Wanna know what goes into making a manga? "Doujin Work" might be a good start to do your research on.
Based off of the four-panel comic, “Doujin Work” follows Najimi, a girl who is introduced to the world of doujinshi, or fan-made comic books, by her friend Tsuyuri. After making her first manga she runs into her childhood friend Justice; who, along with his young friend Sora, make a killing at selling their comics at popular conventions. Seeing this, along with grabbing inspiration from Junichirō (a guy Najimi first met at an adult video game store and who winds up being Najimi’s first purchaser), Najimi goes to great lengths to becoming a great manga artist.
To completely understand this series, one must know how hard it is to creating a comic from scratch, which is like creating a short story from nothing; only there’s a lot more drawing involved with it. It is so hard to draw that by the time Najimi makes her fist comic she can only draw a character from one specific angle. There’s a lot of technical humor in it (such as complimenting on the paper quality when the rest of the work sucks), which could go over the heads of some non-anime watchers or comic book writers.
Each episode is only 11 minutes long, which means that sometimes it goes by too quickly to fix conflicts correctly. For the most part, though, the 11-minute time frame is quite the right size to fit this quirky-humored storyline. One of the funnier episodes involves Najimi working at a Maid Café, and how she always breaks her cutesy character thanks in part to her friends that always come by there. There’s a lot of dirty humor underlined in the story, but it’s done quite cleverly.
The show gets a B+ in my review. A lot of good humor and funny characters, but it might go over the heads of some people. It's currently available in America thanks to Media Blasters.
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