Sexy Akiba Detectives
joined Feb 8, 2014
I thought Maekawa was really air-headed and open-minded, but that last page put the entire chapter into a whole different light. I bet 10(figurative) bucks that she is completely aware and pretending to seem "air-headed" on purpose, and that she simply wants to affectionately tease Shimizu and get closer to her. Maekawa seems like a really confident, unfaltering type of person who doesn't get flustered. At least not visibly.
Edit: If Maekawa actually is that air-headed, or rather carefree, then so be it. However, I still feel like she lied about going to the wrong hall. If a ticket is required, then it's likely one won't be getting in at all with the wrong ticket. I'm not sure what it's like in Japan, but the first time I went to a convention there were people at all the entrances and exits to make sure no one snuck in. Maekawa definitely knows more and is more aware than she lets on.
a good amount of larger japanese doujin events (comiket, comic city, tokyo fes i think) don't have ticketing; also, a lot of smaller ones just allow walk-in after around 2PM because either they run out of catalogues (that's what you use as a ticket in a lot of events) or they've already covered their costs
There's enough visual cues (and one line of dialogue later on in the series) to assume it's probably Comic City Haru she was at, so yeah, likely just plausibly free entry, and it's Tokyo Big Sight so you could definitely enter the wrong hall there. (she could have been at a Sunrise/Sunshine Creation tho... which would make less sense so let's ignore that.)