【Event】Comic Market 2013

Comic Market 2013

Comic market is Japan LARGEST public gathering

you will feel that 

"Where on earth these people come from????"

Comic market have exhibition and sales of self-published publication 

centered around manga, anime, video games, and other related genres

In Japan we used to call it as 「Comike」「コミケ」

more than 600,000 people visited this event this year

The crowd is amazing!!!!!

(No second time for me though)

read more here

if you want to know more about the history of the Comic Market (Comike)

★★★★★

The next comic market which will be the 85th times

will held from 

Dec 29 (Sun) ～ Dec 31 (Tue)

Winter season

This period will be a holiday for most of the Japanese

so it will be SUPER crowded

(more info here but only in Japanese)

(English here but less info)

★★★★★

It will be held at Tokyo Big Sight

near Odaiba

I went on the last day

and still the people at the station is so crowded!!!!

The station staff even control the number of people

entering the station to avoid over congestion

after getting out from the station

the path will lead you to the Tokyo Big Sight building

where most of the exhibition will be held

not only Comic Market

The building looks like an upside down pyramid on 2 pole

Anime and Manga lovers from all over the world

purposely fly to Japan to join this event

Some even stick their fav character on their cars and Bicycle

After following the path prepared by the event

you will be lead to the free area

where all the Cos-players will be

This year (Maybe because it is summer)

There are A LOT BIKINIS around!!!!!

See all those Humsup guys grabbing their camera

toward the Bikini Girl

But there is a rule in Comike where there are guard will stop you from taking photo too long

 The guard will go to the cos-players with lots of crowd

and start to countdown in 5 second

you will need to stop taking photo and go away after the countdown finish

(strict rule..... haha....)

My friends all tell me that

"Why you don take photo from the FRONT??????!!!"

Most Japanese are Flat or Fake boops

You want see flat one?? or Fake one??

You can see GUYS cos-players are very LONELY

you can easily take their photo from front

hahaha

Sailor moon is there too!!!

Sailor moon might be outdated so less people around her

Since is SUMMER

The weather is SUPREMELY hot and melting!!!!!!!!

Some cos-players even black out

and they call for Medic

We also cannot stand the heat so we went in

All we can see is people mountain people sea

人山人海

日本語というと「人ごみ」

Just look at their HUGE costume

and just imagine the heat of 40 degrees with humidity of 99%

This is almost equal to suicide

Why the event do not have room with air-condition

for them to cos-play



The enterprise exhibition session

is more to video games

Some people in front

I doubt they are the voice actress

giving some talk or something

attracted those Geek オタク

HUGE gundam look-alike figure

I don watch anime so much

So I do not know what character it is

If those who like anime a lot

You might like this event

We finished the enterprise part

then walk down to the free area session again

more and more cos-players coming up!!!!

This girl a bit lansi

or maybe is the rule

a guy asked to take a picture of her

then she said no photo allowed while moving around

means no photo shooting when cos-players is walking around

You can only take photo

when the cos-players are standing in certain photo shooting area

(I heard they said)

This is character from Kingdom Heart

There are the marios too

(They are too high and too thin for Marios though)

I caught a photo from the front

you can see

it is FLAT!!!!

Or maybe is a HE

(0.0)!!!!!!

There are lots weird people

with weird costume

or not even costume

standing around

Just see the CROWD!!!!

on our way to the station

We decided to take the taxi instead of train

too crowded and too tired

gosh......

you can see that the participants are all in costumes

There is a rule in Comike that

You cannot wear your costume from your house!!

You must change your costume at the changing room they prepare

as they duwan to cause trouble or unwanted problems to the public

E.G. wearing a bikini in the train will attract all eyes to the boops and pervert that try to touch it

and some of the cos-players

with HUGE weapon or gadget that may

hurt and frighten off other people too

I saw from TV that some of the cos-players spent few k ringgit (100,000yen above)

for making those costumes and gadgets

Just really cannot imagine

their craving towards ANime and cos-play

Well

Just go ONCE and thats more than enough for me

I am getting more dark after this event

gonna wait for my skin to get white this coming winter

Good Comike experience

but not planning to go for a second time

during the SUMMER

maybe will consider Winter but think about the crowd

I might give up.....

