>>83023164So I checked the details for that Nijisousaku thing. Registrations opened in January and the event itself was held in May. They booked a medium size hall with around 4k combined capacity. That hall is around 4k sq meters, the hall where comiket is held is about 230k sq meters, 50 times the area of the hall where Niji Sousaku 6 was held.
Funny thing is, the registration for this was immediately after the DLsite takedown, and their terms and conditions page (
https://nijisanji.familiar-life.info/circle)) implies that if you don't register for this event, you won't be able to sell any works that you make with Niji IP anymore, even those that you have already published.
It also urges you to register for the event even if you don't have anything to distribute on the day.
From a cursory look at the registered artist twitters, most of the artists of the event seem to have simply registered to get the rights to draw Niji livers and then distributed their stuff via booth and other sites. They never actually showed up for the Nijisousaku event.
Here are some pics I found of the event -
https://twitter.com/Shiraragiyau369/status/1529804156672045056https://twitter.com/Consid_Pierrot/status/1528233225763844096https://twitter.com/niji__sr/status/1526499273483091968https://twitter.com/QUPFTuVen1uhoNC/status/1526041304890609664https://twitter.com/azuazu_Zzz_/status/1525824943799562246https://twitter.com/kyo_ugg/status/1523271681799647232https://twitter.com/9S_haru/status/1522781335646920705Most of the pics are very close up, some areas are cramped and some are super open. It's hard to make a judgement on how many people that registered actually showed up for the event.
So... the "800+ circles registered" thing is probably true. But that registration also doubles as a right to draw niji IP after their shutdown of DLSite doujins, so people who just wanted to draw and sell art and fan merch with Niji IP would have registered for this, and the actual attendance for the event may have been exaggerated quite a bit
