The Comic Market (Comiket) Committee announced that the planned Comic Market (Comiket) 99 event will now be held on December 30 and 31 this year at the Tokyo Big Sight in its East, West and South pavilions. The team issued a press release, which wrote:
“ Although there is still a high degree of uncertainty, with infections on the rise again, today we announce our plans for Comic Market 99 in Winter 2021, given the time needed for preparations, such as circling, seeing the effects. of vaccination, and the increase in cases in recent weeks, we are trying to predict the situation a few months in the future. Therefore, we cannot deny the possibility of another postponement, in case the vaccination does not sufficiently improve the situation by the end of the year. However, if we don't plan and start preparations now, surely there will be no Comic Market »
The event was originally planned for last winter, but was then delayed until the 2021 Golden Week holidays (which took place in April and May) due to the COVID-19 situation, and scheduling problems considering that the Tokyo Big Sight's East Showroom will not be available until Fall 2021 due to the Olympics. However, the Comic Market Committee (Comiket) again postponed the event in March due to COVID-19.
The Comiket 98 event, which was scheduled to take place May 2-5, 2020, was canceled to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The event was planned for May 2020 instead of the normal August period due to the original schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July-August 2020. The last in-person Comic Market event was Comic Market 97 in December 2019, which drew a record 750,000 attendees over four days.
Sources: Comic Market's English Facebook page, Comic Natalie via Hachima Kikō
