Comic Market 60, August 10 - 12, 2001, Tokyo, Japan

Here we have Linus Lam standing next to the spiffy Narita Express train that will take you straight from the airport to the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, the proposed site of Anime Expo Japan in 2003. The fare from the airport to Shingawa is ¥3,310, or approximately $28.

The Shinagawa Prince Hotel, right in front of Shinagawa station.

The line to get into Comic Market is long. Were Anime Expo lines long?

There were a lot of costumers at Comic Market. But you should look at LLNN for them. Do you know the Village Elder from Hare Nochi Guu, though?

Village Elder has detachable chest hair (cf. episode 3). The creature he's holding up is edible.

Dim Sum Girl cosplay with steamer. Of the 200 Dim sum Girl cosplayers, she was the only one with a steamer prop. That's an oolong tea can holding her hair.

Here we have photojournalist Linus Lam in front of Tokyo Big Sight, the convention center that hosts Comic Market. Does it look like the Science Patrol headquarters or the UC San Diego library?

There were plenty of cosplay to appease the fetish for girls with glasses. This is just one of the few hundred.

There were only a few bunnygirl cosplayers. Look at all the guys with cameras surrounding them.

Tokyo Big Sight is the name of this convention center. Is that the elusive Linus Lam in the left?

The line to get into Comic Market just goes on and on.

And on and on.

See the line up close. More like blocks of people.

The structure way in the back the looks like a dome is the train station. The structure in the right is a hotel, if you're so fanatical as to book a room there.

Once inside, go down the escalators to enter the exhibit halls (all 8 of them).

Here's the exhibit hall. Each table has fan publishers selling stacks of dojinshi. The crowd is somewhat thinner than at peak time. Multiply this by 8 for the whole place.

Some dojinshi publishers are so popular that the line to buy their dojinshi goes long and can take 2-3 hours to get to the front.

Once Comic Market was over, there was the long line back to just get in to the train station. This was not a procession of people walking but a line-controlled line to the station and wrapping back once.

There's a new Animate store in Akihabara.

And it has 8 floors of store space, from B1 to the 7th floor.

Here's a panoramic view of the line to get into Comic Market.

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Last modified: September 1, 2001.

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