I found the Romics event to be overall similar both events in North America and Asia. Less frenetic than in the USA where there is so much going on but a lot bigger than most events in Asia and with a greater variety of things to see and do. I took some pictures of some of the sales booths below.

This is a shot of the event hall from above to give you an idea of the size of the event. With 75,000 people attending over 4 days Saturday and Sunday were absolutely packed. Unlike many events in the US, Sunday was the day with the highest numbers.

This is one of the booths selling manga, there was a vast selection most of them written in Italian but some could be found in English or Japanese.

I found one booth selling dojinshi. Actually these guys had come out from Seattle with their manga to test the waters for the first time in Italy. Considering there were no other booths selling dojinshi (as far as I could see) they had their work cut out for them but it looked like the crowds on Saturday and Sunday made the trip worth their while.

As the events name was Romics naturally they also had comics. Here is one of the comic booths.

There was a fair number of comic booths with a great selection of special high quality comic anthologies as you can see here.

I found the Gundam Italian Club, they had displays layed out and were discussing Gundam with guests.

This is a mideaval armory club. It sounds like there are groups throughout Europe and along with some pretty cool armour on display they had pictures layed out of some of their battles.

Speaking of battles I found a sword fight area like in NYAF except here they were using soft swords instead of complete foam ones. There weren't attracting the crowds like in the US but that might have been because of the time of day that I was there.

There were about 10 to 15 tables laid out for card gaming.

Finally here was a neet booth of a group from Japan that had made the trip out selling girls highschool uniforms. They had a variety of colorful skirts, cardigans, ties and bows laid out. The girl on the left is actually a real live school girl from Japan! Pretty cool work considering she's still in school, I hope they did well, I did see a few people dressed up in casual school uniforms for fun around the event hall. I'll have more about casual school uniforms in an upcoming post.