Outrage as Politician Mocks Lady Mangaka for Opposing Ban | Sankaku Complex - 3 views
Ash & Eli, nouveau shônen chez Ki-oon - 0 views
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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Professional mangaka creating doujinshi - 0 views
Mysterious depths: Anthropologist creates oceanic manga fantasy - 0 views
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Tsuru said he aimed to become a mangaka for a long time while pursuing his career as an academic, placing emphasis on fieldwork to know about the "phenomena of life and humans." "I want to portray in manga what I gained from field investigation, but cannot fully express in scientific papers,
Doujin's Commercial Evolution - 0 views
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Over the first years of the new millennium these trends continued, with a robust market emerging that combined improved distribution with wider interest to generate revenue for some circles that could no longer be termed “amateur” in any meaningful sense.
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The doujinshi market grew steadily via promulgation through the internet and pop culture media. This resulted in the viability of the doujin as a means of part time and increasingly full time employment. “Kojin circles” emerged, consisting of a sole creator (kojin) who handled all aspects of production and received all the benefits of income from publications. Larger circles formed semi-professional units to produce doujin software that would compete with professional releases. Otaku goods shops expanded their scope as doujin vendors, acting as proxy sellers for hundreds of circles both via brick and mortar outlets and via online mail order. Online-only doujin shops such as DLsite emerged, selling digital copies of doujinshi via download. Advances in printing technology and cheap, high quality labor (mostly Chinese) allowed for the proliferation of doujin items to media beyond the traditional books (and less tradtional CD-Rs), including towels, pillowcases, fans, cups, trinkets, and figures.
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new class of semi-pro and professional creators
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Sleep Is For the Weak » Blog Archive » Super Dramatic Drama - 0 views
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Youka Nitta? She’s the most recent mangaka to pretty much lose her career over tracing photos.
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The HILARIOUS thing about the Youka Nitta scandal is the reaction from 55DSL, the fashion brand whose unique and artistic ad was blatantly traced by Nitta and drew attention to her tracing in the first place. They pretty much voice my reaction to this kind of scandal: let’s put this all in perspective. If you’re copying ads, for shame, but seriously - you’re probably only spreading the popularity of what you copied.
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Isn’t that one of the justifications behind doujinshi, broader artistic interpretation notwithstanding?
Shuho Sato Launches MangaonWeb.com for Other Creators - 3 views
Professor Munakata's fantastic museum piece - Times Online - 1 views
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I hope Hayao Miyazaki isn't reading this! The last term he'd use to qualify his animation cinema is "anime". In general terms, "anime" is used to refer to animated series for TV broadcast and video distribution. For a journalist who claims to have an inside knowledge of this audiovisual univers, that's quite a confusion to make!
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The manga aesthetic has spawned a film genre called anime, such as Spirited Away
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