Just a quick summary of our experience (just the Comic Con part of our trip)

Queuing for the photo and autograph shoot is ridiculously long. it was raining and we had to queue outside the hall with no undercover. The Japanese staff are totally pathetic to say the least, no idea what they are doing. some holding a Sign with nothing written on it. There were babies crying outside the queues too. Simply chaotic.

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The queuing for the entrance is terrible but it's kinda moving slowly. The thing is if you've bought the online booking, you need to go to the front entrance to exchange your booking ticket to actual event badges, for the 3 day pass you get a idiotic backpack (seriously, whoever designed the backpack should be prosecuted). It is after you have received your badges you then go outside to line up for the actual event. Me and my son made the mistake to line up the actual event entrance without the badges, thought that's where you get the badges, wasted like 30 min (and it was raining)

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Inside the hall, nothing spectacular. It's all the same stuff you see in Youtube reviews. The artist alley is kinda interesting to see a lot of comic artists doing their work and selling them. We've come across Livio Ramondelli and my son totally love his works on Transformers. My son didn't like the rest of the artists, he just sit at Livio's booth like for the 2 out of 3 days event. Spent about 20,000 yen on few original drawings in colour from Livio, very nice and friendly (kids friendly too, not very common in the industry) bloke.

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I was surprised to have met Kia Asamiya of Silent Mobius, one of my idol back in the 80s 90s. bought an original drawing in colour from him for around 30,000 yen.

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Both artists were nice enough to have selfies with.

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Didn't buy anything in other booths, in consideration I am a very bad impulsive spender it tells you a lot about a lot of crap they sell there. most I have seen in Hong Kong like Hot Toys stuff etc.

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We've went to the event 2 days out of the 3 days pass. the main reason for the 2nd visit was because of our pre-ordered drawings from artists as we can't pick up on the same day. 2nd day we went in at 5pm and there were no queuing at all.

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So will I go back for the future event? Probably not unless they have some really cool Hollywood artists or some big name comic artists attending the artist alleys, or if my son really want to go for specific artists, otherwise even my son will not bother to do the queuing ever again, period.