Second Naval District Saury Festival (Live Event)

Saury Festival Logo

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The KanColle Second Naval District Saury Festival (Live Event) is a live event that is taking place all over Japan across 10 major Japanese Seafood Resturants. Unlike last year's Saury Festival, this festival is more of a food based collaboration that is featuring Kancolle as part of the theme.

The Collaboration was launched on October 5th, 2018 across the 10 Major seafood stores. 9 of the seafood store's collaborations will last until October 14th, 2018 while thier flagship store, the Uokoshi located in Chiyoda, Tokyo was orginally planned to run until November 7th, 2018. However, due to popular demand, the flagship store held and extension for the festival lasting from the November 8th - November 30th. And then a final extension occured that will last from December 1st - 9th.

People will be able to purchase various Saury based meals and in return will be given various Kancolle related prizes for eating there. Other possible events are also taking place within the Uokoshi located in Chiyoda, Tokyo which will be explained further below.

Sponsors

A total of 5 Fish Restaurant sponsors are currently supporting the collaboration and are participants within the collaboration:

• Uokoshi (5 shops participating)
• Izumichi
• Ibushigin
• Nishigi
• Gariya

Apply to Attend

To participate in the Saury Festival in the participating resturants, the devs have noted on the twitter that you will need to make reservations in advance to be able to partake in the KanColle Saury Festival. To do so you will need to apply by phone to make reservation by placing in your name, phone number, address, number of people attending, and the meal you will be planning to purchase for the day you plan to attend. If you were selected you would recive a pone call in the day's following.

NOTE: Due to the fact that seafood restaurants are in Japan. You can only call from local Japanese phones. They will not take reservations from oversea calls

Participating in the Saury Restaurant

If you were selected to partake in the restaurant, you would come on the intended day and present your identity to staff to inform them that you applied to for the reservations for the Saury Festival dining experience. You would be taken into a special room (primary in Uokoshi's flagship store) where the Saury Festival event was being held.

In most participating stores, various KanColle displays/ decals were placed all over the store areas ranging from the counters all the way to the bathroom.

Once seated, you would be provided the meal you were ordered and enjoy food as you earned bonus items including some small stickers, and labels.

You would also have a "chance" to win a chance to buy Kancolle theme T-shirt and other festival related merch, IF you succeesfully rolled a die and scored a 1 or a 6 on the die.

In addition to this, if you attended in the evening, there was a chance you would get to see a show performed by 2 waitresses dressed up in Kanmusu cosplay as they performed the Kanmusu Ondo in front of thier audience. Participation was optional.

Special Goodies

For participatig in the Saury Festival in the participating restaurants, attendee could earn on of several goodies depending on when they joined:

• Houshou Saury Keychain
• Akagi Saury Keychain
• Michishio Saury Keychain
• Gambier Bay Saury Keychain

In additon to this, you could randomly earn on of the possible Saury sticker labels:

• Sazanami
• Oboro
• Akebono
• Ushio
• Houshou
• Etorofu
• Fukae
• Michishio
• Kishinami
• Okinami
• Asashimo
• Commandant Teste
• Gambier Bay
• Gotland Fairy
• Yura Fairy
• Saury
• Saury Festival Logo

Badges were also avalaible to purchase which included:

• Akebono
• Michishio
• Takanami
• Hatsuzuki
• Houshou
• Yuugumo
• Makigumo
• Saury
• Zuiun

At the flagship store, if you were able to successfully roll a 1 or 6, you'd have a chance to buy the following items:

• Sazanami T-shirt
• Oboro T-Shirt
• Akebono T-shit
• Ushio T-Shirt
• Hatsuzuki T-Shirt
• Houshou T-shirt
• Hatsuzuki Wallpaper
• Kongou Wallpaper
• Michishio Wallpaper
• Shouhou Wallpaper
• Commandant Teste Wallpaper
• Saury Dining Plate
• 2018 Big Catch Flag
• Offcial KanColle Saury Festival Happi Coat
• Peach Aviation Hiryuu figure

Below is a showcase of some of the good people showed off:

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  All the various Kanmusu sticker labels

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Miscellaneous

Below are a some extra things that could be seen from the Saury Festvial:

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  Saury Festival Flagship store as seen from the outside

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  Kongou light stand

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  The real 2018 Big Catch Flag

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  Etorofu Label

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  Gotland Label

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  Matsuwa Label

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  Hyuuga Label

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  Sado Label

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  Yuugumo Bathroom Label

Reception

The overall feedback from people who attended the collaboration event has been overall positive, in most occasions, however during the initial start of the collaboration some people complained about registration processes getting messed up and various issues regarding some of the fish resturants' performances overall which included the following details:

• Some stores didn't have dice to roll for some of the prizes
• Fish was left accidentally out in the sun during Day 1 causing part of that day's food supply to rot.
• Nagoya's shop division was loud and located near private housing areas. People complained about the noise.
• Some good ran out of stock after day one and restocking would be done at a later time.
• As a result, some people who roll for a Happi Coat and won had to work out a way to get it later on via mail.
• Some store clerks were becoming stress and wanted to leave during the start of the collaboration.
• Some workers were also overworked over the starting point of the collaboration.

During this time, the KC staff did attempt to try to work through thier twitter with some of the disgruntled customers as they did what they could to cater to them giving them compensation goods / fix work days and provide information for them to receive goods. Overall though, they were able to resolve most cases brought up on complaints.

Outside of these factors which occurred on opening day, most other days went by without issue and people were able to get thier goods accordingly. Eventually after the remaining 9 stores ended thier run and the Chiyoda Flagship store remained, most situations and complaints can to an end and feedback from the community that attended the Chiyoda store was met with a overall positive responds. With people mentioning that the overall experience was great for dining and drinking and the attempt to win prizes were considered fair and as noted in later tweets, stocks were made to keep up with demand. In addition to it all, thanks to the popular demand form the Chiyoda Flagship store, the collaboration got extended twice all the way to early December.