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08 Manga: comiket ^[$@%3%_%1%C%H^[(B
Short for "comic market". Comiket is Japan's largest market for manga
doujinshi, established since the late 70s, and held twice per year over
two days. It is a gathering of epic proportions, now featuring nearly
20,000 doujinshi sellers at each event. Its current character and success
has largely been due to the efforts of Yonezawa Yasuhiro.
The bulk of doujinshis are devoted to whatever manga and anime is popular
at the time, but a vast range of tastes are catered for, with doujinshis
devoted to video games, pop music, animals, machines, novels, movies,
RPGs, and much more. A comprehensive catalogue of attendees goes on sale
some months before each event.
Japan has many other comic markets, which are generally tolerated by
publishers because they are thought to increase sales of manga and anime,
not decrease them. But this tolerance is not without limits - in one major
incident, Japan's second biggest comic market, Comic City, was cancelled
in August 1994 after official warnings that Chiba police would check
doujinshis for breaches of censorship laws.
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