Blue Archive, VTubers Take High Spots Among Humorous Market 106’s Cubicles

On June 6, the self-described Genre Code Tankentai (Genre Code Followers or actually, Genre Code Expedition) launched the unofficial count of fan circle cubicles for the next Humorous Market, Japan’s most attention-grabbing event for promoting self-printed dōjinshi works. In accordance with the tallies pulled from the event’s online catalog, 22,760 circles will participate at Comiket 106 this August. Here is about a 26% plunge from Comiket 105’s whole of 28,763 closing December. However, Comiket 104 in August 2024 saw same whole people as Comiket 106, at 23,858. (Humorous Market most regularly has lower attendance throughout its summer season events when put next to the wintry weather ones.)

Each and each fan circle must enter a genre or fandom class when registering for a gross sales insist, and Genre Code Tankentai measured how every class is increasing or timid from Comket 104 and 105, every in raw numbers and within the share portion of the event’s whole whole.

For Comiket 106, the VTubers steal the pinnacle reputation amongst genre categories with 1,432 cubicles or 6.29% of the tiotal, followed by acquire and social video games at 1,272 cubicles or 5.59%. Among particular titles, the Blue Archive recreation and tie-in anime maintained the pinnacle reputation for the fourth Comiket in a row, with 1,842 cubicles or 8.09%, followed by the Uma Musume recreation and anime franchise at 796 cubicles or 3.50%.

Blue Archive has a pretty inaugurate by-product works policy for fans, which contributes to the trusty presence at the biannual event. In accordance with the Blue Archive web save, Nexon permits people or corporations to make non-commercial by-product works of Blue Archive. Unfortunately, Nexon states the principles most attention-grabbing observe to Japan.

Sources: Blue Archive’s web save (link 2), Genre Code Followers’ X/Twitter story via Yaraon!