[research] More on the term "genre" in doujin fandom

[unjapanologist]

For those who were interested in the different meanings of the word "genre" in doujin fandom a few months ago, I wrote a Fanlore article about it. Needs some polishing, but the basic info is all there.

Somehow, the hardest part about making Fanlore articles is the math captcha that you need to fill in to be allowed to create the page. It's not that the sums are difficult. You're just done with writing, you think you can switch your brain off now, and then SURPRISE MATH.

Comments

[lian]

That is an amazingly insightful & entertaining article. Thank you for writing it :D

[foxinthestars]

Thank you for that article, very enlightening!

If you don't mind a couple of other questions that I've come up with in my Psychic Force doujinshi collecting (given, it's '90's-vintage stuff)...

If a doujinshi is labelled "only book", does that mean it contains material based on only one genre/fandom? Several of mine have that on them and I was idly curious what it meant.

Also re: Yorozu, I've seen web shops label individual doujinshi as "yorozu," and had gathered that that meant they contained material from more than one fandom/genre, but I'm wondering about the distinction of crossovers --- whether the genres in the "yorozu" doujinshi are in self-contained chunks or whether they interact together in a single work. Are those distinguished in terminology/labelling and practice, and if so, how? (Full disclosure, I'm asking this because I'd rather not buy the latter type, as well as for edification...)

Hope I'm not bugging you! ^_^;