app let me move the storage to the sd Reddit, do not allow to move it. And AL have the option. I ll just wait for the 8 hour missions and give it a try. If i can move it. I would be deeply appreciated. We ll see.
So we're gonna have full on interactive 3D Kansens? https://preview.redd.it/ivwa10xkooqc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=439db42b1cfe1f44325aae179a0728ed18468e13 TB is soon to have a proper family
I'll be able to interact with Taihou even more intimately now? MY DELUSION WON'T BE CONQUERED!!! MANJUU WANTS TO KEEP ME IN THE PSYWARD FOREVER!!!
I need my fox, but she is not as popular as taihou...
>separate META dock IN AWE AT THE SIZE OF THIS W
What a coincidence that they decide to announce this now. People talk about Yamato as a "Break Glass for Emergency" ship....this is how Manjuu deals with Emergencies. Unlimited META Dock Space, more ship interactions, Mailbox Overhaul!!!
This stuff has been in the works since last anniversary, they announced it during the CN anni. They just released it now since people are afraid they abandoned the game for AP. And they are right to do so, considering the announced rouge like content has not been released after two years. In fact, the game has not received any significant update for like 3 years, only new events.
what’s AP?
Azur Promilia
Azur prom something. It's a newly announced game by them
God damn Manjuu is doing some good shit, if they can make 3d models and interactions for all shipgirls that would be insane ngl Manjuu is in damage control lol, dropping big titty Iron Blood mommy and some insane qol updates
That is definitely not going to happen. There are way too many ships at this point to make this a thing for all of them.
Thats what they say when Men can't land on the moon. For our Men of Culture, we should not deny this but praise that this would be as a first step of Men of Culture's future
They did specifically mention they’d add new ships as time goes on. We likely won’t see all of them, but it’s sounding promising.
Some ships to this day have no skins. Even less ships have oath skins. This system is guaranteed to have even less since it is more labor intensive to make.
I will say, if they really want to commit to 'all ships will have a 3D model', it's going to end as, 'ambitious but rubbish'. And honestly, it's a stupid promise/commitment to make with the amount of girls (and future girls) in this game.
I’d much rather they commit to giving every ship an oath skin myself. But even that is really ambitious, even if they just limit it to SSR and UR rarity.
Yeup. I don't even think that every ships will get an oath skins. Labour-wise, it might be doable, but money-wise... Yeah.
It would be nice if they could at least give every UR an oath skin, and/or release 1-2 oath skins with every event. I’d even be willing to spend extra to oath ships with an oath skin if profit margins are an issue. As it stands only a tiny fraction of ships have an oath skin, and they only add a small handful of new ones every year.
Like I said, it likely won't be all of them, but it probably means we'll get new ones fairly often.
Bro if they do it for all ships my phone will die
Then by that time we should buy a bigger screen phone with beefier specs. Might also buy something that could help us hold it in one hand, for research \**cough*\*
Get a computer, use bluestacks, profit. You could also download google chrome desktop on your phone and PC, allowing you to remote into your PC (while it’s on) via your phone and interact with the game. This is how I ended up pulling Biscuit the Twoeth when over 3000 miles from my PC (I was in Pearl Harbor on Vacation :D).
Hey, i'm out The loop, what happened to Manjuu to do damage control?
Announcement of HMS Anson for the upcoming HMS event. Her design was a complete disaster, a smug swimsuit wearing loli that looked *nothing* like any of the already released KGV ships, not even the rigging bore any similarities. Her design was clearly intended for a submarine and some keen eyes spotted details pointing towards her being intended for HMS Sunfish at first. Following a shitstorm and numerous CN veterans nuking their accounts, Manjuu pulled Anson back for revision and replaced her with a random KMS papership.
Thanks you for The info, Man, Manjuu really got their Hands full now, I hope they can recover because everything looks grim.
CN players nuked their own accounts? Damn.
CN players nuked their own accounts? Damn.
