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In the past few years, the most people visited Comike on the last day of Winter Comike last year (2007). And at the last day of Winter Comike 2008, doujin shops was crowded the most. Toranoana 1st Branch, Melonbooks Akihabara, and Messe Sanoo 3rd Branch limited the number of people entering the stores. At Tora 1st Branch, people once lined up from the 1F to the 4F to enter the 4F, doujinshi floor for men (which mainly sells adult doujinshi).

I'm gonna report about "Paper Bags came from Comike" I saw in Akiba on the 1st and 2nd days of Comic Market 75. Let me mention that I do not report the whole paper bags I saw in Akiba, and the number of photos is not proportional to frequency of paper bags I saw. Because of a recession (?), I felt like less people had lots of Comike paper bags this time. Also, I thought the number of huge Comike paper bags decreased.

Doujin shops in Akihabara on the 2nd day of Comic Market 75 reached the peak before 5pm. Last year (2007), Tora 1st Branch limited the number of customers entering its whole building on the 3rd day of Comike, but this year, Melonbooks Akihabara had a limitation on the 2nd day of Comike. Pictures below show what was going on at doujin shops in Akihabara on the 2nd day of Comic Market 75.

Comic Market 75 began! The number of participants for the first day of Comike was 150,000; 10,000 more people joined this time compare to the last year . Maniax-Z-san reported about Shimapan & Comike in here. In Akihabara, I saw so many people probably came from Comike, having Comike paper bags. At doujin shops, some new doujinshi released at Winter Comike were out. Pictures below show doujin shops in Akihabara and Comike paper bags I saw on the first day of Winter Comike 2008.

The 50th Nendoroid, " Nendoroid Saber Lion " was released on the 26th. It's a movable figure of Saber Lion, who appeared in PSP game " Fate/tiger colosseum Upper." Review by Hacchaka-san was "really cute like a foul," "the destructing power of crying face was amazing- among Nendoroid figures, this was specially cute, I thought."

Comic Kairakuten -February Issue- , which comes with an illustrated card, was released on the 26th. According to the information of the magazine, "all starts of Kairakuten gathered! Hanaharu Naruko wrote the cover illustration and a colored story. On top of that, Iori Nishi, Tuzuru Miyabi, Linda, etc, every illustrator who wrote Kairakuten's cover illustrations gathered grandly for the New Year issue!" On the cover, "Bukkake special issue for the year-end and a New Year" was written.

"Golgo 13 Anime Selection 1 WOMEN," which said "female as its theme, selecting carefully," was released on the 26th, and K-Books Akihabara sold it. According to the comic's information, "we selected the masterpieces from different kinds of themes that were used in anime 'Golgo 13.'" On the cover, "first time for me" or "sex of Golgo 13 is that selfish" were written.

A bishoujo game by Leaf, " Kimi ga Yobu Megiddo no Oka de " was released on the 26th. Before it was released, a clerk at a store said "we can't get as many as we wanted. On the release day, probably, refugees would appear?" In Nipponbashi, Osaka, it was sold out right after a store opened. In Akiba, " Kimi ga Yobu Megiddo no Oka de " was sold out at many stores by the evening.