/bl/ - General BL

>>5829
Cute, is that what you bought? I wanna see their OC baby

>>5830
It is! It’s the first doujin I’ve seen to come with a QR code for an auto translation into English and Korean (game is more popular in Korea), but this circle does that a lot (they also did it for their fan game).

>>5832
I'm glad the game is still popular, this makes me wanna replay it lol

>>5833
Last I checked it was incomplete, did they ever finish it?

>>5834
Nope, every year Nankidai says he'll be finished with it this year for sure and then the year passes.

Doujin counts at Comic City

Nintama Rantaro 1487
Vtuber 534
Jujutsu Kaisen 531
Twisted-Wonderland 407
My Hero Academia 326
Genshin Impact 301
Blue Lock 297
The Prince of Tennis 292
Detective Conan 279
Idolish7 262
The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe 194
18TRIP 184
Haikyu!! 176
KING OF PRISM 170
Tokyo Revengers 151
Yakuza 141
Let's Go Karaoke! 135
MASHLE 132
The Vampire Dies in No Time 125
Hazbin Hotel 124
World Trigger 110
Gundam SEED 108
Oblivion Battery 97
CHARISMA 87


Hundred Line 83


Bleach 77
Bungo to Alchemist 72
Gundam 52
Sengoku BASARA 48
Junket Bank 47
Gnosia 46
The Legend of Hei 45
original works 43
GQuuuuuuX 43
Mononoke 42
100 Meters 41
Everyday Host 40
Granblue Fantasy 37
PriPara 32
Helluva Boss 31
Ketsugou Danshi 31
Moriarty the Patriot 29
Gundam The Witch from Mercury 29
Jack Jeanne 24
Ace of the Diamond 21
Utawarerumono 19
on air! 19
Demon Slayer 19
Free 18

>>5961
genuinely crazy that Prince of Tennis still has this many doujins coming out for it

>>5962
Personally I'm not too surprised, artists in that convention are mostly in their late 20s at least, most seem to be in their 30s or maybe 40s so they seem in the perfect age range to be first day Prince of Tennis fangirls. I'm guessing ages based on how they look and how they freak out whenever teenage girls want to buy their stuff but also because one artist asked my age for a R18 doujinshi before handing me a copy and happily told me we're the exact same age. And according to twitter she's mutual with other artists who all seem to be around the same age.

>>5961
>current game fandom doesn't even have 1 digit numbers
>former dead gachage and game released after mine has more doujins than it
haha….I didn't want doujins anyway…

>>5961
>Vtuber 534
Otaku love RPF this much?

>Let's Go Karaoke! 135
I'm surprised it got this many given it's a short manga with a short anime adaptation.

>>5961
> Nintama Rantaro 1487

Someone please explain this to me. I know it’s one of those long-running anime that never made it big outside of Japan (a la Sazae-san) but I looked it up and it looks like a kiddie show? Is there a new adaptation with tons of fujobait and bishies? How is it like the Blue Archive/Uma Musume of fujos???

>>5970
I'm baffled too. It got a movie in 2024 so maybe that movie was just really good?

>>5969
>I'm surprised it got this many given it's a short manga with a short anime adaptation.
The live action was really really popular in Japan, it has a sequel manga ongoing right now too.
>>5970
Autism

>>5970
From what I can tell from twitter.

>>5969
The numbers on Kpop, Minecraft and Sports RPF are absolutely insane so if anything it's par for the course but it's hard for me to remind myself how the 3D side of fujo-dom seems to actually dwarf the 2D side.

>>5961
Suprised 100 Line isn't higher, makes me wonder about the long-term staying power of the game. This is also reminding me that ones of these days I need to check out Sengoku Basara and Mashle, both have a lot of cute fan art.

>>5974
I don't think it actually does almost all of the 100+ ones on that chart are anime.

>>5973
>>5970
there was a post going around jp twitter explaining the appeal, and summarized:

>all characters are nice, cute and cool
>no one dies
>no one gets married or dates
>never ends

so it's more like like idk fujo touhou or something where it's chill to be into and you don't need to worry about landmines. the newest fandom flare up is the recent movie but I remember coming across it on pixiv in 2009 or something. Allegedly the author is a retro fujo (who is now in her 60s).

>>5975
>Suprised 100 Line isn't higher
It’s a new franchise that’s more popular in China than Japan, it’s a pretty reasonable number for it’s first year (gotta remember that everything else on this list has been around for a couple of years)

>>5961
Ebryday Host being a minor hit is a pleasant surprise.

