C98 is now officially cancelled and kill due to COVID-19

Don't underestimate the amount of stinky girls that attend.

I hope this will force everyone to go full digital for doujin and manga distribution.

Not to mention C98 was 1 month from now while the Olympics were 4 months

unironically dilate

Now hopefully more artists will put their shit out on stores instead of making them venue-only.

I wonder if now that the Olympics have been officially postponed to 2021, maybe there's a chance that they will restore the August comiket? If the corona situation gets better in the next months.

I can't believe Corona chan killed C98 instead of the Olympics

Anyone with half a brain knew that was going to happen

Imagine the casualty

There's literally a day dedicated to stinky girls. Stop pretending trannie.

They will cancel 2021 next. Mark my words

I'd respond with imagine-the-smell but alas, this year the air of Odaiba will be a bit fresher than usual

Damn it.

When was the last time Comiket got cancelled/postponed?
Anyway anyone with half a brain could probably already see this coming.

That would probably too short-term.

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>If the corona situation gets better in the next months.
>If

>another year of muh Olympics fearmongering
>another spring comiket next year because the Olympics will be in the way again
>another year of 4-day with paid and mandatory wristbands.
>summer comikets will be odd numbered and winter comikets will be even numbered now
Fuck you, Corona-chan.

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The Olympics were never going to

I'd rather not. We still need our Japanese Otaku to live to sustain the anime and manga markets

How will the artists make their money?

I read something about how it's too soon to reserve the big sight in advance for that.
Also its sti technically reserved for the olympics in august even though it got cancelled

>summer comikets will be odd numbered and winter comikets will be even numbered now
But that's a good thing

Wait, it hadn't been cancelled yet?

Lol at all you EOPs who haven't had the chance to attend yet.

Now I can say it's overrated, but I was really hyped the first time.

Masaka!

maybe shit like Pixiv BOOTH?

>another year of 4-day with paid and mandatory wristbands.
That might actually be not the case. The 4-day thing was because of renovations of Tokyo Big Sight, which are supposed to be finished for the Olympic Games. The Games being delayed shouldn't prolong the the construction work.

They won't, unless they take the time to auction and personally send through mail all of them

japan's taking it more seriously now I guess

Will Mogra close down too?

Artists do not generally profit directly from Comiket. It's for the exposure.

By selling it on mailorder on Tora/Melon like usual. Comiket isn't really needed.

Heck, that's true. Bureaucracy and shit.

I don't think most of them do this for a living
unless you mean recoup all the costs they spent like printing

Can't they just do digital?

>It's for the exposure.
Then just expose yourself online.

Did anyone actually expect anything else?

They invest quite a lot of money in printing though. I hope they can still cancel that.

Local Amerisharts?

Do most of them even make any survivable income? Besides the obvious top guns. I'm sure they have a bunch of side gigs or else they wouldn't have survived this far

But everyone here keeps telling me they are fine and the country who's handling this pandemic in the best way

Why would they? Many of the artists are just saying they will just sell their books on mail order like they usually do after Comiket.

Some nips are already saying they're gonna increase the price of the wristbands for this winter to make up for the loss from cancelling this one though

Cancelling events like this is a part of handling it.

The reason they are trying to keep physical is to give the middle finger to internet purist police so yeah, you understimate the amount of doujins out there, I say not even the 30% are actually even scanned

FUCK CHINKS
LITERALLY THE NIGGERS OF ASIA

>Do most of them even make any survivable income?
No they don't, as all artists everywhere on the world who didn't come out big yet

They'll sell their stuff online I guess, for things they already printed at least?

>artists release their C98 books anyways through Tora/Melon
>unbathed otaku raid the stores on May 2nd to make up for no comiket
>coronavirus cases explode anyways
sasuga

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I can't imagine them selling as many as they would normally. And there are also these event-limited goods.

don't generalize because some idiots want to eat bats

But everyone and their mother kept telling me they didn't need to cancel anything, including the Olympic Games because they are already handling it so well
Olympic Games were only cancelled because the West put pressure on them by not sending their sport teams who were destined to fail anyway

Could they even sell their already printed stuff? Doesn't the virus live on paper for like a day?

Wait until the country goes into lockdown and all manga and anime get delayed.

they are fine precisely because they have cancelled all gatherings

>cancelled
Postponed.
Let's get the facts right.

Stop reading retarded shit written by clueless weeaboos.

I agree with this decision, yet people still go to work, are free to crowd restaurants, cafes, stores, they take jam-packed trains as usual. It's not coherent.