Important Importables: Video game doujinshi

Have you ever played a video game so wonderful, that you wished it didn’t have to end? Perhaps the game’s original ending was unsatisfying and left you yearning to learn what happened to the hero. Maybe, you thought there was some sort of relationship between two characters in a game that wasn’t addressed, and you wondered if anything was really going on between them.

That’s where doujinshi, fan-made comics, come in.

Many people may instantly identify doujinshi as adults-only comics, looking at different character pairings that fans wanted or hoped to see. While the majority of doujinshi fall into this category, there are also plenty that are parodies of the original series, expand on the original story or act as gag comics, portraying the established characters in humorous situations…