Do you read doujinshi?

[Nosebleed]

Among my many (not) useful hobbies, one of them is reading doujinshi manga.

 

I discovered doujins through the incredibly insightful lands of 4chan after seeing some characters I knew in some manga panels that were clearly not in the original series and they very much piked my interested.

 

After that I looked up some series I liked in some websites and started reading a bunch of fanfics with some canon or even non canon pairings from and I felt somewhat fulfilled. You know that feeling when a series doesn't give you what you deserve, romance wise, but when you see it on someone else's work, even if it's not official, it gives you a feeling of completition? That's exactly how I felt.

 

And until this date I often look up doujinshi of series I'm not being satisfied by. Granted the reason I read these is not for the hentai (usually) but for actually seeing 2 (or more?) characters i like, doing something together as a couple (Like ecchi things. Teehee~☆)

 

And sometimes I get so much into some that it ends up affecting how i view one particular anime or manga.

For example i read a doujinshi with a pairing that i didn't know could even be made and I like it, when i watch said anime again I will probably view those 2 characters a bit more differently now.

Sometimes it even makes me get into particular fandoms that ship certain characters together though this is a rare occasion, only fandom i feel very strongly about is the NicoMaki fandom (from Love Live).

This is just me personally though. I believe the world of fanfic is a wonderful thing and I enjoy diving into it every once in a while (everyday almost).

 

So I wanted to know if someone else around here likes reading some form of doujins (wether they be hentai or not) and how do you feel about them.

I hope I'm not alone here. Don't leave me alone pls.

 

For those who don't know what doujinshi is: see here

[Kaguya]

Yep, I read lots of doujinshi. Lots of touhou stuff- it's wonderful what the fans can do with the setting and characters, but also from any other series I like. I tend to like reading some really bad doujinshi as well, sometimes there's nothing better than reading the worst fanfic you can find to get some laughs.

 

Not really a doujin, since it's a video, but this type of thing is great from time to time:

[Nagisa_Fawkes]

The only one I read to date was Oreimo doujinshi, and I'm really glad I did. It wasn't hentai, but damn Kirino was so cute on that , while in the anime her tsun side manifested 99% of the time, the doujinshi was all about her being dere dere...   

[Flutterz]

Only some of the ones over at yuri-ism.com, and even then "reading" is a bit of an exaggeration.

[Yukiru]

I do from time to time, don't read the H ones, but I read some other doujins when I'm in need of the characters and nothing is published/released.

[FruitsPunchSamurai]

I remember reading lots of Haganai h doujinshi, and some others when I wanted to see 'more' of some of my favorite cute heroines lol. I've read other doujinshi as well, some were really exciting and fun to read.

[astro]

I only read hentai doujinshi. Anything non-H, I'd rather read FanFictions because doujinshi usually butcher the original artwork and I can't stand that.

[BookwormOtaku]

I mainly read H doujinshi though I have read some hilarious non H ones for Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night. I will say I'm quite fond of Persona 4 H doujinshi, really helps to fill in those heroine social link fade to blacks B)

[~K.S~]

I read them here > http://pururin.com/

Gotta love the Island Of The Mist God series . 

[Monmon]

once in a while...sadly most of em is hentai

my fav doujin site  

http://www.doujin-moe.us/

Ez trilogy from Ocha sensei n goo paaa sensei is my favorite.

[Down]

I don't really like shipping nor fanfictions all that much, so I mainly read H doujins.

 

I did read a couple of Type-Moon doujins though (for absurd crossovers and humor) and Precure ones (not-yuri, just magical girls doing magical things)

[TacticalBacon]

I read non-H doujinshi mainly because H ones are generally a little too... over the top.

[Katatsumuri]

Happens sometimes when there is nothing i'd rather do instead

[shigufumi]

there are also doujin games not just manga and vids....and mostly i play and read Touho cause its mainstream and has alo't of genre's

 

most guys read H-Doujins and im not an exception...

[Kawakami_Complex]

I read it when in between anime's or VN's. I quite like the idea of my favourite characters being in them and what not.

[Nosebleed]

Well if I knew some good sites to read them I might, but no I don't read them as of right now. Any good places you recommend/links?

Sad Panda for all your needs and worries!

*wonders if anyone gets it*

I tend to read a lot of stuff at yuri-ism because they release some of my favorite stuff.

Other than there's generic sites like fakku, doujin-moe, e-hentai or exhentai (better than e-hentai) which has pretty much every doujin on the internet ever with no restrictions and is the one i personally use.

I read mostly vanilla stuff. Despite being H i still don't like when it goes too far, i'm soft like that.

Only team i read less vanilla stuff is when it's something thst fits my preferences i guess.

[eclipsezero]

Occasionally read some Type Moon ones.

T Moon Complex and other comical ones :V

[Dark Ariel7]

Fakku is my #2 most visited site. Yes I read doujinshi.

[Chocolat]

I have read one or two, like some Princess Tutu ones, but it's hard to find no h ones; But it's nice to see fan's interpretations of

characters we like, and to see them in new stories. Some are very creative!

[Hanako]

I read mainly yuri doujinshi

My first doujinshi is Secret Flower (Himawari x Sakurako from Yuru Yuri ) on Fakku

Lately I read them on Dynasty-scans

[Arturia]

Well, Doujinshi really is one of the things i enjoy reading, H or not...Like reading the Evangelion Doujinshi but like to change it to things like Fate/Stay night and Toaru Rail.

While we are on the mention of Sites, I also used to use E-Hentai but found Fakku..But yeh got to find a nice Non-H ones xD..

[Guest]

I have a few issues with doujinshis.

 

First with adaptations :

The first thing would obviously be mot actually respecting the author intentions.

This applies in terms of scenario, storytelling or drawing.

 

If think a manga comes as a whole and that doujinshis are not an extention of it but another manga that doesn't really belong or that the new drawer doesn't really acheive to own.

 

Even if a manga ends like crap, making an alternative ending will not change anything for me.

Because it's simply not the same.

 

So it's not that I don't like doujinshi, it's just that it doesn't add anything to the original manga in my personnal opinion.*

 

As for original work (as in amateur manga), I'm totally in favor of it.

Well pretty much any mangaka started with doujinshi's anyway, so it's something we should encourage.

 

But there are too many pro mangas already existing that i haven't read for me too start paying attention to amateur work and even more if it's untranslated.

[BookwormOtaku]

I mainly use doujin moe and ehentai galleries

[Nosebleed]

I mostly use exhentai because of the loli tag which is usually not allowed in a lot of other sites.Although there's a ton of weird stuff mixed in there. But then again e-hentai also has said stuff. And because pretty much every doujin on the internet or hentai manga ends up there.

Fakku is my 2nd most used website for doujinshi. They usually have the most popular ones. It's also pretty easy to browse.

Doujin-moe would be 3rd though I only use it occasionally really. I don't like the premium system they have. I can literally find their premium section doujins on exhentai within minutes. 

[SketchingPegasus]

Used to read alot of Final Fantasy 7 doujin, doujin slipped away from my interest in 2012. I dunno why, I decided to read Webcomics and write Fanfiction instead lol.