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THE MARKETPLACE of FUN and IMAGINATION Comic Market Is the World’S Largest Marketplace for Doujinshi, Or Fan Participants from Overseas, Comics Feature SUBCULTURE IMMERSION Comiket has grown so popular that extra trains operate near the convention venue THE MARKETPLACE OF FUN AND IMAGINATION Comic Market is the world’s largest marketplace for doujinshi, or fan participants from overseas, comics. Held annually every winter and summer, the event draws and ever-more-elaborately over half a million attendees per session, and the international costumed cosplayers flocked to composition of its visitors is a testament to its mass success, and its the convention floor. As Comiket status as a social phenomenon. grew in popularity, the number of companies sponsoring booths TAMI KAWASAKI into such a landmark event that skyrocketed, with approximately additional trains are put into 140 today. The enthusiasm and AUNCHED in 1975, Comic operation near the convention bustle at the Tokyo International Market (popularly known venue while Comiket is in session. Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Las “Comiket”) celebrated Comiket was originally Sight), home to Comiket in recent its fortieth anniversary last designed to showcase doujinshi, years, has even drawn attention year. The three-day event which are comics self-published from TV news programs. currently draws over 500,000 by fans that focus on manga, At the same time, the sight visitors, approximately 35,000 anime, video games and other of tens of thousands of Comiket participating “circles” (or groups genres of entertainment. As the participants lining up calmly and of creators), and over 20,000 manga and anime boom went neatly to enter the venue—thanks cosplayers. Comiket has grown global, the event began to draw in part to the Comiket staff’s 8 | highlighting japan Doujinshi—self-published fan comics—remain one of Comiket’s An assortment of fanzines that Thai doujinshi fan Supavita primary draws Cherdchoovanit purchased smooth management—inspires as well as questions over the participate in every Comiket held wonder in both domestic and presence of potentially “harmful” while I’m still in Japan.” Ichikawa overseas attendees as “one of comics, for example. Despite smiles and comments, “When we those miracles you can only find that, “the event has become more hear from those living locally or in Japan.” popular and has grown so much abroad that ‘I’ve wanted to go to “No one is a guest at as the years have gone by,” reflects Comiket all my life,’ it just touches © Comic Market Committee Comiket,” explains Comic Market public relations chief Naoki our hearts.” Committee co-representative Satomi. “There have been huge Contrary to popular perception, Koichi Ichikawa. “The core booms in manga and anime, such a great number of female fans take staff, our 3,200 volunteer staff as with Space Battleship Yamato, part in the event. members, the participants—we’re Mobile Suit Gundam, Captain “The Comiket ideal is a venue all doujinshi fans on the same Tsubasa and Sailor Moon, and with where all forms of expression level. Every one of us makes a these booms come passionate fans are received with an open personal commitment to mind who want to seek out other fans mind—where everyone, pros our manners so that everyone and a community—something that and amateurs alike—comes can enjoy Comiket and help make hasn’t changed to this day.” together to express themselves it a success. Our volunteer staff In the nineties, the convention and constantly generate a wide carefully works out fine-tuned established an international variety of creations,” Satomi notes. schedules for admitting attendees team to support attendees from “We’d like to use this kind of ‘soft to the venue, and as a result I’m overseas. “We believe we get power’ to instill an interest in and proud to say that Comiket has several thousand [overseas identification with Japan, and not experienced a single accident participants] per day now,” Satomi increase the number of people in with major injuries to this day. says. other countries who are fond of our Our skills at managing large-scale “Doujinshi events in Thailand nation. Our goal is to strengthen operations stem from our forty are really small in scale, so our overseas relationships.” years of experience as doujinshi it was a dream of mine to In line with that goal, Comiket fans in Japan.” someday participate in the real is promoting engagement with As a prominent subculture Comiket in Japan,” says Supavita the activities of the International event, Comiket now regularly Cherdchoovanit, a female fan Otaku Expo Association to deepen receives requests for from Thailand who has lived in its ties with overseas subculture inspection and cooperation Japan for a year and a half and has events. “Our ultimate objective,” from government offices and been participating since the 2015 states Ichikawa, “is ‘world peace universities. There have been, summer Comiket. “The number of through comic fans’—to create however, challenges to overcome people here is way beyond what good friends across national during its four decades; Comiket I imagined, and all the doujinshi borders through manga, and officials have had to tackle safety I wanted were sold out. But I’ve perhaps eliminate conflict. This issues that came along with discovered some other really is our hobby, after all—so we’re the event’s dramatic expansion interesting doujinshi. I’d like to serious about it!” APRIL 2016 | 9.
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