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non-academic manga law censorship sexual_content children

shared by Nele Noppe on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached

non-academic dojinshi manga manga_industry fanficforensics phd

shared by Nele Noppe on 20 Apr 09 - Cached

An increasingly popular outlet for manga enthusiasts is doujinshi, meaning both fan-produced manga and the “circles” that create them. They flout copyright law and rearticulate the characters they love, and their numbers are many—the largest public get-together in Japan is not a World Cup or Olympic gathering, but rather a doujinshi market called Comike.
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Legally, fans can produce whatever they want insofar as it’s not blatantly for profit or obscene.
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Researcher Gunnar Hempel, 27, a Sophia University MA who wrote his thesis on the phenomenon, estimates there are 8,000 Japanese living off doujinshi, but stresses the number could be greater thanks to digital publishing. A “professional doujinshi” artist scrapes by on some 12,000 yen a month, but can gross 32,000 yen from large sales events.
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that allowing fans to produce keeps them interested, provides free market research, and cultivates new talent.
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This year, Kadokawa made a landmark deal allowing “mad movies” of their "Suzumiya Haruhi" anime as long as fans marked posts on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga with Kadokawa logos. Haruhi remains their flagship series, in part because of internet support.
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non-academic visual_language fanficforensics phd

shared by Nele Noppe on 23 May 09 - Cached

chibi by some anime fans, though chibi is a different concept that refers more to a person's stature rather than the art style. It is part of the Japanese culture, and is seen everywhere in Japan, from subway signs and advertising to anime and manga.
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