Dōjinshi

The Dôjinshi or Doujinshi (同人誌【どうじんし】) are Manga S in general drawn by artists amateurs and sold during conventions like the Comiket. It is for a great number of the work based on other popular works and they are often intended for an adult public. Several Mangaka S known made their beginnings in the dōjinshi, like CLAMP or Abe Yoshitoshi (one of its doujinshi was the subject besides of a series TV: Haibane Renmei ).

There exists a Anime named Comic Party which has as a subject the universe of the Manga amateur. One also speaks about it in Genshiken.

The famous mangakas thus seek often to escape the pressures exerted on them by the editors, they are increasingly numerous to work in the field of the dōjinshi, the “fanzinat Japanese”. The authors then reduce their production within the framework of the press known as “regular” to concentrate on the dōjinshis which present triple favors: they do not fix any particular time for the delivery of the boards, the authors touch a percentage higher on the sales and have a greater artistic freedom because of absence of a leading line specifies to respect. For these reasons, many mangakas professional takes part in Comicket, the semi-annual festival of Dōjinshi: authors such as T. Fujizawa (GTO), K. Hagirawara (Bastard!) or studio CLAMP (Tokyo Babylon, X, RG Veda, Tsubasa). These authors withdraw substantial benefit via the sale of fanzines containing new series, the sale of original drawings or art books (collection of illustrations) the their most famous series, when they hold the rights of exploitation of them.

It should be noted that the edition amateur does not cover only the only media paper but can relate to all the types of media. Thus the plays amateurs ( doujin ranges ) which can for some be sold to several thousands of specimens and whose success can generate animated series: Tsukihime, Higurashi No Naku Koro nor.

In Japan

Dōjinshi (同人誌【どうじんし】) are own-produced work Japanese authors, generally of the Manga S or novels. They are often the work of amateurs, although certain professional authors also decides to publish themselves their work and not by the means of the industry of the traditional edition. The dōjinshi term is derived from dōjin (同人【どうじん】); that is to say " the same person, in reference to the people with or which a third has the same project or center of interest; and of shi (誌, shi?); contraction of “zasshi” meaning " magazine". Dōjinshi make parties of the vaster kind of the dōjin, also including illustrations, Hentai and of the video games animates. A group of artists of dōjinshi is called a circle.

Dōjinshi are written and/or drawn by artists and writers who prefer published themselves their work. The avid fans of dōjinshi take part in frequent conventions of dōjinshi, of which largest is Comiket (diminutive of " Comic Market") who takes place in summer and winter in Tokyo. Convention gathers more than 35.000 exhibitors of fanzinats over three days. Enormously of dōjinshi are bought, sold and exchanged by the participants. The creators of dōjinshi whose works take again the universes and characters of other more known creators are published in minor amount not to attract the lightnings of the guards of the Copy right. Thus, the dōjinshi of an author of talent or a circle of talent are often in limited editions.

The practice of the dōjinshi developed quickly these ten last years, attracting thousands of creators and fans. The innovations as regards technologies of publication facilitated the car-production. A new market of the dōjinshi is now Internet.

In the Western countries

In the Western countries, dōjinshi is used as general practitioner term to indicate the alternative of dōjinshi where the author creates a history derived from a preexistent work and by using characters from this work, that is to say during manga Fanfiction, with that close which it would be always with the pornographic contents. It is true that certain dōjinshi is parodies or stories putting in scenes the universes and characters of others mangas or animates with the mode, and that number of them have adult contents. However, actually, much of dōjinshi with characters and intrigues completely original also exist, and only half or less all doujinshi are Hentai, Yaoi or Yuri. Because of the linguistic barrier which had with the fact that the majority of the European or American purchasers do not have enough concept of Japanese to include/understand these dōjinshi there, the majority of the foreign collectors buy before all those who treats their favorite series, from where the amalgam.

Famous authors of dōjinshi

famous CLAMP began like a circle from 12 authors from dōjinshi. The four women who form CLAMP today have an international repute with records of sales in Japan, in Europe and in the United States. Number of their mangas give rise to version animated.
Ken Akamatsu, the author of mangas popular as Love Hina and Negima , continuous to make dōjinshi that it sells in Comiket under the name of feather Awa Mizuno.
Rikdo Koshi, the author of the popular manga Excel Saga , began as artist from dōjinshi.
Nanae Stopwatch, author of the manga Peacemaker Kurogane , published many dōjinshi of Naruto , whose majority were of yaoi type.
Maki Murakami, author of famous the Gravitation and Gamers Heaven . Its circle Crocodile Ave. created popular the Remix Gravitation (container Rimigra & Megamix Gravitation ) which is one of the most graphic dōjinshi yaoi published.
Monkey Punch, author of Lupin III , began as artist from dōjinshi.
Of the Ero artists as Tony Taka and Carnelian is also famous doujinshikas (authors of dōjinshi).
the artist Nobuteru Yuki sells dōjinshis putting in scene the universe of its cartoon “the man of the High Castle”.
Yun Kouga, a mangaka of long time and the author of two famous series BL ( Earthian and Loveless ), began by drawing dōjinshis on the Gundam Wing series.
Yoshitoshi Abe published some of this work in the form of dōjinshi, of which Haibane Renmei . He says to have had recourse to the car-publication bus he did not want to have to subject himself to the requirement of an editor.

The following artists are also famous, but being given principal nature their works, it are not known as a mangakas (authors of mangas).

Bleedman, creator of the dōjinshi in line PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi .
Fred " Piro" Gallagher, creator of the series in line Megatokyo , as well as series in progress Warmth .

C-W communication

The Japanese term dōjinshi decides “C-O-jinshi”, with an O long. To transmit to the writing this pronunciation, one writes in French dōjinshi or dôjinshi. The fan generally prefer the orthography doujinshi, because O long Japanese, although marked o-o, is written in Japanese or (either C-U-jinshi, marked C-O-jinshi).

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