✕ Crossroads: a Haikyuu post-timeskip careers zine
Current Phase: ZINE COMPLETED! Thank you so much!
✕ About
Crossroads is an unofficial fanzine celebrating the post-timeskip events of Haikyuu. This is a physical, for profit project that will focus on the characters’ canon careers! The featured content will be safe for work. We want this zine to throw lights on our favorite characters as functional members of the society at their job. This means anyone that has made an appearance or was first introduced during the post-timeskip arc is fair game! Unfortunately, we won’t feature characters that haven’t shown up post-timeskip nor headcanons of characters having another occupation (i.e Nishinoya as a pro volleyball player or Sugawara as a florist won’t be accepted).
✕ Requirements & Rules
General:
➪ Artists and writers that are racist, sexist, LGBTphobic, and/or portray incest, pedophilia won’t be allowed to participate in the zine.
➪ Participants are required to have a Discord account for communication.
➪ Please be respectful of fellow contributors and mods. If you have any issues with a participant of the zine, don’t hesitate to reach a mod.
➪ If you need to drop out of the zine please let us know as soon as possible! Unexpected events may happen and we do understand!
➪ If you fail to answer our inquiries several times we will consider that you have dropped the zine.
Compensation:
➪ Funds will primarily be used to produce the zine, merch, for shipping and to offer a physical zine for artists and writers, and a merch bundle for merch artists; the remaining profit will be split equally among all participants (contributors and mods).
➪ Everyone will be asked to have a PayPal (their own or a trusted person's one) to receive their share of the zine's profit. Contributors must be willing to share their addresses if they want to receive their copy of the zine/the merch.
Zine Specs:
➪ Art piece: A5 (148 x 210 mm vertical), 300 DPI, CMYK
➪ Fic word count: 1k - 2k words
➪ Merch: Bookmarks, Postcards, Die-cut Stickers, Charms
➪ All contributors will be assigned character(s) to draw/write as we want to represent the largest variety of characters possible! We will do our best to assign you your preferred character(s) but we can’t promise everyone will have their first choice.
✕ Application Guidelines
Please make sure all links are accessible. Otherwise, we won’t be able to review your application!
Although the zine is SFW, you may submit NSFW samples or include them in your portfolio as long as there are warnings. We also ask you to specify which piece the warning applies to.
Writers:
➪ We ask you to provide 3 examples of your best pieces.
➪ They must be between 1k and 2k words.
➪ Samples can be an individual chapter or an excerpt of a longer fic.
➪ However at least one should be a complete work.
➪ At least one work must feature Haikyuu characters.
➪ It can be in your samples or portfolio.
➪ We are looking for a solid grammar, punctuation and spelling, good characterizations and narratives.
Writers may work alone or collaborate with an artist.
Artists:
➪ We ask you to provide 3 examples of your best pieces.
➪ At least one piece should be a full-colored illustration featuring a complete background (not just a flat color or graphics).
➪ A Haikyuu fanart is appreciated but not required.
➪ Traditional artwork is accepted as long as they are scanned in good quality.
➪ We will evaluate the anatomy and proportions, the use of colors and light, backgrounds, and the overall atmosphere of the piece.
➪ Artists may work alone (on a single-page illustration, a double spread illustration, or the cover) or collaborate with a writer (creating a page illustration or several smaller ones such as banners and doodles).
Merch Artists:
➪ We ask you to provide 3 examples of your best merch pieces.
➪ At least one piece should show an example of the art style you intend to use: for example, a full-colored illustration if you want to make a postcard/bookmark/wallpaper, a chibi if you want to make sticker/charm.
➪ A Haikyuu fanart is appreciated but not required.
➪ We will evaluate the anatomy and proportions, the use of colors and light, backgrounds, and the overall atmosphere of the piece.
✕ The Team
✕ Contact Us
Have questions? We would love to hear from you! Feel free to reach out to us via any of the platforms below!