【Event】Tokyo Designer Week 2012

Tokyo Designer Week

One of the large event in town

That gathers all designer from all over the world

and gathers the excellent design and art such as

architecture, interior, product design, graphic design and art

it is held at Meiji JIngu Gaien Mae 
(In front of Meiji Shrine memorial picture gallery)

Every year over 100,000 people visited this event

and so am I!!!!

This year will be held from
Oct 26 (Sat) to Nov 4 (Mon)

For those who interested why not join the crowd!!!!

(more info here)

These are some cool exhibition

I took photo of some of it

(did not take all of it as I have limited of time)

a lot of interesting arts!!

There are lots of handicraft

for sales too!!!!

some are kinda expensive though

All the seller are from all over the world!!!

Lots to see

Lots to buy!!

Other than that

there is food stalls for you to enjoy various food and drinks

There is a igloo ice dome

where inside the dome is a vodka lounge

of course all the drink are FREE!!!!

The one with lime is awesome!!!!



Last year I joined the event as a model

for the 「Necommimi」 product

which is a product of a cat ears that can move

by reading your brain wave!!!

(It is quite heavy though)

The ears actually only detect 2 kind of waves

which is 「concentrating」 and 「relaxing」

when your mind is 

concentrating

then your ears will stand still 

(really like a cat)

while there is a prototype tail 

will be shaking a lot like a dog (=.=)!!!!!

Then

When you are 

relaxing 

your ears will lay down

and the tail will stop shaking

The exhibition place locates outside the hall

which is very very COLD!!!

because that time would be end of autumn

the exhibition place looks like below

a small metal box

Standing whole day presenting the Cat ears 

quite tiring but interesting (^^,)!!

Got a shot with my partner who was standing with me

Meow!!

Lastly

after the event ends

we went to a Izakaya

which means a drinking place in Japan

at Shibuya

京町恋しぐれ
Kyoumachi Koishigure

This restaurant is a theme restaurant

with the theme of 町家 Machiya

a kind of houses in Kyoto

very nice environment

and the food is nice too!!!!

some of the designers gather together 

to enjoy the environment there!!!!

【Festival】Tokyo Hotaru Festival

Tokyo Hotaru Festival (click for more info)

held on May 25th, 2013

This festival is letting small round plastic lantern with blue LED to the river 

The event is held by the Sumidagawa river... Which is near Asakusa... 浅草

Which is famous for the temple and the kaminarimon 雷門

From the river 

you can see Tokyo Sky Tree

(Taken by iPhone Panorama)

Below Tokyo Sky Tree is shopping mall

On that day 

the crowd is Terrible!!!!!

even the police and event volunteer came to assist the traffic

There is "GOOD SPOT" where you can see the lantern float clear and nicely 

just by the river 

but

you need to pay for the Hot Spot

There is 2 package:

1 LED Lantern + Entrance to hot spot = 1000yen

「東京ホタル® ひかりのシンフォニー」観覧放流チケット：1,000円（税込）

・・・いのり星®1個放流権+観覧放流ブロック入場+ルミカブレスレット1本

1 LED Lantern + Entrance to hot spot + a seat at Terrace corner = 3000yen

「東京ホタル® ひかりのシンフォニー」観覧放流テラス席チケット：3,000円（税込）

・・・いのり星®1個放流権+観覧放流ブロック入場+テラス席1名分+ルミカブレスレット1本

Well..................

I duwan to pay for it

So I fight in to the crowd to take photo!!!!!!

↓↓Just see the crowd.... ↓↓

and look what I get!!!!

Scenery with the river floated with LED lanterns and Tokyo Sky Tree!!!

This event is not bad!!

Romantic???? Well if you pay to go in maybe yes.....

If not... the crowd will spoil your dating though.. haha

worth to see at least once (^^,)!!

Being invited by my friends to this event

I am glad that I went... wee～～!!