/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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>especially when an important part of it is a physical location to buy and sell that we don't have.
Comiket is hugely important. The west certainly had "doujin culture" before the Internet and before Touhou, but with much smaller events for things like Star Trek only. The scale, the regularly occurring events, and the cross-fandom nature of Comiket all contribute to a general doujin culture, rather than isolated doujin cultures among different fandoms and conventions.
>To be fair the idea of making a Touhou convention in the west is not new,
I saw one of the organizers posting elsewhere while they were still doing preliminary work for this new convention. They were involved with Touhoucon as well, so they are definitely not just some newcomers looking to cash in on Yukkuri videos. (They were also clear to distance themselves from Touhoucon.)