Thursday, 4 June 2009

OTAKU culture - Fan Fiction

Each group or circle has its own culture style, so as OTAKU.
As now we have all known that OTAKU is a group of people who loves Japanese ACG products, we will easily know that their culture must base on the ACG stuff.

Actually OTAKU is a creative group. They sucessfully developed their own culture style and products through many different areas. OTAKU form lots of different clubs to share information, have discussion and develop their own products.

Some of them who is good at drawing or story writing build club to pulish fan fictions as manga and novels, it's called DOUJINSHI (同人誌) in Japanese. There are many professional DOUJINSHI authors who take writing fanfics as job. Many DOUJINSHI refer R18 contents, the stories are usually about the main characters having sex with the most popular female characters. OTAKU bought this kind of fanfic publication as publication.

definition of DOUJINSHI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōjinshi

Google image result for fanfic manga :
http://images.google.co.nz/images?hl=en&q=doujinshi&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=3sf3Sb5FpuC1A8DtpeIO&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title

Female OTAKU group has a special inteest, they love to put male characters as couples.
They exclude female characters but like to dream their favourite male characters are gay people.
It's called BL (boys love) in their language. They write or draw fanfics about BL, almost all the fanfics contains sexual scenes between males. Because they are both males, so nobody is gonna to be jealous.

There are fanfics about GL (girls love) as well. Gl doesn't have a fixed readership class differentiated by gender. There are several people who is from both male and female OTAKU groups likes GL fanfics.

What's BL?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi

A BL fanfic site:

http://www.fanfiction.net/

I think it's a good development to create fanfictions. It's a good way to put one's feeling really into the original work. Many eople who belong to the group of OTAKU is creative, they are useing their skills in a non-main stream area, but not a wrong area.Original products and fan-made products are all welcome by the market so hey both makr contribution to the anime industry and the economy.

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