📚 Why ZINE?
A ZINE is not a vessel for displaying a finished work.
It is a format for preserving the structure of trial and error as it is.
Behind every work lies countless choices and decisions.
ZINE was chosen to record them without omission.
To all E-sho-ners
who create Egaki-sho.
Structuring stories with a new brush called generative AI.
The creative methods practiced at PochomLab are shared here.
A ZINE is a blueprint for culture.
🧪 Why reveal the experimental process?
The goal is not transparency.
It is to pass on a reproducible “method.”
Thought, techniques, and criteria for decisions. By making the backbone of creation visible, readers can move from reading to creating.
🌎 Why an English edition?
Culture stops the moment it closes itself.
The English edition is not merely a translation.
It is a mechanism that connects the culture outward.
By crossing languages, the structure becomes universal.
ZINE Lineup
Creation, character making, and publishing. Each volume shares the practical “method” developed at PochomLab.
✨The Creation Process
Preserving the creative method as it is.
A record of the thinking, experiments, and decisions behind creating Egaki-sho with generative AI.
From building the production environment to defining AI roles, workflow design, background creation, coloring, and image compositing.
By recording why each choice was made, the method becomes reproducible.
Prompt Pipeline Environment
Live Record
🧬Character Design
A complete live record of how characters are born.
How to establish characters capable of sustaining a long-form story using generative AI.
From creating LoRA training materials to learning, testing, failures, and revisions—recorded end to end.
Decision-making for ControlNet, img2img, and model switching is documented to build a reproducible workflow.
LoRA ControlNet img2img
📘Publishing Guide
Turning creation into a real-world IP.
Practical publishing processes from EPUB creation to sales registration, based on real experience.
Includes KDP registration inputs, copyright procedures with the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and trademark filing decisions and logs.
The connection from creation to distribution to IP is documented as implementation, not theory.
KDP Trademark IP Strategy
Community
🌳 Garden 307 🌳
To creators born from ZINE.
This is a place where people who create Egaki-sho gather. Works, production logs, and SNS are quietly placed here, leaving traces of culture.
- What can be listed: Work pages / Production logs / SNS (optional)
- Requirement: Content that shows it was created through Egaki-sho or ZINE
- How to apply: Submit via the form → Published after review (in order)
🌱 This place is still growing.
It is fine if it starts empty.
Having a “place” is what allows culture to begin.
Submissions will be published sequentially after they are received.
Conclusion: Invitation
View the works in one place.
Here are the paths that lead them into your hands.
The ZINE is a record of the creative process.
From there, it connects to the main story, and then to the next light.
So that the lights can be revisited.