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Since I watch the shows I watch almost solely for the fandom, I get this.

I do this. My favorite fandoms are usually small, so I run out of content quickly. I usually seek out certain ship types and go from there.

There were a few series like that for me. One of them was Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu. I lost track of the amount of Hideyoshi gangbang doujinshi I read.

I generally have to like the pairing to enjoy the porn, though. There are some series where I read the straight doujinshi because I dislike the most popular slash pairing.

Someone who has watched BakaTest! Is the fandom big?

I don't think it's that big fic-wise?

But there's quite a bit of doujinshi, though. From what I've seen, Hideyoshi is the most popular character since he's the breakout "trap."

Yeah, it's kind of like Haruhi Suzumiya in that respect. Not much fic but a decent amount of doujinshi.

OK IC, it's not really my thing then. Thanks for your answer =D

same here, I have to like the pairing to enjoy fic whether it hits all my kinks or not

not gonna lie, I do that with a lot of stuff, because I like being in fandom. I'm not particularly interested in that upcoming Arrow show, but the guy is hot and the fandom with probably be fun and these days they always add stuff for slash fans so I'm on board.

I'm looking forward to fan-girling over it too.

I'm a liiiittle confused by this. Why not just read BL that's original fiction? There's a ton of that AFAIK. It seems like it'd be less work.

Not OP, but, for me, I don't want to have to slog through a long BL manga (because I find BL boring 99% of the time), and I don't really care about the characters in some short yaoi oneshot because I just met them.

With doujinshi, I get porn for characters I care about in a variety of art styles in a variety of situations.

But what happens if you watch a show just to understand it's yaoi doujin and it turns out you hate the characters? Wouldn't that be a big waste of time? Or do you just force yourself to care about them anyway? And if you do, then couldn't you force yourself to care about the characters in the original works?

Well, if I don't like any of the characters, I just stop watching the anime or reading the manga and don't look for doujinshi. It really only takes me an episode or a few chapters to tell whether I'll like the characters or not. It's that simple.

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brightblueink - 2012-10-07 01:46 (UTC) - Expand

BL fiction tends to be so limited though... very very rarely is there much more to the story than the relationship of the characters, and honestly they tend to be kind of boring. Until we reach a point where it's totally normal to have canon gay characters in mainstream stories, it's usually easier to find interesting characters in mainstream series and then slash them.

Also I tend not to care about relationships if the characters start off in a relationship or are immediately thrown into one. I want them to build up to it and have personalities and other relationships, and then we can start talking about romance.

I'm not sure if that's what the secret is about, though...the way it's phrased, it sounds like all they care about is the porn? I mean, if you're only watching something to understand porn based on it...

Regular anime/manga have more attractive character designs (=doujin/fanart have better art). Generalization, but it's just easier.

lol, okay, point. Less yaoi hands.

It's not the same. Most BL manga revolves around the romance, and that's like the only conflict in them has to do with romance. And the characters are rarely ever as well developed as ones from shonen/seinen/etc type stories. Plus, porn for those types of series are rare, and there's like much more doujinshi and fanworks and people to with about series like, Reborn, or currently Kuroko no Basket than say, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi.

Also sometimes you want to read about the Italian Mafia, Ninjas, or rebel Ecoterrorists trying to save the Planet rather than two high school kids/businessmen/etc that are gay but can't have a relationship because society says no.

Why do people call doujinshi "doujin"? Where does that come from? Am I the only one who thinks it sounds ignorant and stupid?

It's just a shortening. And it's used in Japan all the time (remember "doujin work"?)

"Doujin" isn't a shortening. As a noun in this context, it means "fan." As a descriptive, it means "fan-made." Saying "I like doujin" is like saying "I like fan" (instead of "I like fanfic/fanzines/fan art").

(Anonymous) - 2012-10-07 16:20 (UTC) - Expand

Wait, she bought the doujin!? I wonder how will she react if her little sister finds out! XD

It's a fanart.

That shouldn't be a secret, OP. I only watch Criminal Minds because I like to imagine that Morgan and Reid are fucking like overeager bunnies every chance they get.