Comiket

Um, so for example, I, I got the, uh, opportunity to interview ShindoL, who, uh, is a hentai author who has written, I would say, probably the most, uh, infamous hentai, especially in the Western world.

Um, and he, he gave me this really interesting perspective on how the hentai and doujin community v- are constantly on the knife's edge of collapse and success because especially a lot of doujin artists who sell their own stuff at Comiket, for instance, um, a lot of them use preexisting manga characters or preexisting manga stories.

Like, they would take, for example, you know, characters from Naruto or Jujutsu Kaisen.

Literally any anime you can think of, there is probably an 18-plus doujin of that has been created by someone in Japan that is selling it at Comiket or online.

Which I imagine is illegal, uh, for IP reasons?

Yes and no.

But the anime industry also realizes, and all the entertainment industries also realize that the doujin and hentai community is also the secret engine that is running the entire industry because if, for example, this very community-driven industry that is the doujin industry that has very solidly, you know, bound community members in this very, very niche community, if, for example, uh, Shueisha or, you know, any kind of publication company decides to cease and desist or to ban or to arrest a doujin creator for infringing on copyright, that puts a terrible name on the publisher.

That puts a terrible name, and the, the implications for the publisher is detrimental because you, they have tarnished this secret engine that is running the entire otaku community.

そうなんだ。

あれですよ、コミケ、コミケの人の波みたいな。

電車開けますって言ったら、ワーって人がいるみたいな、そういうこと？

そう、あれそっくり。初日はそういう感じでした。

I felt like I'd finally made it.

Somebody was selling erotic bootleg Megan Mogdugenshi At Comiket Tokyo.

I ended up.

Lagging it at myself.

but they still want to have a table at Comitia.

Instead of Comiket.

No,

Comiket is a real event, too.

Oh, it is? Yeah, it is.

It's, of course, not as big as Comiket.

Oh, I

thought it was just a Comiket ripoff because it's at the same Tokyo big site.

There was a event in Japan that happens like regularly around four times a year called Commedia.

Comedia is like basically a doujinshi or self-publishing manga event in Japan and the whole kind of gimmick of it or angle of it compared to like say Comiket which i think is the one most people know for doujins is that Comedia is only for artists that are producing original manga.

It can't be based off an existing IP or derivative.

So it's become actually a really big scouting ground for Japanese publishers.

So you got to go where the money is.

And that is Comiket.

Yeah.

Such is life.