#dōjinshi

[jr-gloyd]

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Made another art submission for a showcase at work. This time celebrating the release of Tears of the Kingdom! Excited to play, though it'll probably be a little while before I get to it... Got a lot of backlog of games and work to finish. Who's playing it right away? Let me know what you think (no spoilers)!

#the legend of zelda #thelegendofzelda #tears of the kingdom #zelda fancomic #dojinshi #dōjinshi #zelda fanart #zelda-comic #gloyd-comic #zelda comic #gloyd-fan #gloyd-fan-art

[walderjohan]

#Hello guys #Here's an illustration i did following my inspiration. First I started with the armored lady and looking to fill the back space I came up w #armoredlady #rpgillustration #rpgillustrations #fantasyconcept #fantasyillustrations #doujinshi #dōjinshi

[ladsofsorrow24]

sometimes you just have to sit down, read your favorite comic in close up, and appreciate every single decisions the comic artist made in each and every panels, no matter how ugly or beautiful any of them looks

#reading my favorite serirei dōjinshi right now and #OMG my brain is blue screening right now because of how much appreciation i had for this artist #batoshiro-san is just so cool #i'm learning so many things just from studying their book #much wow #tmi tag

[selleryattack]

Hi! I just found your After Christmas comic and I LOVE it! I would love to read your earlier stuff, do you have a link please? Thanks! 😍

Hi! Sure. Here is a list with all of my comics. There are some only available in German.

Good Omens Comics:

Night walk

The betting profit (sequel to the bet)

The bet

After Christmas special (sequel to christmas story)

Christmas story

Some Cocoa

Solving Problems

My own Storys (german)

Cactus & Sunflower

Komplementär

Vom Feuer geküsst

[fafner]

(1997) Black Jack dōjinshi : MON DIEU! 3  •  悪役商会 • Ayami Kojima (小島 文美)

#black jack #osamu tezuka #ayami kojima #my scans #received this in the mail yesterday... her mind. #mine

[cinemautism]

Who do I think would be the favorite vocaloid of each community character because mixing special interests with hyperfixations is funny: part one

Jeff Winger - Hatsune Miku

Funniest shit I've ever said in my life

Anyways!! he would lie and say he thinks vocaloid is stupid

But he's actually a big Hatsune Miku fan

He would admire all the fame that she has and how versatile she is, and he would think that she is iconic (she is)

Favorite song? for some reason I think it would be Rolling Girl (by: wowaka - R.I.P)

Abed would be playing the song because he's a vocaloid fan and Britta would be like "Jeff ARE YOU CRYING??" and he would be like "😭😭😭😭 no"

Abed Nadir - Kobayashi Matcha

He would be a VOCALOID nerd so he would be a fan of a really unknown vocaloid

He likes Matcha because of her colors and sweet voice!

Also he would relate with her ("Matcha is described as being a bit of an introvert who is cool, calm, and collected. She hides her emotions and is quite blunt as her words are sharp and hurtful. In her spare time, she likes making fanzines/dōjinshi")

He has official merch, you can't change my mind

He went to an official show and a nico nico fes

His favorite song... I don't fucking know why but I think it would be Lower One's Eyes (by: lanndo)

Troy Barnes - Vflower / Masaoka Azuki

He would like Vflower because most of her songs are rap

Also he wouldn't know she's a girl 😭

"Oh my god I love Vflower he's so good and-" "... she" "huh" "SHE is so good" "... VFLOWER IS A GIRL??? ABED WHAT"

Also, he would be a Masaoka Azuki fan because she's Matcha's bestie and because she's kinda like him ("Azuki is described as being cheerful and positive unlike Matcha. She's very open towards her feelings and tends to act first and think later (...) she is awfully forgetful but eccentric person and somewhat impatient. She is also affectionate, effusive, and "clingy", often showing exaggerated displays of affection.")

He would find amazing that her name is a bean and he would understand her fear of kites

His favorite song would be "VIVA HAPPY!" (by: Mitchie M) but he acts like is "Egoist" (by: Oonuma Paseri) because he thinks it's cooler (everybody knows he's a Mitchie M fan but yeah Troy whatever!!)

Britta Perry - Megurine Luka

Doesn't know a lot about vocaloid but she likes it enough to be here

It's like when you show vocaloid to your mom and she is like "awww they're pretty ☺️" but instead of your mom is a bisexual pathetic millennial

"You guys don't get it, she's A GIRLBOSS and SHE'S PRETTY"

She would be angry everytime she finds a sad break-up song by Luka ("WHY WOULD SOMEONE BREAK UP WITH HER ????")

