Thanks for the memories, Comiket...!

Thanks for the memories, Comiket...!

Everyone, I'm going home!

Everyone, I'm going home!

Hitori's Summer Wars have ended.

Beginning part of the tale of Comiket

~The first day~

Towel

Hitori

The night before the summer Comiket (C76), Hitori packed his bags...

The night before the summer Comiket (C76), Hitori packed his bags...

Towel, check! Wet napkins, check!

Cooling patch, check!

Sunblock, check!

Sunblock, check!

Sunblock

Sunblock

10 second charge, check!

Tokyo Hitori Adventure 2

Deco HurlPlay on Deco Girl

Weider in ZeruriPlay on Weider in Jelly.

Someone commented on a thread that water and tea would make me take too many toilet trips, so I'll take Po●ri even though I hate it... check!

Hakurei's Yummy SweatPlay on Pocari Sweat.

And then!!

Five pieces inserted.

*Izayoi*

Bra for sales promotion, check!!

Even though this is everything I need for avoiding death,

I have successfully packed them all into a small space.

No matter how much I try to lighten my footwork,

there would still be a megaton-class weight on my back due to the anxiety of being a newbie!

"Comic Market"!! Even lukewarm otakus would have heard of its name. It is the biggest subculture festival in the world!

Since writing "biggest in the world" wouldn't mean much to those who haven't experienced it, to put it in numerical terms...

The small doujin events that pop up everywhere have 100-200 participating circles.

A year ago, I enthusiastically joined my first event, "Sunshine Creation", which was a large scale sales event that recruited 2400 circles.

And the upcoming Comiket is a completely different league, with twelve thousand circles a day, over three straight days!

By the way, I heard that renting the Big Sight for three days takes around six hundred million Yen.

Butt sunrise!!

... And, as I was worried about this and that, it went from the event's eve to the morning sunrise...

Come to think of it, I must have been a kid who couldn't sleep the night before a class trip, an exam and a school festival...

Comiket is tiring. Make sure you give your body some rest the day before.

Alright, let's go!!

This looks somewhat like Nitori, but someone requested a twin-Teruyo!!Mashing "Twin tail" (tail is usually pronounced "teeru") with "Teruyo" (i.e. Kaguya).

Kaguya! Keep your cash in separate places!

*Mom*

You don't need to tell me. I've already hidden them in my sock, mom. Oh, and I'm Hitori, not Kaguya.

*Izayoi*

To digress, Mom doesn't know that I draw manga.

You always get targeted straight away, so if you don't stay alert, you'll die in Tokyo!

For this summer Comiket, I only told her that I'm going on a trip with friends.

I was very hesitant about drawing Mom as Eirin.

I'll tell her next time, I'll tell her next time... That's what I keep thinking, and I've done three works, but...

Noooow, then. While Sakuya is away,

I'm going to eat these yummy PADs with gusto!

You have much to learn, China. Smell this! The elegant scent of this cooked rice...!

Oh, did you cook the rice with the discharge of the "essence of elegance"...?!

With this, you won't even need side dishes...

From today on, live as a teapot!!

Nooooo

Black tea, black tea.

But, for some reason, I could never show her.

But, that's fine... Now is not right time to tell her.

When I can stand on my own two feet... When I get a proper job... When I can feed myself by drawing...

That would be the time to puff my chest... And tell her that I draw manga...

I'm sorry for being such a useless son, Mom...

Take care.

I hope the selling goes well.

And so, Hitori sets off on a journey to Tokyo...

I was so surprised, I nearly shat myself. Really.

Mikku Mikuuuuu

My home

Foreign territory

Allow me to explain the schedule of the first day of my three-day, two-night trip.

Depart from home at seven in the morning, meet up with my two circle mates at the station, then head towards Chitose Airport at Hokkaido.

Land in Tokyo Haneda Airport at noon. Take the airport-to-Big-Sight express bus to arrive at the destination. We are ordinary participants on the first day, so we will be free to do as we please. After the close of day, we will meet up, check in at the hotel, and prepare for our circle participation tomorrow.

By the way, and this isn't a pleasant topic, we increased the number of copies by quite a lot, so if we sell every copy at the event hall, we would be just in the black!

... is what we thought until seventy thousand disappeared to plane tickets and hotel fees. What a red magic.

However!

*Teruyo*

That doesn't matter!

Do people draw doujins for money? Do people stop making comics when they are in the red? There are times when I draw so much, a new hole opens in my butt. And there are times I feel desolate when someone passes right by, ignoring me.

I can never get used to the pain of someone flipping through my book, then walking away.

Ran-shama and Kitty

Meow...

However

One, please.

Meow!

Just hearing those words once would make me so happy. It makes me feel like it's good to keep drawing.

I guess that is why I haven't given up making these stupid books.

Even if other people disapprove,

I still have this undeniable "love", that is for sure!! That is why I am going to Comiket!!

No one can get in the way of this passion......

Arriving at Tokyo.

Okay, this is impossible!

I didn't know... I never knew a summer like this exists...

*Teruyo!*

Big Sight

Money Hermit

END Thank you for reading!

Can't leave things that way, and I already uploaded a similar joke around the time of Reitaisai.

I head towards Comiket with my two allies.

Persevering with our combined power!

Or rather, to be honest,

money does matter!!

