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very ([personal profile] verys) wrote in [community profile] hikarunogo2012-04-19 05:25 pm
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Good doujinshi information databases?

I was adding my newest doujinshi to my spreadsheet when I discovered The Doujinshi & Manga Lexicon, which is a pretty sweet site. I was thinking of adding my entries to it, but then I wondered if there were other doujinshi databases out there, or even one specific to HikaGo. Are there any sites people use for reference purposes, and what do you think are their pros and cons? I think if we can find a site a bunch of us like, it would be worthwhile to buff it with all the information we have (sort of like the drive we've been doing to up HikaGo's fic count on AO3.
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[personal profile] troisroyaumes 2012-04-20 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
That's a great idea! I know Fanlore has a doujinshi documenting initiative (see: http://fanlore.dreamwidth.org/48395.html), but it's far from a comprehensive resource. Still, an option to consider!

I used to get all of my Hikago doujinshi scans from [livejournal.com profile] igo_yaoi back in the day but I don't think there've been much scans posted there for a while now.
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[personal profile] verys 2012-04-20 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ehh, yeah. Fanlore has a long way to go, and its focus is definitely on North American media fandoms, which is fine, but I don't think it's the best fit for someone like us.

igo_yaoi! Yeah, there were at least a couple of scans communities. Coming in as a new fan I have to say it was annoying as fuck to have to navigate a journal instead of a proper archive, and of course it suffers from a lot of dead links.

Actually providing scans in addition to information might piss a lot of people off (primarily scanlators, I'm thinking) and draw unwanted attention, but HikaGo might be a small enough fandom to get away with it. It would be a lovely resource to be sure.
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[personal profile] hostilecrayon 2012-04-28 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Probably filled with dead links, but you may as well try it... hikago_djs
Edited 2012-04-28 08:11 (UTC)
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