Zuiun Festival
The Zuiun Festival is a planned KanColle Live Event that is scheduled to take place during at the Fuji-Q Amusement Park. The Festival is currently scheduled to last between June 17th to July 30th and will serve as the main location where the unveiling of the 1:1 Scale Zuiun Model will be displayed in its complete form. The entire event will last several weeks which will include 5 Live Events (Two which have been announced), 9 Seiyuu (with more to come) attending the festival, the 1:1 Zuiun Model, several theme park rides which will be re-themed with a KanColle theme, and a collaboration campaign with the Fuji Express Train line, making this one of the largest promotional stunts KanColle has done.
This page will serve as a main point on focusing on both the 1:1 Zuiun's Development along with all the details regarding the upcoming events and information happening in Fuji-Q Amusement Park.
The 1:1 Full Scale Zuiun Project
On April 1st, 2017, KanColle Staff Twitter announced several large announcements of upcoming projects, including the 1:1 Scale Zuiun Model. Originally viewed as an April Fools joke, it was re-announced the following day to confirm that it was not a joke and was a legit project in the works.
Information regarding the Zuiun's development was kept under wraps until May 12, 2017, when it was announced on the KanColle Dev's Twitter that they would be holding a special display of "Parts" of the Full Scale Zuiun at the Shizoka Hobby Show between May 12th - 14th.
Zuiun Display from Shizoka Hobby Show
Zuiun Display from Shizoka Hobby Show
Zuiun Display from Shizoka Hobby Show
Those who went to the display got to see various frames to the Zuiun model which includes the propeller, body frame, wing frame, and engine parts at the showcase.
Tanaka would later announce in his June Comptiq Interview that he aimed to have the Full Scale Zuiun released in the summer.
On May 31st, 2017, the 1:1 Zuiun Project was revealed on the KC Staff Twitter to be unveiled and put on display at the Fuji-Q Amusement Park. The Zuiun would be unveiled on June 17th, 2017 and remain on display at the Amusement Park for all to see until July 30th, 2017.
As of June 9th, 2017, the 1:1 Scale Zuiun was shown through dev tweets revealing through a picture that the Full scale model plane was near completion and would be done in time for it's reveal on June 17th.
1:1 Scale Model Zuiun in it's near complete form
View of the 1:1 Model Zuiun's Wing
View of the 1:1 Zuiun's cockpit
The Unveiling of the Zuiun
On June 17th, 2017 at 11 AM JST. Four Seiyuu (Sarah Emi Bridcutt, Uchida Shuu, Tanibe Yumi, and Yuka Ootsuba) came up on stage to welcome everyone to the Fuji-Q Amusement Park and announced they would soon be revealing the park a new attraction but before hand they wanted to let thier big executives have a chance to have a word.
Shinichiro Inoue (The Head Executive of the KADOKAWA Corperations) and Osamu Iwata (Fuji-Q's Amusement park Representative Director) came up on stage and thanked everyone for coming and wished everyone a wonderful time as the amusement park and presented thier new attraction to the amusement park.
The sheets were then pulled off to reveal the 1:1 Zuiun showing it to the eyes of the public for the first time. Following the reveal, the Seiyuus annoucned that they would be having a live panel today for those who bought tickets and would also be back later to perform the Kanmusu Ondo Dance.
The Zuiun will now remain where it stands till July 30th, 2017.
People can view the Zuiun at any time if they bought tickets to the Fuji-Q Amusement Park and can have a memorial photo taken where they can stand next to the Zuiun for 1000 yen.
1:1 Zuiun Hidden under large white sheets
1:1 Zuiun Side view
Close up 1:1 Zuiun Cockpit
1:1 Zuiun Front view
1:1 Zuiun Close up of propeller
Fuji-Q Amusement Park Promotion
With the announcement of the Zuiun Festival appearing in Fuji-Q Amusement Park, it has been announced that a number of various things will be done both within the Amusement Park itself and outside of the amusement park to help promote the upcoming Zuiun Festival.
