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.
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.
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?