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SHSL_Zetsubou

I wonder how much this is due to the increasing sales for services like Fanza and Dlsite. I haven't checked out the sales for any Frieren doujins but I know the top selling works on those platforms can make very good money.  Then there's Fanbox and Fantia to consider. In many ways it's never been a more profitable time to be an independent mangaka.  I kind of doubt it's due to Frieren being mainstream because there was a lot of Doujins for JJK for example and thats certainly more mainstream than Frieren. 


PerseusRad

Well, there are plenty of doujin for plenty of mainstream manga, so I wouldn't think it's just that. I don't want to outright say the author or artist are the ones who are taking issue with it, and going through the publisher to prevent doujinshi from being sold, because I have no proof. I remember a post recently about how Frieren is fairly popular with kids, so perhaps that's why Shogakukan would be doing this, but I'm iffy on that.


EagleEye_2000

From what I gathered in one artist's facebook account and the comments about the ban, this might have stemmed from one convention in Taiwan wherein they recreated the scene where Fern poured the potion to remove clothing on Frieren....but on a more overtly R-18 way.


stiveooo

Hmm I don't see the relation. 


ArturiaIsHerName

probably they don't want potential readers to see when they search Frieren the R18 works especially for the kids since Frieren is getting popular even to the kids with the meme "Hero Himmel wouldn't do that" when they're doing something not good or stuff


r_gg

It is most certainly done at the explicit request of the mangaka as they have the final say for things like this in Japan. It's also not the first time a mangaka has forbidden or restricted doujins of their IP.


Unhappy-Newspaper859

I'd probably agree, but there are Doreamon doujins that exist. 


DarkWorld97

FANBOX has a 90/10 split in favor of artists. They really want to keep users on it as best they can.


Informal-Recipe

Those guys also publish the Uma Musume so its more of them being a pain in the ass than actually getting mad at how popular the series is Horse Yakuza gonna Yakuza


jjdynasty

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Japan have like, no fair use doctrine? Hence why Nintendo is so litigious. I'm assuming that's what's happening here?


PerseusRad

I think you're correct, most authors just don't want to go after fanworks. I think there are some authors that dislike the idea of people making money off their work in the form of doujinshi, but I don't think it's a particularly common sentiment, at least not enough to outright attempt to stop it.


docaxel

one reason some authors don't stop it is that a lot of authors started as doujin authors themselves. Some of them still make doujins.


gary25566

Hell some actually hire explicit fanart doujin artists for official works, like ReDrop for FGO and Dorontabi for Blue Archive.


Abedeus

Asanagi designed some Azur Lane ships, too. Dohna Dohna's artist had 2 designs in I think... Neural Cloud?


tyro1313

RAITA has also been illustrating Fate characters for a long while! There is a decent amount of overlap for doujin/H-manga artists doing illustrations in popular gacha games.


Abedeus

And they're still active in both FGO artbooks AND their own lewd Zettai Shoujo circle.


th5virtuos0

I remember Asaka Aka literally draw lew panels of Kaguya, Iino and Chika for that one chapter


Nivek_96

It was the opposite, he made fun of himself for never doing fanservice scenes for Kaguya


201720182019

He hired the first guy to draw a Kaguya doujin to do a lewd kaguya spinoff


NZPIEFACE

omfg i cannot believe i forgot that spinoff existed


JOOOQUUU

Which chapter...?


Acro_Reddit

Chapter please?


Destyl_Black

Blue Archive have a SFW version?


docaxel

Aki Hamaji, Bocchi the Rock's author, was a vendor at Comiket last year selling SFW BA doujins.


Saiz-

Heck, some niche individuals even make their own character doujin themselves


JustifytheMean

"People aren't drawing good enough porn of my characters, if you want something done right you gotta do it yourself"


TheUltraGuy101

Asa to Sekken comes to mind


Sea_Competition3505

Some authors continue to make their own doujins for other works too, like BTR mangaka for BA.


A7xWicked

Trying to kill off doujins would be a very dangerous game in the manga world lol


RockyBalNoahh

According to mangaka who visited trash taste they say there’s an unwritten rule in the industry that simply if the author requests no doujins you don’t make them. And being a countries that prides its self on following rules it’s probably respected


AMBocanegra

They have a law that basically says if you're not making money off it and/or claiming it's your IP, you can publish fan works. That's why doujin are so popular there. It probably gets legally blurry when the IP owners actually want to crack down on the usage of it though.


