Comiket 76, this summer’s August event of the twice annual otaku mega-convention in Ariake has broken its already massive attendance records on its first day, with a reported figure of 180,000 attendees, on a blisteringly hot August 14, topping last year’s C74 by 10,000.
Comiket has long been famed for its absurdly crowded conditions, multi-hour queues and the endless throngs of people whose otaku devotion allows them to put up with these unsavory conditions, so a new one-day attendance record is none too surprising.
Conservative estimates put the expected number of attendees at this Natsucon (Summer Comiket) as at least 500,000 attendees, although that number may well be exceeded given the obvious wave of attendees witnessed yesterday.
Ero “H” content is of course present in some level on all three days at the Comiket, but Day 3 (Sunday, August 16) is the main day for H and historically draws a significantly bigger crowd than Day 1, so it is likely we will see C76 break its attendance record yet again later this weekend.
Via Yahoo Japan.
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Summer means more sweat and after ramming through all these obstacles in getting your favorites in NatsuComi I think it is very refresing on taking a bath , drinking beer and checking and reading all the goods you have purchased that made a big hole in your wallet :3
sounds so fucking win...
perfect summer holiday outing for otakus? :3
Lots of diseases will be spreaded throughout the mass,,,
That's why I prefered to be a hikkikomori
Have someone in the crowd yell out . The results would be fun to watch...
Have someone in the crowd yell out SARIN GAS that is...
yell out T-virous
Biggest event where 1000's of losers with drawn girlfriends gather together in one place.
My friend attends comiket. He cosplays. :)
Does he cosplay Faye Valentine?
That's a lot.....
T_T
I would love to go to comiket but I wonder if the experience will be ruined by such huge crowds.
its a war man. you hesitate you die (miss out on the collectables)
i wanna go! :3
The Attendees are over 9000!
actualy it's over 90000!
lol, someone just had to say it.
yeah, i thought konata's description of comiket in lucky star was pretty dead on.
wow,it makes San Diego Con looks like a playhouse.
the queues was nasty to be in, i waited for 3 hours before getting in and i missed out on stuff i wanted, i had everything planned :(
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
waow
there's very crowded
i want to go there too...T.T
Damn, this is like a Mexico City subway station at rush hour. And I thought Guadalajara's International Book Fair, which is around the 200,000 over a week, was big enough D:
So what'll they do if they have to move out of Tokyo because of Ishihara? Make it a four-day event?
How do you know where the lines are? o-O
despite the crowd
simca wants to go there too ;n;
uwaa~
Ahh it's events like these that are close to rape but not being illegal!
Clusterfuck FTW!
nuke it with fire!
Stupid otakus with nothing better to do
Wonder how many Americans attend on that first day...
I don't even want to think about the smell
Commie Kit? o.O
Yes .. you'll be given an autographed copy of one of Karl Marx works and a free ticket to China
Lol, nice one, buddy!
...except that no regimes in this mortal realm can attain to the level of true communism, because men are greedy in nature. The so-called "communist" countries just misquote/misinterpret the idea for their own agendas.
^
^
Not exactly. The concept of self does not exist in true communism. People can be exploited for the good of the whole community, but not for the benefit of a single person. Even if they are being exploited, they are willing sacrifices for greater goods. Close examples in nature would be eusocial animals like bees and ants.
@Anonymous: In the 2D world of Comiket, time does not flow as it does in the 3D world. Thus, Karl Marx could be very much alive, be floating around in a time bubble or vice versa.
any 1 herd of orignal sin , in reality its the fact that ppl want (want is the first step to greed) things but comunism completly ignors that and trys to opose it wich is why it wont work
@neus: Marx has been dead for many years now. If the the autograph was _truly_ by Karl M., then that set of books would be worth a lot as rare/historical items.
@Robert Woodward: I saw it best phrased:
"Under capitalism, Man exploits Man.
Under communism, the reverse is true."
so many bakas
So many weeaboos...
So many... Whoa... what a mess.
I'd like to be there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJO3WbD3MuE
Looks like to me??? (=_=);
i think girls shouldn't go there, 'cause they can become pregnant when they leave.
Failed sex ed class, didn't you?
He's well versed in rape, that's all
there will be tons of cute girls cosplaying!
sadly in our country we only have wow-wow wee and eat bulaga...sigh~
i agree. too bad for us huh?
yeah. hahahahaha. and anime events rarely happen in our country. T_T
I can't see Konata... =w=
These images reminds me of that one episode of Lucky*Star, when Konata took Kagami and Tsukasa along to Comiket :3
lol
same
i no , it realy is as big as it claims in lucky star
I could only find those on short notice for the post - they don't work very well at displaying the true size of the crowds at Comiket...
