The Book of the Shadows

How are you readers doing out there. This is my second post, so I thought I’d get a little into that title of my blog a little. The Book of the Shadows originates from an idea that is relatively generic. I mentioned in the introductory post what a fan-fiction is. I also mentioned the terms “doujin” and “doujinshi”. Again, I won’t go into the details about the difference between those two terms specifically, but in general they are microcosms of the larger umbrella term of fan-fiction. The difference for between regular fan-fiction and doujin is that, aside from referring in general to Japanese media, doujins are more like fan comics. In the same way a manga is a story overlaid on images that represent that story, a doujin is the same thing, just written by a an amateur as unofficial extension of another story. So let me use this example. The Star Wars series was created by George Lucas. However, there were a number of supplemental comics and novels created by fans that expand o...