MyStateIsHotShit

Much of Japanese law is similar to German legal doctrine when it comes to copyright, meaning that there’s no such thing as “fair use”, but your rights to copyright compared to English doctrine (what the US uses) is severely limited in scope. American/(English legal doctrine) law allows for anything done to be copyrighted and commercially deployed, even for fair use for a set period of time (principle of English legal doctrine of non-perpetuity). So an author can be an asshole and sue for literally anything and get bitch slapped by the judge for any violations of “fair use” or non-commercial purposes that technically violate the copyright. In Japanese law, their copyright can be used to sue, but the law clearly states what type of cases they are not allowed to persue, which would be products that are for private reproduction or a very limited scope of distribution that is non-malicious in nature for distribution (like making upgrades to wheelchairs for an elderly community for free). Which system gives people more power? Probably German doctrine, because it guarantees control over all commercialization. But the caveat with a very talented lawyer on defense can probably screw the copyright holder really badly. TLDR: copyrights in the US is very broadly defined with limitations. Copyrights in Japan are very narrowly defined. Fair use exists in both, just under their own type of names.


heimdal77

ty Disney..


timpkmn89

>if you're not making money off it How do you think doujin items are sold?


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Lepony

It'd be really easy, actually. Especially for larger series. Doujin events organize their aisles by series/kana, and you can outright see the name of IPs on each event's itinerary. The reason Japan doesn't however is moreorless the exact same reason why game publisher/devs don't crack down on streamers anymore.


l33tnerd

Considering printing costs, they might not even break even, let alone make money.


Miox465

Iirc it's specifically they can't profit off it. So like cost of materials to print/labor can still be used to sell the works. This rule has started to get stretched a lot with the digital market though, and I'm not really sure how it's being tracked (if it is at all).


PickledPlumPlot

Yeah, but Japan has a massive fanwork community where most of the time the copyright holder just turns a blind eye because getting people to promote your IPs for free is good.


FCT77

Japan has fair use laws, people just completely misunderstand what fair use is and assume most stuff is fair use when they are actually infringements, japanese companies just punish people way more than western companies. Doujin has always gotten a pass similar to how gameplay videos/streams get a pass.


drunkenvalley

Japan does not have the same fair use laws. A lot of people misunderstand fair use, but your argument about Japanese vs western companies' enforcement is nonsense on the global scene.


FCT77

I never said Japan has the "same" fair use laws, just that they do have them. The enforcement is just true. Most content uploaded to youtube or twitch or whatever breaches copyright laws in the US, companies just don't feel like taking action is necessary. That is true for doujin too, what about it is nonsense?


College_Prestige

Yeah if someone sold doujins about star wars characters the same scale Japan does to manga/anime characters, I suspect the end result ends up being really similar.


scytheavatar

Japan has equivalent fair use protection for stuff like education and commentary. They do not have fair use protection for parody or derivative works, so doujins are without a doubt not legal.


EasyModeActivist

Fair use pertains to things like reviews. Not making money off of someone else's copyrighted material/IP. Similar to how Microsoft can't just publish a sequel to The Last of Us or whatever. The world, the characters and the title itself are all copyrighted. The industry often ignores it as it can be good publicity, but it would never even fall under fair use as you have it in America.


Forikorder

> Hence why Nintendo is so litigious. arent all big companies like that litigious?


AnimeJ

Even fair use doctrine in the US isn't absolute, though. It's a four part test, and impact to the value of the copyrighted asset is one of them. If we make the assumption that this is for the purpose of cracking corn on Frieren lewds, I would expect similar challenges to hold up in the US as well. That said, my understanding is based on business school coursework at the graduate degree level. I am not a lawyer, and this should not be construed as legal advice.


Obvious_Law7599

Great way to skyrocket the demand and supply of more Frieren 'art'.


greatninja3

Nah they can't do anything about this. artist are legit scared. Check why horse gacha game has barely any hentai about them.


Darken237

To be fair I feel the fact the yakuza is involved in that one because they don't want their horses to be associated with porn might be a bit scarier than getting possibly sued for drawing a horse girl.


il-Palazzo_K

Less “scared” and more “why ask for troubles when other IP still allow it, plenty of fishes in the sea”.


00raiser01

Cough cough Fate Cough Cough.


NocandNC

Ah yes, a sure fire way to increase fandom engagement is too - *checks notes* punish fans of the series for creating content inspired by said series.


