The Comic Market, which is twice a year, starts to line up at 4:30 in the morning and is banned from arriving at the venue before this time. However, the reality is that every day in the event, thousands of people will arrive near the venue late at night and start to line up

According to Comiket’s preparations, these night squads will cause law and order problems and cause trouble around the venue. The police will often prepare for the meeting. The existence of the night platter jeopardizes the existence of Comiket itself

However, why are the night stalkers repeatedly prohibited? What kind of people are you participating in the night platter? How do they perceive their own night row behavior?

In late June 2018, a blogger “Special Code” for a long-time Comiket person “モティ” (alias, then 37 years old) interviewed and released on December 31st. After the article was published, it triggered a lot of discussion, and the special code finally deleted the article last night

The truth of the article content, I have no way to conclude. I can’t agree with many of the points expressed in the article. But anyway, this is a very interesting article

According to the data obtained from different sources by the special code, the 94th Comiket held last summer, the night row has at least 18,659 people. The total number of officially open visitors is 530,000. In other words, one of the 30 people who participated in C94 was a night platoon

モティ has participated in about 35 times of Comiket, because every Comiket is held for 3 days, he has to go to the night for more than one day, so the number of nights is about 70 times. Due to physical strength, he is now unable to night out the Comiket in the winter, and he can only enter the general team

According toモティ% According to %@@, the night row is not disorderly, but has formed a system to a certain extent. They need to pick up the number of the night row first. Since the numbers were issued late at night, they could not go home immediately after receiving the number, so they had to stay outside the venue for one night. This number is universal for 3 days. If the number is late and the number received is later, it will be placed at the end of the night group within three days

The night squad consists of a number of small groups, each of which meets each other. They need to follow a lot of rules, and if they violate the rules, they will be punished and driven to the end of the team. If the nature is serious, even groups with nearby numbers will “sit”. However, at leastモティ I haven’t seen anyone who is “sitting”

These night squads will be organized into teams at designated locations under the strict management of the cos dressing staff known as “Golden Sparkles” and wait for the night to enter. This process is reminiscent of black market trade. For example, the staff will design the fake serial number for fishing. If someone tries to pretend to be the night group, they will be punished

C88 Photo of the night sitter

(https://twitter.com/tearunn/status/631872011237650433).

Although the staff mentioned above, the “staff” who manages the night sergeants here is not the Comiket staff in name. Because Comiket is prepared to be on the bright side and does not allow night platoons, it is not possible to guide their behavior

Under the management of these staff members, the quality of Comiket night platters has improved compared to the previous ones. The evidence is that the garbage left in the queue is not as much as in the past. But this is only compared to the previous Comiket night row. If compared with other fellow exhibitions, the quality of the night sitter is still not comparable. Other fanfare exhibitions are really not tolerant of night platoons. Comic City, which is second only to Comiket, may be there, but the latter is mainly female, モティI don’t know

And inモティIt seems that the overall quality of Comiket participants is declining. Perhaps as the popularity of the exhibition has increased, the number of people who look at the lively people and the “customer is God” mentality has also increased

Asked why you want to night, モティ% The answer to %@@is very simple: because someone else is at night. If no one is at night, there is no need to stay up late to grab the front of the team

The reason why I don’t care about the night, because there are many comrades who want to ensure success. However, as long as the doujinshi is not limited to this exhibition, there is always a way to get it.モティThe main purpose is to let the writers who show the exhibition draw their own paintings. Because signing takes time and effort, a writer can draw a limited number of paintings at an exhibition, so he can only get it first

He accused him of indignation, not just Comiket, the same person exhibition, and now there is a phenomenon that was previously unimaginable. There are also counterfeit consignors, thieves signing, and people who take high-priced resales. He slammed that the doujinshi was funded by himself, and most of the associations were losing money; signing was even more of a writer’s sacrifice at the show’s upstream time and drawing it out of good intentions. This nature is even worse than the large number of scalpers that have been purchased in large numbers for repeated resales

AlthoughモティCriticizes that others are righteous, but they ask the writer to sacrifice time to play at the show, He did not seem to have any problems with the good intention of painting him for free

In addition to the night row, there are other ways to enter the game in advance. For example, by applying for a booth, you can get a cloth permit that can be admitted in advance, but you don’t actually show the “fake club” and buy it on the auction site. Remaining cloth exhibition certificates resold to other associations

These practices are inモティIn the eyes, the nature is worse than the night row. He slammed the sin of the righteousness, the exhibition of the same person is the space for publishing the works, and the associations of the same people want to exhibit. For example, the “COMIC1” exhibition held this year, nearly half of the booths in the information and commentary area were occupied by “fake associations”. The scene was empty and very bleak. These booths were originally prepared for the community that published the works here

COMIC1 Many unmanned booths

(https://twitter.com/aruma_kanjiro/status/990822740411105282).

