Good torrent site for Doujin shooters/other doujinsha

Post by **marurun** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:28 am

Anybody know one and have invites? I'm interested. Happy to trade UG invites for other invites.

Post by **Mozgus** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:47 pm

What the hell does doujin even mean? I always assumed it was related in some way to anime porn. I'm guessing not.

Post by **extrarice** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:37 pm

Mozgus wrote:What the hell does doujin even mean? I always assumed it was related in some way to anime porn. I'm guessing not.

Doijinshi is kind of "unofficially licensed content for sale". Like doujinshi manga is sometimes glorified fan-fiction, sometimes it's produced by the assistant artists for that particular series (but it's kind of an unofficial side-story since it's not published by the IP holder). Doujinshi comes in all forms - anime, manga, pencil boards, games, and so on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi

Basically, "fan-works". It's technically against copyright law, but publishers in Japan generally turn a blind eye to it, since it increases exposure of the official/licensed content.

Post by **Mozgus** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:45 pm

Hah, ok I was way off. I'll just call it unofficial.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:48 pm

Or you could say it means independent, kinda like indy films. As for a torrent...isnt that kinda against the idea of helping out the little guys?

I mean Zon is a workhorse (Shanghai Alice/Shrine Maiden series) but even he needs money to live on.

Post by **marurun** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:58 pm

Well, I'm mostly interested in older stuff, and most of the games have problems running under WinXP in US mode. Not to mention that the US market is never really a consideration of theirs. Trying to order a Japanese doujin game often costs far more for Americans than it should for what the games are, what with currency conversion and all.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:30 pm

Points well taken, but I fear I am still of no help to you. Good luck on finding this.

And to be a hypocrite if/when you do find it, I know of some mid 90s doujin games that I have been having a helluva a time finding - My friend who use to live near Akihabara use to brag to me about them of IRC (the trick now is to remember the names...)