This time with added yaoi.
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+10 Fumyuun points and an automatic First Down if you get that reference.
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From my limited experiences in watching how doujinshi works in anime, there seems to be a little spectrum on how it’s viewed. On one side, you have an idealistic notion that doujinshi makes everything right in the world if one has a passion for following it, as exemplified by Comic Party. Something must be [...]
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Another comic festival, another snorefest.
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Summary: Najimi and Kaneru battle it out at another comic fes-… wait… is… is that yuri?!
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| The only thing that could make Doujin work better - random yuri. In complete contrast to my first post in this series on Umisho, I will now proceeed to make a complete 360 degree turnaround to talk about one of my beloved series of this season - Doujin Work. Doujin Work is a series about making [...]
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Misinterpretation is always a humour point in anime, and so it continues on throughout the episode with Justice’s ever so watchful eye over Najimi. But of course Tsuyuri is there to fan the flames and make Justice delve deeper into his own little world. Thus this entire episode surrounds Justice and his somewhat deluded beliefs [...]
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I bet you all forgot that I would be blogging this, because I sure did. This episode would have gone unblogged as well if it hadn’t been for Claymore being a bit late (Eclipse’s TL is apparently having some hardware problems). But what better day to do a Doujin Work post than today, August 17th in [...]
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Summary: This is not an ecchi anime.
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Leave it to Doujin Work to make yaoi jokes boring.
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That’s pretty moe to me…
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The life and times of Kaneru Nitou.
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Happy over selling her first copy of her doujin, Najimi comes to terms of the downside of being a doujinshi artist, the printing fees. So what better way to pay that off than working. Or more specifically working in a neko maid cafe. Definitely something different out of Najimi’s character for her to choose to [...]
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Summary: Justice falls into a state of despair. Itoshiki-sensei meets up with him and they both commit suicide.
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So Najimi has finally created her first erotic doujinshi, thinking she’ll be making millions. I wish the world would work like that, lol. But like everyone starting from somewhere, it turns out to be pretty crap, and her good friends Tsuyuri and Justice just couldn’t bring themselves to tell her. Though honestly, just from looking [...]
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Justice really needs a sarcasm detector installed in his frontal lobe.
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Somewhere in the middle of it all there's plot. The story almost moves forward as Najimi creates and sells her first doujinshi to the tune of a bunch of comic misunderstandings and innuendos.The latter part is of course what most of each 15-minute episode focuses on, as major gags manage to get stretched to nearly the whole length of the episode, especially in episode 3 (where it is misunderstood that Najimi created a baby instead of a doujin). And yet the jokes last instead of getting worn out.Some may criticize Doujin Work for being too simplistic, or too predictable - too 'been there, done that', as naturally dirty jokes have been around since the beginning of mankind, and there have been doujinshi-making anime done before. (again, regrettably, which I haven't seen)But there's a certain benefit that comes with the simple nature of the anime combined with it's short length. Like a lot of slice-of-life anime, it's a good relaxing anime, where you can just sort of watch and laugh, instead of staring at it in disbelief wondering why won't that guy wise up or why that guy's made of of paper or why that girl fell out of the tree. It's not complex, because it doesn't need to be. It's inventive enough to take a joke and run with it. And yet, there's still a little bitIf there's one complaint about Doujin Work that's valid, it's that it's not faithful enough to the manga. Although it's arguable which one in itself is better...(remember kids, it's not over until you see the -CCY tag. ^^)The manga is a bit different, 40 strips in, compared to the anime, 3 episodes in. In the manga Justice seems much less of a Tall Cool Guy and more of a pervert, constantly misconstruing things even moreso than in episode 3 of the anime. He seems far too eager to make love to either of the Najimi/Tsuyuri (yuri, lol, etc) pair, which is quite frankly very disturbing until you learn, at one point or another, that he goes to the same school that both of the girls go to.Which doesn't explain why he dresses very proper and is seven feet tall, but it makes him seem like less of a lolipedofin.The school part is also different in both, as they are in college, and thus, older in the anime version. Yet, the anime version is ironically cleaner for having less dirty jokes than it's manga counterpart, which stretches the 'sex, but not really' cliche surprising far, even at one point pulling a Moetan (duckkake, natch. Probably NSFW if people watching have a dirty mind.).It's a shame, because a lot of the jokes in the manga are pretty good when they're not overdone, such as Justice overhearing Tsuyuri and Najimi playing an eroge over the phone (during a H-scene, rightfully), and joyously accepting the invitation to come over and 'join them'.Still, Doujin Work (anime) does what it can quite well with it's roughly clean content, while still pulling off a shred of story in there. As opposed to other 4-koma adaptations such as...er...um...ah...Lucky Star, Doujin Work does have a slight air of mystery to it, as we try to figure out who the hell Justice really is (and what he's doing in the OP), what's the name of Najimi's stalker who's probably in love with her, what Sola is doing here when she shows up for 5 seconds an episode, and why Tsuyuri is so damn awesome.The jokes in the anime are mildly predictable but still have slight twists, such as Tsuyuri playing along with the 'Najimi's having a baby' gag in order to mess with Justice's head (admittedly, I thought she bought it too), or the 'buy a doujin, get a hug' joke, that keep it fresh enough for a simple-minded blogger to enjoy.Oh yeah, and for some reason Doujin Work likes to have that Paper Mario style to it, where characters flip as if they were 2D cutouts. (especially notable in Episode 3) Nobody knows why.So if you enjoy light-hearted jokes and don't mind getting a little dirty, Doujin Work will probably be right up your alley. If you're daring (and don't mind getting a little dirtier), the manga (40 pages scanlated so far) is entertaining as well. Protip: The manga is made by Hiroyuki, doujin artist of "A cat is fine too" fame...-CCY
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(’_________________’X) The most recent poll to decide what series would round out my Summer 07 schedule ended up being a one on one between Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei and Doujin Work. Well, Zetsubo Sensei won, but I have decided to exercise my right of tyranny and pick Doujin Work instead. The reason is simple, I couldn’t manage to [...]
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Work it, girl.
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For an episode that goes for 15 minutes, some reason this felt a little longer than it did. Although unlike the first episode, I didn’t this as funny as it would be since it reuses a lot of jokes that we’ve seen in other anime series, but the best part was Tsuyuri going “Oujou-san, you [...]
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