Currently, it has been noted that two rides within the Fuji-Q Amusement Park will be changed to have a new theme centered around KanColle and Zuiuns. These rides include a water car ride and a plane ride(the Tenteikomai) which will be redecorated for the occasion.
In addition, they will also be doing a collaboration promotion of KanColle and the Zuiun Festival via the Fujikyu Highland Express Line, a train line service that goes to the Fuji-Q Amusement Park.
Tickets to attend the Festival and have access to the see the Zuiun will cost 1500 yen which gives you access to the park + an attraction card.
There is also 5700 package which will give you access to the park + access to the Zuiun Festival + a Pin Badge.
Having a memorial picture of the 1:1 Scale Zuiun will cost 1000 yen.
Tickets to attend the special events at the Zuiun Festival are separate from the rest and are noted down in the event sections of this page.
It has been noted that during the Zuiun Festival, there will be a KanColle Stamp Collection that will take place were people will be able to collect stamps upon completing various things while at the Fuji-Q Amusement Park.
The Zuiun Festival will also have official merchandise available for sale. Pre-orders for Zuiun Festival Merchandise will begin on June 17th, 2017 and items will be available for purchase starting July 8th, 2017. These items will include among them the Zuiun Festival Happi Coat.
Fuji-Q Amusement Park Summary
As noted above, locations going towards the Fuji-Q Amusement Park have been completely revamped with banners and signed placed across the Japan area to promote the Zuiun Festival. But most notable is the Fujikyu Express Train Line which is completely branded and converted with a KanColle Theme. Kanmusu of various types cover the sides of the train and the inside of the train is completely covered with advertisements to the Fuji-Q Amusement Park promoting the Zuiun Festival.
The Park itself was also laid down with more promotional banners across near the entrance area where tickets were sold. Insides the park itself, Fuji-Q had gone through a KanColle theme make over in various locations parts of the park.
You could find 15 kanmusus stands scattered across the amusement park area saying various quoted lines from the game. The Fuji-Q Park Guide book had also been completely revamped with a KanColle theme that used these stands as guide to where the amusement park rides were at.
There were various stores that sold assorted KanColle merchandise (both official and unofficial items).
On the June 17th, June 18th and July 30th, the Seiyuu who attend the live event will also participate in the Kanmusu Ondo dance following the Live Event Panel. Participation is encouraged and the audience is allowed to dance in this participation. The Full version of the dance is shown off and everyone is allowed to join in. During the brakes between the songs they rallied the crowds but having them chant "Zuiun!" during the intermission segments. Once the dance session is completed the Seiyuu will leave the stage area.
In addition you had a chance to earn from prizes for doing various things within the park which included the following:
- Ride the TenTekoMai (A spinning areo dynamic plane ride) which has been reconverted with a Zuiun Theme. Completing that would net you a Hyuuga Card!
- Buy a Stamp book and complete a Stamp Collection of 15 stamps of various kanmusu scattered around the park. (This requires you to visit the rides in a particular order) Completing this would give you a Utility Fairy IC Card!
- Eating at one of the designated Food Cafeteria at Fuji-Q Amusement Park will reward you with a Akagi Clear File!
- Participating in the Kanmusu Ondo Dance will reward you with a free Mochi!
Most of the items will be shown through the pictures below as this section gets updated.
Close up of Zuiun Festival Banner which shows Zuikaku holding a Zuiun
Fujikyu Express Line with all of it's KanColle Decorations
Zuiun Festival Ads as shown inside the Fuji-Kyu Express Train
Zuiun Festival Ads as shown inside the Fuji-Kyu Express Train
Warspite Stand at the Tea Cup Amusement Ride
Akatsuki Stand at the Merry Go Round Amusement Ride
Akagi Stand at the Red Tower Amusement Ride
Battleship Princess Stand at the Ultimate Fortress 2 Ride
Yamato Stand at the Fujiyama Roller Coaster Ride
Fuji-Q Amusement Park Pamphlet redone in a KanColle theme
Inside of KanColle themed Fuji-Q Pamphlet
Backside of KanColle themed Fuji-Q Pamphlet
View of the Zuiun Themed Tenteikomai ride
View of the Zuiun Themed Tenteikomai ride
Water Ride with KanColle redesign featuring Iowa
Water Ride with KanColle redesign featuring Yuudachi
Large Renshouhou Figure at FujiYama Blue Cafeteria
Various KanColle Merchandise for Sale
Various KanColle Merchandise for Sale
Various Offcial KanColle Merchandise for Sale from Past Live Events
Outside of Stamp Book
Inside of Stamp Book (Stamped)
Hyuuga Card from completing the Tenteikomai ride
Akagi Clear file from the Fujiyama Blue Cafeteria
Utility Fairy IC Card Sticker earned by completing the stamp book
Live Event: "The Zuiun Festival begins!"
