Don't forget that it's illegal as all get out. As is this. Piss off the 
rights holders and problems emerge. Which is not to say that this is a 
desirable state of affairs, just how things are and unfortunately are 
likely to remain for the foreseeable future.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Nicholas Leifker wrote:

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 02:17  PM, Hans Peter Averdung L�pez 
wrote:

I don't know of anybody in the Western fanfic community that has really
gone and done a doujinshi, but the Daigakusei no Ranma people have a ton
of fanart with a very distinctive style... Maybe with abit more "peer
pressure" they could do something like that...

Actually, there was one attempt to do doujinshi in the states that I 
know of... Stephen Tsai got together with artist Jason Meador to make 
doujin based on his stories Kimagure Orange College and Bishoujo Senshi 
Sailor Ranma.  It wasn't a success; only one issue of BSSR and three of 
KOC (I think) were ever made.

Stephen, by the way, could give you a lot of reasons why doujin just 
doesn't happen here.  Japan has a developed market for doujin; in the 
US, however, the market is largely undeveloped, and finding buyers for 
them is difficult.  Without buyers, it becomes a money-losing 
proposition...

-- Nick


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