Ha, there’s no Day 4 for me. My list for this day is only Hisuitei and even then only the book so I’ll just wait for it to come up in Melonbooks.

This is probably the first time in years I don’t go anywhere on December 31st.

So I departed on 10:10 and arrived at the event area at 11:05.

Except there’s still queue outside to enter Big Sight. That was new. Should’ve expected it for day 3 – the porn day (part 1?). It’s raining so it’s quite a bit colder than usual. I also didn’t bring umbrella.

Finally got inside at 11:35. Crowded as usual and I planned stuff incorrectly as it’s the opposite of the traffic flow. I should’ve learned this by now… but I keep forgetting about it.

I first hit Eroliya and there wasn’t much queue.

And then MeltdoWN COmet – with a bit of queue extending to outside the event hall. That was doubly annoying with me having to take roundabout route to hit the booth only to go back outside to get in the queue. At least it didn’t take too long.

Afterward I went to Animal Herb. No queue there.

There’s no queue on Egoistic Honey booth either.

There’s a small queue on Botsugo but it’s already expected. Thankfully it’s pretty fast this time.

After skipping few shutter circles, I arrived at Ties booth only to find out it’s completely sold out. I don’t remember if I’ve ever gotten anything directly from their booth.

I think I passed TwinBox before reaching Ties and saw it’s got pretty long queue so I skipped that.

I then went to clean up the larger circles,went to Pan no mimi first as surprisingly there isn’t much queue. It was around 12:20. Goods set was still available as well but I went with cheap option anyway.

Queued a bit on Suzuya only to have the book sold out few moments after I lined up. Whoops.

Line for Peach Candy was pretty short at around 12:25 so I lined up and safely bought the books. I think the goods set was still available the time.

I think I checked TwinBox again at the time and passed on it as the line was still pretty long.

I did queue on kinokonomi at 12:35. Thankfully it didn’t take too long at around 15-ish minutes.

I then proceeded to go to other halls with faint hope getting anything.

Surprisingly Kogemashita still has the book when I arrived at 13:15. Went to upstairs hall afterwards. That was pretty nice with escalator as opposed to sloped path for going between West Halls.

Arrived at Ice and Choco at 13:20. No queue here either.

Jumped to West hall again only to learn Megane Shoujo is sold out already. This one is as expected.

As the only remaining things on my list being Tinkle and TwinBox, I went back to the West 1 Hall. TwinBox sold out most of the books when I arrived at 13:35, leaving me with just one of the older books. I guess I’ll grab the rest later or something.

As for Tinkle, well, the line was pretty long, and pretty slow. I started queuing at 13:50 and I think the goods set was sold out just a few people in front of me. That was interesting and thankfully didn’t affect me as I only wanted the book. It was at 14:25 when I’m finally gotten my Tinkle stuff and then promptly went home.

I slept late again previous night so I only woke up a bit before 10 which then promptly go to the station around 10:30 and arrived at 11:25.

Went to eefy booth first as they usually sold out pretty quickly but looking at the line, that just wasn’t really feasible so I went to Retro instead.

Arrived at Retro around 11:45 only to find out they’re sold out. Whoops. That wasn’t planned.

Then went to Mugendai and that was pretty easy. Then hit Kotatsu Room next, with pretty long but not too bad queue around 11:50 and was done at 12:05. Except I forgot to check my list and missed the two older books. Good job me.

Afterwards I went to upstairs halls for Takoyaki-batake and bought the new book. And as I mentioned in the post, unfortunately the other book I wanted to buy was sold out.

Around 12:25 I was back at Kotatsu Room queue and finished at 12:40. Not too bad overall though I noticed eefy was sold out 🙃

So in the end I missed eefy which I hope will sell the book at stores except they sometimes don’t. I hope they do this time as the new book seems pretty thick.

As for Retro, it’s already up in Melonbooks, so, yay.

It’s corporate booth day for me. Plus Kantoku. I departed around 11 and arrived around 12:30 after meeting a friend midway to get the cover he bought for me. Arrived first at Aomi to hand a friend a stuff for a friend (?).

Looked around a bit, forgotten about Ideabase stuff, then went to Big Sight hoping for some leftover Kantoku stuff but of course that doesn’t work as I was very late at past 13:00 when I arrived at the hall. Looked around a bit, bought the drink and then finally went home.

I should’ve written this post hours ago but I didn’t because I was half dead and tomorrow I’ll be half dead again because I should’ve slept so I can have 8 hours of sleep instead of 6.

The goods were sold out pretty quickly. At least I got my calendar with no queue around 15:00 when I arrived and then finished the puzzle game thingy.

Too bad the puzzle game took most of my time so I didn’t really pay attention to anything else…

Also my phone battery was dead.

It’s Denkigai. It’s in Belle Salle Shinjuku Grand, where it was also held few years ago. It’s a nice place though mostly just for nostalgic reason.

I didn’t intend to buy anything there and just passing by before going to POP Fes. And ended up not buying anything except for a friend. Also got a chance to take a quick look at the booklet. Maybe I should buy it for once at next event. If they’re doing it again next year, that is.

I’ve been playing some puzzles here and there during my whole life but this is probably the first one I actually paid good 3000 yen just to participate. And that it involves walking around Akiba. And in winter. And in Japanese.

So there are three parts, the first one was pretty straightforward, the second one was pretty confusing for me though now looking again it’s… pretty confusing. Someone smart should be able to solve it without hints but I needed a lot for the second part. All of them, in fact. The third one is even worse for me as I was dead frozen at the time. At least I cleared the one last part without relying on hint.

Also not much an excuse but my phone battery was dead for second half and it’s done mostly outside I probably should’ve went in to the cafe and solve it slowly inside or something. But still, the phone situation was pretty bad. Even worse I needed to listen to something. And I don’t usually carry earphones around.

It wasn’t even planned. I just toyed with the idea playing but never really intended to – hence no extra preparation.

But hey, at least I cleared it.

Timeline:

• 15:00: start
• 15:40: first part done
• 17:00: second part done
• 17:20: third part done