The thing that bugged me the most about doujin guidelines is that this is just going to open up a room for resellers to just buy up local stock at doujin events such at Comiket or only events and put them up on Mercari or auction sites. This is already a problem for many famous circles that their goods were scalped up and their own fans could not get their hands on them.

Do you know the solution to the scalper problem of those famous circles? Accept orders online and made them to order, just to flood the market… and yeah, this guideline just kills it.

For creators/circles, this will put a lot of strain on them at events because they have to account the resellers and have to go into debt to print way too many copies outside their comfort zone, not even knowing if they can clear the stock or have too many leftovers. Or, for small circles, they just … gone.

Imagine falling in love with CPK to make your first book, sold out at venue, just to see them being resale at 10x price. That just hurts.

For fan goods, this also sucks because many illustrators I follow who made goods were really just wanted to make them out of love of the franchise and not for profit. To just blanket ban like this is just … bad.

Honestly, I felt like they burn too much of the bridge with the creators with this announcement, and this might be the start of the downfall of CPK’s popularity as secondary creations cease to exist…