She would name one of her cats after her (as she totally should)

Her favorite songs is "LUKA LUKA NIGHT FEVER" (by: samfree - R.I.P) because she can dance with it

extra: if she was a vocaloid nerd, she would like teto because you don't have to pay for her

Annie Edison - GUMI

Thinks that the concept of vocaloids are amazing and cute

Loves GUMI and cried with her songs (especially the ones made by Circus-p)

She loves those "X vocaloid character singing X Taylor Swift song" videos

She acts like she is normal about vocaloid (she isn't)

Lesbian Gumi believer

Her favorite songs are Just Be Friends (by: Dixie Flatline) and Gimme x Gimme (by: Hachiouji-p and Giga-p) (but she would never say it outloud)

#community nbc #community #nbc community #jeff winger #abed nadir #britta perry #troy barnes #annie edison #vocaloid #vocal synth #hatsune miku #Kobayashi matcha #vflower #megurine luka #gumi #autism goes brrr #special interest x hyperfixation #study group

[19eyebrows]

Can someone send me the original source of this tragic Yaoi with the beautiful white-haired-guy and his corrupted, yet stunning boyfriend ?

Because all I can find is this weird Dōjinshi about the pink haired side character, called "Jujutsu Kaisen".

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #satoru gojo #geto suguru #sugusato #i honestly dont give a sht about jjk but i really love those two mf #i wish they were the main story #guys chill this is a joke

[wavy-arms]

So, the "sexy escape room" Renmitsu dōjinshi that I ordered finally arrived. They even gave me an awesome free key chain to celebrate my first order.

It's been so much fun to read, and the art is fantastic. But I have to say, my favorite part is when Rengoku and Mitsuri finally escape and are found by Uzui Tengen. Poor Rengoku is shook.

And Uzui's reaction kills me. It's perfect. 🤣 He's just like

#renmitsu #rengoku kyojuro #kanroji mitsuri #uzui tengen #kny #kny fanart #smut #doujinshi #dojinshi #rengoku x mitsuri #spicy content #18+ content #18+ only #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba

[grgr-gw]

prosciutto x reader🚺 Dōjinshi cover

prosciutto x reader🚺＜IF＞Survival √Book

la squadra x reader🚺＜All for adults♡＞

The pop is only the cover, and the inside is sex-obsessed.

（I also published several other [x reader] works. I think I will continue to draw it, so if you are interested, please follow Twitter as well.）（@koie593539）

#la squadra #x reader #prosciutto x reader #risotto x reader #golden wind #vento auero #jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #ghiaccio x reader #prosciutto jjba

[milfygerard]

found the manga magazine cover that gerard was holding in this picture. It went by both MangasZene and MangaZone It looks like a majority senin/josei fan magazine, with some focus on shojou and and shonen. According to the translated wiki page (below), It also was one of the earlier european manga/anime magazines to focus more generally on japanese youth culture outside of manga or animation, including fashion music and video games. It also had a strong fan driven bend, as a few of the covers and centerfolds seem to be fanart, and the mag had fan letters, fanfiction, and dojinshi involved as sections in the comics (more info under the cut)

Common inclusions mentioned are clamp (xxxholic and chobits both appeared on covers either by name or in the cover art) ghost in the shell, a manga I dont know called the geisha (or "die geisha" in german), and Nana amongst others. Gerard almost definitely bought this because it had a cool goth girl with a fuckass bob and huge boots on the front curled up next to an androgynous probably-vapire-maybe-dude character with VAMPIRE in all caps printed directly next to them. I know his ass can't read german.

I haven't been able to find any scans of the inside or any articles outside of the front cover centerfolds and occasionally the fist page of ads. This post is also just a quick and cursory few google searches, so maybe I'll find more info if I keep digging.

Here you can find the original german language wikipedia article which discusses mangasZene (rough google translate english translation below the cut, but I can't confirm its complete accuracy as i know zero german)

Here are high quality cover scans for seemingly every issue on an auction site called lastdodo

If you want to send me money so I can bid on and buy a copy of the german language japanese culture magazine that gerard way read once in 2005 so I can do a youtube video reading and discussing it donate to my buy me a coffee

MangasZene was a German-language specialist magazine for anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comics), which appeared regularly from 2001 to 2006 and was discontinued after another special issue in autumn 2007.

MangasZene was founded by former editorial staff of the anime and manga magazine AnimaniA. The first two issues from January 2001 and March 2001 were still published as MangaZone before the title had to be changed for naming reasons.[1] When it was founded, MangasZene was the first German-language magazine that went beyond concentrating on Japanese comics and cartoons and also shed light on Japanese youth culture as a whole. In addition to anime and manga reviews, it offered reports on games and Japanese music and lifestyle. In addition, the reader should be given the opportunity to contribute and help shape the magazine through discussion corners, letters to the editor, fan gallery, dōjinshi and fanfiction corner and the opportunity to write guest contributions.

