#jun watanabe

8/15 - 7:00 am: Information about how to enter the secret event is posted to the Edword Records twitter. The secret event is split up into two parts and you get in by displaying the QR code you received if you were chosen (there were so many applicants they had to make getting tickets a lottery) Part 2 starts at 1:30 pm.

8/15 - 1:30 pm: Shouichi Taguchi, (aka sentimental vector), the artist who sang Kagerou Days in the Mekakucity Actors soundtrack, uploaded a piano arrangement cover of Kagerou Days to YouTube

8/15 - 1:50 pm: Attendees of the secret event start telling the internet that they’re not allowed to talk about what happened at the secret event on social media

8/15 - 2:15 pm: Kagerou Daze Day hits trending on Japanese twitter 

8/15 - 5:30 pm: Kagerou Project hits #1 on trending on tumblr.

8/15 - 6:30 pm: It’s announced on the Edword Records twitter that both parts of the secret event have ended.

8/15 - 6:30 pm: The Mekakucity Quest website is made public. It’s translated here. The game is an arg-kind-of puzzle game that you need to get a ticket and go to Enoshima to play. You get a mystery-solving kit use that and the LINE app to do various things and solve mysteries with the help of Kagepro characters to and get clear benefits. The story is that you’re a tourist of Enoshima and suddenly Ene pops up on your phone, asks for help, and disappears. Shintarou calls you and asks for your help in saving her. The event starts in September and goes until November.

8/15 - 6:30 pm: Jin announces that Kagerou Daze No. 9 will be screening in January 2020. He calls it a spin-off work for the first time, and says that it will be taking on a different angle than regular Kagerou Project stuff. In this tweet an image of a new Kagepro character is linked, and he credits sayuki for designing her. He thanks sayuki for bringing us a new character after such a long time. The image in question is below.

8/15 - 6:45 pm: It’s announced via the Edword Records twitter that there’s a huge poster of the new character in Nishihama beach, where they’re holding Mekakucity Seaside. The poster is just the one above but very slightly zoomed out and one other very minor difference

8/16 - 2:30 pm: Kagerou Project rapidly drops from trending on tumblr, moving from #1 place to not trending at all in minutes.

8/16 - 4:45 pm: Jin posts two drawings, thanking everyone for voting a lot for the Kagepro Song Popularity poll. The results are going to be announced in a manga which is in production at the time of the tweet. He also says "The gang is on a rampage now. Please wait a little more until the announcement!  The one who isn’t in the gang is also rampaging.” credit to @fuyuyuu for the translation of that tweet. The images on the tweet are shown below. Also the art style of these images looks completely new and I think we might have a new artist