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<\/a><\/p>\nI spent less than expected at Comiket, probably because I already bought a ton of random doujinshi from specialty stores. Some pictures are NSFW<\/strong>. (Basically the T2 Art Works stuff.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T2 Art Works<\/a>, the famous Tony Taka’s<\/a> (aka Takayuki Tanaka) doujin circle, was selling goodie bags for \u00ef\u00bf\u00a53000. It contains a clear file, a calendar and a pencil board.<\/p>\n I also bought four copies of his latest release, Kiteru yo! Takeuchi-kun<\/strong>. (Based on Bamboo Blade<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n Kyoto Animation<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n 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<\/a>, so you will need to be in Singapore to buy them.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n I got this for \u00ef\u00bf\u00a53500. 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<\/strong>) and Tsukasa and Kagami (from Lucky Star<\/strong>) in the same style, but I decided to pass.<\/p>\n I also bought Arisa Mizuhara’s<\/a> latest cosplay collection CD-ROM. If you have never heard of her before, you need to check out her gallery<\/a>. She’s basically my all-time favourite cosplayer.<\/p>\n The best part is that I met her in person at her booth!<\/strong> I managed to get a picture too by waving my press pass around. Huge thanks to Danny Choo<\/a> and Akihabara News<\/a> for the pass.<\/p>\n The CD-ROM is somewhat expensive at \u00ef\u00bf\u00a52000 for eight galleries of photos, but it’s extremely awesome. You can find a list of all her past releases<\/a> on her website. There was actually a Singaporean trading company selling her photo collections at Cosfest<\/a>, but I forgot its name.<\/p>\n On hindsight, I should have gotten her to autograph my copy of the CD-ROM… Damn.<\/p>\n I managed to obtain one of the forty copies of Cradle’s<\/a> 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. :(<\/p>\n KEI<\/a> is the artist behind the official art for Crypton’s VOCALOID2<\/a> software series. I bought four copies of his new VOCALOID illustration compilation and one copy of his second artwork collection<\/a> (which I sold to my friend).<\/p>\n I didn’t really bother to queue for any commercial booths, but HOOK’s<\/a> HoneyComing<\/strong><\/a> 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. <\/p>\n My personal favourite purchase is Hiro Suzuhira’s latest HEART-WORK<\/a> release. She is one of my favourite illustrators ever because of her works in the SHUFFLE!<\/strong> bishoujo game franchise (SHUFFLE!<\/a>, Tick! Tack!<\/a> and Really? Really!<\/a>), specifically Nerine, Asa and Sage.<\/p>\n It has Hiro’s trademark design and Miku. What more can one ask for?<\/p>\n HEART-WORK’s booth was also selling a very beautiful Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Lin phone card set and a HEART-WORK collaboration calendar.<\/p>\n I queued over two hours for HEART-WORK’s booth. It was worth it. T_T <– Tears of joy.<\/p>\n I’ll talk more about the entire event itself in a later post. Really tired now. And, uh, an early Happy New Year! \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e3\u0081\u2018\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a6\u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e3\u201a\u0081\u00e3\u0081\u00a7\u00e3\u0081\u00a8\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u2013\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00ef\u00bc\u0081 I’m watching Kouhaku<\/a> on NHK right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n