At the end of 2006, the publication of the magazine, which had been published every two months, was abandoned in favor of the plan to publish special issues limited to a specific topic at irregular intervals, each with an adjusted size, price and circulation. However, this was only realized with a special issue about Yuri and Yaoi in September 2007. In October 2007, insolvency proceedings were opened at the district court in Cologne against the publisher Erbschläger & Holzer. According to a statement from the editor-in-chief, further publications by the MangasZene in printed form are no longer planned.[2]

Other editorial activities The MangasZene editorial team has also organized the “Bonenkai” anime convention several times (2001 in Karlsruhe, 2002 in Leverkusen, 2004 and 2006 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse). At the end of 2002, the DVD label Anime House was launched. Since this label no longer belonged to the Erbstosser & Holzer publishing house, it was not affected by the insolvency proceedings. Sources Burkhard Ihme (ed.): Comic! Yearbook 2008. Comic Interest Group ICOM, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88834-938-6, foreword (comic-i.com – quote: “A circulation of at least 15,000 copies is reached by the MANGASZENE, but only appears regularly with themed issues."). Statement of the editor-in-chief on the bankruptcy proceedings on December 9, 2007 in the MangasZene forum

#barry.txt #that last part is mostly a joke #like i'd do it but dont worry about it #I just saw this pic and realized I could use the power of google if I felt like it #this is a great crossover of my 2 interests. gerard way and niche early 00s anime fandom paraphernalia/fan projects #it doesnt say in the wiki but I wonder if it printed translated chapters of manga as well as articles interviews n fan works #posting this without proofreading a damn thing. thumbs up

[sleepy-crows]

I find this Wikipedia-Article about Flandre Scarlet quite amusing:

"Most vampires hold back somewhat when fighting humans, as they plan to keep them alive and feed from them later, but Flandre was always fed prepared dishes and does not know her food comes from humans. Thus, when fighting them, she does not hesitate and incinerates them without a second thought. In dōjinshi, she is very fond of Reimu and Marisa and is often portrayed as somewhat crazy, though alternate portrayals as a sweet "Little Sister"-type are also popular. She is short."

I think especially the last Addition explains quite a lot.

#touhou #flandre scarlet

[dorothydalmati1]

Obscure Animation Subject #55: Serial Experiments Lain

Originally posted on Twitter on April 15, 2023.

Created by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, this is a 13-episode miniseries produced by Triangle Staff, and aired on TV Tokyo from July 6 to September 28, 1998.

The series follows Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl in suburban Japan, and her relation to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the internet. The show is an original idea to the point of it being considered "an enormous risk" by its producer Yasuyuki Ueda.

Ueda had to answer repeated queries about a statement made in an Animerica interview. He stated that Lain was "a sort of cultural war against American culture and the American sense of values we [Japan] adopted after WWII". He later expanded this in numerous interviews.

He created Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese; he hoped Americans would not understand the series as the Japanese would. This would lead to a "war of ideas" over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures.

When he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed. The Lain franchise was originally conceived to connect across forms of media (anime, video games, manga), but due to its failure that was scrapped.

Ueda said in an interview, "the approach I took for this project was to communicate the essence of the work by the total sum of many media products". The scenario for the video game was written first, and the video game was produced at the same time as the anime series.

However, the anime was released first. A dōjinshi titled "The Nightmare of Fabrication" was produced by Yoshitoshi ABe and released in an artbook An Omnipresence in Wired. Ueda and Konaka declared that the idea of a multimedia project wasn’t unusual in Japan, as opposed for Lain.

Despite the show’s confusion to the audience it wanted to appeal to, critics responded positively to the thematic and stylistic characteristics, and it was awarded an Excellence Prize by the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival for "its question the meaning of contemporary life".

According to Christian Nutt from Newtype USA, the main attraction to the series is its keen view on "the interlocking problems of identity and technology". Nutt saluted Abe's "crisp, clean character design" and the "perfect soundtrack" in his 2005 review of series.

He said that "Serial Experiments Lain might not yet be considered a true classic, but it's a fascinating evolutionary leap that helped change the future of anime." Anime Jump gave it 4.5/5, and Anime on DVD gave it A+ on most criteria with some As for volume 3 and 4.

Lain was subject to commentary in the literary and academic worlds. The Asian Horror Encyclopedia calls it "an outstanding psycho-horror anime about the psychic and spiritual influence of the Internet". It notes that the red spots present in all the shadows look like blood pools.

It also notes the death of a girl in a train accident is "a source of much ghost lore in the twentieth century", more so in Tokyo. Gilles Poitras describes it as a "complex and somehow existential" anime that "pushed the envelope" of anime diversity in the 1990s.

Susan J. Napier in her 2003 reading to The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation, compared the show to Ghost in the Shell and Spirited Away. According to her, the main characters of the two other works cross barriers; they can cross back to our world, but Lain can’t.

