My hands are currently shaking between Click and Not Click. Is it gunna be another Pamplona with an occasional daredevil getting gored? Scary thots...

It's amusing because staff are seemingly there to reduce fare evasion and keep the gates open. Note carefully the fare evaders in the gate videos. Some of them push through the gates and ignore the staff, some due to being in a rush to be first.
But the others are very much definite fare evaders - those who slide their arms on the upper sensor of the gate like this demonstration while the staff aren't looking at them. (staff do know about this trick and there seems to be a functional purpose for it when testing the gate, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCS51EOuxM

I will add that considering the absurd amounts of money some spend on their doujins, you'd think they'd have money for a relatively cheap train fare!

The infamous cloud of ota sweat. Probably smells worse than a furcon that lacks aircon and deodorant.

On that side note, JMoF is on this weekend in Toyohashi. Just to make it train related, I did find amusement in having once ridden on the same train number as someone else.

The world record in 4000-m dash was broken 972 times that day.