Doujinshi
Self-published Japanese comics and the fairs that sell them, on the alternative rather than the fan-fiction side.
Part of Underground Comics
21 moments in this segment.
- - #53 コミックマーケット レポート. A walk through the halls of Comic Market, following the queues outside and the rows of tables once the doors open.
- - 【COMITIA】同人誌とコミティアについて/コミティア戦利品レポート第00回目【Vtuber】. An introduction to what doujinshi are and how Comitia differs from fan conventions, followed by a walk through books bought there with the artists' permission to show them.
- - 【COMITIA】コミティア戦利品レポート第01回目～コミティア142～【Vtuber】. Books bought at Comitia 142 are held up one at a time, among them a corpse doll story and a volume of ghost tales, each given a few minutes.
- - 【コミケ102明日開幕】無名が同人誌を作ってコミケ101で販売した結果【サークル参加レポート】. An unknown creator counts how many copies actually sold at a Comiket table, covering print runs, printer costs and the hours spent waiting for someone to pick the book up.
- - エッセイ漫画家のコミティアサークル参加手荷物備忘録. An essay cartoonist inventories what actually goes in the bag for a table day, stand, signage, change float and the small things that get forgotten.
- - 文学フリマは「宝探し」 システムエンジニアが書いた小説、“働きたくない”テーマのZINE 魅力を取材. Reporters work the aisles of Bungaku Free Market at Tokyo Big Sight, finding a systems engineer's novel and a zine built on the theme of not wanting to work.
- - 脱稿を目指す同人誌原稿Vlog！同人イベント「文学フリマ東京41」に間に合わせたい女の戦い【一人暮らしラノベ作家の日常VLOG】. A writer races an unfinished manuscript toward a November table at Tokyo Big Sight, filming the desk, the meals and the hours that go into finishing a self published book.
- - 絵描き、無事赤字を叩き出す【同人誌即売会】. An artist compares printing houses against each other, then lays out production cost against cover price to show exactly where the loss on a small run comes from.
- - 文フリに向けてZINE制作。頭硬め、理想濃いめ、怠惰マシマシな1日。. A day of making a zine for Bungaku Free Market at Tokyo Big Sight, filmed through the layout, printing and second guessing that fills the week before a table.
- - 同人誌制作記録 #5｜コミティア参加【一次創作】. The closing entry of a series recording how one original book got made, covering event preparation, the day at Comitia itself, and what the whole thing cost.
- - 知らなくて大爆死！？同人誌即売会の違い。実際に参加してみて【コミケ】【コミティア】. An explanation of how the original work fairs differ from the fan conventions, with a pinned correction after the maker got one of the events wrong.
- - コミティア初参加で100部完売？大赤字の現実と収支を全て公開【同人イベントVlog】. A first time exhibitor sells out a hundred copies at Comitia and still posts a loss, laying out printing, travel and materials against takings line by line.
- - 【実写レポ】ゲーム実況者が一次創作でコミティア出店してみた！【COMITIA155】. A game streamer tables original work at Comitia for the first time, filming the queue, the neighbouring circles and the books that did not sell.
- - 【悲報】同人誌即売会「コミティア」が生成AIのルール厳格化を発表 → 書き方が悪かったせいで小説書きが怒りのお気持ち表明へ…. Comitia tightens its rules on generatively produced work, and the wording lands badly enough that prose writers read themselves into the restriction and say so publicly.
- - ZINE作り、難しすぎる【文学フリマ東京42】. Making a zine for a Bungaku Free Market table turns out harder than planned, the maker working through layout and print decisions in the weeks before the hall opens.
- - 【サークル参加レポ】コミティア155レポート！【COMITIA155】. A short account of tabling at Comitia 155, counting visitors to the table and what carried over to the online shop afterwards.
- - 【漫画添削】同人誌作成で一番大事なこと. A cartoonist marks up his own earlier self published books, pointing out what fails on the page and what he would cut now.
- - 【コミティア155】サークル参加の前日からアフターまで🏄【レポ動画】. A first YouTube upload tracks one circle from the night before Comitia 155 through packing up afterwards, admitting most of the day went unfilmed.
- - 【Vlog】字書きが初めて漫画同人誌を作ったらとんでもないことになりました。完成までのド修羅場限界原稿記録✍🏻. A writer who works in prose attempts a drawn book for the first time, the four months compressed into progress checks that end twenty six hours before the deadline.
- - 【コミケ】何もないビッグサイトが数時間で世界最大の同人誌即売会場に！前日設営の裏側をタイムラプスで撮ってみた【Comic Market Timelapse】. Time lapse of an empty Tokyo Big Sight filling with tables, signage and stock in the hours before doors open.
- - コミティア157参加レポ～サークル参加と出張編集部～. A circle walks through Comitia 157 from table setup to teardown, including the visiting editorial desks where publishers read original work brought straight to the hall.