Doujin

Doujin, a Japanese term to group independant work, such as doujin music for self-published music. Assossiated acts within the doujin scene may also appear under this tag.

Sennzai launches crowdfunding campaign to fulfill longtime dream

NBT

1 November 2020

Doujin, Releases

This year marks Sennzai's 10th anniversary of being a freelance singer. In conjunction, a crowdfunding campaign has been launched in order to help realize a longtime dream of hers—to create a music video.Se...

mafumafu explains reason for revealing his face for “Hitomodoki” music video

NBT and afaenia

27 October 2020

Doujin, Music Video

On the day of mafumafu's birthday, October 18, a new song Hitomodoki was released with an accompanying music video. This was really interesting in several ways, for instance, it is the first music video mafumaf...

ELFENSJóN’s thrilling story continues with album “STYX”!

NBT

16 September 2020

Doujin, Music Video, Releases

The third long-awaited story in ELFENSJóN's thrilling line-up has made its appearance through STYX, a full-length album containing 10 tracks along with a second disc that brings five beautifully arranged piano ...

First look at ELFENSJóN’s upcoming music, gothic and fantasy-esque

NBT

26 July 2020

Doujin, Releases

The doujin circle (self-published group) ELFENSJóN is currently hard at work in producing its upcoming music, however, it looks like we're still not near its release date. But in the meantime, they've shared a ...

Powerhouse doujin collaboration “Veiled” includes ELFENSJóN, MuryokuP, Godspeed, myu!

NBT and Dorian

22 February 2020

Doujin, Releases, Videos

An unimaginable work has just surfaced with the announcement of Veiled, a collaborative album that brings four amazing doujin circles together (self-published groups) in order to craft and complete five themati...

Buying music at Comiket, Japan’s biggest fan convention

NBT

25 September 2019

Doujin, Entertainment, Report and review

Earlier this summer, the JROCK NEWS team headed over to Japan's largest fan convention, Comiket, a biannual event focused on doujin (self-published) goods. This may include work by illustrators, authors, techni...

ELFENSJóN 2nd story “ASH OF ROUGE” unfolds in dramatic symphonic EP

NBT

22 July 2019

Doujin, Releases, Videos

ELFENSJóN will be releasing their second work ASH OF ROUGE on August 12 after previously introducing the impressive EP EINHERJAR last year. The new release is an EP referred to as the circle's "2nd story" and i...

WagakkiBand’s “Senbonzakura” hits 100 million views

NBT

2 March 2019

Doujin, Music Video, Vocaloid/Virtual singer

Today, the eight-piece unit WagakkiBand finally hit their 100 million views milestone on the music video, Senbonzakura (Thousand Cherry Blossoms)! The video was uploaded five years ago on YouTube, in 2014, and ...

SYU from GALNERYUS puts Fuki on vocals for “Reason”, an explosive power metal extravaganza

NBT

23 January 2019

Doujin, Music Video, Releases

Guitarist SYU from the band GALNERYUS reveals his new masterpiece Reason in form of a music video, featuring strong vocals by Fuki who is a big name in the Japanese doujin metal scene. The music video was relea...

Ohayo Gozaimasu’s Twitter campaign “#money_anthem” grants free download!

NBT

5 January 2019

Doujin, Music Video, Releases

Ohayo Gozaimasu celebrates the new year with a silly, yet catchy metal music video #money_anthem, in where the band tells a tale of the negative effects of money. They follow the life of a salaryman who once ha...

Sennzai releases exquisite album “Fleurix” at Comiket 95

NBT

25 December 2018

Doujin, Releases

Japan's biggest biannual convention Comic Market (Comiket) is drawing closer and with that, vocalist Sennzai cheerfully and enthusiastically revealed a preview for her upcoming album Fleurix through a live stre...

Reol depicts unhealthy relationship in “Gekihaku” music video

NBT

20 December 2018

Doujin, Music Video

Reol put out a new neon bright music video Gekihaku, extracted from her latest album Jijitsu jo. The music video is really a treat for the eye in terms of the vivid light work used which primarily consist of dr...

Reol to release “Jijitsu jo”, first full album since returning as solo act

NBT

11 August 2018

Doujin, Releases

Reol announced her new album Jijitsu jo (事実上) scheduled to hit stores on October 17!After releasing three digital singles and the mini-album Kyokou Shuu, Reol has at last composed enough songs to produce he...

Top 3 best mobile rhythm games on Android/iOS

NBT

29 May 2018

Doujin, Entertainment, Game

Without me telling you this, we all know there is a bunch of Japanese music that goes undiscovered regardless of how exceptional the music may be. So I came up with the idea of sharing my favorite rhythm games ...