Transcript Doujin Presentation v2

A subculture of Japan based on fan work and
original productions
 Popularity
of series contributes to fan work, based
off an existing series.
 Fan work consist of anything ranging from pictures,
videos, written work, music, etc.
 This is often done not for profit, and should be
done for interest of the original series.
 Selling fan work for profit =/= good fan.
 In Japan, it’s a different story.
 Doujin
literally means “same person”.
 In context, it is amateur self-published
works.
 This includes manga, novels, fan guides, art
collections, music and video games.
 Of the revenue created from the “otaku”
industry, doujins made up 48% of sales.
 48%! (Blu-Rays cost like $60/2 episodes,
figures around $100 in average for 1/8 size.)
 Video
games creatist by hobbist circles for
fun: independent video game.
 May use preexisting material/ original.
 Notably:
 Team Shanghai Alice (Touhou)
 07 Expansion (Higurashi, Umineko)
 Type-Moon (formerly dojin studio, Fate,
Tsukihime)
 Doujinshi
are self published works of
magazines, manga and novels, etc.
 This work is done by amateurs, but
sometimes professionals to avoid copyrights.
 Groups of such people are considered doujin
circles (dojin sakuru).
 Briefly going through doujinshi artists.
 Find more at doujinshi.org
 Some
mangaka decide to draw doujinshi of
their own manga series
 This promotes their own manga and expands
the universe, it is also a good way to include
questionable content not present in the
series.
 Example 1: Combining two of their previous
works into a crossover.
 These
mangaka were first doujin artists:
Huke (Black Rock Shooter)
Clamp (card captor sakura, chobits)
 Worked
on the “Shining” series
 Doujins
are often sold first at Comiket.
 Comiket is Japan’s largest comic convention,
happening twice a year.
 Doujins can then be sold second hand at a
higher price on the internet, auction, Anime
North, etc.
 Based on image quality, hype, artist and
rarity, prices will vary.
 You can make thousands by selling the right
doujins second hand (supply and demand).
 Doujin
work involving preexisting series deals
with copyright infringement but due to such
a large success, this is often turned a blind
eye in the law.
 “Borrowing work”
 Because of this, artists can use this field to
avoid copyright laws, passing as “parody
work” or fan work (even if original.)
 Doujins benefit the original, creating more
publicity and exposure.
 Remember,
our drawing contest is happening.
 You can draw a 8 cm by 8 cm chibi.
 Hand drawn or digital.
 Original
 Have “Mac Anime Club”
on the picture.
The winner will be our mascot.
A Mac Anime club T-shirt/Money
 You
can also submit a bookmark. (20 cm by 5 cm).
Original, hand drawn or digital.
 You can also submit a T-shirt design (able to fit a Tshirt).
These designs will be used for future fundraisers.
Deadline: November 18.
Submit your work to [email protected] on
Facebook as a private message. A copy of the
drawing and a scan is required if hand drawn.
Christina Wang for ideas.
Kari for more ideas.
Escher Wu for more ideas.
And you for listening :D