Well the stories i hear of comiket is that it is a battle to get the popular stuff and and the first few rushes at the beginning. Maybe a more large scale version of Black Friday alittle more sweaty savage and unforgiving.
I've never participated in Comiket, but there's things people always say when they come back.
"Comiket is a battlefield." "It's a scene right outta hell." ... *gulp*
Participants always tell each other on their blogs "Let's meet up on the battlefield!" the day before ... eeee
It sounds like a fight that takes place at the end of the year so that able-bodied men from every nation can gather on the holy grounds to wage war for the sacred texts they desire.
Is it really a battlefield? I looked around on Nico Nico Douga, and it's true! "I tried leaving Summer Comi's staffing to 300 Spartans." ttp://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1850594
That's what Comiket was like in the Spartan era, so in the modern age, you'd have bullets and carpet bombs flying out of B-52s, right ... ? Comiket really is a battlefield ... *shiver* Can I make it out alive!?
I even heard that some people in the battlefield are dressed as people from the "Touhou" series those heroes so love. I tried to find out what kind of attire is in "Touhou", and ... ttp://www.dotup.org/uploda/www.dotup.org443508.jpg.html It must be so popular because of the overwhelming gap between the situation and the cute clothes, right? I've heard the name Shameimaru come up once or twice, but it's probably talking about the tank with the highest accuracy rating in the world, the "Sha"geki "mei"chuu kyuu"maru" shiki - kill rate 90% model.
I tried expressing my impressions in a picture.
This will be the cover of Underground Combat Comic 20. マイピクの垂飛辺 良 さん illust/7581040
It is kind of an overstatement, as it didnt seem that frantic when I went there in For Summer Comiket 09, though I didnt get to see the things that the first lot of people in the line did right after getting in.
Though the thing about meeting up with friends is quite true, as there is no way you can get everything that you want if you go on your own (I was lucky as there wasnt all that much I wanted, and some of the stuff I missed out on was in places like melonbooks the next day).
When I go to Japan it's going to be 1 month before Comiket starts and I will just have be a tent, some form of self-defense item that's legal there (if I can't carry a mace <metal bat, not the spray>), and close to $2000 USD divided to 115290 yen for the battlefield and 38430 for feasting of local tasty treats.
