I apologizing for not updating sooner, the staff was completely exhausted after day 3 of Comiket, and then immediately training for over an hour to Chofu in Tokyo for a press event. Essentially, Dwango, the parent company of Japan's largest video site, Nico Nico Douga, invited roughly close to about 100 of their premium members to a Billy Herrington event.
Goodsmile Company was also there to announce a few new Figmas of Billy. We'll have the full coverage report later with plenty of photos as well as some video we recorded of the event. We actually got lost a few times before finally finding the place by turning on the data roaming option on my phone and downloading a map.
As for Comiket itself, day 3 the entire staff split up and met back in the afternoon. Surprisingly, we got the chance to meet with artist Inu, who is probably best known for creating the original doujinshi, Hatsu Inu. Inu-sensei was very pleased to know that he had fans in America and thanked everyone who enjoy his works. Look forward to a future interview by us with Inu-sensei coming soon!
Today was a resting day, as half the staff woke up past 12PM. We dropped by Akihabara for a quick visit to see some of the stuff we may have missed at Comiket. To our surprise, the streets were packed with people carrying bags we saw at Comiket. Stores that sell doujins were fully packed with people pushing and bumping into each other just like at Comiket. There was even a line to gain entrance into the doujin floors of the anime store Toranoana complete with a person carrying a sign for the end of the line, again just like Comiket. We also went back to visit the floors we missed at the 2nd hand anime store, Mandarake, and surprisingly I finally found the item I spent a week so far looking for in Tokyo. Lets just say I am finished with my purchases and am not looking forward to figuring out how to pack everything back.
We will be heading off to Kyoto and Osaka for the next few days and will be back in time to cover Animelo's 10th anniversary and possibly the Gundam Big Expo. We are still working out the details currently on doing some coverage on the Ghibli's Museum. We'll keep you updated on that later. Until then, stay tuned!