How can you tell a hard core otaku from a lesser, more normal otaku is a simple one word answer, Doujinshi.  These fan made comics are perhaps the least known but most fasinating bit of Japanese pop culture.  A prpoduct of a uniquely tolerant copyright law Doujinshi allows fans to create works with familliar carachters in new stories and enviroments.  Doujinshi litteraly means 'same people different story'  these stories can be anything that they creator of the Doujinshi wishes.  As a result a high proportion of doujinshi is, well the euphamism is male oriented, but a more accurate statement would be unashamedly pornographic.  Many well known manga artists create doujinshi of their own works, or those of others aqnd more than a few well known artists or groups of artists started in doujinshi, perhaps most notably CLAMP, which grew out of a doujin circle.

If your interested here is a link to the .rar of the Doujin pictured.  Not for anyone under 18 .  If you need a program to decompress .rar files I reccomend the shareware 7Zip.

Featured Doujinshi has been translated into english, no review as I have not yet read it for full disclosure.

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