It’s—
It’s too late to escape!!
It’s my first time passing under those inverted pyramids—
Seller’s section!
I’m not like my gross elder brother, an otaku among otaku!
Seller’s section!
Huh?
Big sight east and west exhibition halls, 12 halls About 95000 m2
The ‘only’ events at big sight are for large genres like ‘hong kong project’
It’s a normal building!? Where’s the inverted pyramids!?
Sunshine building (exhibition halls abcd) about 12500 m2 Tokyo metropolitan industry and trade centre (taito-kan) 4-7 floors for use about 5800 m2
Big sight sure is huge
Ota city industrial plaza pio exhibition hall about 1600 m2 *an ‘only’ event is one that features doujinshi about a single fandom
Today’s ‘only’ event is at the Tokyo metropolitan industry and trade centre*
Hyakuro translations
Enjoying joining a circle for the first time!
Ch. 43 what I’m able to do today
Is that a sticker? The circle participants at comikes, I wonder if they were wearing that?
Circle participation passes!
Ah hey, don’t just paste stuff on me
ow
Comikes had normal tickets Probably because there were so many circles there, they couldn’t do that much
Those are barely goods any more
Only at small events, I guess
Or magical keys
It seems like you get interesting tickets at smaller I’ve seen things like ‘only’ laminated events cards and fans
Well then I’ll paste one on you too akinachan
Here—
Yeah, please do
Akinachan
?
Not lucky, on purpose probably
Can I be the lucky pervert
Lucky pervert!?
Good morning
At big events at sunshine, there are more than 1000 spaces
Good morning
Stick one on me too
There are 200 spaces, this is normal for an ‘only’ event
I stuck it on my stomach
How crowded!
By the way, comikes has more than 30000
On the contrary, That’s a there are 100-fold differalso ence events with only 3 circles
Hm? Wait… a small event means...
Hm… so there won’t be that many people here In that case, I’m today safe? Just barely
safe
Akina-chan’s big argument
If that guy comes I won’t be able to avoid bumping into him—!?
I’ll take the hands and legs of your precious figurines and make a many-armed statue out of them!
Nooooo!!
Fuu now we’re good...
Ah, our space is over there
There’re so many flyers…
Got it!
You have to gather the flyDon’t mix in ers in this other trash bag trash as it will be collected separately later
are these all from the event?
As expected of miichan
I borrowed from various experienced people I have to repay the favour
Price tags
You even brought a trash bag, you’re so prepared
Anyway, these things seem to be useful
easel ehh
Cash box
Gum tape
snacks Small change
Bank note pouch
Hey what’s up—?
Something to hold posters
What’s this?
yo
Good morning, you two I brought refreshments
You say new issue, but we don’t have previous issues...
There’s no space for 5 people, go wild in the cosplay space
Wow cool, thank yoU!
Ooh thank Here’s you our new issue!
If we do it, your sales will explode for sure!
Want me to be a salesgirl?
okay Ah, by the way if you’d like
You make a really strong lily-chan, huh...
We’re doing greensan and lily-chan
You two are cosplaying today, right?
Crap! This feels like comikes again!?
Akina-chan, do you want to do it too? I have a green costume that I think will go well on you
Ne-next time!
the button won’t pop off this time!
Where’s our leader
Good morning—
Ah, staffsan, good morning
I came to collect the sample magazine
Well then, we’ll come again later
That’s me!
We had such a circle name…
Well then, thank you for today
I’m really nervous somehow
Was our participation confirmed when we applied...
Here, it’s the new issue from the circle ‘maple mio time’!
Okay, I will check it
I couldn’t use ‘umino saki’ so I just improvised
Akina-chan, how did you decide on your pen name ‘akisaki nashino’? Oh yeah, I was wondering
It’s a simple anagram
Oh that’s amazing
something like this
You don’t have to think of it in terms of hiragana
She’s rearranging the syllables of her name
Ah that?
Then— since I’m ‘sasamura kaede’—
For example, the word sasamura can become kigizuki hitari
Ooh!
Literally splitting up the words
Cool! Akina -chan, that’s cool! Can I have this name!?
Mii-chan you try you try!
go ahead
I’m fine with my real name
Anyway the book’s already name, it’s no use making a pen name
...ehh
What’s with that
I’ll be back in about 30 minutes, we can swap then
Help me get the new issue from a32a!
Then I’ll go outside, it’s too cramped for 3 people
Oh yeah, it’s opening time you guys
I’m kind of nervous too
Are you okay? Want some tea?
