I’m back from the last day of Comiket. I took a ton of pictures today with my press pass but I will only be posting them at a later date. First, I shall go through my spoils.
I spent less than expected at Comiket, probably because I already bought a ton of random doujinshi from specialty stores. Some pictures are NSFW. (Basically the T2 Art Works stuff.)
T2 Art Works, the famous Tony Taka’s (aka Takayuki Tanaka) doujin circle, was selling goodie bags for ï¿¥3000. It contains a clear file, a calendar and a pencil board.
I also bought four copies of his latest release, Kiteru yo! Takeuchi-kun. (Based on Bamboo Blade.)
Kyoto Animation was selling some goodie bags from their current flagship titles. I will be reselling one Haruhi bag (I have extra) and one Clannad bag (I don’t like it that much).
They both come with a 2008 calendar and a phone card each. In addition, the Haruhi one comes with a A3 clear poster and the Clannad one comes with three bookmarks that are kind of lame when compared to Haruhi’s terrific poster. I will probably be selling them through KKnM, so you will need to be in Singapore to buy them.
This is a bag made by some booth that was selling Miku doujinshi. The doujinshi is pretty bad but the bag is cool. I think it was the only reason why so many people were queuing for that booth.
I got this for ï¿¥3500. It’s a 100% hand-drawn fan art of Yuki. It’s quite awesome, but I would’ve preferred Haruhi. The artist also drew Tomoyo and Kotomi (from Clannad) and Tsukasa and Kagami (from Lucky Star) in the same style, but I decided to pass.
I also bought Arisa Mizuhara’s latest cosplay collection CD-ROM. If you have never heard of her before, you need to check out her gallery. She’s basically my all-time favourite cosplayer.
The best part is that I met her in person at her booth! I managed to get a picture too by waving my press pass around. Huge thanks to Danny Choo and Akihabara News for the pass.
The CD-ROM is somewhat expensive at ï¿¥2000 for eight galleries of photos, but it’s extremely awesome. You can find a list of all her past releases on her website. There was actually a Singaporean trading company selling her photo collections at Cosfest, but I forgot its name.
On hindsight, I should have gotten her to autograph my copy of the CD-ROM… Damn.
I managed to obtain one of the forty copies of Cradle’s Re:frain that were on sale. The press has a seperate queue that is super short and located right beside the entrance to East Hall 1, so I got in quite early. I met and spoke with the duo behind Cradle, but unfortunately they were camera shy and declined my request for a picture. :(
KEI is the artist behind the official art for Crypton’s VOCALOID2 software series. I bought four copies of his new VOCALOID illustration compilation and one copy of his second artwork collection (which I sold to my friend).
I didn’t really bother to queue for any commercial booths, but HOOK’s HoneyComing merchandises looked pretty, so I spent about one hour queuing to get Asahi’s phone card set and Clarissa’s microfibre towel set (not pictured above). I seem to be the only person that I personally know who actually liked this game, but oh well.
My personal favourite purchase is Hiro Suzuhira’s latest HEART-WORK release. She is one of my favourite illustrators ever because of her works in the SHUFFLE! bishoujo game franchise (SHUFFLE!, Tick! Tack! and Really? Really!), specifically Nerine, Asa and Sage.
It has Hiro’s trademark design and Miku. What more can one ask for?
HEART-WORK’s booth was also selling a very beautiful Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Lin phone card set and a HEART-WORK collaboration calendar.
I queued over two hours for HEART-WORK’s booth. It was worth it. T_T <– Tears of joy.
I’ll talk more about the entire event itself in a later post. Really tired now. And, uh, an early Happy New Year! 明ã‘ã¾ã—ã¦ãŠã‚ã§ã¨ã†ã”ã–ã„ã¾ã™ï¼ I’m watching Kouhaku on NHK right now.
You make me cry.
Lots I stuff you have bought there, what exactly do the phone cards do?
Arisa is also my favourite cosplayer I wish I could have a copy of that CD.
They, uh, allow you to place calls on public phones. Not that anyone actually uses them.
