Doujin Work

Doujin Work is a story about what the title says: A show working on a doujin. With subject matter of that magnitude, some would expect nothing but nudity, perversion, and loads of sex. I can SAFELY tell you that there is no nudity or no sex, BUT there is a lot of perversion going on in this anime. And perversion is all you need for a slice of life comedy about a rookie doujin artist.

If you have viewed any anime about manga artists, namely Comic Party, then the characters will most likely not appear as fresh and different. The cast of characters may not ... be as deep as Comic Party or Genshiken but of course they keep the key character elements in. The chemistry and banter between all of the characters works out very well, but then again having characters execute hilarious sex jokes is about as easy as making a list on MyAnimeList.net. ^_^ If you find comedy in simple things like that you'll be more than in for just a few laughs. Even though it's so painfully short

Thats one of the many drawbacks this show has. This show DOES have 12 episodes, but its only ten minutes. Well, technically its 15 minutes but the OP and ED lasts 5 minutes which makes no sense at all. So yeah the credits last longer than half the show, take that however you may. What surprised the hell out of me was how high quality the songs were compared to the rest of the show.

Once you watch a handful of episodes, you'll realize how poor the animation quality is. You'll see that most of the time their lips and eyes only move. If they do move their body, it usually consists of less than 5 frames OR cheap animation shortcuts like sliding, resizing, and even flipping characters like paper. Even the background characters are just in one color (pink, green, or blue). Now it could be their art style but i just couldn't get past the thought that the animation is so simplistic and poor looking especially when the show is so short. Thankfully comedy shows usually don't have to rely heavily on art just as long as the jokes and seiyus stay strong. The seiyu feel like they fit their character quite well and never gets old. Even Tsuyuri's monotone voice is refreshingly funny and quick witted whenever she speaks. My personal favorite is Sora. Her voice and how they present her in the show is just pure win.

The overall comedy is very hit or miss, mainly drawing most of its jokes from sexual innuendo and cliche' gags. With all the less than stellar things going for this show, it still brings out a lot of good quick laughs for me in every episode. I personally loved the show and wished it was a full 30 minutes. But what do you expect from a 4panel comic.
But if u want a quick pick me up of a comedy that u can watch all of it in one sitting or if you enjoy a little ecchi in your comedy anime, feel free to pick it up.

My favorite anime, as of this writing, is called Comic Party. It's a great comedy with a wee bit of drama about a group of friends overcoming biases, working on doujinshi, and growing stronger together.

Based on the fact that Doujin Work was the top recommended anime in relation to it on MAL, I had some high hopes. And, well...I was a bit let down.

It's not that this anime is bad. It's just that it's nothing special, either.

STORY (6/10):

Unlike the forementioned Comic Party, Doujin Work has nowhere near as much emphasis on the protagonist's desire to improve their manga. Najimi does improve in her work as ... the show goes along, but the main focus of Doujin Work is gag comedy.

I was happy to see the story advance a bit towards the end...however, without giving spoilers, that doesn't work out like it could've, which was disappointing.

ART (6/10):

The artwork is decent, if not a bit lazy. Background characters are drawn as grey/green blobs at times. (I guess the artist ran out of generic faces.)

There's one great visual gag in which Najimi enters an eroge shop, around episode 3 or so. Inside, you see lots of covers of real visual novels. I was able to recognize Saya no Uta (!!!), though there were plenty of others. That was certainly a nice touch.

SOUND (6/10):

The voice-acting is good; none of the voices felt out of place. (I watched this subbed, as there is no English dub of Doujin Work as of this writing.) The OP and ED are skippable, just generic J-pop.

CHARACTER (6/10):

The characterization isn't bad overall, but some characters lack motives for their actions. For example, "Justice", Najimi's childhood friend, constantly tries to protect her from a male fan of hers who is very kind-hearted and has a crush on her.

Is Justice attracted to her? The show never even so much as jokes about it. Then why is he so worried about this boy coming close to her?

Also, Sora, a little girl who pops up in about every episode, really serves no purpose to the story other then to make Justice to seem a bit creepy (I'll get into that more below).

ENJOYMENT (6/10):

Before watching Doujin Work, you should know the show has some, er...lolicon undertones. I wasn't expecting these, and they got a little unnerving at times. Despite the fact that Najimi is supposed to be in college, she's drawn like she's 13, and her friend Tsuyuri is drawn even younger. The title screens often depict them nude or in suggestive situations.

The character of Sora, an elementary school girl who frequently accompanies Justice, pushes my suspicions even further. She is WAY too close to these adults drawing hardcore hentai, and her relationship with Justice is never really explained in a way that could make not creepy. The occasional fanservice on her, even if it only lasted a couple seconds, made me gag.

Some of the gags in the show fell flat for me, were overused, or were simply way too cringy (while the show gets over that last one after the first couple of episodes, they are uncomfortable - and this is coming from someone who enjoys Watamote). However, there are enough funny and enjoyable moments throughout the series that I did enjoy watching it.

