Anime and manga fandom

, also romanized as '''''''', is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels. Part of a wider category of doujin (self-published) works, doujinshi'' are often derivative of existing works and created by amateurs, though some professional artists participate in order to publish material outside the regular industry.

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fan-made music video consisting of clips from Japanese anime

type of fan convention

Scanlation (also scanslation) is the fan-made scanning, translation, and editing of comics from one language into another. Scanlation is done as an amateur work performed by groups and is nearly always done without express permission from the copyright holder. The word "scanlation" is a portmanteau of the words scan and translation. The term is mainly used for Japanese manga, although it also exists for other languages, such as Korean manhwa and Chinese manhua. Scanlations may be viewed at websites or as sets of image files downloaded via the Internet.

MyAnimeList, often abbreviated as MAL, is an anime and manga social networking and social cataloging application website run by volunteers. The site provides its users with a list-like system to organize and score anime and manga. It facilitates finding users who share similar tastes and provides a large database on anime and manga. As of January 2023, the site reported having over 23,000 anime and 62,000 manga entries in its database. In 2015, the site received 120 million visitors per month.

café where people can read manga

thumb|Box art of Windows 8.1 Pro DSP Memorial Pack with a group of OS-tans from left to right: Claudia (Microsoft Azure), Yuu and Ai ([[Windows 8.1), and Nanami Madobe (Windows 7).]] OS-tans are moe anthropomorphic personifications of popular operating systems, originating on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel. The designs of the OS-tans, which were created by various amateur Japanese artists, are typically female; for example, the personifications of Microsoft Windows operating systems are often depicted as sisters of varying ages. The -tan element in the term is a hypocoristic suffix in

a worldwide community of fans of anime and manga

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organization that discusses/celebrates Japanese animation

thumb|304x304px|A fan's room decorated with dakimakura and merchandise of the anime character [[Mirai Suenaga, 2012]] or , from the English phrase "2D complex", is a sexual or affective attraction towards fictional anime, manga, and light novel characters, as opposed to an attraction towards real human beings. It has been interpreted by some observers as a genuine sexual orientation. This attraction is primarily directed towards the non-realistic characteristics found in manga and anime styles. Initially discussed as male otaku sexuality in Japan, it has more recently been examined within the

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fanbase of the homoerotic fiction genre

NovelAI is an online cloud-based, SaaS model, and a paid subscription service for AI-assisted storywriting and text-to-image synthesis, originally launched in beta on June 15, 2021, with the image generation feature being implemented later on October 3, 2022. NovelAI is owned and operated by Anlatan, which is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

trade fair for dōjinshi

Wikimedia list article

Store specializing in fan works