Kantai Collection
Interest in "Kantai Collection" has significantly risen over the months following its release, to the point where it has often been compared with the fandom of "Touhou Project" as an emerging viral fandom. There has been a large increase in online activity and fan-created material relating to the game, such as fan-made artworks, doujinshi and other derivative content. As of April 2015, there are over 345,000 different artworks on Pixiv tagged with "KanColle" created by 67,000 individual artists, and KanColle-related videos on Niconico were watched 460 million times. During Comiket 85, there were 1,136 dōjin circles producing works for "Kantai Collection", placing third behind "Touhou Project" (2,272 circles) and "Kuroko's Basketball" (1,462 circles), and ahead of "The Idolmaster" and "Vocaloid"; this is a significant increase over the previous Comiket 84 event, which only had just over 100 circles with "Kantai Collection" works. Dōjin material relating to the game have also gained traction overseas; KanColle-exclusive dōjin events have been held in Shanghai on 22 February 2014, and Taipei on 29 March 2014.