Comiket 101 Records 180,000 Attendees Over Two Day Event
Tokyo Big Sight for Comiket 101 (photo: Daryl Harding)
Ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Comiket has been limiting the number of people allowed to attend the world’s biggest anime and manga event well below its historic highs. Though that may be the case, Comic Market still boasts the biggest event of the worldwide anime calendar with its Winter 2022 event, which was held on December 30 and 31 being attended by around 180,000 people.
コミケットにとって、2023年は2022年よりもすばらしい1年になる、そう信じます。なぜならこの3年間、2020年のコミケットが開催できないという最悪の状況から、参加者のみなさんと一緒に、一歩ずつ前に進んでこられたからです。今日まで本当にありがとうございます From #C101 to #C102 pic.twitter.com/LdcSTthsM1
— コミックマーケット準備会 (@comiketofficial) December 31, 2022
The 180,000 attendees were split over the two days, each having around 90,000 participants, the cap for the event with tickets sold in advance.
This is a 10,000-people increase from the summer event in August 2022, which recorded around 170,000 people over its two days. Comiket has not announced whether or not they will be increasing the number again for Comic Market 102 though they are aiming for 120,000 attendees “If relaxations of COVID regulations by authorities proceed.” The event staff noted that the 2023 events will not be returning to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, which saw an estimated 750,000 people attend over a four-day period.
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Comic Market 102, which will be the 2023 natsukomi (summer comiket), is scheduled to be held on August 12 and 13 at Tokyo Big Sight. Circle applications will be held from February 21 to March 6.
Source: Mantan Web
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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.