Take care of your finance...

It's hot... It's too hot...

However...

As we got closer to the Big Sight...

The heat gave way to "fever"...!

All... All the people here are hopeless otakus who spend all their Obon vacation days to come to Comiket...!?

Lukewarm... You're just lukewarm, father Sun... The "passion" of all the people here... is boiling at higher than body temperature...

The direct sunlight from overhead and the reflection from the asphalt; the sauna-like humidity after rain and typhoon.

This place is a burning hell, and it is fitting to call this a death march.

Marisa Sou'uke Book

However, being in such a hell,

the eyes of the warriors shine even brighter!!

"Passion" is not a special right of those who create... Everyone has his or her own "loves". This is Comiket!! THIS IS COMIKET!!

Spoils

Mmmm! Mmmm!

Yeah!

Let's share it evenly!!

Okay.

Sorry about the late introduction, but she is our circle's lone female "Maako"!The phrase 紅一点 (lone female of a group) shares the same kanji 紅 as Meiling's surname.

Okay, I'll introduce myself now!

Brothers UniteYes, it can mean unite THAT WAY.

This is nothing unusual, but she is a woman who cannot live without homo.

I can't help but love what I love!!

That was a bit over the top, but in reality, when I got there, the entry limit had already been lifted, and the lines outside had disappeared.

It would be more accurate to say that the stalwarts who had been lining up since the morning were already heading home with expressions of satisfaction on their faces.

Wooooh

Sakuya, wait...

On the go time

End of line

Cute

Vaguely remembered Take it easy!!

I'm not looking for any particular circle, so I guess I'd just take it easy and have a look around and try to get a hang of all the buildings around here!

However, that thought was sent flying when I saw the lines at the commerical booths!!

Buhaa!? Who said there aren't any more lines outside!? I wonder if there are still any Pixiv art collections left...

When I looked around carefully, the crowd around me was more visually brilliant than how I imagined Comiket to be.

Maybe the stereotypical otaku are actually hard to find, but... The first day is more geared towards the ladies... So it must be the best behaved day of the three days!

May I take a photo?!!

Look here

But don't worry!! Comiket isn't an event only for buying things!!

Wooooooow A whole bunch of Touhou characters!!

And now, suddenly, the man who awoke as a photographer who met up with us at Tokyo, the conscience of our circle, "Kiyuren".

It's no good, I give up... I don't have the guts to be a buyer...

Cosplay square

If I rolled a bowling ball here, I'd probably get a high score...

But this report has been substituting characters, so you can't tell who's who!!

By the way, he used to live in Hokkaido, but due to the irresistible existence known as "the company he works for", he was taken to Nagoya!! As to be expected of a dog of the Shameimaru organisation.

please!!

"Nagoya is hot." "Nagoyans complain a lot." He badmouths everyday! What a jerk! He should just die! By the way, I think Nagoya is wonderful. So, all the Nagoyans out there, please give me a full score of 10.

Now that I'd separated from the hustling Kiyuren, I was a no-camera traveller...

At that moment, I noticed a particular fact.

Ahh!?

Cosplayer-san is looking at the camera...

That means...

I snapped photos!! I snapped so many!!

Ooh, show me, show me!!

If Kiyuren reads this report manga, he'll probably say, "I wasn't like this," but he was.

What a great place Comiket is...

Though I do not have a camera, I'll burn this sight onto the film in my heart...

However, you never notice a mistake until it is all over... And this time was no different.

Standing in the Player-san's blindspot, so in diagram form would look like this.

I would definitely be at the corner of photos someone took, as the "young man who stared at the legs". I'm sorry for being born.

Oh, and I forgot to draw my glasses again.

From this position I'm standing,

I can violate her legs with my eyes to my heart's content!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh It's Great Legs-samaaaaaaaa!!

What a sight!! What a sight!!

Look here, pleeeaaaase.

* I didn't ask if it's okay to put this in the manga, so I hid the faces.

What's going on here!?

"As long as it brings a smile to someone's face, foolishness is beauty," I think. To all the cosplayers, whether for a joke or serious, thank you very much.

After this and that, the first day came to a close. Everyone was supposed to return to the hotel, but...

I'm taking this girl with me, so...

Okay... Let's go.

The only female, Maako, embarked on a journey to the women's world.

It was a small sign that she was going to sleep in.

Only the guys returned to the hotel.

Kiyuren was acting uncharacteristically hyper.

Comiket is so much fun!!

So much fun!!

HA HA HA HA

HA HA HA HA

I actually think that you had the most fun out of everyone!!

I also couldn't help but be hyper.

We didn't really shout out loud. That would be bad.

But, don't get the wrong idea! Our ordinary participation today is not our true goal!!

I have my duty as an artist!! I have my main performance with circle participation!!

Salad

Meat Sauce

Curry

All-you-can-eat

Two choices......

Take care of your finance...

Money Hermit

This place is cheap... I knew this place is cheap, but two choices...

Ohhhhhhh!!

Uhohhhhhh

Men, the battle is tomorrow!! Prepare yourselves!!

Eat, bathe, watch pay TV, then we switch off the lights!!

The all-you-can-eat at Reitaisai was delicious!!

This time, we'll again eat whatever we like, as much as we like,

and build our energy for tomorrow!!

Without building our energy, to be continued for the second day!!