Oh man! I am totally psyched for Comiket! I'll bet it's something that you've never heard of. Comiket is short for 'Comic Market', and it's Japan's premiere doujinshi convention. Doujinshi are fanmade manga, based on anime, manga, or game series. Perfect if you want to see other peoples' takes on your favorite series. The event is three days long, and each day has a different theme. Friday the 12th is primarily video-game centered, although there are also some manga series featured too (I noticed GanGan - they publish Fullmetal Alchemist, among other things). Saturday is dedicated to other manga series - primarily Shounen Jump (there are huge sections dedicated to One Piece, Naruto, and Prince of Tennis). Sunday is like, bad hentai day or something - it's seriously all porn. I'm definitely going on Friday and Saturday, but I think I'll pass on Sunday. It really is catered to guys. ^^;
Next week, from Wednesday to the next Tuesday, is Hitachi's summer vacation, so I'll have that Friday off. Le woot. I was flipping through my catalog and I randomly landed on the Pop'n Music section. SCORE! I am going to raid the Deuil section because I will kill to get my hands on any doujin featuring Yuli. XD Actually, I recognized one person whose website I've visited a couple of times. I'll have to drop by - maybe they'll draw a sketch for me. That would be totally sweet. I hear that if you bring a sketchbook with you, you can ask artists for drawings, and they'll do them for you, free of charge! I wanna fill up a sketchbook with drawings by doujin artists. X3 Just have to remember to pick up a sketchbook this week.
You have to really be familiar with a series sometimes, to figure out what different circles are featuring. They tend to shorten names to the first one or two syllables...
The catalog really opened up my eyes to stuff that I wouldn't expect to see. I mean... Lord of the Rings doujinshi? Aragorn x Boromir? Oh man, my eyes!! Some pairings are just disturbing... Although the single offering for Isildur x Elrond just made me laugh. Of course, right after LotR comes the huge Harry Potter section. I had to strain my eyes to find straight pairings amidst the plethora of male/male pairings. Draco x Ginny? o_O Hm. I might drop by there if I have time, although I'm not a terribly huge HP doujin fan. Things I definitely have to check out will include Fullmetal Alchemist (Ed and Envy... does it exist? I feel like everything is RoyEd... blech), Final Fantasy VII (Reno? o_O), Pop'n Music (Deuil!!!), Naruto (SasuNaru? KakaIru? I wonder if NaruHina exists...), One Piece (ZoLu = so cute :3), Legend of Zelda (Link <3) and probably ten thousand other things that haven't sprung to mind yet because I haven't finished flipping through the catalog. I got too excited and I had to calm myself down by writing this. I'm sad that I won't be able to understand anything that I buy. Need to improve the kanji skills. ._.
Anyway, I got a bit of planning that I need to do before I'm ready to go. I have a bunch of floor maps that need to be marked up and stuff. Gotta get the sketchbook, and also contact Pong and see what his plans are. The lines will be really long and I don't want to wait alone, so it'd be nice to hang out with him. Haven't seen him since June either...
Oh yeah. One last thing I want to do. Take pictures of Japanese cosplayers. They tend to do a fantastic job, and I really really am looking forward to seeing them. I need to make sure I've got spare batteries. ^_^; My only problem is that of money. I'm not getting paid 'til after summer vacation (;~;), and I'm down to a couple hundred yen. Makes day trips a difficulty. I might have to find myself an ATM. Geh! Didn't want to have to do that. I knew I shouldn't have bought all those CDs over the past few weekends. Sigh. I wonder how much a single doujin costs...
*smacks herself* Nothing's going to dampen my enjoyment and anticipation! Lookin' forward to it!
- Flykyr Skysong
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