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Answerman - How Much Of The Doujinshi Scene Is Porn?

Comiket also has a very diverse music scene. I look forward to the music from comiket every time. For example i look forward to Wavform's Back to Summer 3 album

The Touhou music scene is also very fascinating, theres a whole range of genres from metal, rock, trance, disco, funk,etc of the same touhou track.

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Of course, nobody actively tracks what is porn and what isn't. That said, they do track what franchises are having doujinshi made of them. The last two years have been dominated by the Fate franchise, and most recently, Kantai Collection, The Idolmaster, Touhou Project and Touken Ranbu have been the top hits. Fujoshi favorites Yuri!!! on Ice, Kuroko's Basketball and Tiger and Bunny have also cropped up a lot in recent years.

Mobage usually have good characters design and many characters to choose from, so I'm not surprise that this type of media get most doujinshi. Mobile games are not famous for good plot so I wonder if most artist care about character personality or draw solely for her/his desgin.

With a large proportion of works available being R18+ is Comiket age restricted?

Wait, so is there no more Answerman column after this one? That's too bad, I enjoyed reading Justin's insight into the industry over the years. Is Justin still going to be involved with the site anymore?

Wait, so is there no more Answerman column after this one? That's too bad, I enjoyed reading Justin's insight into the industry over the years. Is Justin still going to be involved with the site anymore?

feels like the writer is just phoning in it as there was nothing here that one couldnt have easily wrote themselves.

Using kurobas still, why when more recent series of such types could have been used instead.

That seems...little.

The doujin that aren't porn are the ones that are the real waste of time. All doujin that I've seen are basically just two-second romantic scenes between whatever ships they like, so they might as well go all the way. I have yet to see any doujin from Japan that have long, complex plots or AU scenarios - oh, except this one series of doujin about the pairing as a prince and butler in an AU, which, yeah, half the chapters were sex scenes, and the other half were empty mini-interactions. No real overarching plot or character depth...

Another reason why companies usually ignore doujinsi is because nowadays, the industry is filled by doujin artists (both active and inactive). The non-doujin artist are usually old people or those who lucky enough to make a breakout manga/novel. Unless they like to be called hypocrites, they won't close the path that made them big.

One question, if a doujin has original characters instead of being based off of copyrighted/popular existing franchises, would it still be violating copyright or legal to sell, even if it has references to existing shows?

If it's 100% original work, it's yours to do with as you wish. Any copyright automatically applying to the work belongs to you. Containing references to existing properties is a thornier issue, but largely depends how explicit a reference it is. Feature an existing character exactly as presented in their own franchise? That is a copyright issue and has implications for how legal it will be to sell, though there are circumstances where it is legal and others where it's technically illegal, but no-one sees it as worth it to object. But change the character enough that it's legally distinct, but close enough that people will still recognise it, that you can do.

The hardest part for me would be publishing it, do you know any publishing companies online or something that could publish doujins in right to left format in both English and Japanese (I'm planning to sell them both in English and if possible export them to Japan, in Japanese).

Using the database at Doujinshi.org I've run through various queries myself as I've pondered this question before as well. I've discovered that around 40 to 45 percent of doujinshi is R-18/adult/porn.

Another reason why companies usually ignore doujinsi is because nowadays, the industry is filled by doujin artists (both active and inactive). The non-doujin artist are usually old people or those who lucky enough to make a breakout manga/novel. Unless they like to be called hypocrites, they won't close the path that made them big.

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Using the database at Doujinshi.org I've run through various queries myself as I've pondered this question before as well. I've discovered that around 40 to 45 percent of doujinshi is R-18/adult/porn.

It's kind of futile to make an estimate like that since there's so much missing data. Most doujinshi are never going to be known or seen by westerners since it's reliant on people ether going to Japanese conventions themselves or importing them to catalog and scan them. And there's many other doujinshi conventions besides Comiket, and chances are if an artist can only go to one of those conventions their work might never be known or cataloged in the west since most people who do all that work never go to those.