Famous Authors Doujinshi

• Clamp started out as a dōjinshi group of 11 known as Clamp Cluster.
• Ken Akamatsu, creator of manga such as Love Hina and Negima, continues to make dōjinshi which he sells at Comiket under the pen-name Awa Mizuno.
• Rikdo Koshi, creator of the manga Excel Saga, originally started out as a dōjinshi artist.
• Nanae Chrono, creator of the manga Peacemaker Kurogane, has published multiple Naruto dōjinshi, most of a yaoi nature.
• Maki Murakami, creator of Gravitation and Gamers' Heaven. Her circle Crocodile Ave. created Remix Gravitation AKA Rimigra and Megamix Gravitation, which were extremely sexually graphic.^[13]
• Kazuhiko Katō, also known as Monkey Punch, creator of Lupin III began as a dōjinshi artist.
• Artist Nobuteru Yūki sells dōjinshi based on his animated works under his pen-name "The Man in the High Castle".
• Yukiru Sugisaki, author of D.N.Angel and The Candidate for Goddess, started as a dōjinka. She realeased dōjinshi about King of Fighters, Evangelion, etc; all were gag dōjinshi.
• Yun Kouga, a longtime published mangaka and creator of two well-known BL series, Earthian and Loveless, got her start creating dōjinshi for series such as Gundam Wing.
• Yoshitoshi ABe has published some of his original works as dōjinshi, such as Haibane Renmei. He cited the reason as, essentially, not wanting to answer to anyone about his work, especially because he saw it as so open ended.
• Hajime Ueda, the creator of Q·Ko-chan and the comic adaptation of FLCL.
• Rumiko Takahashi- Began drawing doujinshi before being discovered
• Crimson Comics, a circle (or maybe even one person) of dōjinshi author(s) who have made well over 50 H-dōjin on well over 20 different series, ranging from the popular to the obscure, such as One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Black Cat, Final Fantasy, and more.
• Masaki Kajishima, creator of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki, has long used the dōjinshi format to produce additional information about the series he has created, primarily Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki and Tenchi Muyo! GXP. These dōjinshi can either be completely filled with his work, or he will contribute a work to the dōjinshi title. Kajishima-sensei's dōjinshi works break down into one (or more) types of works: manga-style (where he illustrates a new story, usually with limited text), interviews, early drafts of scripts for the series (giving fans great insight into the creative process), storyboards drawn by Kajishima-sensei that ultimately were not animated, story notes (or short stories) giving further little details of various characters, situations, or places in Kajishima-sensei's World of Tenchi. As of this writing, Kajishima-sensei does two dōjinshi titles a year under the circle names "Kajishima Onsen" and "Kamidake Onsen". He has also used these to communicate with fans about his current projects, namely the Saint Knights Tale spinoff anime featuring Tenchi's half-brother and the GXP novels.
• Datendō, the pseudonym for Yūki Nagase, created hentai doujins for the Dead or Alive and Rumble Roses series, titling them DOA Lost Eden 00-11 and Jumble Roses 1-2, Endless Desire 00-14, Kasumi Cullus, Ayane Culls, and Ragna Cross. His website is http://daten.maid.ne.jp .
• Shimoyakedō, a circle created by Tokiichi Ōma, author of over 30 H-dōjinshi mostly parodying the Tsukihime and Fate/stay night series.
• Yoshihiro Togashi, creator of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter, has authored doujinshi such as Church!.
• Kazushi Hagiwara, creator of Bastard!!, and his group Studio Loud in School have published popular Bastard!!-related doujinshi such as Wonderful Megadeth!, as well as various Capcom-related doujinshi.
• Minami Ozaki, creator of the boylove manga Zetsuai, is an extremely prolific doujinshi creator who has authored numerous yaoi publications, most notably featuring characters from the soccer manga, Captain Tsubasa.
• Dekker Dreyer, creator of Tentacle Grape soda, illustrated the original label parodying La Blue Girl and other Tentacle Rape genre anime.
• Kiyohiko Azuma, creator of Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba& started out doing doujinshi.
• 07th Expansion, creators of both Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
• Dragonball AF Created by Toyble.