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- noun Alternative form of
doujinshi .
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But there is a huge market for derived works, where new (generally amateur) artists take the characters from a well known series and create new stories, frequently in directions that the original author wouldn't go (these are called dojinshi - non professional, self published manga).
Creatively Common Neal Ford 2007
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Although Comic Ichi was from Mars — the male-to-female ratio, by my rough count, was about 300 to 1 — and Super Comic City was from Venus, with several hundred women for every man, both markets were selling material from the same planet: nonprofessional self-published manga known as dojinshi .
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Although Comic Ichi was from Mars — the male-to-female ratio, by my rough count, was about 300 to 1 — and Super Comic City was from Venus, with several hundred women for every man, both markets were selling material from the same planet: nonprofessional self-published manga known as dojinshi .
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The underground sale of fan-made comics (known as dojinshi), often highly derivative of the commercial product, occurs on a massive scale in Japan, with some comics markets attracting 150,000 visitors per day.
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1 2009
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When the characters in the show are trying to put together a dojinshi it is one episode of procrastination and artistic compromise after another.
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On top of that, there is the amateur dojinshi books that are put out by aspiring mangaka and are all self published.
Price Hike? Are You Ready? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Where I see the parallel between things like dojinshi and old-school craft is that the creativity is exercised within very strict boundaries and parameters.
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The fujoshi stay at home to focus on their hobbies writing/collecting dojinshi, etc. and none show any signs of planning to have children.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Everybody’s Fujoshi Girlfriend 2009
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Anime/game companies are not only not pulling anything, they are doing other “progressive” things like allowing rampant trampling of their copyrights by the huge dojinshi industry because they recognize it as a form of promotion and a way to recruit talent.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Sakai Noriko and “Japanese” Morality 2009
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It places the established publishers and the dojinshi creators in something resembling the prisoners' dilemma: If they cooperate — that is, if they honor the terms of anmoku no ryokai — they both gain.
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