Selling Doujin makes much Money than publishing regular Manga
Selling Doujin makes much Money than publishing regular Manga according to some artists and authors who have given their opinions on the internet.
It seems that the publishing industry has changed in a way that not many people have noticed, because every day and creators from Japan are talking about how much they are making from doujins.
Here’s another one of those stories.
Selling Doujin makes much Money than publishing regular Manga
Ogino began the conversation publishing in his Twitter acc that he, for the past few years, has been trying to help manga authors to work in peace in the best way possible.
作家さんが安心して連載に打ち込めるよう、連載を立ち上げる前に同人活動だけでも食べていけるよう環境を整えるサポートをここ数年試しているのですが、最近ちょっと困ったことが
— 荻野(フリーランスマンガ編集者) (@gouranga_) January 4, 2022
He reveals that there is now money to be made by making and selling doujins than by publishing a regular manga in a magazine.
The industry has changed and sites supporting individual artists have appeared and become stronger, sites like Tora no Ana, FANZA, DLsite, as well as subscription services that you pay directly for the creators like Fantia, pixivFANBOX etc.
ここ5年くらいの間で作家さん個人の活動をサポートするサービスが充実しまして。とらのあな・メロンブックス等の従来の同人誌委託販売に加えてFANZA・DLsite等のダウンロード販売。Fantia・pixivFANBOX等の支援サイト。skeb等の有償リクエストサービスなどが台頭した結果、創作環境が激変したんですね
— 荻野(フリーランスマンガ編集者) (@gouranga_) January 4, 2022
Really that’s not surprising, we had a recent case, of an animator who revealed that he earned with doujin than working in the anime industrie.
Seeing these statements from Ogino, many people started to answer him, like Seiichiro Hayakawa, who has worked in anime and games.
Hayakawa said the following:
This is something that’s been said before. One of the editors told the manga artist, “I have a doujin event coming up, so I’d like to take a break from my serialization,” and I chided him, “Shouldn’t you be prioritizing your day job? When I rebuked him, he told me that his doujin income was two digits higher than his main job, and I was reminded that serialization is of a side job.
これは以前から言われていることですね。ある編集さんが漫画家さんに「同人イベントが近いので連載を休ませてほしい」と言われ「本業を優先すべきでは？」と窘めたところ、同人の稼ぎの方が2桁上であることを教えられ、連載の方が副業なのだと思い知らされた話を見たことがあります。 https://t.co/rCXUZ9eNb6
— 早川清一朗@ライター 取材に行きたい謎の生物 (@hayakawaseiich2) January 5, 2022
Other artists also responded to both of them, saying that it’s really true, the money from doujins is much than what you make publishing a manga.
Seeing the comments from the Japanese about this, there was one who said that, “If you do this for a living, it’s no longer a doujin, we should call it self-publishing instead of doujin”.
But I think the term doujin is unlikely to change.
Source: Otakomu
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