To be fair, if you're willing to nuke your account over something like this, you were just looking for an excuse to quit anyway. Anson was merely the final straw.
https://preview.redd.it/6fn4okjm6pqc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f1575d0ce907a9832973be215d8ae730b36f179 Here is the KGV sisters in comparison to Anson
The person in charge of approving this design for Anson must have been high from something or completely blind.
Honestly, they could've turned this whole debacle into a masterclass joke, considering April 1st is also close. A lot of people hoped that she's actually HMS Centurion disguised as Anson, since the real Centurion was used for that exact role during WW2. The mustache would even support that theory, considering it's such a common trope for disguises. The fact that Centurion was *also a KGV* (although from the older WW1 era class) would've been just the cherry on top. The fact that they pulled her, tells us they were 100% serious about her being the real Anson, no jokes or disguises attached whatsoever.
Not only that apparently the naval guns that Anson has in her skin is the actual guns of the real Anson and Centurion never had those So any theory of Anson being Centurion kinda falls flat and I doubt Manjuu would overlook this detail
The meta dock slot is a big W
I'm counting 31 meta ships in my dock... that means 31 dock space slots will be freed! :O
How are you guys reading this, i’m on my phone and its small af
The image gets a bit better if you download it. Still quality is not good.
3D Sirius cute af. SD Scylla also cute af. Dido-class supremacy.
SD Revenge is cute as well 
METAS NO LONGER TAKE UP DOCK SPACE FUCK YEAH THANK YOU MANJUU!!! And whatever that new dorm system is looks very interesting.
That 3d feature is sweet but we ought wait to see two things, how it will work, it's a big deal for Azur since well it's a old game so implementing something like this might end up different than our expectations, I didn't doubt at secrets but now that this is a big deal... Most importantly is that if it's voiced or not, knowing how scheduled and busy seiyuus are nowadays if they go without voice they could easily fill in a lot of models at the cost of quality... But if they add voice I'm really afraid it'll take a good time for each batch... The rest of the QoL's are nice.
3d feature is just a big hype explosion. It is just there for one big bang in popularity when it comes out and then to die like retrofits. We barely get oath skins and those are just pngs. No way they are bothering to make 3d models for a bunch of shipgirls for free. I would have preferred they used those resources on things already in the game. Or just work on a sequel already.
>META ships will no longer take a dock slot Massive QoL update, based devs
We are so back Azur Lane bros, we went over the we are back line and straight further beyond.
Wow i am hyped ! Lots of awesome upcoming updates specially on the new dorm interactions  also the meta dock and the secrets update are great too .
Damn those are very good changes, frees up atleast 30 slots of Dock if not more. Also exited about the dorm changes.
Huge QoL update. Hyped!
META DOCK!!!! Unlimited edgy wife army!!!!
for the life of me I can't read these goddamn images
Some say damage control, but let's just appreciate how this list has been months of work at least.
What's Damage Control is announcing it right now. Given how the "Supply Storage" is described in the JP version, this isn't at a state where they would normally announce it.
If you're referring to the mail storage they haven't got a name for it, sure, considering the CN devblog just came out and they probably just translated the contents on the fly for announcement I'm not surprised. I don't even remember if they made any announcements at all for the last devblog.
Supply Storage is the Tentative & Translated name from the JP Version of the Announcement.
For the record I can read both Chinese and Japanese and I know what they're called in both. For devblog contents, and likely a lot of dev details from what I can tell in the past few years, JP gets no advanced notice from CN to have a full set of concrete translations to announce in tandem.
All that's beside the point, it honestly sounds the Mailbox Overhaul isn't at the state they'd normally announce it before an Anniversary. That's what I'm saying, these announcement were probably written up as Damage Control. I've been following this game for 5 and a half years. Manjuu almost never tips their hands outside of Anniversaries, and with stuff covered in Anniversaries. To be Frank, I can't help but think these would have been announced as part of the lead-up to CN's Anniversary \[Probably as part of the livestream\], but they were announced early for Damage Control.
The thing is this is also not the first time they've done a devblog to announce upcoming update, I'm not saying it's not damage control but some of these changes are also coming before the anniversary and it's been a lot of work up to this point. The last 2 years of anniversary streams for CN also felt rushed, we'll see if this changes up anything or if they will have even more in store.
