Comiket: Day 2 - Blogabond

After sleeping in I was off to get some more Comiket-experience today and I sneaked some pictures out this time. Being able to use the "ignorant foreigner" once in a while is actually quite handy, especially in an area with next to none English explanations. So, w/o further ado, here are some pictures of the inside:

Sneak-peek

Ero-boards

Room to move!

The last one was taken quite late in an area where a lot of the booths were already sold out, hence the few people. 50m ahead it was the usual crowd.

To give you an idea of the difference in pure numbers to yesterday, here is the cosplay area in comparison:

Cosplay area - Day 1

Cosplay area - Day 2

Yes, Comiket today was stuffed!

Was there for a while but it was hard to move, not even mentioning taking pictures. The ones I got:

Haruhi group

DRRR!! group

Hebi-hime with her trademark pose [One Piece]

Ace and Sanada Yukimura crossover

Ace - Tatoo redesign? [One Piece]

Brook [One Piece]

Rin - [Kodomo no Jikan]

Captain Jack Sparrow

Yu-Gi-Oh pair

After buying some stuff I left and visited the special exhibition of the Miraikan: How modern technology could realize the tools of Doraemon (a popular robotic cat who helps the protagonist with various tools he brought from the future). They had exhibits on brain analysis, automatic speech translation (Japanese to English, Chinese and Korean --> speech to text), meta-materials and much more. Of course it was designed to be interesting for kids, but the science behind the tools was explained in English and interesting.

One-man helicopter

Adaptive/"learning" robot

Cybersuit

On my way back I came by the Tokyo International Exchange Center Festival 2010, the center being right next to the Miraikan and all. They got a booth for every country their students come from, from Africa to France.

Tokyo International Exchange Center Festival 2010

French booth

Getting there was a real hassle this time, unlike yesterday, with the whole station transformed into a maze to use every inch of ground for lines to the boarding platforms...Took a while, to say the least. Well, it was Saturday, Obon and in the summer holidays, so there were way more people traveling around.
What I didn't expect was this sight on the way back: The line doubled in length and now reached all the way out of the station and filled the plaza there! I heard that there was going to be a Fireworks Festival on Odaiba today, but for it to get so crowded...I was glad to get out there, the journey back to Tama Plaza was quite easy with few people traveling in that direction.

One heck of a line

I won't attend the third and final day of Comiket 78 tomorrow, still got some stuff to do and quite enough of being stuck in a crowd for a while. All in all worth it, however ^^

So long and stay tuned,
JuergenS

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JuergenS on August 14, 2010 from Tokyo, Japan

from the travel blog: Two month of Japan

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