Comic Market 74's catalog now on sale.

The catalog of 74th Comic Market(a.k.a. Comiket) published today. Comic Market is the biggest otaku convention in Japan held twice a year. This year it will be held from Aug.15(Fri) to 17(Sun) at Tokyo Big Site.

Not only the participating group info there also is advice for the first participant, a commentary about the history of the comics market, and so on.

Details are as follows...
(Japanese)The guidance of the comics market 74 catalog

Comiket officials says in the article that they start selling their catalog from today July 19th. It contains some useful info for those crawling into this enormous convention like comic reviews, reports from 73th comiket, "Comi-Navi" tips and advices for newbies, cell phone traffic analysis and so on.

Also there's an essay "Comiket 30th anniversaly report" written by Associate Professor Akashi Sugiyama of the Kyushu Univ and "Comiket's Function In The Development of Post-war Culture part 2" by Masakata Yoshida of the Tokyo Univ. Not only to spot your favorite author, the catalog also can be read to know the history of Comiket.

A direct price is 2000 yen. It's same when you buy at the Comiket site. It's 2400 yen when you want to buy one in your local bookstore.

Refer to the following page for the bookstore handles comics market catalog, for not so many bookstore sells it.

Shop list handling Comiket Catalog

This article was originally posted in Japanese at 00:00 July 19, 2008.