RE: prevalence of gen, in the J-fandoms I'm most familiar with--12K, Sen to Chihiro when that was active, and Harry Potter--there is/was a lot of gen fanwork (fanfic, fanart, and doujinshi) made by fans I assume(d) to be female. I don't feel able to make a good estimate of exactly how much, percentage-wise, and it may not have been a majority, but it was a major chunk, such that if you eliminated all the gen, the total amount of fanwork would be substantially reduced.
(In fact I used to get frustrated that there was so much 12K gen, because I wanted pairing stuff. XD; And I would've thought 12K would be especially conducive to pairing fanwork, because the canon includes very little romance--so there is that lack to be filled--and it has a large cast of both male and female characters, which is also a key ingredient apparently. But in turns out that in this instance, a gen canon results in lots of gen fanwork.)
I'm glad you mentioned Touhou, because I'd never even heard of it. That's how distanced I am from male otaku spheres, I guess, orz.
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Date: 2009-10-13 08:20 pm (UTC)(In fact I used to get frustrated that there was so much 12K gen, because I wanted pairing stuff. XD; And I would've thought 12K would be especially conducive to pairing fanwork, because the canon includes very little romance--so there is that lack to be filled--and it has a large cast of both male and female characters, which is also a key ingredient apparently. But in turns out that in this instance, a gen canon results in lots of gen fanwork.)
I'm glad you mentioned Touhou, because I'd never even heard of it. That's how distanced I am from male otaku spheres, I guess, orz.