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Plot out our own manga


So, this is an exercise in creativity and plotting skillz.

Basically, we're going to plot our own manga. Yes, that means YOU.

So, who's with me? Anyone?

First off, we'll need to decide what kind of manga it'll be. Shonen fighting, Magical Girl, slice-of-life, steampunk, historical fiction, out-and-out fantasy...

Your thoughts?

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O.O steampunk ^^ or dark sci-fi =O

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My vote's on steampunk/urban fantasy.

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whats urban fantasy ? is that the World of Darkness kind of fantasy ?

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Urban Fantasy: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UrbanFantasy

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oooh ... its really broad ... but WoD is also Urban fantasy ^^ ohhh nnoooo that site has a random button .... now ill be distracted for hours =(

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Thankyou for pointing that random article button out to me, Gappiee. Now I'll never get out of there.

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random buttons are evillll O.O

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Yeah. Anyway, what should the theme of the manga be?

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Okay since I'm a total hopeless romantic, I would suggest to put some love stuff in it, but we can have a guy...or a girl, who's in search of a legendary cure for their mother that only their father has (father left when the main character was just a baby, most assumes that he cheated on the mother but he never did, he left them so his child would not be affected by his projects or the haters (yes, he is an "evil" genius who's actually one of the good guys, but before the character was born, he and the mother had big problems making a living because of economical issues, and h took a job as an inventor for an evil company)

.......seem strange enough to continue/make? ;)

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What;s to stop them from just taking a bus, asking their father, then returning home in time for dinner?

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... the father would be on the other side of the world in a evil lair? ... a volcano base or something? or they could be living somewhere where there are no buses just horses or camels .... or a old mule?

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How would they get to him, then?

Are these kids normal humans, or what?

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by making a epic journey across the lands and on a boat =O ... wow that would be troublesome if those kids would have some arrangement to visit their father every two weeks =P


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The original idea was that they didn't know where to find him, or he was quite hard to reach ( as in gappiee's suggestion of the evil lair), and whether it would be normal humans or not, that'd be the decision of the one who wrote it.

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The whole point of this idea is that we're plotting it all out- the plot, the characters, the setting, the powers if there are any.. It's all an exercise in creativity, seeing how much of a world we can construct.

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oooh well then i suggest a steampunkish setting in a world that started out similar to this one but now is sort of post apocalyptic with most of the humans living is big steam powered cities with a super high speed train running between most of them and these main characters would have to search for their father, who is on the run from various organizations because he invented something they want. and then make it a sort of dark mystery... give it a feel a bit like the noir-detective stories ^^

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I like that, Gappiee.

What caused the post-apoclyptic thing, though?

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ooh a huge fire that went all over the planet evaporating all the water and thus creating thick clouds that block out most of the sunlight ... and cause a lot of rain all the time ......... how is that?

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Extremely scientifically bad, but fun if we dont care about that.

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things would get booooring if you worry about stuff being really possible or not =O of-course there is always the option of a nuclear war but that just doesnt seem very steampunk

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Hmmm.....perhaps the huge fire could have ruined the whole societies and the super-speed train was the *only* way to get from one city/town to another, though most people could not afford such a way to travel so they were stuck right where they lived, or the massive rainfall could have made a great swamp outside the city they lived in, almost totally surrounding it, but there could be one or two hidden safe passages through the swamps that only the two of them plus maybe a few other kids, close friends of the perhaps(?) or great enemies, that would pose a challenge when they couldn't afford the train, right?

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ooh i like the swamp thing, there could be scary things in the swamp like crocodiles and snakes and killer mosquitoes =P

oooh and yaaahy 900 posts -_- its getting really unhealthy

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A big swamp. Actually, I like that.

The only civilization woud be a dozen or so huge cities, constantly expanding to make way for new humans...

They run around, trying to find their father in ech of these stories, running up against the enemies every now and then.

But their father doesn't even live in the cities- he lives in the swamp, or in a base!

Or maybe, maybe, he's runing round trying to find them too? Aways just missing them by an hour or two?

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Perhaps. That WOULD be an idea, it definitly would...it would be a little fail for them to run after him when he's after them, but...for what reason would he be wanting to find them?

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Because he's their father. He doesn't want his kids to die.

And he's allowed to do it, because the people the two kids are facing off against are from a rival evil company of their father's evil company!

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ooh but there have to be clues that someone is following them, so they are running from an unknown evil ... which isnt evil but the one they are looking for... bu noone knows ^^

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Unless, of course, the father IS under orders to kill them if he finds them.

He cannot ignore an order from his higher ups, under pain of everyone he knows being brainwashed.

Therefore, he is deliberately missing his children every time he has a chace to meet up with them!

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ooh that sounds pretty nice =D

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Yup.

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