{"id":754,"date":"2009-08-15T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=754"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:42:31","slug":"huge-comiket-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Huge Comiket Crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/2009Aug14184331_22743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/2009Aug14184331_22743-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As seen in the video below the break, this year&#8217;s Comiket crowd is absolutely huge; it makes Tokyo rush-hour commuting on the subway look like child&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7V3yJmfrYMg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7V3yJmfrYMg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The three-day Comiket convention, which is held twice a year, is something of a mecca for otaku. Many of the doujinshi sold at the event are never reprinted, making it a popular destination for collectors. This year&#8217;s Summer Comiket is posting record figures, with 180,000 attending on the first day.<\/p>\n<p>Although the sheer magnitude of these numbers is difficult to imagine, this picture of the entrance queue should help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/comiket_76_crowd_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/comiket_76_crowd_01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/detail\/mac\/eng\/image\/22743\/Comic+Market.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dannychoo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/?p=12028\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Probe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankakucomplex.com\/2009\/08\/16\/comiket-76-breaks-attendance-record-180000-on-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sankaku Complex (NSFW)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in the video below the break, this year&#8217;s Comiket crowd is absolutely huge; it makes Tokyo rush-hour commuting on the subway look like child&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[217,219,222,221,112,218,2193,220],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-japanese-culture","tag-comiket","tag-crowd","tag-doujin","tag-doujinshi","tag-japan-probe","tag-odaiba","tag-ryoko","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}