Comic Market 102 Confirms Summer August Dates, Aiming for 120,000 Daily Attendees
Tokyo Big Sight photo during Comiket 100 by Daryl Harding
Comic Market 101 may still be a few weeks away but the organizing committee behind Comiket, Japan’s largest convention dedicated to official and fan-created works, is already looking ahead to their summer showing, confirming on Twitter the dates for the August event as well as daily attendee caps.
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Comic Market 102 will be held on August 12 and 13, 2023
If relaxations of COVID regulations by authorities proceed, we will try to aim towards the maximum capacity of the venue at 120,000 participantshttps://t.co/wn8RDZnofu
— Comic Market Committee (International) (@comiket_intl) December 2, 2022
Comiket 102, the next natsukomi (summer comiket), will be held on August 12 and 13, 2023, and the committee is aiming for 120,000 attendees per day, the current maximum capacity of Tokyo Big Sight at the moment. This is still well below pre-pandemic attendee levels of over 500,000 over the weekend, but considering it’s still at two days rather than three days that were common.
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The next fuyukomi (winter comiket) will be held on December 30 and 31 this year.
Source: Comiket on Twitter
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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
