Comic Market: How the World's Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dōji... - 0 views
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the world's largest regular gathering of comic fans today is Tokyo's biannual Comic Market
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dōjinshi phenomenon did not start with Comic Market, Comike and dōjinshi are inextricably linked, having shaped each other's history for three decades.
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Comike convention has shaped the most important trends defining the development of dōjinshi in Japan today
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The Truth Behind Shogakukan's Agressiveness Toward Doraemon Doujinshi? | ComiPress - 0 views
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he will pay an undisclosed amount of money for the settlement based on the sales generated by the doujins
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Many doujinshi creators have criticized Shogakukan for taking legal actions and generally making a big deal out of one doujinshi.
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The doujinshi was sold at a doujin shop in Akihabara and via internet for around 500 yen, and managed to sell over over 13,000 copies before being stopped by Shogakukan.
Fujoshi - 0 views
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And therein lies the rub. The image of girls getting out of hand is hard for some to swallow.
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Experts predict that Japan’s population will shrink to 108 million by 2030, and critics of the otaku phenomenon blame men and women who can now live meaningful lives without human companionship. One analyst says that the rampant creativity of otaku is rivaled only by their stunted emotional growth. Journalist Yumiko Sugiura, who literally wrote the book on fujoshi (2006’s The Fujoshi-izing World: The Female Otaku of East Ikebukuro), says women who indulge fantasies of queer love rather than finding boyfriends face an even greater backlash than their male counterparts. She believes that, via yaoi, fujoshi demonstrate dissatisfaction with traditional Japanese expectations of what a woman’s life should be.
Everybody's Fujoshi Girlfriend - 0 views
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Media treatment of the fujoshi concept has always been problematic.
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As a result, when media attention eventually turned to actual fujoshi, the elevator pitch — “They’re otaku, except girls!” — was more or less accurate (granting a broad reading of “otaku”), but the implications were misunderstood. If fujoshi were girl otaku, they must be the girls usually appearing alongside otaku in those TV specials and magazine articles, right? You know — the maids. But no.
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals - 0 views
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