Anime Review: Dojin Work

Note: The review does not cover the live action segments that appear on the DVD’s.     

Dojin Work follows the life of a young girl named Najimi Osana and her exposure into the doujin world. She was first tempted into becoming a doujin artist after seeing how much one of her friends can make at a convention. Najimi loves to draw, though soon learns contrary to what she expected that this new world is anything but easy. As she attends more conventions and meets more people, Najimi eventually manages to find a group of very interesting friends. These friends already have some experience in the field and help her out along the way so that she can someday make a name for herself creating doujinshi.

Plot:

Shows about doujinshi are rare to be found in the world of anime.  Comic Party comes to mind as one of the first anime shows to talk about the world of doujinshi.  Taking into consideration that Comic Party is based off an eroge game but it was still one of the first shows to focus on making doujinshi.  Dojin Work is one of the more recent shows to come out of Japan that focus on the world on doujinshi.

If there is one thing that Dojin Work does right is that it does not get preachy or bog down with pacing issues.  With each episode being fifteen minutes (ten minutes if you do not consider the OP and ED as part of the episode) each episode moves a lot of good clip and it feels like the time just passes by as you watch it.  The shortness of the series to watch (if you take out the OP and ED just 120 minutes  in total) is great if you have a very busy day and only a maybe an hour or less to watch anime a day or need to kill two hours in day.

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Spring Cleaning Anime Challenge Poll 4

By now you know the rules.  I’ve got five shows listed below and you have to pick what should I should watch and review next.  Rules will revert back to the standard rules of the first two polls.  The poll open at the time of the posting and will close at 9:00 PM EST on Friday June 17th.