This thread has so far been a LIFESAVER. Thank you so much to you Japanese guys/girls/wotas/whatever lurking around here and providing the invaluable help.
Here's another doujin-related question (sorry I haven't started that thread on alternate anime names yet...):
what is ハラシマ? I don't mean it as a surname, but I think it means "making (doujinshi)". An example sentence is ハラシマ中の皆さん、がんばれね!
Does it have anything to do with 原 from 原稿 being read as "hara"? Where does the "shima" come from?
Thanks in advance.