It has been nearly 5 years since we’ve been at Tokyo Big Sight. It was a bit moving to be back.

Comitia was not as large as it was in 2019, nor quite as high-level on design (for, I imagine, reasons of economics, time, health and sundry) but it was lovely to walk through a chunk of the hall to search Yuri circles.

We met up with Prof. James Welker and some of his students as they did fieldwork for class. They were lovely. Thanks for hanging with us! We also met briefly with Deb Aoki of Mangasplaining and the French translators she was accompanying. We lovely people.

We met Mutsumi Natsuo-sensei, the lead behind the Boyish² Butch x Butch Yuri anthologies and I briefly chatted with folks from Yuri Cafe Anchor, which we intend to visit later this week. I picked up some books by Taniguchi Shouichi who did Futari Escape and Tsukiko of Futaribeya as well as a couple of favorite circles. Here’s my gets:

We had a lovely dinner with James, then crashed and watched Mt. Fuji be amazing.

A night time walk around town and we found a second I’m In Love With The Villainess anime advert, this time in Ikebukuro Station.

While out and about, we encountered the Sailor Moon x Sanrio collab and dropped some money on stuff. Definitely some of these are for Lucky Boxes!

Today’s plans are a romantic lunch at a French restaurant, then Harajuku for more stuff!