>Doujin I really wanted got a restock
Yessss

>>6063
The catboy is super cute

>>6065
Right? Link drop
https://ec.toranoana.jp/joshi_r/ec/item/040031283965/

I'm browsing doujins again after a bunch of years of not doing so. Most of the stuff on toranoana that I'm interested in is sold out so now I'm turning the gears in my head to remember where I used to buy secondhand doujins and it took me embarrassingly long to remember Suruga-ya and Mandarake. Too bad that these sites don't have the detailed series and character tags like toranoana because browsing a generic "for women other games" tag isn't that productive. I guess for those sites you're supposed to just search specific titles. The funny part is that pic related was sold out but the same artist made a SFW doujin with this pairing as well and that wasn't sold out yet. Very telling, kek.

>>6082
How do you even buy from Toranoana these days? I think their forwarders (Tenso, AOCS) don't allow for adult material shipping?

>>6087
That's weird. I hadn't bought anything yet cause I was still deciding on what I wanted but I bought 18+ doujins in 2024 through AOCS with no issues so I didn't think anything would have changed. I use Blackship for pixiv booth so I guess I should try that.

>>6087
If you wanna buy just to read it's better to ship it to a scanning service in japan.

>>6090
So I tried updating my blackship address on my non-AOCS toranoana account and the system flagged it as a ToS violation and I'm pretty sure they banned me because I can't log in anymore. Guess that's not an option.

>>6094
Lmao fuck, thanks for the warning, I have a smaller forwarder still registered as my address on tora even though I use blackship these days. I think I'll keep using that as long as it's fine or see if japanrabbit proxy buys R18 so I could transfer them to blackship.

Anybody tried buying BitCash on PlayAsia to buy ToraCoin?
https://imgur.com/a/how-to-subscribe-to-fantia-by-topping-up-toracoins-bitcash-via-playasia-0lD9yWZ

>>6095
>>6094
>>6090
AOCS should ship adult material, unless you're in China.

>So I tried updating my blackship address on my non-AOCS toranoana account and the system flagged it as a ToS violation
This is so discriminatory.

>>6096
>AOCS should ship adult material
Yeah, but official partner services usually have the worst rates, and I mostly forward. Always good to have options though for the times when I need a specific doujinshi like air.

Has anyone here successfully rehomed their secondhand doujin? I have a ton of doujin for fandoms I grew out of and they’re just sitting around taking up space. I’m going to Japan soon and I was thinking of pawning them off to a store like Mandarake or K-Books but it looks like you need JP documents in order to sell to them (in other words, no filthy foreigners).

>>6389
It's an insane trust exercise in the big ol' 2026 but in the past I've had success mailing them to people who cover the shipping cost or bringing them to cons to give away. You could also take them apart and get good scans for archival purposes then recycle them.

>>6389
The last time I sold things to Mandarake was in either 2024 or 2025 and I just needed my foreign passport. They note your address and name somewhere and take your things for dirt cheap.

>>6389
I've sold some of mine on EBay and Mercari.

>>6390
I’d be willing to recycle them if I can get scans, but oh man scanning is such a tedious chore

>>6392
That sounds encouraging! I looked it up and it sounds like they pay you pennies compared to the cost, but hey, I’d rather that then them sitting around gathering dust.

>>6393
Other people suggested this to me but the fandoms aren’t popular anymore so idk if I’ll get hits

>>6389
A convention I'm going to visit, Dokomi, apparently has a flea market section where you can bring stuff to sell so I'm going to see if they will accept my old doujins. If not, I'm glad to see from the replies that there's other options as well.

Yaaaay paid the shipping from my doujins time to get raped by tariffs!

>>6477
Same boat as you, nona. Praying for mercy for the both of us.

I'm not going to Japan this summer. I didn't plan anything for summer in general for a lot of reasons. I'm saying this because I went to Japan last year and the year before, and I went to Akaboo/Comic City events twice as a result so far. These events had pairings as the main theme so I bought a shit ton of satosugu doujinshi and I still haven't read them yet, and now that the next event will take place in just a few weeks, I see artists I follow posting samples of their next doujinshi, or their table numbers and it's so frustrating but whatever, maybe next time.

Actually depending on what will happen to me next in terms of employment, I may plan a trip to Japan and maybe Korea as well this winter and maybe I will take this as an opportunity to finally check Comiket. If that's the case, I will post a review here. Did anyone here ever go to Comiket? What was it like? I know it's not fujo friendly anymore, but a recent NHK documentary about it showed some people selling completely random stuff unrelated to manga/anime/video games and it got me more curious than ever.

>>6482
Update: It was brutal.

>>6937
They force you to pay tariffs on books where you live?

>>6937
Ouch, how bad was it?

