FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU: Check out the Comiket crowds

6:00 PM on 08.15.2009   |   Dale North

Odaiba is a sandbar that sits in the Tokyo bay. It's basically an entertainment island where shopping centers and restaurants and the like are piled up, all set on a beach. Nice place for a date, really. It's also the home of mega-convention center Tokyo Big Sight. Go on a Tuesday afternoon and you'll find a very quiet little island. Go during, say, Comiket, and you'll be swimming in an ocean of otaku. Oh, and a life-sized Gundam helps.

Check out the above footage of Odaiba during Comiket right now. Holy sh*t. People are lined up forever. I bet you it smells there -- and that's not anything against Japanese otaku or anything -- that many of any people in one place is going to smell like something.

I've been watching friends Twitter feeds, and almost all of them are talking about the queues. Japanese like to wait in lines, or at least they act like it. Our ex-pat buddies and visiting Americans don't. But it's worth it, right? Doujinshi and Geass cosplay and giant robots, oh my!

[via altafista and Japan Probe]

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