Once again the increasingly overpowering dominance Touhou worshippers and creepy fujoshi exert over Comiket is the subject of much discussion, thanks to the release of the latest circle numbers for the upcoming C81 – and so pronounced is their dominance that some are now calling for them to be forcibly hived off into their own events.
The circle statistics for Comiket 81:
Touhou: 2690
Tiger & Bunny: 1170
Hetalia: 1000
Sengoku Basara: 842
Vocaloid: 492
Prince of Tennis: 460
Reborn: 458
Gintama: 438
Blue Exorcist: 428
IdolMaster: 417
Inazuma Eleven: 398
Madoka: 350
Tomodachi ga Sukunai: 322
Nintama: 298
Arashi: 282
Durarara: 278
Lyrical Nanoha: 271
One Piece: 254
Naruto: 244
Magi: 227
K-ON!: 200
By now there is a certain amount of resignation about all this:
“Hardly any Hetalia…”
“They really ought to spin these off into their own events when they get to this scale. The way they use the venue is pretty wasteful.”
“With that many single work circles they really are more suited to having their own events.”
“I don’t think it’ll happen, Comiket has a lot of prestige for these circles.”
“Who’s to say how many are too many? Are Tiger & Bunny and Hetalia OK? If the organisers just decided your favourite needed to get lost and have its own event, you’d be pissed.”
“I think when one work totally dominates an entire hall it might be said to be too numerous. It has never been this pronounced, has it? Even compared to previous booms, there was never anything dominating the event like this.”
“1500 is the ceiling really. But Touhou has nearly twice that! They’re just too numerous.”
“Shouldn’t they just chase out the fujoshi? Is all men that bad?”
“Commoners associate Comiket with men buying ero-doujinshi, so it would be better just to ban male oriented ero.”
“Just chase out the Touhou maniacs and fujoshi and I’ll go.”
There do not appear to have been much in the way of management efforts to alter Comiket’s circle composition, so an eventual transformation into a 25% Touhou, 75% fujoshi event may yet be inevitable.
Hmm, maybe Touhou has the highest number of entries b/c it’s the most popular? Restricting the most popular section of Comiket from Comiket. I wonder how that will go?
Hetalia????????????? Seriously?
This is all basically the boys “hating those icky icky gurls! They’re smelly gurls! With cooties!”
And the gurls say: “Stoopit poopoo-heads with your poopoo-heads that shoot stoopit bullets at stupid things! Mom & dad say this is OUR convention too!”
Touhou is the only reason I would go to Comiket, if I could go to it at all.
I’m actually most surprised by Big Windup! has that many circles participating. All this time I thought fans of those series are ninja.