Comparison of the number of visitors of 2 big animation events TAF 2013 and ACE 2013, how crowded was it?

At Tokyo Big Sight from March 21 to 24, "Tokyo International Anime Fair 2013"On March 30 and 31 at Makuhari Messe"Anime Content Expo 2013"Was held. The number of visitors for both events has been announced.

March 24 (Sunday) Number of visitors Bulletin | Press Release | News | Tokyo International Anime Fair 2013
http://www.tokyoanime.jp/ja/news/press/886/

First of all, the number of visitors to Tokyo international animation fair 2013 for 4 days is Kore. The number of visitors includes buyers as well as guests from overseas besides ordinary guests, but the number of media stakeholders is different.

March 21 (Thursday): 17,28 people (241 people press)
March 22 (Fri): 13,294 people (151 people press)
March 23 (Saturday): 4,227 people (205 press)
March 24 (Sun): 39,721 people (88 people press)
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Business Day Total number of visitors: 20,422 people (press 392 people)
Public day Total number of visitors: 80,148 (293 presses)
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Total number of visitors: 105,170 people (press 685 people)

Meanwhile, the number of visitors to Anime Content Expo 2013 is here. In the material of Anime Content Expo, it is written as "visitor", but it is unified with "visitors". Also, the number of visitors is different from the number of media stakeholders.

March 30 (Saturday): 35,341 people (press 289 people)
March 31 (Sun): 34,817 people (227 presses)
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Total number of visitors: 71,59 people (press 516 people)

Since TAF exceeds 80,000 people on the public day alone and ACE is over 70,000 people, TAF has more visitors than simple comparison.

The state of the actual venue looks like this, first on the first day of the TAF 2013 Public Day, before the 1st - 3rd hall of the Tokyo Big Sight which became the venue, a queue was made in the passage on the second floor.


If I draw a little more, a matrix is ​​also formed on the lower left, the first floor of the photo ... ...


this is"Pretty Rhythm Dream FestivalA customer waiting for entry. Takara Tomy Arts has developed an arcade game for girls "pretty rhythmIt is an event of.


Waiting for TAF entry is here.



A place a little far from the entrance waiting queue, waiting queue for stage viewing.


A picture of the venue just after opening


Although it was overwhelmed by the matrix of the event opposite to just that ... ...


Asato di KayA row of women seeking numbered tickets at the booth. This was due to the event scheduled for male voice actor to appear.


Before the event, there was a human front like this.


Not only female customers but such things,satelliteIt was held in the boothAKB0048Male fans gathered at the special stage of.


Overall it was not overly over crowded but not overly crowded, feeling that moving and etc can be done without problems and the exhibition can be seen as a sudden.


There is a large stage on the way across the venue and in the back of the photo.


It is characteristic that there were many exhibitions related to the whole animation industry.


In 2013 it was also a 50th anniversary from 1963 when the "Astro Boy" started broadcasting, that is, the Japanese television anime was the 50th anniversary, so the exhibition looks back on history.


There are lots of people in the food corner.


This bird's-eye view is on the 2 nd day of Business Day, so it will be four times as many as the public day for Public Day.


So, how about ACE 2013, the queue waiting to enter is like this. Since this picture was taken at around 9:30, it is one hour from the start of the preceding entrance, about 30 minutes after the start of general entrance.


The beginning is entering.


The place which glows at the upper right of the photo is the entrance gate.


In the lower right, booth matrices are too long, making it impossible to create a matrix around them, and those waiting in separate spaces.


A row in front of the booth where this is the main body.


Matrix formed at the wall


A long line was expectedAnimateIn the case of booths, secure wider space for standby from the beginning.


Venue bird's-eye pictures look like this.


There should be few people who have already entered, and some of you are supposed to be home, but you can not see your feet.


The waiting queue of the booth and the people watching the event are stopping, so the aisle is narrowing and it is necessary to move on the flow of people.


In the case of an event sitting down, it is gissiri until the last row like this


This is an open stage event, everyone who is sitting in the middle and looking around is standing.


Since the venue is different between TAF and ACE, I tried to calculate that the congestion rate will be different as compared with the number of visitors.

Since TAF uses three of the three halls from the East 1 hole of the Tokyo Big Sight as well as last year, it has three 1 800 m 2 1 sq.24,300 m².

One ACE is used by connecting from the 1st hole to the 5th hole of Makuhari Messe. Because there are five 1 6750 m 2 hole33,750 m². There are two main stages in the 5th hole and it is not a migration space, but the TAF which had set up a big stage in the Tokyo Big Sight East 1 hole as well as 2 middle stage and Kids stage was similar It is something like that, we do not consider the stage part.

Considering the number of people per area with this,TAF is 1.67 people / 1 m2 on public day average.ACE 1.05 people / 1 m². ...... It is the opposite result to the congestion rate seen in the picture. I do not know exactly what this means, but if you are thinking of supporting the animation industry, please also visit ACE. Incidentally, Tokyo Game Show 2012, which was held using Makuhari Messe 1 - 8 Hall, attracted 171,958 people in 2 days of general public. When dividing by the venue area of ​​54,000 square meters,1.59 people / 1 m²was.

Here is the comparison result of last year.

Comparison of the number of visitors at the Anime Content Expo and the Tokyo International Anime Fair, and the future of both events?


By the way, as an impression of ACE, there were booth events here and there, music and the like were flowing, and also there was a large exhibition, I received the impression like TAF before ACE and splitting.

As for what kind of past TAF was feeling,TAF 2010It is like this when. Pre-opening matrix.


Venue after 30 minutes have passed since opening.


People are crowded before the booth.


Perhaps I can not see the stage from people behind ... ....


The event at the big stage is buried in the back by customers.



further,TAF 2009So, with such feeling, people were overflowing to the entrance in front of Tokyo Big Sight before the opening.


First part of the matrix.


Customers at the big stage viewing


On the other side is the middle stage.


People who could not enter the stage are only enjoying the sounds through the wall.


These two animation events are held in the near term, as the movement of the revision of Tokyo Metropolitan Youth health development regulations from 2009 to 2010Comic 10 society such as Kadokawa Shoten, Kodansha and Shueisha refused to participate in the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF)Thanks to the background that he launched Anime Content Expo (ACE).

Now from the person the Governor spoke out of languorNaoseki InoseIt will be changed to Mr. and next year's animation event should be a story of whether to go back to the original ... ... It should have been a story to be a story .... Tokyo International Anime Fair 2014 already has been in Tokyo from March 19 to March 22 It is decided to be held at Big Sight.

When I listened to the animation content Expo side, I heard that the next year's holding is not decided at this time. If it is from a fan, it goes to the direction where there is a target work or a stage event, but as long as it is dispersed in both, as long as it lives in the metropolitan area, since transportation and accommodation costs are applied, one event It is better to have them do it all together, but what will it become like ....