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Old 2012-09-04, 03:48   Link #286
relentlessflame
 
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The new post on the official website outlines how they had intended for this whole thing to fit into the promotional plan for the show. According to the post, they had been intending to make a "call-back" to this whole situation, and announce (right after the show had finished airing) that Ichiki would actually be a surprise voice actor in the final arc (that won't air on regular TV) -- which he is, by the way. But, in spite of believing they had the cooperation of the all those involved, essentially the whole plan backfired because the fans didn't know what was really going on.

Also, the new announcement apologizes for the way the first announcement appeared to use the threat of going after people as a way of dodging the real issue, and this caused even more misunderstanding (as we saw in this thread).


If I'm understanding correctly, the insinuation here was that everyone involved knew that Ichiki was going to be part of the cast from the get-go (starting with the fourth arc), but they (including Ichiki) had to keep it a secret as part of the PR plan. Even some of the things Ichiki said would have been knowing that he really had a role, he just had to pretend he didn't and that he had no idea about the game they were playing -- when really he did. The previous responses (and the first company line) were a gross misjudgement of thinking they had to somehow stick to the PR plan (and this is why they got mad about the uploads, etc. -- it was ruining their plan), but then they realized that was even more stupid, and now just flat out spilled the whole plan because it's pointless to keep it a secret now.

More and more, this sounds like a case of "If anything can go wrong, it will."


Edit: Interesting to note that, unlike the last bulletin that was signed by "All Kokoro Connect Staff", this new bulletin was signed by the "Kokoro Connect Production Committee", which means the whole thing got escalated to the highest level of the chain now.

One more point they make in the middle of explaining the plan is that they explicitly told some of the people involved to deliberately "over-play" (over-act?) one of the "punishment game" acts, and they apologize for that.
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