Doujinshi As Unprecedented Visual Subculture

It’s an interesting indisputable fact that usually most popular subculture is cooked up by somebody who seeks profit only, after which is fed to a hungry young crowd of fans. This is not always the case in Japan, though. The art is good for the art’s sake ‘s what comic market followers are probing for.

Yoshishiro Yonezawa, a novelist, critic along with a passionate supporter of popular manga subculture, invented a concept of founding an organization, market that is open for the non-professional manga artists who form their particular circles called doujinshis to make manga mimic artwork and magazines (that are called doujinshis, too). The idea became popular as Comiket, the most important comic market on earth, takes place in Japan each for three days consecutively each and every time in the winter months along with summer. There are far more than 35 thousand circles taking part as well as more than half millions of attendees.

It is a space where freedom of expression is preached over a large, and organizers never wanted so large a success of their creation. Before Comiket, young people who studied in senior high school or university, took part in comic markets as amateurs, and ceased to participate in after graduation. But in mid-seventies this changed drastically. It came into existence not really a hobby, but a lifetime passion, as many artists got appreciation and followers because of growing interest in doujinshi phenomenon. There are many than 2000 doujinshi markets happening in Japan each year, and Comiket is by far the most used one.

The actual idea have spread far beyond Japan as comic markets opened in Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, China and in many cases United states of america. The amount of doujinshi circles mushroomed as markets provided great opportunities for any many amateur artists and mangakas (manga artists).

In the beginning the predominant a part of doujinshis creators were women, about eighty per cent. Within the 1980s more males became interested, and now 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 have global importance.

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