Sigh, why are the Japanese so fucking paranoid regarding doujinshi? I've been seeing a lot of posts on Twitter lately regarding Suruga-ya letting Mercari sell part of their doujinshi stock and Nips being absolutely furious and saying stuff that they'll only sell to friends / followers and that they should all burn their books after reading, reading them apart, reccomending places for recycling instead of resale, no longer selling online, etc etc. And I seriously genuinely don't understand why. Why this paranoia? Yes, sure, somebody reselling your book and getting a profit is terrible but they're acting as if the mere fact that places like Suruga-ya exist is a complete crime and all doujinshi should never be allowed to exist after market. What about fans that can't go to an event? What about people who got into the fandom late? It's just so anti-preservation or even letting anyone else have a chance and it seriously pisses me off

>>7600
Japan legit believes that you shouldn't be able to access art if it's no longer being officially sold, they got pissed that someone did a web version of the original Tsukihime because they think you shouldn't be allowed to read it anymore since it's no longer being officially sold.
I think part of this comes from the corporate worship culture they have over there.

>>7604
https://akiba-td.2-d.jp/copyright.html
Yeah, I get the impression that japanese creatives have a stockholm syndrome relationship with corporations where they are constantly walking on eggshells. My guess is that doujinshi artists think that when their stuff gets put on a secondhand resale site they lose control of it and something may happen that attracts the ire of the copyright holder. I remember an unfortunate incident where some retarded scanlator on twitter publically showed off how they uncensored a hero academia doujin and the original artist freaked out cause it could lead to being blamed for breaking japanese law. What also shows the sheer cultural differences is this article about a japanese vtuber who couldn't even show off secondhand copies of pokemon emerald because they may contain cheated content while western streamers will openly stream romhacks.
https://akiba-td.2-d.jp/pekorapoke.html

>>7600
Going by what I’ve seen from Japanese it seems like they are pretty particular about gatekeeping their fanworks. Back in the LJ days, you’d see Engrish notices in doujin scans from the author decrying scanlations and other unauthorized reproduction. Some time ago, I saw a jptwt thread on Korean fujos sharing and reading doujins at a public gathering and whether that was appropriate.

I don’t entirely blame Jap artists for being shy since there is a real possibility they can face consequences if their fan work gets out of the intented audience, especially if they are trying to make a professional debut.

>>7600
>they should all burn their books after reading
I’ve seen this specific unhinged statement across multiple doujinshi prefaces that I wonder if they seriously believe anyone will do that. has even a single person ever done that?

>>7604
You're correct about Japanese people being against piracy and art theft to the point where it's ridiculous, but that's not the reason why artists are so stuck up in that context. Artists want to not be accused of copyright infrigement no matter what and would rather look paranoid than act the way fanartists do in the west. There's a grey area between fans who create fan content and companies, and when these companies decide they want to sue someone it can get out of hand pretty fast, I heard about some Japanese people putting music in their very old blogs and getting fined millions of yens for not removing it. If artists put disclaimers in their doujinshi explaining that they need to be thrown in the trash if you don't want them anymore they're less worried about being directly accused of something by other fans or companies if someone else posts the entire thing online or want to resell anything on Yahoo auction with inflated prices like a scalper. I've even seen an artist who's into Pokemon asking to not even post pictures of the covers of her doujinshi if you ever buy her stuff during conventions, and my guess is that even though she has a crazy amount of followers she just didn't want random people who aren't into BL or her favorite characters to ever find her stuff and it's not like she can delete someone else's tweet if there are any negative comments on her art or headcanons. This reminds me of when Japan Expo happened in Paris in July and lots of Japanese people were debating over whether it's a good or bad thing that some fanarts related to specific IPs are always likely to be taken down and destroyed by customs, whether they're traced art or fanart that original IP owners would never think about producing because it's too personal, too inappropriate or doesn't fit their brand.

>>7608
They don't believe that, it's a hyperbole. They don't want you to resell their doujinshi though, that's why they exaggerate so much. The same artist I talked about found out one of her out of print doujinshi was sold in Mandarake for what's equal to nearly 100 us dollars and it pissed her off so she reprinted it and sold them for a lot cheaper for the next convention in Japan. I've seen other artists asking to not resell their doujinshi not just because they don't want them to be sold in general, but because
>they won't see who will buy it next (some fans have refused to sell their doujinshi to some people irl, usually because they were the origina writers and/or artists and they were embarrassed)
>they won't be able to control the price and don't want their stuff to become crazy expensive especially if they're BNF and second hand copies became 10 or 20 times more expensive

>>7609
a lot of artists nowadays just post web reprints of their doujinshi on pixiv once they run out of physical copies, which I like. the copyright infringement claims over there can be pretty random but beyond that, their extreme paranoia of the original creators seeing their fan works (as you mentioned) has them doing annoying shit like character emoji codes, incomprehensible name shortening, and generally just making their work difficult to search for. A bit of self-protection is alright but they always go overboard.

>>7609
>The same artist I talked about found out one of her out of print doujinshi was sold in Mandarake for what's equal to nearly 100 us dollars and it pissed her off so she reprinted it and sold them for a lot cheaper for the next convention in Japan.
Perhaps it's the right tactic for having something reprinted…

>they won't be able to control the price
Just reprint it or put it online on Pixiv for free.