9th Comic Exhibition @ Taipei – Last Day

Kumeta Kouji was here a few days ago, apparently.

I said that I was going to take more pictures if I go again. Guess not.

9th Comic Exhibition @ Taipei – First Day

I actually hadn’t planned on going, and in fact didn’t even knew this existed until last week. Unbelievably, it was my mother who convinced me to go, because she wanted to experience an anime convention. She is awesome.

Taipei Show Hall 2 – North(-ish) Entrance

Anyway, I don’t know much about this or anime conventions in general, which is why I spent most of my time gawking instead of taking pictures like I should have; I’ll be visiting again on the last day, though (18th, Monday). In any case, it wasn’t a very big event, pretty much a local (ie. Asian) affair. The seventeen or so major stalls were all manned by publishers and big companies of that ilk – Kadokawa Taiwan, Bandai, etc. so there wasn’t much in the way of doujinshi.

At the deathbed of a dear friend

Anyone know is remotely involved in the anime community will know of the fairly recent frenzy going around. The industry blaming fansubs for decreasing sales, subbers blaming the industry for not bringing in shows fast enough to profit from them, and on it goes. Naturally, both are responsible and guilty, but they don’t seem to be particularly keen on cooperating any time soon, and most likely, never will.

Simply put, the anime industry is staggering and on the edge of collapse.