Uuu I’m getting nervous
thanks
I only made the book because kaede wanted to make it—
I’m not an otaku—
How many people will see it?
How many people will buy it?
My heart won’t stop pounding
It’s—
Prepure ‘only’ event ‘rainbow punch’ 16 has begun
It’s not selling at all!
No one’s even stopped to look… why—
Ahh he picked it up!
He-hello
ah
Time to swap, you can go out
Okay, I’m going to orange island
Welcome back miichan
ouch
Come on what are you doing
Look elsewhere, look elsewhere
Uuu that’s true
Good grief, if you stare so hard it’s hard for people to browse you know?
That sucks!
That’s why I said 30 copies would be enough
Can I be honest?
For miichan who always speaks her mind to ask that, it’s scary… yeah
But no one’s buying it
Even when Can’t com- I compare pare to it to the wall cirbooks cles nearby, I though* don’t think it’s inferior...
But why?
*wall circle status means a circle that is popular and sells many doujinshi
I told you
It’s because it’s a light novel
Because it’s a light novel
I’ll die
It’s my fault it’s not selling right!?
It’s probably due to kaede?
Wait wait hear me out
Ah... Unlike manga and illustrations, it’s hard to skim through a light novel
What I would do… I’d see the posters and the book cover, and flip through books that I’m interested in—
Akina, what do you do when you buy a book from a circle you don’t know?
Although I uploaded a sample, nothing’s changed much
To be honest, getting the book done was a miracle
Until then, I’ll hang around here
yeah
While manga also depends on this largely, a new manga is You can still easier tell if it’s the style to find on you prefer the day from a glance
That’s why the success of a light novel is pretty much determined by how famous the author is
We only heard about this event 3 days ago
Well, if people come later in the day, maybe more people will also see the book
Looking at it again, you need various methods to get people to see your products
Make goods like huge posters and display books—
Game circles let people play demos
Wait what? That circle—
It sure is Impressive… this is really tough...
Ah! Isn’t it onee-san!? I’m glad that you came here again
Head of the circle akina bought her first book from
This is thanks to onee-san too!
Uehh it’s my first time as a wall circle, I’m so emotional that will be 500 yen
Thanks to me?
Wow you’re participating today, Wait you’re a I’d like the new issue wall please! circle!
Well—… actually at that comikes, I thought, this isn’t selling, let’s give up
Well it’s not that heavy of a thing to say
Eh!? You said it so lightly!?
If I’ve finally made a book but it doesn’t sell, what’s the use, that’s what I was thinking
I’m glad that among all the books at that huge venue, you chose mine
I’m glad that you bought my book
Because even if I don’t get a book done, I can put it online
So even people who draw like this can have books that don’t sell...
I’m glad I blew such thoughts away
That’s harsh...
But—
I think that was a moment I’ll never forget
—
Sorry for holding you up
Ah sorry I’ll be back soon
Sorry— the queue is getting long, could you come in—
No, I’m glad to have talked to onee-san I hope you’ll come again
Since I’m not really an otaku, it shouldn’t matter whether the book sells or not but—
It shouldn’t matter but...
But—
It’s frustrating that people don’t even look at the book that kaede and mii-chan worked so hard on—
I want the two of them to be as happy as that
furthermore
What can I do right now—
And then, then akinachan did that! I’m back, you two
You took ages, where did you go—
Okay okay
Ah, thanks akinachan—
Cosplay isn’t unusual at a place like this
What Hibari said, what I can’t do, I know but
Even so, what I can do is—
The new issue from the circle ‘maple mio time’, for 200 yen! Please take a look!
Please do not raise your voice as it may be a nuisance for the other circles
So-sorry
Please take a look
Leave it to me!
It might be good to draw and display sketches
How can we stand out more
All that’s left is to call it out clearly Please take a took
Uh, can I see this?
go-go ahead
We did it!!
One please
bueh
Thank you
we
Ah sorry, sorry!
Well then—
Again? It’s a yellow card
Good job—
Sto-stop that, don’t exaggerate kaede
I’ll go too
It’s thanks to akinachan, she was so cute
Hm, to be tired so easily is a sign of the It can’t be weak helped, I, Hibari-sama, will get drinks for you
How ‘kind’ of you
Good job for the event!
I thought selling 5 copies was a huge feat
I know, it’s all blurring together
That’s normal for kaede
In the end we sold 18 copies
For some reason I don’t remember half the things that happened
You didn’t sleep well last night either huh
Haa I’m so tired
I want to shower and get in a bath now
Yeah— but somehow… I don’t know how to say it—
That was awesome It was awesome
That was awesome huh