@wgiwf @Arkana America also has no doujinshi scene (the sad, warped imitation that's had the term slapped over it as marketing doesn't count) in all its messy, porny, self-indulgent, IP-holders-looking-the-other-way glory. The guideposts that temper and blood a prospective mangaka who's publishing doujinshi (and almost all of them did, right back into the '80s, and still do) are the exact same things that would've/still do get an American doing the same thing turned into a smoking legal crater.