Doujinshi As Extraordinary Visual Sub-Culture

It’s an interesting fact that usually most popular subculture is cooked up by someone that seeks profit only, after which is fed into a hungry young crowd of fans. This isn’t forever the situation in Japan, though. The art is for the art’s sake is what comic market followers are craving for.

Yoshishiro Yonezawa, a novelist, critic as well as a passionate supporter of popular manga subculture, created an idea of founding a company, market which is open for all your non-professional manga artists who form their own circles called doujinshis to generate manga mimic artwork and magazines (which can be called doujinshis, too). The concept became very popular as Comiket, the greatest comic market in the world, is held in Japan each for 3 days consecutively every time in the winter months and in summer. There are far more than 35 thousand circles engaging along with over fifty percent millions of attendees.

This is a space where freedom of expression is preached with a major, and organizers never wanted so large a success of their creation. Before Comiket, the younger generation who studied in high school or university, took part in comic markets as amateurs, and ceased to participate after graduation. However in mid-seventies this changed drastically. It had become not simply a hobby, but a lifetime passion, as numerous artists got appreciation and followers because of growing availability of doujinshi phenomenon. There are many than 2000 doujinshi markets happening in Japan annually, and Comiket is in no way the most popular one.

Now the idea have spread beyond Japan as comic markets opened in Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, China and also Usa. The amount of doujinshi circles mushroomed as markets provided great opportunities for any many amateur artists and mangakas (manga artists).

At the start the predominant part of doujinshis creators were women, about 80 percent. From the 1980s more males became interested, and today the ratio appears to be favor female artists only slightly.
We conclude that doujinshi is a visual cultural phenomenon which is shaped mostly by youth, yet its meaning and consequences are of global importance.

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