Comiket 83 Trashed “By Dirty Foreigners”

The manners of Comiket 83 attendees have been coming under fire after photographs of their “vast piles” of garbage were circulated online, with many seemingly keen to blame it on the barbarous habits of foreigners – although non-Japanese could be forgiven for complaining about a certain amount of overreaction as well…

Non-Japanese are in any case probably more likely to be astonished at how little rubbish the passage of some 170,000 people left – but by Japanese standards (which are, despite public spaces being almost uniformly devoid of bins, usually fairly immaculate – with the possible exception of cigarette butts) this apparently qualifies as a “Chinese” level of trash:

“Come on attendees! What is with this level of garbage!”

“It never used to be like this, there was never any trash. But in recent years…”

“We’re becoming more and more like the Chinese.”

“They’re as bad as train spotters.”

“The first day is nothing but pigs and fujoshi, can’t be helped.”

“If you don’t clean up your acts you’ll get the event cancelled!”

“The people who left all this garbage weren’t otaku, they were just groups of resellers and Chinese.”

“This isn’t some Korean city slum! Japanese should clean up their mess!”

“We’re not quite at the Korean level yet. It’s only ethnic Koreans who’d do a thing like that.”

“This was just because of the foreigners.”

“Right, the dirty Koreans were probably behind it, not us Japanese.”

“Get the police in to clear out the kids and illegal foreigners and it will improve.”

“Even if only 1% do it, at this scale that is thousands of people. It’s an international event, so there are Koreans and Chinese here as well, they can’t keep races with no manners out completely so it gets like this.”

“Lately idiots and foreigners really have increased.”

“Deal with your garbage people! If you can’t manage basic manners you shouldn’t come to Comiket!”

“Japanese are pretty uncouth as well.”

“Blame it on the mainstream attendees who come now.”

“This is what you’d expect from creepy otaku.”

“It is getting worse in recent years. Take it home or take it to the bins at a convenience store if you have to.”

“What can you expect from Japanese!”

“Events like this should be cancelled!”

“What, did you people somehow think otaku were better than other people?”

“I’m not defending this but you have to expect this from big crowds.”

“You people bring up Chinese and Koreans for something like this, but it happens all the time here too so what are you on about?”

“Actually I think there wasn’t too much considering how many people there were.”

“You think otaku are bad? Haven’t you ever seen the aftermath of hanami or a BBQ, with commoners?”

“Well, this isn’t bad compared to those events. But what I’m saying is it has got worse recently.”