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9145027 No.9145027 [Reply] [Original]

why does everyone on jp call doujinshi doujins

i know its still correct but its a broader term why use it instead

>> No.9145044

Why do you call Mary Mite anime question girl?

>> No.9145039

>doujins

animes
mangas

>> No.9145040

is it even correct

I just use it because i'm lazy as HELL to bother typing doujinshi

>> No.9145041

deal with it nerd

>> No.9145042

at least it's not /a/ where doujinshi means PORNO COMIX

>> No.9145043

We call them nippon non cannon sexual pictorials, what are you talking about?

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>>9145044
>Mary Mite

isnt that something you put on toast

>> No.9145051

I call doujinshi doujinshi

>> No.9145163

Wait, I always thought "doujin" means more or less "circle", as in to refer to a group or generally the creators.

So doujin soft would be software made by such a specific group, doujin music would be music made by such, and so on.

But is doujin actually a viable term to use in and of itself, without applying it to any word? Can "doujin" mean "doujin works" in general?

I thought it wasn't so. Wikipedia seems to claim otherwise, but it's wikipedia.

Anyone actually fluent and knowledgeable mind clarifying that bit for me?

>> No.9145166

>>9145163
your a fag

>> No.9145170

DONJONS

>> No.9145168

>>9145166
Why yes, I am, what of it?

>> No.9145174

>>9145166
>your

>> No.9145173

doujin = group / person
doujinshi = the actual flimsy books they release

Calling a doujinshi a "doujin" is wrong. Just as wrong as calling animated porn "hentai".

>> No.9145188

>>9145173
but we call those doujins ; note the s at the end, which makes it only doujinshi because pluralizing a japanese word is fucking stupid.

>> No.9145193

>>9145174
your gay

>> No.9145206

>>9145188
You call them doujins because them is plural you stupid fuck. If it was one you would call it a doujin and that is wrong.

>> No.9145221

>>9145042
So what should I be calling my porno comix folder /jp/?

>> No.9145224

"doujins" is a contraction of "doujinshi".

Can we all be happy now?

>> No.9145228

I remember noticing this a while back. Not sure if it was a sudden or gradual change, but everyone was calling them "doujins" and I just assumed I was wrong.

It's kind of like when you're at a party (ha) and someone keeps pronouncing something wrong. Maybe you all know it. Maybe it's just you and you're wrong. So you let it continue.

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>>9145206
LOL get a load of this NEEERD

>> No.9145243

My grandma used to call Pokémon "pokesmans".

>> No.9145248

We call them doujins because "doujin" is a loan word and we pluralize it using English rules.

>> No.9145249

>>9145248
see
>>9145039

>> No.9145255

>>9145249

doujins is perfectly fine

animes and mangas
>>>/yahooanswers/
>>>/mal/
>>>/annforums/

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>> No.9145276

>>9145255
But that's completely arbitrary.

Also, why does everyone call commercial eromanga "doujins"?

>> No.9145335

>>9145276
Also interested in this. When does it cease to be a doujin work? I know they don't have to be fan works, but are the official Touhou manga doujinshi?

In before "doujin" suffers the same fate "indie" did in the West.

>> No.9145501

>>9145027
>everyone on jp

No, just visitors from /a/.

>>9145335
>"doujin" suffers the same fate "indie" did in the West

If only it was just the same fate. Indie had a pretty good fate, at the very least it has never evolved to mean "porn".

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