Comic Market 89 (Winter): Part 2

Posted on the morning of the first day: with otaku at Comiket, a deserted Akibahara:

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And several more perspectives on the Otaku Dash—those attendees arriving on the first train. The second post provides a glimpse of the larger and larger crowd each Comiket that comes to view, and record, the spectacle. A five-minute video, below, gives a good sense of the calm before the storm, as station employees get ready.

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Popular Twitter handle, How Things Work, picked up an also popular video (there are others going back several years) of how those crowds at Comiket are managed:

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— How Things Work (@ThingsWork) December 30, 2015

A view from Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington Hotel of that queuing area:

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Naturally, this all means Too Many People:

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