a mini-guide to browsing the J-fandom.

This a guide of sorts to looking for J-fanart, along with some of my preferred sites and fandoms. I'll probably update this with each fandom I feel the need to desperately search out fanart to sparkle over for.



So you want to enjoy the J-fandom....

First, it’s best to have the use of Asian characters installed on your computer, otherwise they won’t show up properly which makes it very hit and miss for browsing.

here is an excellent guide for installing/implementing the usage of Asian fonts.


If they aren’t showing up correctly, go to View > Text encoding > Japanese, sometimes you need to change to unicode to get certain pages to work, but it should be noted they might make other characters (such as apostrophes) appear as Japanese characters, toggling which setting will cure this.

It’s advised you have google up and use the language tools if you aren’t proficient in the language, (I find google translations to have a lot less server hiccups than altavista). and don't want to do a kanji by kanji attempt at translating ;;




These are the J-shorthand, some notable J-fanart sites and some general guidelines when fanart surfing.


I don't claim supreme knowledge of the Japanese language, I'm learning, gradually, so feel free to poke me if I mixed up terms or such.

First up, finding the gallery.

If it's not called "Gallery" "Gyarlly" or "Garlly" it's probably called Irusato (イラスト), fanfiction is called Novel or Novels, often bunshou (文章)

occasionally there'll also be pictures in the diary section, especially oekaki boards (お駅)

[character kanji] wo ai (e.g. 学を愛）

Example: a Fuji wo ai or Fuji-ai site might have Dream Pair, TezuFuji, or any number of Fuji centric pictures and pairings.

Rokka is an example of a Gaku wo ai site, there’s lots of KaiGaku, the artist is obviously very fond of the pairing, but there’s also other Gaku pairings, and a lot of Gaku solo pictures.

Also, there’s uke,　（e.g. 空受け) meaning there could be any number of pairings, but they will all feature said character as an uke.

When you see その他 (sonota) in a gallery listing, it means, quitely literally "etc."

Now these are fandoms which I've delved into the J-fandom for, thus, these are the shorthands and some notable websites. (they reflect my pairing preferences, though *grins*)

( first up, Sukisyo )

( Gakuen Heaven -pending- )

( Apocripha/0 )

( Fire emblem, from 7-10 and then some )