A short photo essay on scale.

[solarbird]

Here's a short photo essay on comics/manga in Japan.

Comic Market is the big biannual manga convention. They have these regularly. Here's the poster from last winter:



And here's the poster from this immediate past summer, as printed on the cover of the catalogue.



I saw both of these at Nippon 2007, of course, the Worldcon. They had a big exhibit area, which featured is a scale model of the Comic Market exhibition halls. Note the use of the word "halls," plural. This is not multiple copies of one model; this is collectively one big model. Note the use of the word "scale" in front of model. It is to scale:



Let's zoom in to just one of these halls. Note how big the halls is. I would describe it as pretty damn big. I've been to COMDEX when it was COMDEX, so I have some good comparison material here.



That's still pretty far out; let's zoom in further, to one section of that same room. I'm not 100% sure, but I am fairly certain that this subsection would be larger than the PAX exhibition space, in part because...



...each one of those little squares is a booth.



Last winter's convention was nr. 71. Last summer's convention was nr. 72. These are not flukes.

Oh, and by the way, not to brag or nothin', but that Animate store they're talking about lately in Megatokyo? I earned some Gainax points buyin' stuff there. The store? It is seven stories of awesome. ^_^

Comments

[oh6.livejournal.com]

Let's see, looks like 3 repetitions of 7 tables followed by 5 tables, lengthwise, repeated 4 times crosswise, or 144 tables with, let's see, 32 booths on the regular tables, so something like 4500 booths total in that one hall, and it looks like 3 halls, or 13000+ booths. The convention guide would be like the phone book for a small town.

[solarbird]

It's difficult to tell in that cropped photo, but the 72 cover is on that exact phonebook you describe. ^_^

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

They're not like, serious about manga or anything, are they?

*duck*