As expected, Comiket 76’s final Day 3 surpassed Day 1’s record-breaking number of attendees, bringing in over 200,000 pilgrims who braved the sweltering summer heat to come to the semiannual otaku Mecca for the event’s most ero-heavy day.
This means the reported figure for total C76 attendance over its three days is a whopping 560,000 (roughly 4.5% of the population of Tokyo, the world’s most populous metropolitan area), beating last year’s summer Comiket 74’s piddling 550,000.
Day 3, the event’s most attended and well-known, is often known as the “H” or “ero” day, being the date when the male-oriented 18+ ero doujinshi products are most concentrated.
Over 11,000 different doujinshi circles were in attendance on Day 3, not counting the many professional illustrators and company booths that normally remain open all three days.
Via Mainichi.
As an example of how much pull the lure of a near endless cornucopia of glorious ero had, here is a comparison image of the lines stretching around one remote corner of the large Big Sight complex:
(Day 1 on top)
A less enhanced photograph, this time of the interior:
The Fuyucon, this Winter’s Comiket 77, is scheduled for December 29 – 31 and will likely pull in a slightly smaller number of attendees, but at least will provide some comfort from the legendarily brutal summer heat of the Natsucon.
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Koukaku no Pandora Cuter Still
Lively Nozomi Tojo Figure
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round x Tatsunoko
One Piece: Burning Blood Busting It Up
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Atelier Shallie Plus “Ayesha Returns!”
Gate “Endlessly Tragic…”
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Cooking Mishap Asuna Figure
Umaru Ero-Cosplay by Asami Hamsterific
Goddess of 2ch: “Pink & Soft All The Way!”
Kuroneko Cosplay by Mikehouse Full of Life
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The crowd should have occupied the adjacent river/bay too. ^_^
Suddenly otaku, thousands of them.
haha epic, unlike Singapore's toys and comic convention :P
+1
Wow wow wow, people wherever you look!! :DD
LOL@shop
All of those otakus are in outside waiting in line for the "Biri Biri" dakimakura!
easy to sapot if it is photoshop'd look at the van ._.
.... I don't know about you guys, but I believe the comparison pictures are photoshoped. If you observed carefully, you will notice the same train, bus, cars etc in the same position..... (-_-)
Real genius ....... At first, I almost believe it until I notice the similarity......
What do you all think?
They're like Ants on an anthill
Otaku everywhere!
The line extended back a few blocks and had to be split up in several directions. Even though the comparison picture is a shop the angle wouldn't have captured the full line of people anyway.
That isn't even mentioning the people lining up at the station for ages just to get there either, especially with the giant Gundam being in the same general direction. XD
On the last day I think I got the prize of my collection: a crappy manga/info booklet about Xenu by Anonymous.
Also, they had Cthulhu fanfics in the tentacle section.
Okay...maybe I'll reconsider trying to go to Comiket one day.
別にエロだから人が多かったわけじゃないだろｊｋ
If someone dropped a bomb there it'll be called the BLACK SPOT. Survivors will become NEEDLESS of ecchi material.
I'm just speechless. O_O
Well now I know what my friend meant by "hell" when he was there lol...
Oh man...so many people...so close together on a hot day, hunting for wondrous doujin...
Such is the power of porn.
ero Stamped
Damn....
that's all people???
Wow @ people on roof... the heat must be killing them lmao. I've waited in line at most 1 hour 15 minutes for something anime related and I went crazy in the heat... But something for that I don't think I would survive >.>
It's a photoshop.
Or else that same truck was constantly drivign by when the two pictures were taken. :)
Oh crap didn't notice that ... lmao was too busy looking on the roof ><
just failed "spot the difference game"
They could at least change the clouds
Ah!Kuma-chan...
Wo ist der Schlumpf ? NAAAAA ? Wo ist der Schlumpf ? Blau Blau . SCHLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFEN.
You sure this isn't photoshopped?
Look at the clouds, the traffic, and the pedestrians. Surely it couldn't be exactly the same on day 3 as it was on day 1.
lol it is obviously Photoshop, as a graphic artist it's easy to identify w/c is w/c since that's what we do.
I must've not been paying enough attention and mistook that image for one of Mainichi's in my folder.
Let me see about putting up a non Photoshopped image into the post then...
Come on people!! A shit-load oh otakus rampaging on the roff top and door-way of the convention center! HAHAHA!!!!
That pic has EPICNESS written all over it!!!
Why did so many people come out to watch a cartoon? I have cartoons on TV. I just don't understand this. So maybe it should be banned? ...I'm just saying.
Ugh, there's a difference between cartoons and animes, in cartoon, there's no sex/rape/blood/violence/psychopathy/maniac-overload involved , and that's what w/in anime boundary. Now tell that to your cartoon Disney, CN and Nickelodeon if they ever want such huge number of fans too.
With the exception of explicit sexual acts or rape, I've seen everything else on your list in mainstream American cartoons.
was thinking the same thing....
Actually there are many gore cartoons existing, that include rape, sex and violence too but they are mainly those who love using parodies.
OBSESSION MOTHER FUCKER. DO YOU KNOW IT?
*joke*
Third day's gonna be fapstastic.
and i thought there were alot of people at Anime EXPO
WISH THOSE WOULD GET THAT BIG
I also thought AX was large, but after finally saving the money, and attending this most recent AX, my next goal is to save the money for Comiket...
Airfare from Georgia to Cali are expensive, im dreading the Geargia to Japan Airfare......................
- Coolham23 -
lulz. Airline from Georgia to cali is expensive?
Japan may be unreachable for you =(
ERO-POWUH
Holy F-ing Shit!
Row row rock da powuh!!
how many sexual harassments got away today?
I wanted to be 561,000.
561,000??! there are 1,000 of "you"?! maybe you meant you wanted to be the 560,001 .. anyway 560k would probably be errr exaggerated since the photos are Obviously photoshopped
photoshopped, clouds didnt move
Well spotted. Train, cars and random pedestrian too (though I think one could have guessed anyways based on the fact that staff might have a problem with a giant group of people standing around on top of the awning over the door).
Amazing... So many people crammed into a building.
So if I had been there, the people there should be 560,001 right?
There is a possibility I might start watching soul eater but I'm not sure with all the negative comments on the web, and I don't want to spoil the series by reading about it.
Does anyone recommend me to watch the series or will it be a waste of time?
Thanks... Makes me feel a bit better to have something to watch
Watch it until the anime splits from the manga, which would be somewhere in the late 20s. From there, read the manga.
Death City Robo isn't worth missing out on Maka VS Arachne.
dude, watch soul eater. it is a good series. there are some slow eps.. but they were annoying when waiting week after week.. if you watch one after another in quick fashion, its not bad.