On June 17th, 2017, there will be a live event gathering called "The Zuiun Festival begins!".
The KanColle Devs' Twitter has noted that the 1:1 Scale Zuiun will be unveiled at this event to the audience for the first time.
During the event, there will be dancers performing the Kanmusu Ondo Dance prior to the reveal and there will be a total of 6 Seiyuu who will be attending the Zuiun Festival including:
Sarah Emi Bricutt: Voice of Suzuya, Kumano. Yuubari, ect.
Ootsuba Yuka: Voice of Ise, Hyuuga, Kitakami and Ooi
Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Shiratsuyu, Murasame, Yuudachi, Shigure, ect.
Uchida Shuu: Voice of Warspite
Hyasaka Kousuze: Voice of Oboro, Sazanami, Ushio, and Akebono
Kobayashi Motoko: Voice of Hatsuharu, Nenohi, Wakaba, and Hatsushimo
Hitomi Sasaki: Voice of Shimushu and Kunashiri
Tickets to partake in this event will cost 3900 yen and will require you to apply for a ticket and then present an ID at the ticket booth to purchase your ticket as a countermeasure to prevent reselling of tickets.
Doors to the Live Event will be Open at 12:30 JST and the Live Event begins at 13:30 JST.
Event Detail Summary
The Live Event began with a Taiko Drum ceremony which had 4 drummers cosplaying Mogami, Mikuma, Ise and Hyuuga performing on stage.
This followed up with the Seiyuu coming onto the stage to introduce themselves to the audience. Many of theme gave thier proper greeting while Sarah Emi Bridcutt did her famous Kumano War Cry, when she introduced herself on the stage. The Seiyuu then thanked everyone for attending the live event and wished them a wonderful time while they took a moment to explain about the Zuiun and the work that was put into the 1:1 Zuiun.
This would then be followed up with the Seiyuus playing a little game which they had to draw the best Zuiun they could create. They were divided up into 2 teams and the winning team was picked by the audience upon the conclusion of the drawing session. The Losing Team was forced to play a punishment game where they had to recite a Zuiun tongue twister 3 times. Which went as follows:
"Zuiun Zuiun Zuiun Zuihou, Zuiun Zuikaku Zuiun Zuiun, Zuikaku, Zuiun, Zuihou, Zuihou"
Follwing the completion of the game an intermission segment occured where 4 people dressed up as Kongou. Hiei, Kirishima, and Haruna. Came up on stage to performe KanColle music via brass instruments.
Following this, several notes regarding new game content as well as information regarding KanColle The Movie has been revealed today through Sarah Emi Bricutt.
- Yura Kai Ni is planned to appear soon. (Sarah Emi Bricutt misinformed everyone that it was Yuubari at first, but managed to correct it at the end of the live event.)
- A Mutsuki-Class Kai Ni has been announced to be in the works.
- KADOKAWA Head Executive, Shinichiro Inoue came out with a flyer and promoted that KanColle The Movie is set to be released on August 30st, 2017 and will contain bonus cut content within it.
Following this, the Seiyuu had closing discussion and before closing out the event, they performed the Kanmusu Ondo Dance on stage and encouraged everyone to head over to the 1:1 Zuiun area to join in as they would perform the dance there.
