![]() ![]() ![]() Niconico, Japan’s version of YouTube, has played a huge part in Japan’s (and our) internet culture.įrom the comments and “wwwwwwww”s moving left across the screen to the good old classics of yesteryear like Fukkireta and “I Cannot Defeat Airman, Niconico’s been around forever. Maybe it’s because working in 3D inherently makes them higher dimensional beings XD They generally come in pieces and are unpainted, so it requires some skill on your part to make whatever you buy look presentable, but even despite that relatively high barrier of entry, tons of people come to the event.Īs a side note, I’ve actually noticed that compared to Comiket, the sellers and people in general at Wonder Festival are way livelier and more talkative. Sculptors from across Japan gather at this one-day event held twice a year at Makuhari Messe, where fan-produced figures or garage kits are sold. (Similar to the USA, fanworks are a bit of a grey area legally, so copyright enforcement for fanworks can be shaky at best, but that’s a whole other story.) It’s the same idea of, “you can sell fan-stuff of our characters at this one event, and we won’t send the lawyer firing squad to your house!” but again, for figures. Wonder Festival is Comiket but for figures! You’ve seen Comiket for drawn fanworks, now we’re entering the next dimension. It’s like 80% porn, only really something you can only witness in Japan. You may already know what Comiket is it’s the most famous anime event in Japan. If lightning were to strike from it, it’d be an evil cartoonish purple. Scary story: One Summer Comiket years ago, an actual cloud formed inside Tokyo Big Sight made of 700,000 peoples’ perspiration. It’s a big deal, held twice a year: in winter and summer. That’s how massive the scale and subsequent crowd is at this event.Īll sorts of people, from amateurs who’re there to show their hard work, to the pros who have fans are lined up out the door for, publish doujins (self-published manga, for the uninformed) exclusively for the event. ![]() Probably the most important, at least culturally, out of all of these, Comiket is essentially a giant fire hazard spanning the entire Tokyo Big Sight that people camp out for from the night before. It’s in the animes, it’s in the manga, you’ve read Genshiken, right? ![]() There’s lots of events to choose from, but I’ve compiled a list of the largest, best, and most worthwhile anime events in Tokyo, complete with descriptions of why they’d be an all-around good time for youto check out in person, dear reader!Īnime Japan 2024 – The Biggest Anime Convention I’ve also mixed in some smaller and unique ones that definitely shouldn’t be lost with the big events, too. You’ll often find the big industry events, kind of equivalent to an E3 or a PAX but for anime, where all companies are promoting new series.Īlong with those company exhibitions, there are events that are essentially the “dealer halls” only, where people sell their fan-made or self-published work as well. Now let’s start this off by saying that Japan doesn’t really have an equivalent to a typical Western anime/comic convention.Īt conventions overseas, panels might be the main draw of an event, hosted all day by both fans and famous people, but in Japan, events tend to be more expo or trade show style. Anime events have spread all around the world with conventions, held all around the world.īut do you know what these events are like in Japan? ![]()
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