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.
^
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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.