{"id":1910,"date":"2011-05-24T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T05:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2011-05-24T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T13:03:13","slug":"1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/24\/1910\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip report: Comic Market 79 day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steps to attending Comiket:<br \/>\n1. Go to Japan.<br \/>\n2. Take the train to Kokusaitenjijouseimon. The rest is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>There will be about 100,000 people ahead of you in line who all arrived at 5 AM, but don&#8217;t bother with that and just come at 10. ((Unless you want to go to an industry booth. \u00e3\u0081\u00aa\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e5\u00ae\u0152\u00e5\u00a3\u00b2)) Do get a SuICa so you don&#8217;t have to stand in the ticket machine line. Get a map, or else you&#8217;ll get lost:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1914\" title=\"C79 day 1 map\" src=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00011-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00011-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00011-1024x660.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00011.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mine is a bad example, because I highlighted every single circle in the catalog with an interesting picture (or an especially silly name) and then went straight past most of them.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1 is relatively relaxed, mostly being anime\/manga magazine\/video game fan comics without any of the major attractions (male-oriented works, female-oriented works, Touhou). I managed to walk around with a group (kransom, shii, world famous chiptune artist Chibi-Tech) without getting lost, which is impossible in the later two days.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing interesting about the process of buying things, which is all we did, so here&#8217;s some things that were bought:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1915\" title=\"c79 day 1 assortment\" src=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00017-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00017-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00017-1024x612.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00017.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From upper left: a Mazinger comic of some sort by <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.odn.ne.jp\/blue-labyrinth\/\">blue labyrinth<\/a> (also did a newer Shin Mazinger Impact comic that&#8217;s not as good), a Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou copy-book, a short Aria book by <a href=\"http:\/\/cramnuts.web.fc2.com\/\">CramNuts<\/a>, an SRW book by <a href=\"http:\/\/mkrn.upper.jp\/\">otentomaru<\/a>, an ICO anthology that I can&#8217;t be bothered to actually read, and a Yotsuba! book by, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www7b.biglobe.ne.jp\/~dowell\/top.html\">Do well!!!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>otentoumaru is a great circle, but half of their books are Sanger\/Irui and the other half are Sanger x Irui, and it&#8217;s impossible to tell which from the covers, so make sure to check inside first. Also, a few of these turned out to be reprints because I forgot to ask which was the new work. ((\u00e6\u2013\u00b0\u00e4\u00bd\u0153 <em>shinsaku<\/em>))<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been checking catalogs for a few years and there were always a few YKK circles, but these days it seems to be down to one or two, so it&#8217;ll probably be gone entirely in the future. Unless it&#8217;s reduced to people doing <a href=\"http:\/\/hr.deadgods.net\/hr\/kareha.pl\/1210575418\/\">increasingly strange joke comics<\/a> like Lain.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei doujin exist but are universally very badly drawn.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately never got a chance to visit cosplay, or do much of anything but walk around the East Halls all day for the entirety of the event. Maybe in the future\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but do I really want to own any more doujin?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Shii&#8217;s report<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to go back to my diary to confirm what I did on this day. &#8230; Apparently I did not actually write any coherent sentences in my diary when I was in Tokyo. Instead, I have scribbled the words &#8220;wait in line&#8221; and &#8220;Akiba&#8221;. This was the day I held everyone up by waiting in line at the VisualArt&#8217;s booth. Important lesson for future Comiket visitors: The best time to get in line for an industry booth is at 5am or 2pm. The worst time is at noon; this is when <em>all the ronery otaku<\/em> leave the artist&#8217;s halls and decide it&#8217;s time to stand by themselves for some Nanoha goodness. Anyway, I waited in line for 3 hours to pick up a CD for my friend Mike. Afterwards we all went to Yoshinoya for dinner. Did MVB mention that? No. OK.<\/p>\n<p>Other exciting things. If you arrive at Comiket at 10 the line will be slowly vanishing as people file into the Big Sight. I imagine 10:30 is optimal arrival time if you don&#8217;t have any super important things to wait in line for. Also, if you don&#8217;t use some sort of software to plan what circles to visit, you are insane.<\/p>\n<p>The Card Captor Sakura and Rozen Maiden selection in December 2010 was nothing to write home about, but there are good Azumanga\/Yotsubato universe doujins that don&#8217;t get resold at Toranoana, so look out for those.<\/p>\n<p>Impress your friends with Comiket knowledge!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The largest demographic at Comiket is 25-29 year old women. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comiket.co.jp\/info-a\/C77\/C77CMKSymposiumPresentationEnglish.pdf\">(s)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Comiket used to be ~75% female. More recently it has grown closer to 60% female. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comiket.co.jp\/info-a\/C77\/C77CMKSymposiumPresentationEnglish.pdf\">(s)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pornography does exist at Comiket, but only consists of about 20% of the total amount of works. <a href=\"http:\/\/detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp\/qa\/question_detail\/q1012294080\">(s)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As is the case with anime and manga in general, hardcore\/perverted works at Comiket are often drawn and published by women. (You can confirm this by walking around Comiket.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> kransom&#8217;s report<\/strong><br \/>\nSteps to attending Comiket:<br \/>\n1. Go to Japan.<br \/>\n2. Take the train to Kokusaitenjijouseimon. The rest is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Steps to succeeding at Comiket:<br \/>\nRepeat steps 1 and 2 until desired effect is achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steps to attending Comiket: 1. Go to Japan. 2. Take the train to Kokusaitenjijouseimon. The rest is obvious. There will be about 100,000 people ahead of you in line who all arrived at 5 AM, but don&#8217;t bother with that and just come at 10. ((Unless you want to go to an industry booth. \u00e3\u0081\u00aa\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e5\u00ae\u0152\u00e5\u00a3\u00b2)) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doujin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}