/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Another key aspect I think is that doujin culture already existed and was well established before Touhou appeared in Japan. People already part of a circle could try making something with it, Comiket visitors would get to know that new series and ultimately more people would join and create their own circle. This wasn't the case at all in the west when Touhou began spreading on the Internet, and two decades latter we still have nothing remotely close to it.
Doujin is a cultural thing, you can "import" a series relatively easily with the Internet but importing a whole culture is a lot more difficult especially when an important part of it is a physical location to buy and sell that we don't have.

>I'm guessing that they saw the emergence of fumo and yukuri in normalfag circles and decided that now is the perfect opportunity to make some quick bucks.
To be fair the idea of making a Touhou convention in the west is not new, some people already wanted to make somthing like that around 10 years ago. Unsurprisingly it never worked out, there's just not enough people to offset the cost of renting the necessary space and not even enough to fill that space in the first place.