By participating in Comiket, a circle makes itself known to the rest of the community, especially what its current line-up is. Whether the circle eventually becomes popular or not would depend entirely on how well it was able to reach out to the community.

While most of the doujinshi that you see in stores are adult material because they sell better, the reality is that comic market contains a huge mash of different stuff of just about anything, such as political critiques, books of reviews, accounts of personal travels, history books, research books, game strategy guides, pet books, concert reports, parody goods, music CDs, photography CDs, fashion and accessories, TRPG books, plush dolls, wrestling commentary, Mixed martial arts books, and a whole lot more stuff that will probably go on for pages if I had to list them all.

So… what I was trying to say was that there’s way too much stuff happening in Comic Market for porn to be a majority. But a lot of the ones that sell are porn related.

So… based on personal experience walking around in comiket all these years, I wouldn’t be surprised if only 1% or 2% of circles actually did doujin soft. It’s not a very popular genre because of the amount of time and work and the number of talented people required to make a game.

How is the Doujin Soft genre doing in the Comiket? is a very small percentage of the event or is very big? because to be honest the only thing that got me interested in go to the Comiket is for the latest Doujin games, the scene is every year more bigger (at least since 2000/2002, with EFZ/Tsukihime/Melty Blood/Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and others)

>(3) Copyshi and their pricing

Furthermore I’d say if publishing Copyshi or better said the prices attached to these would really just be as high as they usually are due to Circles aiming to make high profits, then it would be completely illogical that most Circle that release those laterwards re-publish/re-collect them in Doujinshi format (i.e. TINKLE who’ve appologized on their Official site’s BBS for the limited availability of their SunCre39 Copyshi and at the same time assured their who’ve not been able to get ahold of it by then, that this release would be collected within their upcoming ComiComi12 publication)

Though I have no idea if the shutter circles are actually allowed to go much higher. But most of the biggest shutter circles seem to sell out after 3-4 hours even with limit of 2 per person or 1 per person.

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Yeah! Those big money guys that do doujin for a living. Man some of them actually sell upwards of 100,000 copies through the doujin stores.
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(3) Regarding copy books is especially ridiculous; people don’t make them to sell money, they’re produced either when you don’t have time to finish an offset or as a special extra for fans who take the trouble to come to the event in person instead of buying afterward via a specialty shop like Toranoana.

(4) It is exactly special treatment that places large circles against the outer wall, but as the post says, the treatment is warranted due to traffic flow issues. It would be hell to have a major circle anywhere other than at the perimeter of the hall.

(5) The math there is incorrect; major circles can and do sell upwards of 10,000 copies of their books on a single day at Comiket (people buy multiple copies of a book at a time, or single copies of multiple books, etc).

(7) Requires a bit more complex analysis than is given. It’s very hard to sell original work at the volume of parody, for starters, and the general consensus among artists is that following the popular trends of the season is where the money is at if you’re looking to maximize profit.

(10) It’s about making money for some circles (though not for the vast majority). Even for the “pro” circles Comiket is only part of a larger business strategy that consists of several other events each year and consignment sales at specialty shops, possible online digital sales, and other professional work (not doujin-related).