Comic Market 87 (C87), a record attendance of 560,000 for a Winter Comic!　NHK, Tamagawa Racecourse, Mikasa, etc. participated for the first time.

Comic Market 87 (C87), the world's largest otaku festival, opened on December 28 at Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake, Tokyo. The event will run until December 30.

Comic Market, also known as "Comiket," is the world's largest coterie magazine exhibition held twice a year, in August (commonly known as Summer Comic Market) and December (commonly known as Winter Comic Market). It is a "festival of otaku" held over three days at Tokyo Big Sight, one of the largest convention facilities in Japan, and has become a world-class event. In recent years, the three-day event has attracted 35,000 individual circle exhibitors, around 20,000 cosplayers, and over 500,000 total attendees.

→ Summer Comic in 2014
→ Winter Comic Market 2013

In the blazing hot or extremely cold weather and unimaginably crowded conditions, general participants head out to buy the books and goods they are looking for, but queuing for several hours at popular circles and company booths is a common occurrence. In addition, the problem of waiting in line all night to enter the exhibition hall has become a serious problem. During the event, the area around the venue becomes a veritable "holy war for otaku," and the people who attend the event, including those in the vicinity of the venue, are often forced to wait in line. In addition to these harsh conditions, in recent years, a "sophisticated information war*" has been waged even before the event opens.

*This refers to the practice of swaying other participants who are heading to popular booths or circles by spreading "false information" (e.g., "XX is already sold out, so it's no use going there now" or "XX has a lot of items brought in, so you can still buy them in the afternoon") in order to reduce the number of rivals as much as possible. In recent years, information warfare has intensified with the spread of Twitter.