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Their fate rested with the original theatre audience: spectators voted by smartphone, changing the route the story would take. The live production called this combination of Votable, Variable and Voice-Drama “real-time V3 drama.” With a different cast on each performance date, the four-act sudden-death mystery-comedy demanded attention from beginning to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Blu-ray edition preserves the daytime and evening performances from both January 30 and February 6, 2022, together with an after-show talk for each performance. 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The customers and newly employed bartender are portrayed by different combinations of actors at each performance, changing not only the cast but also the characters’ personalities, relationships and the course of the story. Enjoy four curious tales that are more than simply frightening, each unfolding along a slightly different world line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a corner of Ikebukuro stands the suspiciously atmospheric Bar Night Owl, an unusual gathering place for customers who know the neighbourhood’s frightening and mysterious stories. Sometimes called a blind spot of the gods, it is where tales are told of a woman who always stares at the same point, a figurine that returns to its owner however many times it is sold, and the meeting of two customers, Narumi and Machidori, brought together by mysterious fate. Tonight, more uncanny episodes from Ikebukuro are shared, to the delight of the bar’s master, who enjoys listening to his guests’ ghost stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis release brings together the afternoon and evening performances of July 24 and 25, 2021, together with their after-talks. 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A cast of accomplished voice actors brings this audience-participation format to life: during the live performances, the audience’s choices changed the route taken by the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe setting is an extraordinarily cramped, completely sealed spherical room. Four detectives from the City of a Million Detectives—Shigemura, Mochida, Hino and Nagare—find themselves trapped inside. Each eccentric detective has a secret, and their fates are placed in the audience’s hands. Casting changes from one performance day to the next, while audience choices steer this tightly confined situation comedy through four acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the daytime and evening performances from both May 15 and May 16, 2021, each accompanied by its after-talk. 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