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Comiket Day 3 – Real shopping begins!!

Posted on | December 31, 2009 | 3 Comments |


Approximately 1/10 of the people waiting to get in at 7:30am

So perhaps a shorter post about Comiket day 3 – somehow I caught something between day 1 and day 2, so I didn’t sleep at all last night and felt pretty crappy when I got up at 6 am to start off to the Big Sight…

Completely different sight to arriving at 11am yesterday – by 7:30am when I arrived there were already hordes of people sitting in little squares in front of the Big sight and two enormous queues 12-15 people wide stretching 500 metres down the main walkway away from the Big Sight towards Aomi station. I asked a steward where the East Halls queue was and he replied that they weren’t letting anyone else in the East halls queue at the moment so we were shepherded around the corner to form yet another 500m long line where we stood waiting… Shijima from Wingsofyuri was probably somewhere in one of the squares sitting down somewhere.

So there I waited for 2 and a half hours. It wasn’t bad, sitting half on my bag, half on the floor with my Seitokai no Ichizon manga for company and my copy of Link’s Awakening (which I was stuck on and couldn’t get any further), listening to the few episodes of “I’m Sorry I haven’t a clue” that I had left on my MP3 player. They do their best to keep you interested – at 9:20 the line moved a little, then in little portions towards the main stairway where we stood, poised, until at last at 10am, someone started clapping and the line started moving.


The view from the top of the steps, Day 3

Even taking into account the tunnel of horrors, I was still in the East halls by 10:20am, so I don’t think it really matters a great deal if you’re not looking to get the limted edition gear…I headed to A-20 first for Askray, I was a bit scared since he was an outside booth, but the queue was only 2 people long in the end. Then I hit the interesting snag which makes Comiket like a mosh pit.

For some reason, the Comiket committee choose to put all the ero hon in the East halls, which is where 95% of the people in Comiket on day 3 want to go. The West halls, in contrast, are relatively empty, filled as they were with a few ero hon (Nanoha themed), Key and Leaf fanbooks and the leftover yaoi from day 1 and 2. Why they do not spread the material out is beyond me. Secondly, they chose this day to close at least 3 of the 6 doors in East halls, so that all the people coming in and out of the sides were shepherded through a narrow causeway between the end booths and the wall. Amusingly, the queue for Arsenothelus was the only queue I’ve had to fight to get in to…I’m going to guess that there weren’t enough stewards to guard the remaining doors (of course, you need at least 10 per door, to say “migi ni detekudasai” and “kochira ni hairanaidekudasai”)

So anyway, most people are pretty polite, but there are the odd few who push through crowds with their lists in a “MUST BUY ALL MY PORN” kind of way which pisses me off. It’s only porn, man!

So anyway, after hitting the (nearly empty) corporate booths I was knackered so I retired to the East halls balcony to check my wares and wait for Shijima. She found me there wearing my brown nekomimi today (the other half’s suggestion) and we went for coffee. End of Winter Comiket 2009!


Haul! – Top row – Mutsuya (For someone else)
Middle Row L to R – Isago Jou (copy bon, but cheap), Hinemosutari (I swear he keeps getting better with each one) Behind Moon (No oversize in this one, so a little plain) Kesson Shoujo Memories 3 (4 previous Kesson shoujo books in 1 – a good deal…)
Bottom row – Radiohead (no scat, always a bonus) Arsenothelus (Not Rebis! Actually half is done by Sengoku so art is rather good) Senya Sabou (Maybe I’d rather have got his recent Fate/Nanoha one, but there was a long queue and I was rushed) Askray! (Lots of Buchou, so awesome, if short. Pity he didn’t finish the next one before Winter Comi…)

Category: Editorials, Japan living

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3 Responses to “Comiket Day 3 – Real shopping begins!!”

  1. shijima
    December 31st, 2009 @ 10:11 pm

    It was great to have a chance to meet you. =)
    Wow! I see the pic where you pointed the camera backwards. :D
    The crowds do look pretty bad from that angle.

    Yah, only having one set of doors open was really annoying!

    Hope you feel better soon and have a great new year!

  2. Akakori
    January 4th, 2010 @ 7:32 am

    Damn! I was there on Day 3 too! If only I had checked here before. I saw the occasional other gaijin, I wonder if one of them was you!

  3. yuribou
    January 4th, 2010 @ 11:30 am

    Akakori – I doubt it! I don’t look like a gaijin! I’m going to Girl’s love festival in March so might see you there! (and there’s a small Saki only festival at the end of the month in Kawasaki if you’re interested mail me ^^)

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