OVERALL (6/10):

In conclusion, if you can get past the show's skeevy undertones, Doujin Work might be worth a watch on a rainy day (that is, if you've already seen Comic Party). It's a goofy little slice-of-life that'll only take about two hours of your life.

i recently rented the first volume (episodes 1-4) of an anime called Dojin Work and i wanted to share my 2 cents on it.



The Story:

First scene: We start out on a train with the main character (as seen in the picture above, i don't remember her name, but it's not important anyways lol). there is a misunderstanding and a lesbian joke breaks out (between 2 girls who are obviously underaged). this joke drags on for 5 minutes. this is foreshadowing that you will hear sexual pedophile jokes A LOT in every episode, in fact, most of the jokes are for pedophiles. the ... man in a suit you see in the background carrying an even littler girl on his shoulders is named Justice (ironicly). his little girl companion is always wearing a new cosplay outfit for each scene, from a maid outfit to a policewoman, flight attendant, etc. he acts like a gentleman but he hits on little girls a lot.

Anyways, back to the story. the main character who is obviously underdeveloped finds out her friend makes perverted doujinshi (japanese fan comics). she makes comics about sexual assault. what? yeah, the cover of her book is very explicit (a teen girl tied up in an awkward position). the main character finds out money can be earned by selling doujinshi at doujinshi events, so she decides she wants to make her own fan comic and sell it.

most of the comic releif comes from the main character getting embarrased as she discovers the world of (erotic) fan comics, then her friends give her a hard time about it, and then she gets pissed off. this cycle repeats for almost every joke and almost always involves pedophile puns and sexual puns. i only found a few funny, and by ''a few'', i mean i can count the number of times i laughed on my 2 hands... this pattern gets old after a few episodes.

the little girl with the green beret has some kind of companion the size of coin. it's a pair of short-shorts or underwear of some kind, and it has legs, arms and eyes. it dances around shaking it's booty and walking on people. nobody notices it or acknowleges it. kinda creepy they made it a pair of underwear, adding to the disturbia of the pedophile theme.

the intro doesn't make any sense. parts of it show the main character's boobs grow, and another part shows Justice grows into a giant and shoot a laser out of his eyeball at a forest. waahhh????

the main character is only concerned with money, all the more reason why kids should not be fooled by the underaged characters or cutesy bishoujo (pretty girl) style, it teaches bad morales all 'round.

every episode has a sexual title and usualy shows the main character stark naked with emprovised censorship (i.e. trees, furniture, etc.).

the story crawls at a snail's pace and grounds to a halt in some episodes, all in favor of a truck-load of pedophile jokes and puns in every conversation.


The Animation:

The animation for the most-part is non-existant because 90% of the show is talking. but when characters start to move it is very smooth and well executed, especialy to comic effect. characters will slide across the screen. when they turn around it looks like they are a 2-dimensional paper cut-out and they dissapear for a second, as if made of a flat peice of paper. i thought this was very cool and innovative. it seems these 2 effects use computer animation so it's very smooth. that's about all i can say for the animation.


The Art Style:

most of the characters are little girls. extra characters such as pedestrains and citizens in the background are a single flat mellow color like light green and light orange, which i thought was interesting. lots of bright mellow colors will ease your mind (and then the pedophile jokes will make you uncomfortable again). there are almost no ripples in the characters' clothes unlike most anime, which i found intruiging. a cutesy bishoujo style.


The Sound Design:

the intro and ending credits theme songs were a little annoying. this is coming from a guy who absolutely loves j-pop, beleive me when i say that. i didn't watch them more than once. the voice acting is definitely great and i give kudos for that. sound effects for the jokes are perfectly implimented for full comic effect and really enhances the comedy.


The Final Score:

in case you didn't catch on yet, this show is for pedophiles. nothing but pedophile jokes every few minutes, with less than 10 exceptions after 4 episodes! animation though sparce, was great, and the voice acting helped me endure the pedophile jokes until episode 4 was finished. i'm a big fan of the anime Comic Party, which teaches all about doijinshi and teaches great morals, even though it is targeted towards a younger audience. i was looking forward to Doujin Work as a modern take on Comic Party and its educational look into the world of doujinshi, but instead got a pedo-fest. only pedophiles should watch this.

i hated 99% of the jokes and the pedophile theme was overkill, but for the good (if not absent for the most-part) animation, nice mellow art style, satisfying sound design and great voice acting, i give this anime a score of 2.5/10.


this anime gets Pedo Bear's seal of approval, but not mine

you will learn nothing about doujinshi watching doujin work. this show completely ignores all genres of fan comics except for erotic ones, as if that makes up the entirety of doujinshi. and putting little girls in as characters who make these comics is just sick.


if you're looking for an anime dedicated to the world of doujinshi i reccomend Comic Party, even though it is really corny and cheesy.

fyi Comic Party Revolution (not to be confused with Comic Party) is pure fan service and has absolutely nothing to do with the world of doujinshi.

i also reccomend the much more mature anime called Genshiken. it's a very accurate, funny, mature, smart, and well written series.


It's shows like Doujin Work that give anime a bad name.