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DŌJINSHI

WHAT IS DŌJINSHI?

Japanese term for self-published works• Art collections• Anime/manga• Hentai• Games (dōjinsoft)

Published by

“Circles”

DŌJINSHI HISTORY

Dōjinshi magazine started in Meiji period

1980s started a shift into parodies• Coincides with founding of Comiket

20 acres worth is sold at Comiket each year

2007, 277.8 billion yen spent on Dōjinshi

Now moving into digital media and print-on-

demand services

LEGALITY

Derivative works produced in small

amounts

Often over-looked in Japan

Produced by amateurs for one-day events

and not sold on the commercial market

Would hurt the market more than benefit

Two notable legal cases: • 1999 erotic Pokemon doujin• 2006 "Final Chapter" of Doraemon

Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina,

Negima)

Kiyohiko Azuma (Azumanga

Daioh, Yostuba&)

Kouta Hirano (Hellsing)

Maki Murakami

(Gravitation)

Rumiko Takahashi

(Inuyasha, Ranma ½)

MANGA ARTISTS WHO STARTED OUT IN DŌJINSHI

07th Expansion

(Higurashi/Umineko no

naku koro ni)

Monkey Punch (Lupin III)

Rikdo Koshi (Excel Saga)

CLAMP (Card Captor

Sakura, Chobits)

Many of them

drew porn.

The End

DŌJINSHI IMPROV

One person starts out with a basic setting and

characters. For this game’s purpose, they must be

pre-existing characters.

Everyone adds a few sentences to the story as we

go in order to tell the plot of the doujin.

People can leave off mid-sentence or even mid-

word before passing it on to someone else.