The good news about the NicoNico stream is that there was more than 60k people watching the stream which shows that the Japanese market is hyped for the OVA. Hopefully their enthusiasm translates into ticket purchases for the theatrical release. Unfortunately we didn’t get a new trailer. The stream began with the promotion of the light novel. Then the 4 seiyuu’s present gave a brief introduction for Basara as well as the 6 girls in his harem. The stream then turned into a glorified information session where they talked about the logistics of the theatrical release and promoted the “Ecstasy” BD box set along with the standalone BD release of the Departures OVA.
They pretty much showed off all of the different store specific bonuses without the “sample” tags and they also showed off some new ones. Generally speaking the seiyuu’s seemed to be enthused while they were promoting the different products. Towards the end of the stream, it devolved into seiyuu impromtu imouto role play. I totally understand why they added Yuki’s seiyuu to the event at the last minute. She really carried the stream at the end and showed off her range as a voice actress. Hopefully she isn’t too busy in March, because she would be great to the next live event.
After the stream, they also announced additional screening of the film between the 17th of February and the 2nd of March.
Shoutout to MKnRec over on discord for taking screen caps of the event.
