August 04, 2005
Overview of the 68th Comic Market
Here is the official information about the 68th Comick Market in Japanese. Don’t get discouraged by the offhand website. They don’t need to promote their website. Comic Market, aka Comiket or Comike, needs no spectacular commercials because it is very famous among manga/anime fans in Japan already. The organizer, Comic Market Committee, have to turn down more than one third of the applicants for the seller booths due to too many applications.
I translated it skipping uninformative parts such as how to get to the venue for those who live outside Japan and not attending it. But I carefully translated the dos-and-don’ts part for it explains the characteristics of this gigantic event.
Information on the 68th Comic Market for general (buyer) attendees
Place: Tokyo Big Sight
Date : August 12,13,14, 2005
Open 10:00, Close 16:00
You must wait in-line to enter the venue in the morning hours. First time visitors are recommended to come after lunch. Average waiting time is as follows.
Those who come
- by first train will enter at 10:00 - 10:30 (5 hours waiting)
- at 10:00 will enter at 11:00 - 11:30 (1 hour waiting)
- at 12:00 will enter at 12:00 (no waiting)
Notice:
- Don’t wait overnight around the venue.
- No vehicles. (There is no parking offered by the organizer)
- Admission free. But we recommend you to buy a copy of the catalogue beforehand and read well. Every time Comic Market is held, it has some notice and information to be modified; we publish the catalogue as the means of information for the attendees.
- We don’t give out any numbered tickets.
- No registration is required for the cos-play.
- For more information, refer to the Comic Market Catalogue.
Number of Circles (Sellers) : approximately 35,000
Location of each genre; subgenre, examples or the specific authors are added right after the main genre for convenience. Some anime or manga titles such as Fullmetal Alchemist and The Prince of Tennis draw so many circles that they are classified as a genre.
First day
East Hall 1 - 3
- Anime (by Sunrise) : The Five Star Stories, Super Robots War
- Anime (others) : Voice actors, anime songs, critics on anime, anime from overseas, magical girls, for kids/Studio Ghibli, Slayers, hack(including games), Sailor Moon, Digimon, Pokemon
- FC* (boys) : Shonen Sunday, Shonen Magazine, Shonen Champion, Coro Coro Comic, Comic Bon Bon, Dengeki Comic Gao!, Shonen Ace, Tezuka Osamu, Takahashi Rumiko, Ishinomori Shotaro
- FC (Gan Gan) : Young Gan Gan, Comic Blade, Comic Zero Sum, Shibata Ami, Igarashi Mikio, Peach Maker, Saiyuki, Ragnarok
- Hagane no Renkinjutsushi(Fullmetal Alchemist)
East Hall 4 - 6
- Game (fighting games)
- Game (RPG)
- Square Enix (RPG)
- Gundam : all Gundam series, Gundam A, All Gundam games (except online games)
- FC (girls) : all shoujo magazines, horror manga magazines, CLAMP, Gakuen Alice
- FC (seinen) : Young King, Young Magazine, Young Animal, Young Sunday, Young Jump, Business Jump, Ultra Jump, Afternoon, Morning, Comic Birz, Comic Gum, Dengeki Daioh, Takada Yuuzou, Azuma Kiyohiko, Naitou Yasuhiro, Initial D, Ookiku Furikabutte
West Hall 1 - 2
- Game (non-electric) : board game, card game, table talk RPG, games played by mail, trading card game, Magic the Gathering, LEAFFIGHT
- Online Game : Massively multi-player online, games played by web, games played by e-mail
- Game (others) : critic on games, information on games, action, shooting, simulation, adventure, puzzle, quiz
- Game (dating simulation) : original boy's love (including books based on the game), original dating game (including books based on the game)
Second day
East Hall 1 - 3
- FC (Shonen Jump and others)
- One Piece
- Naruto
- Historical : kabuki, Sangokushi (excluding games)
- Music (Western, Japanese) : Yaen, DA PUMP, w-inds, FLAME, Lead, GLAY, L'Arc-en-ciel, B'z,access. TMR, TMGE, HIPHOP, Kishidan, Gorillas
East Hall 4 - 6
- FC (ball-game manga in Shonen Jump)
- The Prince of Tennis
- Original works (literature, novels)
- FC (novels) : mystery, juvenile, Tolkien and others
West Hall 1 - 2
- SFX, Sci-Fi, fantasy : critic on SFX, information on SFX, American comics, Hayakawa SF Bunko, Sougen SF Bunko, Ultraman series, Masked Rider series, Sentai (Power Ranger) series
- Train, travel, mechanic military : motor bike, bus, car, motor sports, toys, garage kit, camera, radio
- Music (male idols)
- TV, movie, show business : TV drama, stage, female idol, female singer, comedian, Asian movie, RPS
- Sports : soccer, baseball, F1, sumo, gamble, horse race, pachinko, slot machine
Third Day
East Hall 1 - 3
- Original works (for men) *
- Anime (for men)
- Leaf & Key ('s game)
- Gal Game
- TYPE-MOON ('s game)
East Hall 4 - 6
- Original works (for boys)
- Original works (for girls)
- Original works (for men)
- Anime (for men)
- Game (for men)
West Hall 1 - 2
- Original works (JUNE)*
- Gakuman (manga club at school)
- Critics and Information
- Doujin software
- Others
FC : Fan Circle or Fan Club, but for the most part it is an individual artist.
for men : usually means it's for adults
JUNE : rather an old word for Boy's love
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So I am lead to belive, that unlike the US cons, Comiket is purely for vendors and artist selling manga and related items, while fans gather and chat and watch cosplayers? Please correct me if my assumption is wrong. Thanks!
All genres listed are for circle (seller) attendees.
Corporations had not been accepted until 1996 and have been insulated from circle attendee's booths because Comiket claims itself as being a nonprofit place where fans can communicate one another.
The list of the corporations that are attending Comiket 68 is here.
http://www.akiba-k.com/tokusetu/c68/
I wish I could have attended a US con. I have little clue to compare the cons in the US and Comiket, but I can assure you that Comiket was established so that fans gather and chat to communicate however tons of doujinshi are sold and cosplayers are strolling around now.
I’m writing what Comiket really is and will upload soon.
When it says "American comics", does that mean doujinshi about American comics, or just imported comics? Because if someone's selling Nightwing/Robin yaoi, I may have to learn Japanese and buy myself a ticket to next year's event. XD
Also, this week I'm going to Otakon, one of the biggest cons in the US. I could send you my pictures from the event and a schedule, once it's over. Then you can find out what American conventions are like. :)

