Canned Dogs

Touhou has had one of the fastest growing fanbases in recent years ever since the release of Touhou Youyoumu, and the popularity of touhou on nico douga over the past year has helped to create a surge of younger touhou fans, up to the point where they had crowd control problems during the recent reitaisai.

August Dojin Data Base went to the library again to check up on the number of circles doing Touhou stuff in Comiket over the past 5 years and here are the numbers:

Comiket No.	Circles
65 （2003/12/30）	7
66 （2004/08/13）	50
67 （2004/12/30）	98
68 （2005/08/14）	229
69 （2005/12/30）	232
70 （2006/08/13）	366
71 （2006/12/31）	574
72 （2007/08/19）	558
73 （2007/12/31）	793
74 （2008/08/15）	885

Also included below is a simple timeline of releases by Shanghai Alice and the number of circles in the other major Touhou-only events:

August 2003
Comic Market 64 (number of circles: 0)
Release of Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom

December 2003
Comic Market 65 (Number of circles: 7)
Release of Rendai no yakou ~ Ghostly Field Club

April 2004
1st Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai (Number of circles: 114)

August 2004
Comic Market 66 (Number of circles: 50)
Release of Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night

December 2004
Comic Market 67 (Number of circles: 98)
Release of Touhou Suimusou ~ Immaterial and Missing Power

May 2005
2nd Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai (Number of circles: 362)

August 2005
Comic Market 68 (Number of circles: 229)
Release of Touhou Kaeiduka ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View

September 2005
Touhou Kouroumu (Number of circles: 168)

December 2005
Comic Market 69 (Number of circles: 232)
Release of Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet

May 2006
3rd Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai (Number of circles: 680)
Release of Bouyuu Toukaidou ~ Retrospective 53 minutes
Release of Yougakudan no Rekishi 1 ~ Akyu’s Untouched Score vol.1

August 2006
Comic Market 70 (Number of circles: 366)
Release of Oozora majutsu ~ Magical Astronomy

November 2006
Touhou Kouroumu 2 (Number of circles: 338)

December 2006
Comic Market 71 (Number of circle: 574)
Release of Yougakudan no Rekishi 2 ~ Akyu’s Untouched Score vol.2
Release of Yougakudan no Rekishi 3 ~ Akyu’s Untouched Score vol.3

May 2007
4th Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai (Number of circles: 653)

August 2007
Comic Market 72 (Number of circles: 558)
Release of Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faith

November 2007
Touhou Kouroumu 3 (Number of circles: 463)

December 2007
Comic Market 73 (Number of circles: 793)
Release of Yougakudan no Rekishi 4 ~ Akyu’s Untouched Score vol.4
Release of Yougakudan no Rekishi 5 ~ Akyu’s Untouched Score vol.5
Release of Tasogare Sakaba ~ Uwabami Breakers

May 2008
5th Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai (Number of circles: 1,086)
Release of Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

August 2008
Comic Market 74 (Number of circles: 885)

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