
Comiket 81’s initial day sees yet more outstanding cosplay, a great deal of which is as usual scorchingly hot despite the admittedly only typically mild Tokyo winter, with smooth ero-cosplayer Lenfried joining the fray.
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The many cosplayers of Comiket 81’s first day, and their attendant horde of creepy otaku photographers, have thankfully ensured the cuteness of their cosplay can once again be appreciated far and wide…
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The 2011 Tokyo International Anime Fair has been officially cancelled, ostensibly because of the unstable power and transit situations.
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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.
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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.
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The Dream Party Tokyo 2009 Spring event ( a sort of catch-all convention for various otaku goods) took place last month, and the attention given to its extensive dakimakura displays make a close inspection of these photos worthwhile…
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After the shockingly good Nagi-sama cosplay we saw recently, Zange-chan is given a similar rendition. It would not be reasonable to expect much to match the Nagi-sama cosplay, but this is still a first rate effort.
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As nearly a week passes since the end of Comiket 75, many more pictures of cosplayers at the event have become available.
Compared to the first part of our Comiket C75 Cosplay Digest, the quality of photography viewable here is a bit higher and should go down well for those who were unable to take their own photos at the Comiket, but wished they had…
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The nearest train station to the Tokyo Big Sight is always decorated appropriately during each Comiket – this small gallery displays the International Exhibition Center train station in all its otaku-fied glory.
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A small gallery of cosplayers taken in and around the Tokyo Big Sight during the first 2 days of Comiket 75, one of the premier locations for cosplay on a large scale in Japan.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2008 03:41 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Cars, Comiket, Crime, Nagoya, Otaku, Theft, Tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight

A young man (18) who stole an old lady’s car at knifepoint has offered his pressing need to attend Comiket as his reason for the crime. He needed to travel some 250km to Tokyo to get there.
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A convincing Haruhi (or possibly Haruhi-chan) cosplay from a prior Comiket participant of tender years. Doubtless not the youngest cosplayer ever, but still she still looks to be one of the most convincing junior cosplayers around…
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