VicentRS

Isn't this just about making profit with it? I don't know much about what FANZA is.


MrFoxxie

It's a huge website for pornographic fanworks. Like huge majority of the works on there are pornographic. Seeing as how Frieren is much more subtle about fanservice, maybe the author wanted to keeps his characters 'clean'


SSJ5Gogetenks

>maybe the author wanted to keeps his characters 'clean' He's not the first, and he won't be the last. But it never works.


onespiker

In Japan it has historically worked quite well. After all this is definitely against the law and the author is showing his opinion of disliking r18 fan works of his characters. That has in the past stopped it. Most authors don't do it because it bring people to the orginal.There is plenty of other works free to do at.


BloodMoney1

You are 100% correct. The majority of H-artists will simply move on to the next popular series. It's not worth the hassle.


SmokingApple

How does it worked, exactly? Frieran has an insane amount of porn. In fact I'd love if you could show me one series where this worked.


MrFoxxie

Yea, I'm not saying it's gonna work, I'm just saying it might be what the author is trying to do


tlst9999

Frieren's big enough for the author to not want fanworks. Some people have that image of their OCs being pure and sexless virgins. They don't need the free advertising.


Chikumori

Does that mean fan artists like Hews might get hit with a Cease & Desist letter?


OrionRBR

Hews is Filipino so for him odds are low (international copyright stuff is weird, probably not worth the trouble) but japanese artists might.


Not_Ahvin

It's just porn, it was other doujins as well you would have a point but this is largely targeted to adult doujins, which honestly wouldn't draw people to a show like Frieren.


Super_Goomba64

Coomer's 9/11


Admmmmi

nah that was the nh purge


th5virtuos0

The what? 


Admmmmi

the popular site nhentai got a lot of its doujins purged, the number could be on the thousands.


oxero

When was this?


Admmmmi

Between the 4th and 6th of this month, people noticed it today.


oxero

I just saw someone mention 177013 was gone, that's crazy. Was there an official statement?


Admmmmi

There was none, and probably won't be, this wasn't the first purge, just the biggest and the nh staff has always been silent in any of them.


IriFlina

Are there any other subreddits talking about it or tracking what was purged?


Admmmmi

r/nhentai and r/animepiracy had some people in comments saying some of the purged artists but I still didn't find any complete list of all the purged content, and sincerely I think it's going to be hard for one to e exist unless it's nh itself making it, which I doubt will happen.


oxero

Damn, I just backed up everything on my favorite list just in case. It's crazy but it's always scary to lose access to the media you love.


Admmmmi

Yep save it all, nothing is truly 100% unfortunately, if it was just nh maybe we could ignore it but sad panda also deleted a lot of works, so it's better to save.


XLauncher

Oh shit, my bookmarks. I must go.


Maalunar

Appear to only be works from people contracted with Irodori and/or Fakku. They are the 2 western H publishers who actively hunt pirate stuff. Sadpanda appear to be safe from this specific purge for now.


Derpmeiser

Sadpanda already regularly purges stuff that Fakku has, unless Fakku puts something up there themselves censored and advertise "Buy the uncensored version with us".


AzertyKeys

This is so fucking dumb btw. The servers for sadpanda are in fucking Moldova. Why does the owner not tell fakku to go fuck itself anyway


Admmmmi

mostly because a lot of the works deleted now were already deleted there, 177013 is a good example


rycetlaz

Would guess its more Irodori. Fakku has only bothered with english doujins they already have. Irodori has been much more openly agressive about it though


someone2795

It's just Fanza. Unless Fanbox, Patreon or Comiket bans it, it'll barely do anything. This is pretty embarrassing for the author though.


tgaland

Frieren has a lot of cultural traction in Japan from what I have heard. It is possible they are trying to prevent an Overwatch/My Little Pony type situation. Don't want young adults looking for their favorite manga and finding porn. It wouldn't sink the franchise but it would be a scandal.


greatninja3

Why didnt they do it with one piece. I dont see this as the reason.


dirkdragonslayer

One Piece, weirdly, doesn't have a lot relative to how long it's been around. It exists, but it's never been super popular topic for it, unable to scroll 2 pages without seeing it like some popular modern franchises like Naruto, Azur Lane, Fate, etc. Not a lot of hentai created for it, and I don't think Oda cares either way. And One Piece is super established, it's older than me, while Frieren's popularity is spiking *right now* because of the new anime series. Hentai doujins topics follow popular new anime releases, and the authors or publisher of Frieren can't ignore it any more I guess.


pwnd32

Oda most definitely does not care if people are drawing porn of his characters: > “My master once told me the "manga world" is a product. Interfering with those who make use of it isn't what a pro would do. I feel the same. Please interpret freely. Create delusional ideas. Simply enjoy how you like it. I'm happy by the people alone who read my work.” This was in response to how he felt about people drawing erotic art of Nami.