Live Event: "Zuiuns are Great, but so is Zuikaku"
On June 18th, 2017, there will be a second live event gathering called "Zuiuns are Great, but so is Zuikaku".
It has been noted that there will be 3 Seiyuu who will be present at this event, along with 3 others from the previous day totally to 6. The Seiyuu who will be attending include:
Iori Nomizu: Shoukaku and Zuikaku
Megumi Nakajima: Hatsuzuki, I-168, I-58, Mikuma, ect.
Komatsu Mana: Zuihou, Hamakaze, Urakaze, Tanikaze
Ootsubo Yuka: Voice of Ise, Hyuuga, Kitakami and Ooi
Sarah Emi Bricutt: Voice of Suzuya, Kumano. Yuubari, ect.
Uchida Shuu: Voice of Warspite
Like "The Zuiun Festival begins!" tickets to partake the event will be 3900 yen and will require you to apply for a ticket and then present an ID at the ticket booth to purchase your ticket as a countermeasure to prevent reselling of tickets.
Doors to the Live Event will be Open at 12:00 JST and the Live Event begins at 13:00 JST.
Event Summary Details
Iori Nomizu was the main host of this event panel according to reports, the event mainly did some of the same things that were done at yeserday's Live Event Fetival with the exception of three things:
The Musical Performance was done differently as they there was no Kongou-Class Musical Brass Instrument Quartet group. Instead Iori Nomizu sang her KanColle song "Two Cranes" from the KanColle Anime Vocal Soundtrack.
The drawing contest was now themed around Zuikaku, Seiyuus had to draw Zuikaku for today's theme.
The Seiyuu also revealed new details about the game's content that were different from yesterday's Live Event:
- Uchida Shuu is going to voice another new ship soon! However, she is unsure if said ship will be a British Royal Navy Ship.
- The Next Live Event will be called "Zuiun Yukata Festival", it will happen on July 8th!
- They announced that the upcoming Large Aircraft Carrier that will be getting a Kai Ni remodel will be from overseas!
Live Event: "Zuiun Yukata Festival"
On July 8th, 2017, there will be a third live event gathering called "Zuiun Yukata Festival".
During the event, there will be a total of 7 Seiyuu who will be attending the Zuiun Festival including:
Sarah Emi Bricutt: Voice of Suzuya, Kumano. Yuubari, ect.
Ootsubo Yuka: Voice of Ise, Hyuuga, Kitakami and Ooi
Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Shiratsuyu, Murasame, Yuudachi, Shigure, ect.
Hyasaka Kousuze: Voice of Oboro, Sazanami, Ushio, and Akebono
Iori Nomizu: Voice of Shoukaku, and Zuikaku
Yuki Yamada: Voice of Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi, and Sakawa
Miyagawa Wakana: Voice of Chiyoda, Chitose, Asashio, Arashio, ect.
Like the prior events, tickets to partake the event will be 3900 yen and will require you to apply for a ticket and then present an ID at the ticket booth to purchase your ticket as a countermeasure to prevent reselling of tickets.
Doors to the Live Event will be Open at 12:00 JST and the Live Event begins at 13:00 JST.
Event Summary Details
While most musical performances were similar to what was done in the prior events, the Seiyuu did some new skits centering around the theme of the Zuiun Festival and Tanabata.
The drawing contest was now themed around Yukatas, Seiyuus had to draw a kanmusu dress in a Yukata for today's theme.
The mosted noted reaction that came from people who attended the festival was the curry eating segment which Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Dressed as Yuubari) and Tanibe Yumi (dressed as Yura) performed thier voices roles as Yuubari and Yura that involved a (somewhat suggestive) conversation involving eating curry.
No KanColle related news was reported in today's live event.
Live Event: Mogami is going to do her best, and Hayasui also!
On July 9th, 2017, there will be a Fourth live event gathering called "Mogami is going to do her best, and Hayasui also!".
Currently a total of 7 Seiyuu are confirmed to be attending this event which include:
Sarah Emi Bricutt: Voice of Suzuya, Kumano. Yuubari, ect.
