Zuiun Festival at Yomiuri Land
Introduction
The 2nd Zuiun Festival (Zuiun Festival in Yomiuri Land) is a planned KanColle Live Event that is scheduled to take place at the Yomiuri Land Amusement Park. The Festival is scheduled to begin on April 21st, 2018 and will last till May 27th, 2018. Tickets to the Special Live Event, which is scheduled to take place from April 21st-22nd, 2018, will be sold from April 4th, 2018 onwards. The 1:1 Scale Model Zuiun will be on display again at the Amusement Park along with the new 1:20 scale replica of the Battleship Hyuuga. For details of the last Zuiun Festival, please see the Zuiun Festival at Fuji-Q page.
This page will be updated with details of both real-life events taking place during the Zuiun Festival itself, as well as with any information on upcoming events or game updates revealed during this event.
The 1:1 Zuiun and the 1:20 Scale Hyuuga Model
On April 1st, 2018 the KanColle Dev Twitter announced series of plans being released for the new year while included bring back the Zuiun Festival in the Spring Time, noting that this time it would be held at Yomiuri Land Amusement Park. In addition to this, it was also announced that there would be a 1:20 Scale mode of a replica of the Battleship Hyuuga that will be placed on display as well.
According to Kensuke Tanaka in the May Comptiq 2018 Magazine Interview, their plan is to have to the Zuiun displayed over water this time around suggesting that thier plan will be to showcase the Zuiun in the Aqua Zone of Yomiuri Land which is most of the Water Amusement Park rides are at.
On April 20th, 2018 following the closing of the park, the '1:1 Zuiun and the 1:20 Hyuuga models were placed up in the park in the Aqua zone's artificial lake where they will make thier debut and be displayed for the Zuiun Festiva.
On April 21st, 2018, following a few hours after the Park opened, the Aqua Zone area was open for people to come into which is when they would come to the park's main attraction, the 1:1 Zuiun Model and the 1:20 Battleship Hyuuga Model. Both attractions were placed in an small artificial pond in which the could be seen from all angles. This place would also double as the zone where the Seiyuu would partake in the Kanmusu Ondo Dance later on in the afternoon as well. Below here are some photos from the area:
Yomiuri Land Amusement Park Promotion Attractions
Yomiuri Land has set up all of it's locations and have highlighted all the updates and locations where the stamp rally and major rides related to the Zuiun Festival as well as the models will be on on the map. Which can be viewed on the right side.
Within the Park, there were a series of attraction that were set up to allow people who attended the park to do various activities even if they did not have tickets to the live event. These activites gave people numberous ways to earn other special goodies if they performed various things:
Stamp Rally
In Yoriumi Land Amusement Park, people who attended could partake in a stamp rally where they could go all over the park and reach an area where a stamp was located at. From there they could stamp thier book, once they completed the entire stamp book would recive a reward which ranged from either 1 of 6 Kanmusu Badges Gambier Bay, Kinugasa, Fujinami, Hamanami, Okinami or a Zuiun) or a Ise or Hyuuga Fairy Sticker for completing the objectve.
Gambier Bay Badge
Offical Zuiun Festival Merchandise Shop
The Zuiun Festival had a venue reserved for people to purchase a large variety of official KanColle merchandise. Some of these merchandise included the Zuiun Festival Happi Coat, The Tsukiyomi Soundtrack (+ 4 Vocal Soundtrack version), various Zuiun related merchandise, the Chinkufu: Sasebo Naval Base book and the a large variety of T-shirts which could be purchased while supplies last.
Tsuikiyomi CD Cover
Tsuikiyomi CD Cover (back)
Zuiun Festival Yura T-shirt
Zuiun Festival Noshiro T-shirt
Zuiun Festival Black T-shirts with sillouetes of Gambier Bay and Sado and Tsushima
Food Base Resurant Collaborations
There were several restaurants that participated in collaborating with the Zuiun Festival allowing for people to go an try some unique food items there which included but were not limited to:
- Zuiun Curry
- Zuiun Milkshake
- Abyssal Aircraft Takoyaki (Black and White Version)
- Ashigara's Cutlet Curry
- Agano's Shrimpless fired rice Onigiri
- And much more....
Eating at these restaurants and purchasing the special item rewarded you with various items ranging from clear fies, sticks and other items.
Park Based Collaborations
The Zuiun Festival had a large amount of attractions, stands ,water floats, and other items across the park redesign with some KanColle themed material placed on them below is a collection of a good majority of the attractions designs that were found across the park:
Mogami Stand
Mikuma Stand
Hyuuga Stand
Bungee Jump ride with Haruna Airbag cushion
Hayasui Stand
Tsushima Stand
Sado Stand
Akagi banner on amusement park attraction
Gambier Bay Stand
Escort Water Princess Stand
Zuiun Festival in Yomiuri Land
Special Live Event: "Second Zuiun Festival, huh? Well, yeah... I expected that"
On April 21th, 2017, at 12:00 JST there will be a live event gathering called "Second Zuiun Festival, huh? Well, yeah... I expected that" (a reference to one of Hyuuga's voice lines).
