I wanted to show you guys how the ship or character centric stuff can be signaled, and how to read adverts by doujinshi people.
Here's an ad for nijidama's available books for this week's event.
How to read: Top: date, name of the event, booth number (aka where this person will be selling their books)
Title of the book (the words between those strange brackets, those are Japanese quotation marks); here it roughly says "Get together! Goten's day" (Goten is written in Hiragana and not with his kanji)
Format, page count, media, medium. Japan, like the rest of the civilized world ( ;-) ), uses international paper systems. (A5 is roughly half an US Letter and B5 is roughly comic book size)
By "media", I mean whether it's a manga, a novel, an illustration book / artbook of sorts... (in this case they're all manga).
By "medium", I mean the type of physical good. They're all Ondema except for the last one which is Copy. Ondema means on demand, which means ordered through a printer with a special binding (aka this was printed offset). Copy means it's stappled (copy magazine).
Characters and restrictions.
Here it's "Goten centric" (literally: Goten (kanji) - middle/center - heart) and it's "all ages" (all of these are all ages. Other otherwise see R15 or R18)
Price (in yen of course) + a little blurb about what's inside (this one in particular is about Xeno Goten yeeting across timelines to grab other Gotens lol I can't wait to buy it)
You can check previews of that book here if you want.
Now let's focus on these on the bottom row:
This is Trunks & Goten (non ship)
This is Trunks x Goten (ship, i mean, they're holding hands!!! )
This is Tapion & Minoshia (transcribed as Minotia) (non ship)
If you get to follow people who sell their doujins, you'll sometimes see "there's no CP element". CP in this case means Coupling (aka ships), not child pornography XD
Cat for scale:
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after some thinking i’ve decided to turn this blog into more of a general sideblog to avoid long periods where i don’t post anything. it’ll still be almost entirely dragon ball related, but expect some other anime to be sprinkled in sometimes. as a treat :^)
speaking of treat, here’s a little cozy minotia + tapion doodle i did to thank of all you for sticking by me :’) (transparent if you wanna put the bros up on your blog)