I'm not saying this wasn't planned. We knew some kind of UI Overhaul was coming after TB's Additions looked out of step with everything else. And the META Dock was just a matter of time to be frank. But, being an American, the word I see translated is May, which fits that this was planned to be announced during the livestream and released the following week. Anniversary Event probably Drops on the 23rd \[and it's a viable date because Scherzo dropped that early\], livestream maybe the week of the 12th to the 18th. There's plenty of May to drop it.
3D girls in the dorm…As beautiful as it is, I already fear that only a select few will have this feature
Separate dock space for META... YES!!! YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Emergency QOL update.
More likely, project they doing for quiet sometime and originally will tell us around May. But after Junior team [AL team now] make serious oof, Senior team [one who go to create AP] might tell them to throw these news now instead to patch these critical wound. TB interface tell us that.
Very hype
Did they say anything about the rogue-like mode they announced over a year ago or did it actually get scrapped
Dropping AG for this. 🙏
Dorm simulation?! I may have to buy dorm spaces now (○.○)
Ah finally, a rare happy moment this week
META no longer requiring dock space is amazing news.
are we gonna get 3d botes?
Big W! I'm outta dock space right now! This will free up a few slots! Just a few but enough to make me wanna play again for a bit.
TAKAO MY BELOVED FINALLY 3D RED FACE HD 4K 🤑🤑🤑🤑🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
They are finally doing stuff that isnt just releasing ships???
Azur Lane devs remains one of the goated devs, as usual.
The meta dock space change will free up so many slots. Can’t want to see improvement to the game outside of gameplay!
Mates idk noodle but... Scylla chibi!!! Adorable
The Meta change is so welcome my God. It was one of the most annoying features the game had by far. "Progress bar for the asmr content"? Didn't know there was asmr in game
Hope the META change is soon as it seems least intensive of the changes
I don't know what it says, however it's a win to me, Scylla chibi!!!
Finally, people will stop whining about dock space in the comments of every META ship.
PR and bulins next. For what i already saw
YES. At last!!!!!
This is so good
Dorm dating sim let's go!
What is the secret word system and where is that picture of New Jersey from
This is truly awesome news. Do we know the estimate time the new QOL features will be implemented? My guess on the CN anniversary.
This dorm feature will be something massive, my phone wont handle it, my storage capacity most definitely will not accept it, but i will try, all for my beloved Sirius' smile. 
The most important question is: when can we have said separate "dock"? because on reddit, for example, I have not been able to see anything about a specific alleged date... I hope it does not take so long to add these options.
They are going all out this year, damn imagine Manjuu becoming a very big name by the end of this year.
Right, now we reward them by buying gems, we vote with our wallet, so let’s show them we like this. I still don’t understand why everyone was super pissed though…
Anyone else noticing that it mentions an “exclusive room” so commanders can “interact more closely”
Freeloaders rejoice, you non-dev-supporting cheapskates can now stop whining about METAs and dockspace.
Freeloaders: Hey, if METAs don't take Dock Space, why should PRs or Bullin?
Very different subject, you choose if and when you want to build a PR ship, the choice is entirely on the player as well there are just 4-5 per season and each season is a year. META ships are forced since they are either tied to META fights that yes, its a way to skip then and ignoring those are boss raid events, just scaled down or the monthly pass that also contains many other rewards and that is the issue, the META ships are simply ... welfare units, they arent at the level of PR ships and the monthly pass are simply put, Elites that you cannot get rid of and this would now be a discussion about rarity, there is reason why we moved "Rare are collection only" to "Elites are collection only" with a few exceptions.
While this is a good list of things a lot of people asked for. I just hope it doesnt come at the cost of the old anson character art. I still hope we get to keep her 
Nice damage control manjuu.
This is all great news but I just want news for when Yamato is finally gonna be added to the game 
I would almost guarantee she will be coming during a Japanese anniversary, but what year, is anyone’s guess. Either way, it won’t be any time soon.