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Originally Posted by Denny
That's a doujin? Damn, even better than those 'non-doujin' works.  |
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doujinshi is a work privately published by an artists' "circle". It can be the work of one or more people and many of these circles include professional
mangaka. (In fact, a lot of the professionals got their start in private 'zines. There are those, like Manabe Johji, who publish both
manga and
doujinshi -- visit his
Studio Katsudon site.)
Doujinshi are typically released at events like the monster twice-annual Comic Markets [Comiket] at Tokyo Big Site and, increasingly, over the 'Net at various download sites.
Since
doujinshi are often done in
manga formats, it can be hard to tell the difference just by looking at scanned pages (although something like anime parody themes are a dead giveaway...). I think about the main difference nowadays is that
manga are released by professional publishing houses.