6 Seiyuu are expected to be present at this event, including the following:
- Ootsuba Yuka:: Voice of Ise, Hyuuga, Kitakami, Ooi, Daitou, and Hiburi
- Saki Fujita:: Voice of Akagi, Fusou, Yamashiro, Suzutsuki, etc.
- Iori Nomizu: Voice of Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Abukuma, Kinu etc.
- Yuki Yamada: Voice of Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi and Sakawa
- Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Yuudachi, Shigure, Commandant Teste, Hamanami, etc.
- Uchida Shu: Voice of Warspite, Ark Royal and Gambier Bay
Live Event Overview
When the show began, each of the Seiyuus introduced themselves to the audience while also using thier Kanmusu voice lines. Saki Fujita was cosplaying as Akagi, Iori Nomizu cosplayed as Zuikaku and Uchida Shu cosplayed Warspite.
During the show the Seiyuus performed the usual greeting and welcomed everyone to the Zuiun Festival. Following after some introductions and a comical line coming from Uchida Shu asking if we can have a Swordfish Festival, the seiyuus began thier "Drawing contest" where they competed against one another to see who could draw the best.
The following drawing battles took place:
- Tanibe Yumi vs Uchida Shu (Shu won)
- Iori Nomizu vs Yuki Yamada (Draw)
- Saki Fujita vs Ootsuba Yuka (Ootsuba won)
Following the draw battle, several stage hand brought in a sealion into the stage which the Seiyuus interacted with while also promoting that there is a Sealion show that takes place in Yomiuri Land that they can go check out if they wish.
After this, began the KanColle musical session in which several Kongou-class cosplayes came out on stage and played various KanColle songs via Violin.
Afterwards the Seiyuus came back on stage and got to eat various food that were a part of the Zuiun's Festival's attraction which they talked about and mentioned to the audience to look into getting if possible. They also tried to determine which food tasted the best in the process.
Following this the Seiyuus performed the Kanmusu Ondo dance on stage and told everyone they would be doing the dance at the Zuiun later on that day before one of the Seiyuus then performed a KanColle song.
Afterwards, the Seiyuus said thier thank yous and left the stage ending the performance.
Special thanks to Sirprize for being able to get the tickets and being able to report back to us about the live event.
Special Live Event: "Zuiun Festival is excellent too"
On April 21th, 2017, at 16:30 JST there will be a second live event gathering called "Zuiun Festival is excellent too" (a reference to one of Akagi's voice lines).
6 Seiyuu are expected to be present at this event, including the following:
- Ootsuba Yuka:: Voice of Ise, Hyuuga, Kitakami, Ooi, Daitou, and Hiburi
- Saki Fujita:: Voice of Akagi, Fusou, Yamashiro, Suzutsuki, etc.
- Iori Nomizu: Voice of Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Abukuma, Kinu etc.
- Yuki Yamada: Voice of Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi and Sakawa
- Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Yuudachi, Shigure, Commandant Teste, Hamanami, etc.
- Uchida Shu: Voice of Warspite, Ark Royal and Gambier Bay
Live Event Overview
The Live Event was on the most part simlar to the first one as Seiyuu did most of the smilar things they did at the last live event however, Saki Fujita dropped the bomb by announcing that for this Spring, there would not be an Event area map. However, in place of the Event map, we wll be given a mini-event that will take place in the normal map waters.
More details are to be announced about this come in tomorrow's live event.
Special Live Event: "Zuiun Festival, Kumarinko!"
On April 22th, 2017, at 14:00 JST there will be the third live event gathering called "Zuiun Festival, Kumarinko!" (a reference to one of Mikuma's voice lines).
6 Seiyuu are expected to be present at this event, including the following:
- Megumi Nagajima:: Voice of I-168, I-58, Kinugasa and Mikuma
- Saki Fujita:: Voice of Akagi, Fusou, Yamashiro, Suzutsuki, etc.
- Iori Nomizu: Voice of Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Abukuma, Kinu etc.
- Yuki Yamada: Voice of Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi and Sakawa
- Tanibe Yumi: Voice of Yuudachi, Shigure, Commandant Teste, Hamanami, etc.
- Uchida Shu: Voice of Warspite, Ark Royal and Gambier Bay
Live Event Overview
Announcements & Expected Updates
With the information revealed in the 2nd Live event show, it is clear the Spring will be without a proper event, but will have a mini-event that will take it's place. What this entails and when it'll happen along with possibly more will be revealed tomorrow.