It’s an interesting indisputable fact that usually hottest subculture is cooked up by somebody who seeks profit only, after which is fed to some hungry young crowd of fans. This is not forever the situation in Japan, though. The skill is good for the art’s sake ‘s what comic market followers are longing for.

Yoshishiro Yonezawa, a novelist, critic along with a passionate supporter of popular manga subculture, invented a solid idea of founding a company, market which is to be open for all you non-professional manga artists who form their very own circles called doujinshis to make manga mimic artwork and magazines (which are called doujinshis, too). The thought became popular as Comiket, the most important comic market in the world, takes place in Japan every six months for 3 days consecutively every time in the wintertime and in summer. There are other than 35 thousand circles collaborating in addition to more than half a million attendees.

It is just a space where freedom of expression is preached on a large scale, and organizers never dreamed of so large a hit of these creation. Before Comiket, the younger generation who studied in secondary school or university, taken part in comic markets as amateurs, and ceased to participate in after graduation. However in mid-seventies this changed drastically. It had become not simply a hobby, however a lifetime passion, as many artists got appreciation and followers because of growing popularity of doujinshi phenomenon. There are other than 2,000 doujinshi markets occurring in Japan each year, and Comiket is certainly the most used one.

The idea have spread beyond Japan as comic markets opened in Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, China and even United states of america. The quantity of doujinshi circles mushroomed as markets provided great opportunities to get a large number of amateur artists and mangakas (manga artists).

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

For more details about Doujin check this useful net page.