Friday, August 14, 2009 Categorized under Blog, Conventions/ Events, Events, Japan, trip

Comiket Summer 2009 Day 1

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Sorry for the lack of posting. I will get back to those 2 days after I get Comiket done and over with. Comiket has finally arrived and this time my friends and I have a battle plan to get things easier. Here’s my tip for people planning to go to Comiket in the future, line up early and have friends to help you get some stuff.

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Arrived at around 3:20am in the morning and people are already there… I wonder how early some people were there…

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The line around 5:30am…there is still a ton of people ahead of me…

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It’s hot but I’ll survive it…

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So much people…at around 7am… This is when people come in…

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So many people in 1 area…

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Around 9:20AM, everyone stood up and began to move…

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Finally moving…

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Going closer and closer to Comiket…

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So many people behind me, just like last year…

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Big Sight in sight…

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First thing I went for is the Nanoha booth as I know the line is damn long. I had Ken and his friend with me so just in case they limited items one per person…

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So long…I thought I was almost in the front then I realized that there is another line…

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Good thing I’m not back there…

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Had this little chair with me…came in handy…

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I thought I was finally up to the front…then…

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You got to be kidding me…another line inside…

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Great Engrish…

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After finally getting the Nanoha goods…I needed a break…to me, that Nanoha line took a good 2 hours or so.

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So many things…I LIKE!!!

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Typemoon sold out for the day…

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I like the fact that the staff says no photos but then people still takes them…like me. The staff at Typemoon doesn’t care and allowed us to take photos…

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I want these wallscrolls…

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Typemoon restocks everyday…so I think I can get some Typemoon goodies…

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Headed towards the east hall…

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So many people…and so many stands…

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This is inside Comiket…doujinshi area…

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Headed towards the cosplay square…

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Haruhi!!!

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Trunks…

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Sheryl from Macross Frontier…

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Love the cosplays!!!

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The Lucky Star twins Kagami and Tsukasa…

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I believe this is pre cure of something…

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EVA…

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Ranka and Sheryl…

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The new EVA character…

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Alto, Ranka and Sheryl…

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Decided to leave as I’m pretty much dead as I didn’t sleep the night before…

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Headed towards the monorail…

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Leaving Comiket again…

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In the line…again… The recurring themes at Comiket is that you have to line up…

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Back in Odaiba and about to crash and I’m hungry…

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Headed towards to Aqua City…

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Dinner…subway…

I basically crashed when I got back to the hotel and now…time for round 2!!!

This was a quick post due to the fact that I have to get into the line…again…

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13 Comments

  • At 2009.08.14 21:41, =^.^= =^.^= said:

    oooh…i think ill b giving comiket a miss…i hate lining up. had more than enough lining up at disneyland and disney sea….ill just stick 2 akihabara
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    • At 2009.08.14 21:53, trixoptics trixoptics said:

      Good luck again! I would be dead if I was you. I am losing patience in walking around Tokyo now. Too many people and so slow. When I was lining up for Comiket, I was cutting through everyone, LOL.

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      • At 2009.08.14 21:59, robostrike robostrike said:

        It looks like there’s two spots…One for anime goodies…the other for hang around and take pictures…must remember that when going to Comiket next year ^_^
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        • At 2009.08.15 00:27, Xcomp Xcomp said:

          *Whistles* That is A LOT of people… And the queuing time. I always wonder how the Japanese manage to queue for hours for a single event. Do they take the day off or something? ^^;

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          • At 2009.08.15 10:11, Syaoran Syaoran said:

            Wow typemoon needs to sell those wallscrolls on some online store so I can buy them all ^^; Wonder what the nanoha goodies where?

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            • At 2009.08.16 01:34, Hynavian Hynavian said:

              Thanks for sharing. Wow, look at the sea of crowd! It’s way better than the conventions that are held in Singapore. Hopefully you have enjoyed yourself. XD
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              • At 2009.08.16 01:43, suneo suneo said:

                holy cow…arrived at 320 and still such a long wait to get in ><
                Though everytime I see pictures of the show floor it’s not hard to see why…what an impressive event!
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                • At 2009.08.16 06:47, Optic Optic said:

                  I will not be happy if I don’t attend Comiket in my life. Really, the crowd is just too overwhelming for me to comprehend.
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                  • At 2009.08.16 14:46, Kairu Kairu said:

                    That is a ton of people, hate to sound stupid……but Comiket looks just like it does in the anime XD. Genshiken especially. (Of course its going to but still kinda cool)

                    Being there would scare me to death since I do not do well in crowds, but for Comiket I would do my best to get through, more so if I knew Subway was for dinner XD have not had that in a long time.
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                    • At 2009.08.16 17:29, suneo suneo said:

                      Does Japan have $5/500yen footlongs too? lol
                      I wonder how otakus with claustrophobia deal with Comiket or other big events. I’m with Optic one day I must go to Comiket
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                      • At 2009.08.16 20:21, Jamm Jamm said:

                        well apparently , this year they broke the attendance record with 180,000 people on the day that you went lol.
                        I can only imagine all the body heat some of those pictures create lol.

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                        • At 2009.08.17 23:09, phossil phossil said:

                          at what time did you went for cosplay photoshoots??
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                          • At 2009.08.18 02:05, Saku Saku said:

                            I really hate line ups -_-;;. Anime Expo was bad enough so I don’t think Ican handle comiket lol
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