/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Don't know about doujinshi but here's some old reimu fanart.

No one cared much until EoSD probably, because the PC is a larger and more modern platform. It probably had its doujin fans before though.

It's been popular, but only became really so in the west when the games were finally translated.

As for its modern state, blame IOSYS for popularizing the characters and PoFV for making nearly every meme about them.

>Moreover, does any one here knows what/have the first fan made touhou artwork ever?

I don't know what that is, but here is a pic of Reimu from 2001. It's the earliest pic I know of and was taken from Zun's site.

This is fanart but I find it funny.