Ootsubo Yuka: Voice of Ise, Hyuuga, Kitakami and Ooi
Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Shiratsuyu, Murasame, Yuudachi, Shigure, ect.
Iori Nomizu: Voice of Shoukaku, and Zuikaku
Suzaki Aya: Voice of Mogami, Akatsuki, Inazuma, Ikazuchi and Hibiki
Yuki Yamada: Voice of Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi, and Sakawa
Komatsu Mana: Voice of Zuihou, Hamakaze, Urakaze, Tanikaze
Like the prior events, tickets to partake the event will be 3900 yen and will require you to apply for a ticket and then present an ID at the ticket booth to purchase your ticket as a countermeasure to prevent reselling of tickets.
Doors to the Live Event will be Open at 12:00 JST and the Live Event begins at 13:00 JST.
Event Summary Details
While most musical performances were similar to what was done in the prior events, the Seiyuu did some new skits centering around the theme of the Mogami and Hayasui.
Iori Nomizu came dressed up in a Hayasui track suit (with an Abukuma uniform underneath).
The drawing contest was now themed around Mogami and Hayasui, Seiyuus had to draw a those two for today's theme.
Seiyuus got to eat curry in today's skit much like yesterday, the theme of today's curry was JSDMF Curry and JSDMF Ise Curry. Seiyuus fed each other curry and Sarah Emi Bridcutt said she would "share some with Yura (Tanibe Yumi) later(a shout back to yesterday's skit)."
Iori Nomizu, Sarah Emi Bridcutt and Yuki Yamada performed Second Torpedo Squadron's Wake (vocal version) as today's musical performance.
No KanColle related news was reported in today's live event.
Live Event: Yamashiro, are you alright? Zuiun Festival Grand Finale
On July 30th, 2017, the final live event gathering called "Mogami is going to do her best, and Hayasui also!" will be held.
Currently a total of 7 Seiyuu are confirmed to be attending this event which include:
Saki Fujita: Voice of Akagi, Fusou and Yamashiro.
Yamada Yuki: Voice of Agano Noshiro, Yahagi and Sakawa
Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Shiratsuyu, Murasame, Yuudachi, Shigure, ect.
Uchida Shuu: Voice of Warspite
Ayaka Imamura: Voice of I-13 and I-14
Motoko Kobayashi: Voice of Nenohi and Hatsushimo
Shuto Yukita: Voice of Taiyou
Like the prior events, tickets to partake the event will be 3900 yen and will require you to apply for a ticket and then present an ID at the ticket booth to purchase your ticket as a countermeasure to prevent reselling of tickets.
Doors to the Live Event will be Open at 12:00 JST and the Live Event begins at 13:00 JST.
Event Summary Details
Details are unknown at this time, but will be revealed around the 30th of July.
Tourist Attraction Packages
As of June 28th, 2017 KanColle has announced that the Zuiun Festival will have a tourist package for travelers outside of the Japan area and was realased via the Japan Cool Travel Website.
While the package caters to foreign tourist travelers coming to the Japan area and the information on the site is in English and Chinese, access to the site's information is limited to mainly a small area around the SEA area outside of Japan.
As of current, it's been noted that Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan have access to this page.
Details on the site show tourist package offers for people that wish to travel to the Japan area that if you pay for in full will provide you with a convenient way of travel as well to the Fuji-Q amusement park as well as also provide meal offers and various goods in the process.
Some of these goods include tickets to the special stage live events, various merchandise which include the Zuiun Festival Happi Coat and so forth.
Zuiun Festival Tour package are only available for the 7th, 8th, and 30th of July in Japan.
Prices for tourist packages include a 1 Day tour package for 25,000 yen and a 2 day, 1 night tour package for 44,000 yen.
Tourist package is limited to 25 people for each group section.
More details regarding the Zuiun Festival Tourist package are avalaible here:
Links
Fuji-Q Amusement Park Site
Zuiun Festival Event from Fuji-Q's website
Ticket purchase information for Zuiun Festival
KanColle Doorblog report on Day 1's Zuiun Festival