I went to the infamous
Comiket in
Tokyo,
Japan today.
For those of you unfamiliar with
Comiket, it has two main attractions. The first one is
doujinshi, which are comics produced by non-professionals. Non-professionals as in they're not famous enough to make a living off their
art quite yet. Some of the
doujinshi are original works, while others are more like
fan comics. Some of them are
pornographic in nature, with
yaoi (homosexual love stories).
The other main attraction for
Comiket are the
cosplayers. These are a group of people that enjoy dressing up in their favorite
anime,
manga, or
video game characters. As with all things, the quality of the
cosplayers varies a lot. Some of them are very
cute, while others are not.
Comiket is the biggest event of its kind in Japan. America doesn't really have anything like
Comiket quite yet, but they have
anime conventions instead. Having been to both, I would definitely say I find the
American variant more entertaining. Comiket offers little besides
shopping and
people-watching.
I had wanted to take lots of pictures of the
cute cosplayers but then realized I didn't have enough film for all of them. So then I thought about taking only pictures of selective ones, but realized that my
picture choice would be evidence to the
sick and twisted pervert that I am. I decide that perhaps picture taking
isn't such a good idea.
I consider myself pretty
hardcore when it comes to this
fanboy kinda stuff...and even then I was surprised at a couple of things. The booth that was playing hardcore
anime porn in the middle of the dealer's room was a bit surprising. The number of skimpy
costumes were too (as in way more than I expected). Oh, and I had been told that there was an admission charge, and entrance turned out to be free.
A couple of quick notes...The most popular costume sets were
Digi Charat,
Final Fantasy X, and
Guilty Gear X.
Rabi~en~Rose was probably the most
cosplayed female character there. There were a lot of
crossplayers as well. Scariest
crossplayer goes out to the guy who did a male
Kris Christopher from
Battle Athletes. And the coolest groups would have to go out to the girls who did the
Dragon Warrior medley group and the girls who did the
Suikoden group. Though I don't understand why they needed so many
Templetons.