The doujinshi circles list was even shorter: Railgun doujinshi from alicemiller, the whole Touhou series of doujinshis from angelphobia, and everything from the god of flat chests, Kantoku (After school of the 5th year). From the industry booths, it was everything from TYPE-MOON (plus a few doubles for Strife212), a Shinobu plushie from GIFT (they sold out immediately), a Rensouhou-chan PVC figure from Aquamarine (surprisingly, they sold out of the standard version but had plenty of the exclusive version in stock), the Touhou and pixiv girls collection artbooks from Pixiv, and some ToHeart2 and White Album artbooks and tapestries from Aquaplus for thebobness (unfortunately all I was able to get was a Tama-nee-sama tapestry). My shopping list for Day 1 was pretty small. The day pretty much consisted of me, Tsukikira, and sorrowmoon rushing the industry booths to get first in line for TYPE-MOON’s booth, try to grab the rest of our industry booth shopping list items, then explore around the main East/West circle halls. It was actually a pretty light day for us as none of us were really interested in KanColle, but it was the most important for me cause 1) it was my first time at Comiket, and 2) TYPE-MOON booth. I was as ready as I could be (or so I thought xD)ĭay 1 of Comiket consisted mainly of 2 things: industry booths and KanColle ( Kantai Collection).
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This allowed me to go in prepared with printed-out-and-marked booth maps, prioritized shopping list, and a full battle plan. Luckily, I was going with two experienced friends who had gone the year before and registered a premium account on the Comike Web Catalog website. I’ve seen the Lucky Star Comiket episode as well as all of Genshiken, but it’s a totally different experience being there in person. I had previous done some basic collecting, mainly of TYPE-MOON stuff ( Bamboo Broom, Hiroyuki, and Crazy Clover Club), but I was never brave enough to go further til this trip. With Comiket being the main event of this trip, I decided that I’d venture into the world of doujinshis. My first trip to Japan was the start of my figure collecting, and my second trip was my initiation for Dollfie Dreams. This was my first time attending Comiket as well as my first time really being exposed to the world of Japanese doujin circles. All in all, Comiket is Japan’s biggest anime convention. Despite it’s grassroots as a fan-run event, there is also a section dedicated to industry booths (keep in mind that Japan has a very different take on copyright infringement than the western world) as well as dedicated areas for cosplayers to show off (in fact, you are not allowed to cosplay inside Tokyo Big Sight, though this rule isn’t strictly regulated). that produce doujin and/or original works but usually not associated with a commercial entity), most of which nowadays are 18+ doujinshis (doujin manga). While the main focus of the convention is the selling of doujin works (unlicensed, fan-made anime parody works) by doujin circles (group of artists/writers/etc.
It has in recent years been held at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba, with over half a million attendees every gathering. It is a 3-day event held bi-annually with Summer Comiket happening in mid August and Winter Comiket happening in late December. The calm before the storm: Waiting in line for Tokyo Big Sight to open it’s doors to Comiket 86 goers…įor those who aren’t familiar, Comiket (short for ”Comic Market”) is Japan’s oldest and largest doujinshi convention. Post Views: 29 See this post for the introduction.Īfter our last day of visiting Kyoto/Osaka, we took the shinkansen back to Tokyo and took a day break in preparation for the main event of the trip: Comiket 86.
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