Maki Side Dish #009 - ComiKet Day 1

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DATE : Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:13:02 GMT
Entered in Database : 2006-08-13 00:13:02
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Twice a year doujin fans across the world head for the big one. This is the manga mecca. This is where people pass out in line for a book from their favorite circle covering their favorite genre and series. This is where it feels hotter and muggier inside than it does outside and its 30+celsius outdoors and their is air conditioning inside! This is where you can find pokemon doujin's a few aisles away from Batman doujins a few feet away from Kino no Tabi books. This is where there is a whole hall for train "manga", airplane doujins and homemade cooking books!!

ComiKet happens twice a year and the attendance for one of these is larger than the populations of many mid-market cities. 500,000 people will come through here. Through the three day event around 35,000 circles will be selling their wares to their fans and fellow artists. This is seriously a comic party and everyone involved is here for to have a blast - spending money and sweating like pigs - to get their hands on original goods ranging from comics, novels, model kits, cd-roms, books, dolls, crafts and games.

Join me as I struggle throughout the afternoon buying stuff, carrying heavy bags and hiking through the palace of fandom Tokyo BIG SIGHT on Day One of the 70th ComicMarket! It's a soundscene/soundsampo so beware of the heavy breathing and crowd noise cause there are no panels at ComiKet just VA events and CosPlayer shoots!

Day 1

Tokyo Big Site
Odaiba, Tokyo

August 11, 2006
10:00-16:00

East 123

Games (Figthing)
-Capcom Vs Series, Street Fighter, Vampire series, KoF, Samurai Spirits, Mark of the Wolf, Guilty Gear, Psychic Force, Virtual Fighters, Dead or Alive, Variable Geo, Power Stone, Rumble Fish

Games (Other)
-Action, Shooting, Simulation, Adventure, Puzzle, Quiz , Sound Puzzle: pop'n music, Doko demo Issho, Resident Evil, Valkyrie Legends, Three Kingdoms

Anime (Other)
-Maho Shojo, Foreign, Childrens: Ghibli, Slayers, .hack, Sailor Moon, PokeMon, Lupin, Megaman

Anime Sunrise
-Five Star Stories, Super Robot Wars, Big O

Fan Comics - GanGan (SquarEnix)
-GanGan, Young GanGan, Stencil, GFantasy, MagGarden, ZeroSum, ComicREX magazines:

Fullmetal Alchemist

East 456

Games Misc
-Board Games, Table RPG, Trading Card Games (including original game starter set sales)

Online Game
-MMPORPG, Play by Web, Play by e-Mail: Diablo, Star Ocean, Ragnarok Online, FFXI

Gundam
-All Series

Fan Comics Shonen
-Sunday, Magazine, Champion, CoroCoro, BonBon, Gao, Ace, Sirius, Rush, Dragon Age, Tezuka Osamu, Takahashi Rumiko, Ishinomori Shuutarou

Fan Comics Shojo
-Shojo Magazines, Horror Magazines

FC Seinen
-Young King, Young Champion, Young Magazine, Young Animal, Young Sunday, Young Jump, Business Jump, Afternoon, Morning, Birz, Gum, Daioh, 4koma manga

West 1&2

RPG
- Suikoden, Zelda, Fire Emblem, Ogre Battle, Shining Force, Atiller Series, Summon Night

SquarEnix RPG
-Final Fantasy, Xeno, Saga, Front Mission, DragonQuest, StarOcean, Tales of Series

Renai Games
-BL Games, Otome Games, Koei NeoRomance Series: Tokimeki Girls Side, Gakuen Heaven

I almost did not survive physically and financially after day one. I wonder what day two will bring!?!

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