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An exact list of the stores who have these pamphlets can be found here. the Company booth map, which are usually distributed free, now only come with a purchase of the catalog (and only when requested). Getting the Comiket event and company booth catalogĪs will every year, the Comiket catalog can be bought from most major anime stores across Japan. For this reason it is ever the more important to observe the doujin culture as we know it now and to see how it will progress in the coming years. Though unlikely to affect Comiket at this point in time, the Comiket as we experience it today may change a few years in the future.

I will explore this further in a later post. As he explains, should the TPP negotiations pass, Japan may still alter its own domestic rules to protect doujin and subsequently personal expression. There have already been many people against this movement, including famed author Ken Akamatsu. As doujin exists in a grey zone between intellectual holders and artists, a law like this directly contrasts with the existence of doujin and many see it as the end of the doujin culture. In some of the agreed changes, claims of copyright may be lodged without the personal consent of the victim in question, meaning public action against others as possible as long as one (possibly unrelated) party feels a copyright issue is in place. However, the TPP seems particularly daunting to doujin culture due to changes in copyright infringement. There has been recent civil unrest in regards to the TPP, whether about fairness, necessity and clarity of the negotiations in general, amongst others. This post will be updated once it becomes public. The circle.ms site states that it will be announced sometime in the middle of July. The images have been translated from the Comiket Web Catalog site ( Possible NSFW content, Japanese, account required).Īt this point in time, the company booth locations have not been published yet.

#WEBCATALOG COMIKET SERIES#

In what must be certain hell, the Comiket Committee have decided to put these three series together in the first day which is sure to create huge congestion.īelow is a breakdown of the genre between each day and their locations. The game has seen a burst in popularity similar to Kancolle with a dedicated female fan-base. Kancolle artists on the other hand still mainly release their doujin at Comiket, although Kancolle only events do exist that work similarly to Reitaisai.Īnother noticable newcomer is the Toukenranbu online game, a Kancolle equivalent anthropomorphicising famous swords instead of ships and are represented by pretty boys as opposed to girls. Are we already witnessing what could be the peak of its popularity?Īs many commenters have pointed out, one possible reason for such a drop on the popularity of Touhou booths is the trend for artists to release their latest works during Reitaisai as opposed to Comiket.

Many series have see a surge in popularity after an anime adaptation but this has not been the case for Kancolle. In fact, it’s interesting to note that the number of Kancolle booths has barely risen despite the fact that the anime has finished airing in Japan. However, this increase in gap has mainly been from artists moving out of the Touhou genre, as opposed to more artists joining Kancolle. To start off, unofficial booth counts have already signalled that the moe warship game Kantai Collection (Kancolle) is continuing its hold as the most popular series in C88. For travel information and information about the event in general, check out my previous post about Comiket. In this post I’ll talk about the trends in Comic Market 88 (C88) and various other news in relations to this event.

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