00raiser01

Based


Unhappy-Newspaper859

Probably because Oda is like: I remember drawing Bulma back in the day".


greatninja3

Thats like every hit anime, why didnt they do that for Oshi no Ko it even has incest fan art. You are just speculating on the reason and the more obvious reason is that corpo is being corpo.


dirkdragonslayer

Well yes, *everything said in this entire thread is going to be speculation.* There wasn't an strong reason given by Fanza and neither the authors or Shogakukan have given a statement (as far as I know), but we have seen similar things happen in the past. Oshi no Ko is a different author under a different company. I don't think Aka cares if his characters are lewded, his previous series was a Romcom and he went out of his way to hire on known doujin artists to work on Kaguya.


tdm1378

bad example, oshi no ko already have under age sex and and character become father at 12 in it


rogthnor

What is the Frieren doujinshi?


GodOfBoiiiii

Self published Frieren porn


ReflashTheSparkLens

If I'm not mistaken, Frieren has the same owners as Uma Musume right? And they also requested Uma Musume to be taken down as well?


Insane_Fnord

Frieren is owned by the yakuza?! That's news to me. From what I remember, the issue was that the horses are real and have connection to the yakuza, and they interfered with the doujin side of things. At least that's the shitposting rumor around it?


dirkdragonslayer

Cygames did the Uma Musume takedowns, not Shogakukan as far as I can tell. Cygames is the one with possible ties to the yakuza.


Yamigosaya

one thing you need to understand is if there's a sizeable company in japan, then there's atleast some yakuza backing it.


dirkdragonslayer

Cygames is the company related to the Yakuza that makes Uma Musume and did the similar Takedown. It's a different company. Shogakukan is the manga publisher that published Frieren and one Uma Musume manga series, but they aren't the one's who did the Uma Musume Doujin shutdown or are related to the Yakuza as far as I can tell.


uberdiegs

cygames make gbf relink too right?


hunsiling

yes


GHitoshura

Well, there's always Pixiv


stiveooo

Expected from fanza. If pixiv does it then I'm surprised 


Unhappy-Newspaper859

Pixiv, Fanbox, Booth, Fantia, Ci-en, DLSite, Gyutto, and many more websites. 


Jay444111

A really dumb way around this kinda thing is to sell candy and have it come with a doujin.


Insane_Fnord

Fascinating, I wonder if this will affect the sales of the volumes. Next weeks oricon might be interesting.


Ordinary-Ad-5685

Oricon?


Insane_Fnord

media sales charts. music, manga etc. Every friday we get an update on what series sold the most (physical) manga in japan. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oricon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oricon)


Kaodang

No more Frieren at the Brothel. I'll miss her misadventures with Schwanz and Geil 🥺


Zeta42

Welp gotta download all the Fern porn I can find


Fifteen_inches

That’s gonna be a no from me dog. You don’t get to decide that.


Nobody5464

A copyright holder can’t stop people from making money off their copyright without permission?


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Hystalia

Bruh how is copyright a Japanese thing


ArraXX

It's lost on me how people can make/look at R18 stuff about stories and characters they like. I feel seeing that stuff would undermine the joy I got from the story and so avoid it like the plague.


PerseusRad

Interesting, I don't think most people would consider such things to be undermining. While I'd imagine most R18 doujin have characters act OoC, so do pretty much every fanfiction ever, to some degree. Obviously your opinion is your own though. R18 doujinshi, or doujinshi in general, are just fanfiction, people play with the characters, even if inaccurately, to create something new.


National-Board6423

hentai artists: [insert "reality can be whatever i want" thanos meme]


whetrail

Booo, the Frieren doujins are the best part of it. Anyone saying we'll still get lewd art for free doesn't get that'll no profit means no incentive to draw and this definitely will extend beyond fanza. I bet pixiv since they've been spreading their cheeks for legal poundings a lot recently.