Doujin Work

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.