Waaaaaaaaah! Lucky you get to meet Arisa Mizuhara-san… and get to attend Comiket 73…
eh… sell me teh bags….
gahh.. i feel kinda sorry i didn;t manage to get time off to get out of the country. amazing stuff you bought.
All the merchandise!!! *drools*
wow…seems like you got yourself a ton of loot. suzuhira hiro’s artwork looks delicious as usual ^_^
Nice catch! *poses*
I’ve been wondering for quite a while now…what IS a “clear file” anyway? I guess it’s not a complete save game file for a game of sorts…
OMG, I have been looking for the source of those pictures by ‘KEI’ for about a year now. By which I mean, seeing them posted on 4chan, instantly falling in love, and no one having any idea who the source was…
Now to spend exorbitant amounts of money ordering stuff off YAJ.
Between that and ５年ã®æ”¾èª²å¾Œ that you linked the other day, I am forever indebted to this blog XD
Hiro Suzuhira is female…..?
Who is on Kohaku this year?
Wow, nice haul [cue envy and drooling].
I cry with envy….Btw, is Arisa Mizuhara better than kipi-san?
I’m rather envious that you got yourself a press pass. Wish I could do that when I go next year.
Omg. Berry! Give me onegaishimasu! Hiro Suzuhira latest work seems awesome.
OMG! SELL ME TEH STUFF! ESPECIALLY TEH T2! Like… seriously… Orz
nice haul :)
a really good catch if I may say so.
and I better stop drooling if I want to keep my keyboard working.
Happy New Year dood!
If you’d be willing to sell the Clannad bag set (or the Haruhi one) directly to somebody not in Singapore, please contact me. I’m dying for this stuff ;_;
Nice loot you got there.
Lucky you
Nice one! Edit without acknowledgeable! now i look like the stupid one…
Scans of Re:frain. NOW. :V
u nid a heroes welcome when u come back to singapore?
Yeah, i’m kinda looking forward as to how you will sell them, need the T2 bamboo blade. lol NAO
lol@ what do phone cards do.
Nice stuff…I’d like the haruhi goodies.
Did the commercial booths do things like limit the number of goodies one person can take(e.g. maximum of one item per customer) ?
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omg those T2 bags are so hot.~~
all these posts about comiket reminds me of genshiken.
ahh! i want that haruhi bag too!
Whoah…Moe heaven. :] Happy New year !
I see that you are on a shopping spree during your few day’s stay in Japan. You sure enjoy yourself.
But do you have a luggage big enough to add these stuff in to what you brought along, DM? Looks like a lot to fill a backpack.
the T2 bags and everything Hatsune Miku related is nice…man even if the chances of me somehow obtaining anything listed here is slim I can still feel my wallet having a hole burned through it…*sigh* states have nothing. . .
I wanted the T2 stuff but it sold out by 1pm when i got there after waiting to get stuff from Ito Noizi and Joker Type. Damn
BTW, for those of you who want to buy C73 stuff that we brought back:
http://www.riuva.com/?p=936
Wow, i cant believe how popular Miku Hatsune is O_O
Then again, i live in australia.
Lin Kagame, and Rin Kagame.
One is a boy version and one is a girl, yes?
… which is which O_O
Ah, and you got to meet Arisa Mizuhara! To cool.
I envy you ^^;
You are lucky that you went to Comiket. I’m planning to go for summer Comiket. I still like that loot you have!!!!!!
Do non disgusting Hatsune MIku doujins even exist? I’m tempted to make one but like no one in America would buy it because everyone’s too busy foaming at the mouth at Bleach and NarOoto.
Come to think of it have anybody tried to buy Arisa CD-ROM online? Cuz I dun seem to find find in the JP yahoo auction :( And I dun think in sg gt sell her CD-ROM >_>
Actually, there is a small Singaporean import company selling them.
You can contact them at:
japanhaven@gmail.com
92259236 (everyday)
67467448 (saturday only)
Ill be glad when I finish studying the Japanease language so I can go to these events. Im soooooo excited!!!!!!!!
What’s HEART-WORK?