Napier asks whether there is something to which Lain should return, "between an empty 'real' and a dark 'virtual'". Mike Toole named SEL as one of the most important anime of the 90s. Anime Academy gave the series a 75%, but criticized it due to the "lifeless" setting it had.

Michael Poirier of EX magazine stated that the last three episodes fail to resolve the questions in other DVD volumes. Justin Sevakis of Anime News Network noted that the English dub was decent, but that the show relied so little on dialogue that it hardly mattered.

So all in all, this show is one of the weirdest shows out there, but despite being a miniseries, it still has significance thanks to the bizarre nature and sci-fi themes. Not in the levels of Neon Genesis Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop, but still really interesting to go through.

#Serial Experiments Lain #obscure animation #anime

[elibean]

the word translated here as "fanfic" is actually "同人誌", doujinshi. if you've been in an anime fandom for more than 5 minutes i'm sure you've heard of it before, but in case you haven't: "Doujinshi (同人誌), also romanized as dōjinshi, is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels" (thanks wikipedia!)

the image I have of them isn't fanfic, though. when I lived in Japan and went to anime/manga stores and went to the doujin section, doujinshi were always self-published manga. I guess they could be fanfic, i mean wikipedia says as much, but I feel like it's much more common for it to be some kind of visual thing.

this isn't to say the tl is wrong: clearly it's not, but...idk, maybe there's some nuance being lost. they likely felt that just saying "doujinshi" would alienate some viewers who are casual anime watchers or something and are unfamiliar with the term. an interesting choice, i s'pose.

#text post #jp stuff

[ladsofsorrow24]

guys...

it's here

✨TADAAAA✨

also my A5 sketchbook for scale because i cannot believe my eyes how big this book actually is lmao

ahhh i can't wait to read and appreciate every single little details here, from the first glance, batoshiro-san art is just so... GORGEOUS. and i hope with this physical copy, i can appreciate and learn more from this beautiful work of art 😔👌💯💯💯

#tmi tag #my mp100 rambling #yep i spend my unearned money for a dōjinshi #do i regret it? at first kinda #but after seeing and having this physical copy in my hand? ofc not #hell I'm grateful as hell that i can get my hands on this #but yeah art is so cool ngl

[lunacyn24]

Genshiken (EP 1, 3, 4, & 10)

So, once again this was an interesting watch. I wanna say that Genshiken Second Season is more bearable to watch than the first season because, although the first season wanted to take a comedic relief approach in talking about otaku’s and otaku culture, it bordered on being cringe-worthy. I say this because oftentimes the topics spoken felt forced, and like they held no tact, while as the second season approaches topics with more decorum compared to its predecessor. In this new adaptation of Genshiken, we see that this show is still centered around a university club for otakus that is struggling to stay afloat due to their lack of new members. However, soon this club receives new members who offer new perspectives and lifestyles to the club. Now, I want to talk about the societal issues this show addresses like the negative lens otaku’s are seen through. In general, otaku are seen as shut-ins who lack ambition and can’t tell the difference between reality and the fictional world. However, we see in this series how well-bonded and passionate these individuals are, both by themselves and together. Compared to season 1, if I saw this new group of club members I would feel inclined to get to know them because they’re passionate about what they love. Do they seem like a group of oddballs? Sure, but no one is normal. Thus, we see that this season of Genshiken wants to combat the negative connotation associated with otakus in a much better light compared to the previous season. During Monday’s discussion, we talked about different concepts of otaku culture, like cosplay and dōjinshi. These were two aspects of otaku culture that were reflected in just the first episode that honestly helped in bringing everyone together. Within these episodes, we see cosplay as a form to physically show others their interests, like Sue and Kanako. Moreover, dōjinshi is an aspect of otaku culture that multiple of them bond over, especially because the club President, Ogiue, gets the chance for her work to be published in a magazine. Genshiken also focused on the societal issue of gender specific roles by introducing a cross-dressing member named Hato. At first, Hato is very hesitant in their skin and reveals to everyone that although he dresses like a woman, his physical anatomy is a man. Hato’s hesitance is well-established, especially, when living in a society where his livelihood is looked down upon because of the strong pressure of adhering to the traditional masculine roles and expectations. Despite his apprehension, everyone warmly welcomes Hato into the circle. All in all, even though I really couldn’t relate to this anime at all, I still value and understand the problems it wished to address regarding the otaku culture. I stand by the fact that Season 2 is better than Season 1.

[fafner]

(1996) Black Jack dōjinshi : The Black Jack MISCHEF Show!? •  悪役商会 • Ayami Kojima (小島 文美)

#black jack #osamu tezuka #ayami kojima #my scans #do you think she ever realized that she spelled mischief wrong #mine