ABSTRACT
In contemporary Japan, hundreds of thousands of girls and women participate in a spiral process of reading-writing-reading through the practice of dōjinshi manga and fiction: reading stories, re-writing those stories, and in turn having their re-written works read by others. 1 In this chapter I will relate this contemporary practice to the intertextuality found in earlier shōjo texts in various media. 2 Here I examine texts in the category known as “yaoi ani-paro,” 3 which bears some resemblance to English-language slash. 4 Specifically, I will examine fan fiction based on the Harry Potter imagined universe, purchased at the two large Comic Markets in Tokyo in 2004.