More and more people exhibitions have taken various measures to eliminate night platoon behavior.モティI hope that Comiket can also learn from similar practices. Among them, his favorite is the “reverse admission” adopted by the “Oriental Project” special exhibition “Boli Shrine Grand Festival”: let the people who come too early to arrange a separate penalty team, only after the specified time The regular line of people. After the regular team entered the game, the penalty team entered the game from the back to the front. The sooner you come, the later you will enter

It has also been suggested that Comiket can recognize night-street behavior and require night-sellers to pay “nightly tax” to cover the cost of staff and night management.モティI think this is a good idea, but it should be considered carefully. It must be taken into account that once this is done, it cannot be reversed

He advocates that basically it is necessary to work hard in the direction of the ban. According to the preparatory meeting, there will be thousands of people in the middle of the night, only Comiket, so it is very concerned by the police. In addition, there are still criminal acts targeting night occupants, and there are risks in security. In addition, if there is a problem with the physical condition in the night platoon, because the public transportation vehicles are all out of service, there is no way to leave the scene in time

AlthoughモティThe negative impact on the night row is a bit of a head, but is asked if it is negative for your night row behavior When he was guilty, he still answered “no.”モティI feel that no one in the night row will feel guilty. It may be because the night platoon is taken for granted

But as mentioned above, the night row behavior threatens Comiket’s continued. Is itモティDon’t care about this? He replied that if Comiket had it, he would participate; but if he didn’t, he wouldn’t care too much. Not only Comiket, the vast majority of fellow exhibitions have only such a heavy weight for him. It is important to show that he can’t live without it, only COMITIA

 モティevaluation, COMITIA is an exhibition that defines original works. The comrades published here are all created by the author from scratch. Those who have a second creative element and draw inspiration from the original to the comrades on paper often do not like it. The preference for originality, as well as the atmosphere of the show itself, is the reason why he values COMITIA

モティready to call Comiket, saying that he knows his night platter has troubled the staff. However, compared with other activities that are not completely banned, the impression that Comiket can “can be night” has been deeply rooted. He himself is not a good speaker, but he hopes that this problem can be solved

For Comiket’s changes over the years, モティCritics that he values the style of the writer and sees a variety of paintings. Although he also knows that the painting has a trend of ups and downs, but over the past decade, more and more writers of the same style have made him feel unhappy. Although the writers are different, the roots are all from the adult game brand “ケロQ” style. Although he believes that writers have their own pursuits, the direction of the pursuit may be too consistent

Another point is that he thinks that the world’s understanding of Comiket and comrades is too rigid. When you say it, you only know the animation of the second Huang Ben, the Cosplay under the media camera, and the eccentric doujin. The essence of Comiket was not conveyed to the world, and it was not good for him to tell others that he was also a house and also went to Comiket

After half a year after the interview, when the article is about to be released, モティadded some more content: he does not want Comiket to prepare for the night, because of default, management (in principle, not allowed) Criticized

モティsay, if you investigate the night platoon problem, you may see the word “originating sprint”. This refers to the person who arrives at the station closest to the venue from the first bus, then rushes to the venue all the way, and enters behind the night group

Although this behavior is more dangerous than the night platter, it is better to follow the rules, so it is still stronger than the night platter

If Comiket is ready to completely ban the night platoon, then the original night squad will join the sprint team

The railroad company has now temporarily transported participants to Comiket, and there is no way to continue to increase. Because the stairs, elevators, and ticket gates of the station are not enough. If the passenger on the last bus can’t get out of the station and is still crowded on the platform, then the next bus will come, and the passengers in the car will not come

So now, there will be long queues in front of the departure station for the route to the venue

So if the night is not allowed, the original night platoon will start to go to the night row. At leastモティwill do this myself

Now, Comiket’s people in the night row are actually only representatives of small groups. They stay in the vicinity of the venue to stay for friends. Although this practice is not glorious, it may be to reduce the number of people in the night row and reduce the risk. Comiket will close one eye

And if the night row is banned, it is not just the representative of the night row, everyone in each group will go to the station night

Preparation will not be possible to go to a station other than Shili. Instead of letting so many people lining up in three places that they can’t manage, it’s better to retreat to the top of the night

SoモティIt is believed that Comiket’s practice is a means of environmental prejudice. It is not a matter of management, and it is not completely contradictory to the night platoon. It should not be criticized. Of course, he also did not want to defend the people in the night

(https://tokutentokuten.hatenablog.com/entry/2018/12/31/052549)