Comiket 77 Day 3: Booty and Even More Cosplay Pics

Not that kind of booty! Here's my (tiny) haul from the last 3 days:

From Shintaro Kago's booth. The illustration reminds me of someone I know inside what I see as an improved Taco Che. The booklet contains drawings of various ways to commit suicide. While that idea has been done to death, there are some really killer drawings inside. Maybe I'll do a post about it later. Mad street cred goes to the first person that can identify the movie poster in the background.

Although he was very polite, I couldn't help but feel that he was pretty annoyed whenever I or anyone else tried to talk to him. What can you expect?

The Kinnikuman yaoi book I mentioned yesterday. The story begins with Terryman dropping off his son at babysitter Kinnikuman's house. I'll let you guess the rest... Good grief.

There was a guy dressed as Waldo in the cosplay pit who refused to GWASH! for the camera, but gave me a piece a candy. Here's the cosplay. As always, the album at the end has 100+ additional pics.

This is Jaguar, I don't care what the guy in the costume says.

She had to learn the hard way...

... that there is nothing an adventurer dreads more than a box with teeth!

Shishou-Sama!

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More Saint Niisan cosplay, this time with Budda.

Tao Pai Pai's "殺" translated into Engrish.

I feel slightly ashamed for having known who they were... Award for most original costumes.

Caption contest time! Leave something in the comments.

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Comiket 77 Day 3

Comiket 77 Day 2: Cosplay Pics

Although moe pedophilic and porn manga still reigned supreme, the selection was slightly more varied on day 2. Comics about trains, cars, music, pets (chiefly cats), WW2, electronics, travel, and food tourism could be found in small pockets here and there, along with a gravure and idol section (which was so packed I didn't dare try to enter). After all that bitching yesterday, and despite all the far more intriguing stuff I looked at, the only thing I actually bought was a yaoi book called Kinnikuman Terryman Love Forever: Super Strong Love Machine... This time it looks like it's shame on me.

Again, there were hordes of talented cosplayers whom I didn't bother photographing. Today's crowd was much larger, making it a real pain in the ass to walk, let alone take pictures of girls surrounded by otaku foaming at the mouth. One awesome costume that got away was Robert DeNiro as Taxi Driver, I'm still beating myself up over that.

Sadly, he couldn't do the "eiga dorobo" dance.

Hige Danshaku was hanging with the Evil Axis. Renaissance!

The Noid with his pizza devastator robot.

A few of Nara's many mascots. Where are Sou-chan and Nii-chan?

I can see into men's skirts with these babies!

Prosthetic honkey face! Hitler!

All were men under 30.

This dude...

...and this guy kept having wig malfunctions all day.

What, how did they get into this post?!?!

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Comiket 77 Day 1: Rant and Cosplay Pictures

Malt Alt ruffled a lot of otaku bloomers with his recent CNN article on the state of anime, and after my visit to Comiket 77 today I am here to tell you that the situation is far more dire than he suggested. Not only has moe/lolicon taken over animation, it has completely ravaged the manga world. As far as I could tell, the only items targeted at males today were the same uninspired pedo-dolls, pedo-pillows and pedo-porn manga at every table.

What's even sadder is that the other 60% of the floor was covered in "boys love" books. Sure, I can't help but smile seeing Flashman give Megaman the flying camel or the entire male cast of Resident Evil in an elephant walk on the cover of a comic, but I don't think I am supposed to be laughing. Shame on you, ladies.

Is there really such a high demand for this stuff that the rest of the market has been eradicated? Apparently, yes. While it's easy to blame studios for making lousy, plotless harem anime, everything today was fan created! It wouldn't be so bad if there was even a hint of creativity or originality in the mix. Everything was just so humdrum and typical. Bummer.

Maybe those were just the themes for today, I don't know because I didn't buy a catalogue. Shintaro Kago and Kentaro Takekuma are going to be there on the 31st, so at the very least I can expect to see some interesting perversion.

That being said, the cosplay was top-notch! The cosplay zones were swarming with beautiful ladies who kept getting in the way when I was trying to take photos of creepy old men, Nazis and crossdressers. Here are a few choice pics:

My favorite costume of the day. He kept apologizing to me for cosplaying as Jesus.

The best and trickiest to take pics are candid shots at the concession stands.

This guy was pushing 50.

This mofo vogued and told me to take his pic before I even noticed he was standing next to me.

The vocaloid girl was by far the most common costume for both men and women.

Which did you see first: Douchebag otaku K-1 fighter or pedo-pillow?

Moe!! Gyoeeeee!

One of several WW2 Axis cosplay circles I ran into, and the only one that allowed photos. If they are there on the 31st, I am going to try to interview them.

Don't be fooled by his boyish charm, this asshole threw a fit after I snapped this, demanding that I erase it.

His Nazi evasive maneuvers were top-notch, but after flanking him for 15 minutes I finally managed to get a photo. Rather than get pissy, this jerk just seemed ashamed of himself.

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Comiket 77 Day 1