I dunno the first and second images are pretty good. Every square inch of floor is cover with people.
I always thought I might want to check one of these conventions out if I ever head to Japan for a holiday... Now... Well there would be another news story about some Gaijin going postal and killing a bunch of Okatu before the police managed to shoot him. Thinking about it, the final comment form the reporter would be: Gaijin, good for something after all. Who knew? :P
Thus giving a new phobia and mental trauma to Tsukasa.. :3
Yes, and i was kinda expecting them to rename the event to 'Tohouket' by now :3
patience the time will soon come
That'd be Reitaisai though. Touhou is certainly the most popular series at Comiket but it still doesn't overwhelm it yet.
Meh. The only time otaku in japan leave the house.
You mean ani obessed hikikomori ^^
Otakus need to get out often, to get money for the figurines and all the dvds xD
i bet people got groped, pickpocketed, and shanked
man!!! head full, the world otaku °O°
the ban is making people but even more H it seems.
"i bet people got groped, pickpocketed, and shanked"
Pickpocketing and shanking are rare in Japan. (of course, otaku might shank someone to get at the last collector item that is being given out, but that's understandable) :)
And groping is unlikely due to the fact that there are man, many more men than women at this event.
"Oh, this butt I'm groaping is kind of hairy. "
"Yeah, so is this boob over here..."
:)
More men than woman = gangbang
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Actually it is more women. Slightly in attendance, more notably in participating circles. Their official website has a guidebook with demographic breakdown in it.
fujoshi and otaku are so win.
There are lots and lot and LOTS of fujoshi at comiket.
While male otaku are generaly belived to be in slight majority (no hard evidence for this tough), the female ones are both evidently more social and more creative, which is evident at event such as this.
Hah!! Got pickpocketed a while ago.
And you're bragging about it? O_O
More like a sarcasm to those crowds in the picture.
I'd love to go there to grope, buy tons of doujinshi,
pickpocket and buy even more doujinshi.
I was wanting to go next year, but, this is insane. I think I will skip Comiket.
I now fear for my life when I attend Comiket 77 at the end of the year,,, (^.^;)
be careful, you might faint. Try a beachbody.com exercise regimen first.
At least it's not as boring as a pilgrimage to Mecca.
+1
i'd do the same too just for rare doujins and art.
A pilgrimage to Mecca isn't boring for us moslems ^^; The only thing i complained is the hot weather.
well, at least prayers said in front of the Kaaba are said to be most likely granted.
"(facing Kaaba)Almighty God, please make Ui mai waifu~"
huh lol anime/ manga doujin = not halal ??
It is halal, as long as it doesn't have ecchi or hentai material in it.
NAd the pilgrimage to Mecca is sure is hot. And the night is real cold too, or so is my parents said.
can't see sweat captain
Does anyone know what draws most of peoples attention to comiket or the most sold stuff there?
Porn........ for further referance watch or read Genshiken.
watched it but then they just could wait for the second or thrid day and what does people buy at the first day?
and if it's as you said which circles the most known and how much do they sell, could someone who has been there once give an answear?
just a heads up: most times people can't buy everything on the first day if they're not lucky. In fact my friend had a frigging shopping list to keep track of what he needed to buy so he doesn't forget anything. That's why they have so many days to go around every stall you want so you don't need to have ALL 500,000 people coming on the SAME DAY and instead average out to a nice 100k+(maybe? never remembered the numbers) people on each day.
^
Good fella, do you know if a second hand market of the merchandises exists and how much do they fetch for? Would I be able to make a profit? If everything goes well I am gonna quit my shit job and become a full-time Comiket dealer.
Non hentai-Doujins lots and lots.
the ecchi stuff is all on the 3rd day.
Line-Con 2K9
"Day 3 (Sunday, August 16) is the main day for H and historically draws a significantly bigger crowd than Day 1"
WIN~!
so many ants
i feel like i want to step them
It's not as if all otaku's are males =_= it's just because of the fact that men are more adventurous and seek more to life than women ever will >........< lolz
I stand by my opinion that women are boring =_= lolz
says the person who is probly curently playing a dateing sim
quick america,
you know exactly the ideal place to aim another A-bomb now
wrong , we will bomb every square inch of japan except there bcuz then we wouldnt be able to watch any mor haruhi + otaku would easly be harnesed by giving them more anime they will build nerv under dc
Gropefest D:
Oh, I loved waiting in line for 2-3 hours and listening to fellow otaku talking about random crap.