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Free condoms to be distributed at Comiket anime fan event in Tokyo

Attendees at this month’s otaku gathering can get their hands on not just art books and posters, but limited-edition prophylactics too.

One could argue that for a long stretch of history, otaku had a built-in, practically bullet-proof method of protection against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases: being otaku. For many years, Japan’s manga and anime fan communities were overwhelmingly male and alarmingly unbathed, with the collective effect being a heavy reduction on their chances for sexual encounters.

Over the last few years, though, Japanese fandom has become increasingly gender-balanced and socially connected, to the extent that otaku-centric matchmaking services have even begun popping up. So with those changes to the dating landscape, it makes a certain kind of sense that at the upcoming Comiket, Japan’s largest gathering of independent comic and anime-style art creators, one booth will be handing out free condoms.

コミケで無料配布するコンドームが完成いたしました。

・ブース
12月30日西れ25a

皆様、是非お越しくださいませ。

なお写真に写っているコンドームは約500個ですが、少なくともこの倍はご用意しております。

ちなみにラブホでは月に約5000個のコンドームが消費されます。 pic.twitter.com/hk9BQKziaY

— 上野_ラブホスタッフ (@meguro_staff) December 13, 2016

Specifically, the condoms will be distributed at the west hall’s Re 25a booth, which is promoting the series Ueno-san the Love Hotel Employee (Rabuho no Ueno-san in Japanese). The franchise, which began as a manga and has a live-action TV adaptation coming soon, follows protagonist Ueno in his day-to-day work as a staff member at a fictional love hotel, which rents rooms to amorous couples by the hour, in the real-life Tokyo neighborhood of Gotanda, a noted second-tier hive of love hotels, hostess bars, and sexy massage parlors in the capital.

The condoms, which have an impressively thin 0.03-millimeter (0.001-inch) thickness, come in a custom-designed case (which, ironically, will make fans all the less likely to actually use them, for fear of damaging the original packaging). The booth is planning on giving away a total of 1,000 on a first-come, first-served basis on December 30, so fans will want to arrive early if they want to come home from Comiket not just with rubber straps, but straight-up rubbers as well.

Source: Otakomu, Twitter/@meguro_staff

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