The origin of a word
Some people think that the etymology of the word "Fan" does not come from Japan. During the May 4th Movement, Lu Xun or modern literature used the word "model publication" to refer to non-commercial creative publications. Some people even trace the hexagrams in the Book of Changes, pointing out that this is the earliest origin of the word "fan". However, the rise of this fan culture was introduced from Japan, with animation culture as the mainstay. This article mainly describes this fan culture part.
Original and secondary creation
Because many comic fan works are recreated based on the characters in commercial comics (also called re-creation), in daily vocabulary, for convenience, "fans" are widely used to refer to literary or artistic works in which fans re-create characters in specific literature, animation, movies and game works, and the plot has nothing to do with the original works, that is, fan novels and fan paintings. However, "Fan" is not necessarily re-creation, but also original.
Personal participation and peer association
Participate in fan creation, either individually or with like-minded friends. If you choose the latter, you can form a "circle" with a group of people with the same hobbies, so that it is more convenient to exchange creative inspiration with friends, share information, or make products such as fan stories and fan games for sale. Some famous business writers, such as CLAMP, were initiated by fan associations before.
Mortal creation
Fan works are adapted-re-created); Officially published cartoons; Including the original.
People in the fan world often create different forms of fan works, including fan novels and fan cartoons. Publishing a chronicle of fans is a way to share their creations with fellow travelers. Many fan works will be made into fan chronicles by colleagues and published by themselves.
However, some fan works are not published in the fan chronicle, but published through the website. Generally speaking, it is most convenient to publish CG paintings on the website. Works from other media can usually be published through websites.
In addition, there are fan games, fan words, fan MVs, fan radio dramas and other creations. Cosplay participants can often be seen in the venue of fan ambition sales meetings.
Originality means that the character setting is decided by the author himself.
Fans and originality are opposites.
Fans refer to works such as comics, animations, novels, movies, and even known characters and set items in reality, as well as other items such as picture video games, such as myth fans, reverse fans, tennis prince fans, chess soul fans, SD fans, Galaxy the legend of heroes fans, etc.
The word "fighting for money" was introduced in Japanese. There are two explanations for looking up Japanese dictionaries, one is "the same person, the same person" and the other is "like-minded, like-minded". This is the latter, however, in general use, "fan" does not necessarily mean "the same hobbies", but also means "self-creation, not influenced by business" It is an "independent" situation and an "independent culture". As for the statement that the word "fan" was invented and used by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, we have no way to verify it, but it must have been used in Japan before the word "fan" spread to the local area for such explanation and use.
As for the "fan circle" or "fan circle", it is the fan plate. Fanzine is a book and publication published by a group of like-minded people, but most of them are related to comics or comic culture, and most of them are at their own expense. Unlike commercial comics, Fanzine has greater creative freedom and the taste of "painting whatever you want". In addition, the traditional version of the annals of the same people should be written as "annals of the same people" rather than "annals of the same people", because there is a clear division of labor between "annals" and "annals" in traditional Chinese characters, which will only lead to misunderstanding and confusion with other nouns; However, the Japanese people's chronicles are written in the same way as the traditional ones, and they write "chronicles of the same people".
We will also discuss this comic book fan culture. Although, according to the above definition, it also includes independent novels, poems and other creative publications. But in these independent literary fields, the word "fan" is rarely used. This is the difference between the basic definition and the field used by the word "Fan". The "fans" in this paper refer to fans of comic culture.
Different types of "Fanshi"
There are also various classifications in the chronicles of the same people. The first thing to say is the difference between "originality" and "adaptation". "The original refers to the story characters, content, plot, etc. They are all created by themselves. Theoretically, their own composition is relatively high. As for "Fan Ju's adaptation", some people call it "Fan Ju's interpretation", that is, adapting other existing stories, including changing the plot, changing some characters and even merging several stories. Although the theme is taken from the ready-made story, there are also the author's creations. In art, re-creation is also a kind of creation. In addition, even if it is an "original fan zhi", it does not mean that there are really no other people's elements. Sometimes there will be other people's anime characters. Even some "originality" is the backbone of other people's stories, but it is composed of putting on the characters created by themselves and changing the time and place. Hanging sheep's head like this to sell dog meat is even less innovative than explicitly saying that it is an adaptation. These situations are not many, but they are enough to prove that sometimes "originality" and "adaptation" are not like the Chu River and the Han Dynasty, and the two armies are against each other. We shouldn't disagree with one side, because don't everyone paint what they want to paint, express their ideas and make their own creations?
Some people divide the adaptation of fan chronicles into "animation adaptation of fan chronicles" and "game adaptation of fan chronicles" Readers can find the name and know the meaning of this classification, and there is no need for the author to explain it again. Strangely, the former is usually called "Aniparo" and the latter is called "Gamparo", in which "paro" is short for parody. And "Fan Ju adaptation" is also called "parody". However, the dictionary's interpretation of the word "parody" is usually derogatory, either a poor imitation or a funny imitation of other people's poems. Even if you want to change the word to neutral, there is always a difference between "imitation" and "adaptation", but now that it has been used, the author has no ability to pull the reins again.
In addition, there are so-called "personal chronicles" and "two-person chronicles". In fact, most of the general chronicles of Fan have collected the works of four or five people or more, but these are called "personal chronicles" and "two-person chronicles", all of which are the works of only one or two people. But we don't agree to distinguish the names of "personal chronicle" and "double chronicle" from "fan chronicle", which seems to separate ourselves from "fan chronicle" "Fans" actually refers to this self-created fan culture, so even if you get a person, you shouldn't pull yourself away without a group of like-minded people. We think it is more appropriate to call it a fan chronicle drawn entirely by WHO. Some people in the fan circle also refer to Fan Zhi's adaptation as "Fan Zhi's adaptation" and "Fan Zhi's interpretation", but we don't agree with this title.