With the passage of only a single day, one particular artist selling his work at Comiket 95 has been informed that his doujinshi has already shown up on auction sites by buyers looking to turn a profit.
The artist in question (believed to be Trigger animation producer Masato Takeuchi, who worked on the anime) created a doujinshi for SSSS.Gridman – some sexy sample pages:
One individual, however, found out that Takeuchi’s work was being resold online by buyers, with bids going as high as 円22,500 ($204):
Such a fate is quite inevitable for doujin artists, though the producer’s reputation may have had a hand in gaining him some unwanted attention in this regard.
Nothing new, those disgusting art traffic pigs have been doing this since eons.
Resellers are the reason many fans can’t buy the stuff they want, but the suckers buying from them also share part of the blame. I will never buy from a reseller no matter how much I wanted the item/ticket/whatever, and not because of the outrageous prices, but because the whole reselling business is cancer. Only thing I ever buy used are old eroge and similar that have been out of print for years and can no longer be purchased new.
Hope these buyers get scammed by some guy selling them printed versions of some (illegally downloaded) scan of the doujinshi.
Yeah if the dear artists would care about their fans, they would simply made it available on other sales.
But they don’t, as they ain’t care…
You’re pretty stupid to assume they don’t care. Have you tried selling anything internationally?
What this article forgot to mention is that the company announced on the next day that at least the “AAAA” (featuring Akane on the cover) book will be mass-produced and available for online ordering from the official site in the future.
This has caused the reseller prices for that book to crash and the suckers who rushed to buy them at the 10~20k prices to become the laughing stock of the fanbase.
These resellers allow distant fans to have a chance at buying the merchandise. Mandarake always got a ton of stuff after each Comiket too. I have been buying the merch like this for years… Nobodys really getting fucked over and plenty of these resellers collect and keep one copy for themselves. Ill gladly pay some mark up for the chance at buying these goods at all. Also news flash, the resellers are the only reason everything sells out every year with such ease. Believe it or not its not a legion of beloved otaku who want to buy every last damn item in that place. Its the resellers you can thank for it even being a large merch event at all.
I’m fine with some service to sell stuff for those who can’t attend; there’s many retailers that specialize in doujinshi and they don’t try to make a 2000% profit. But they should approach the artists and offer to list their stuff, rather than invade the event forcing fans to queue for hours only to find everything sold out.
And yes, I see no problem with stuff not being sold out at the event. Comiket is for fans to meet the creators, cosplayers, etc. and have fun while shopping. Ideally, there would be no resellers, you wouldn’t find everything popular to be sold out after queueing for 5 hours since the early morning, and the leftovers of the day will go to retailers who sell them online at reasonable prices for fans who couldn’t attend.
This is pretty much it. But plz, you should let the sankaku casuals squabble amongst themselves and not let them know of real otaku sites. If they want the knowledge, let them find out by themselves elsewhere. But now that you mentioned mandarake, I hope they struggle with the 18+ payment hurdle loop without paypal. *trying not to laugh*
No point in even going: the entire lineup (that’s including ‘unique’ pieces) can be found online.
Save yourself the trip and avoid the stinky neckbeards and buck toothed cosplayers.
Stupid post thinking all pieces come online. There are bunch of limited or one time printing there.
Buying prices of many high quality unique pieces are really high in large reseller because they cannot be acquired anymore neither store or online.
No one asked you to go there anyways, i bet your friends think you are fun
Hello, Reddit.
They say you couldn’t make or sell doujinshi, unless you’re from the company itself. Smh.
You gotta wonder just how many there are company shills. Feels like a trade show as opposed to anything genuine.
well no fucking s♥♥t. thats what happens when you have a product that people want and only sell it physically for 3 days in the biggest cluster f♥♥k of humanity in japan.
f♥♥k lol. These bastards should not be ever admitted to the Comiket.
It would be impossible to find and stop them in the crowd of attendees. A better solution would be for more circles to sell their stuff through official doujinshi shops (e.g. Toranoana) after Comiket. No one will pay 20k yen for something they can get faster and cheaper from a reputable retailer. The lack of profit will drive the reselling scum out in no time.
Why comiket still exist anyway? Why sell books in some cramped stinky building when you can do it online, are we in stone age or something? I trough japs are smarter than that.
It exist, exactly because Japanese are smarter then west with it’s steam/netflix deep-s♥♥t. They enjoy real-life events and get real goods, while you fap on your virtual stuff, that’s not even yours, if you could think a little.
@03:01 Depreciates in value overnight? Look at the article, the price of this s♥♥t went up 2000% overnight!
He has a point. All your ‘real goods’ get scanned and shared while you get bilked for buying s♥♥t that depreciates in value overnight
Because people like to go to events and don’t spend their entire life shut in?
Why do people go to concerts when they can just download the song?!
most of artists DO sell their books online, either toranoana, melonbook, pixiv fanbook, fantia, etc. they know about this after all. only ignorants who only sell their book on comiket (yes some artists are that ignorant). why comiket still exist? it’s kind of culture, they do this from 2000 up until now. of course it will keep exist. it’s not only doujins that are being sold, but also merchandises, musics, games, even sex dolls. with comiket, fans can meet with favorite artists and take photographs with them.
They aren’t 😀
the problem is, all those “reputable retailer” want their part of poor mangaka’s next to non-existant profits
Then the poor mangaka should just sell their s♥♥t at a price that covers the retailer’s cut. The auctions in the article have a 200 USD margin over the Comiket price, including the “poor mangaka’s non-existent profits,” so a reasonable price hike for after-Comiket sales won’t impact demand.