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Comic Market 98 Scheduled for May 2-5 to Accommodate Olympics

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda

The official website for Comic Market (Comiket), Japan's largest event for selling self-published dōjinshi works, revealed on June 9 that Comiket 98, the summer Comiket for 2020, will be held during Golden Week on May 2-5 of that year instead of the usual August. The event's usual Tokyo Big Sight venue will serve as the main press center and international broadcasting center for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from July 24 to August 9, 2020.

Due to renovations for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Comiket will have less space at its normal venue of Tokyo Big Sight for the two events this year and Comiket 98. Comiket will still place the regular dōjinshi circles in Tokyo Big Sight's existing West Exhibition Hall and two areas in the South Exhibition Hall, but the booths for commercial companies will be about 1.5 kilometers (about one mile) away, in the Aomi Exhibition Hall near the Rinkai! train line's Tokyo Teleport Station.

The organizers of Comiket announced last November that they were considering an entrance fee for their summer 2019 (Comiket 96) and winter 2019 (Comiket 97) events, due to the temporary change in venue. The organizers have not yet announced plans for Comiket 96 and Comiket 97.

Comiket 96 will expand to a record four days, from August 9 to August 12, 2019, and Comiket 97 will run from December 28 to December 31, 2019.

Comiket 94, held on August 10 to 12 last year, drew about 530,000 attendees across all three days. Comiket 95 ran from December 29 to December 31 last year and set a new winter record with 570,000 attendees across all three days.

Source: Comiket website via Hachima Kikō


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