to be honest i want to write a adventure story more than a pirate story where my side character is a pirate whil my main character is a adventure

First of all I really loved your tips but i think another point should've been added into this as you compiled it in thoughts part --you should think the stakes of the battle as what would happen if the battle didn't happen or how might it affect the future events it helps creating a web of proper story plotline in my opinion. Btw thx for this video midnight ❤

(Sorry, I tend to ramble and go on tangents a lot. TLDR of this comment is that people will often accuse dark mahou shoujo stories of being "edgy PMMM wannabes", but that comparison is usually baseless and you shouldn't let it effect how you write your work!) As a writer (not for dark magical girl stories, specifically; I mostly write urban-fantasy and/or dramedies), I'd say the tips in this video are really good advice, not just for dark magical girl stuff, but I think most of them would work for any sort of character-driven story with stakes! :D "Dark mahou shoujo" (and other "dark" takes on more typically lighthearted genres) is a genre I like in theory, but in practice I find them very hit-or-miss. Most of the ones I tend to enjoy (Day Break Illusion, Magical Girl Raising Project) tend to be really unpopular, while the ones I didn't really vibe with (Madoka Magica, Yuki Yuna) are usually considered to be among the greats of the genre. And that's fine, everyone's free to like or dislike whatever works of fiction they want, and it shouldn't discourage creators from creating whatever they want to make! Ok, these next few sentences are gonna be context for the point I'm getting to, and while I'm framing them as "If I were giving my own suggestions", they are not actually that. I understand they're kinda biased and way more subjective than anything in this video, lol. If I were giving my own tips, I'd almost be tempted to say "give the antagonists personalities and goals, too". I think a large part of why I enjoyed DBE and MGRP but didn't really enjoy PMMM or YuYuYu comes down to that DBE's daemonia and MGRP's enemy magical girls have thoughts, feelings, emotions, dialogue, goals and everything else that the protagonists have, whereas PMMM's witches and YuYuYu's... whatever the zodiac monsters were called, didn't. But, well... there's a reason I'm not the one giving tips. While I like certain mahou shoujo works, I have no particular affinity to the genre itself, and I am a firm believer in writing the story you'd like to read and not preaching what you don't practice, so I have no authority here, I guess. /lh /hj (Not that there's anything wrong with anyone offering their own personal advice about how to write a dark magical girl story, or any other kind of story, so long as said advice is constructive and given without malice.) And the fact that the magical girls shows I like tend to be the ones most people REALLY don't like is an indication to me that if I were to offer my own advice, it'd probably just lead to someone writing the next dark magical girl series that gets labelled a "Madoka wannabe" or "edgy trash". ^_^; ...Which does bring me to the one piece of genuine advice I would give to someone writing a dark mahou shoujo, completely devoid of my own preferences within the genre or any other such factors: "Don't worry about people calling your story a Madoka Magica rip-off. It happens to literally every dark magical girl writer." Which I know will probably sound super specific to anyone who isn't aware of the genre's reputation, but this is legitimately a unique problem that I've never seen from any other genre or fandom. Whether or not someone likes Magical Girl Raising Project or Madoka Magica, for example, it's pretty hard to deny - especially if you've read the original novels - that Magical Girl Raising Project is doing its own thing, which just so happens to involve killing a few magical girls along the way. Madoka is a cosmic-horror while Raising Project is a political-drama following on from a battle-royale story. But about 2 seconds of looking up reviews for MGRP will result in hundreds of people bashing the series for "trying to copy Madoka Magica" (while hilariously pointing out the many ways in which the two series differ and saying that Raising Project is bad because it "didn't actually rip-off any of the good parts of PMMM"). I know "don't worry about fan reactions to your story" isn't a "writing tip", more so than it is just general advice for writers. Like, telling people not to worry about comparisons isn't gonna change how they write their story, especially when I'm saying that people comparing every dark magical girl story to Madoka Magica is inevitable. While I started this comment saying that I've never written anything in the dark mahou shoujo genre, I DO have an idea for one churning in my mind, and I KNOW that if I ever put it out into the world that someone's gonna say "This is a Madoka Magica rip-off because bla, bla, bla!" So this comment is just me trying to reassure any writers with that same fear that it's ok, and that people's insinuations that everything's a "rip-off" are extremely common and utterly baseless. Write the dark mahou shoujo story you've always wanted to see! Whether you take inspiration from Madoka Magica or any other series, or if the idea is entirely original, I'm sure it's going to be a great work with its own unique merits that set it apart from other works in the genre!

Happy new year my friend and talk about long time no see 😁 These were actually really helpful and really great wonderful insight. Scriptwriting does go hand in hand with the manga to me personally starting it first before the drawing does help and gives you like a map. 😁

This was a helpful video, but I gotta ask, how do you make writing and drawing work together, how do make it work, I ask as a writer.

Happy New Year! 🎉 Thank you for answering my question! It gave me a lot of clarity about characters needing a purpose!

Thank you so much, this was very helpful!!!

amazing! thank you for everything, Sensei 🙏

Thanks so much for the helpful advice! This really motivated me a ton!

Loved this! I hope some of the questions you missed spark on longer form videos for us to learn from in the future! I have to admit I have a few questions now after hearing those of others that weren’t mentioned as well! So it could be good to do this again sometime during the new year! 💕🙌

Thanks for your video, love seeing your stuff. I got some good info here.

Thanks for the insights, especially on time management. That's probably the aspect of creating a comic that I struggle with most. GREAT VIDEO and 💥HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!💥

I know I'm late to the questions but I wanted to ask two questions, the first is tips on how to write villainous protagonists and how to add themes to your story and how many could I add

I'm honestly sad my question wasn't answered.

I love your channel but u look like my ex... So i just cant stand looking at your face ;( ....im sorry 😢

I have an idea for a story where magical girls/boys are a status symbol and a company, to make money, decides to create a branch of medicine capable of artificially transforming into magical girls/boys, but as in cosmetic surgery it turns out that these practices are not free from side effects and there is competition between the "natural" Magical girls and the "artificial" ones. Yes, it's a bit similar to "The Boys", although the idea actually came to me while watching The substance" P.S Your ideas are one more beautiful than the other

I wanna ask, is it much better to publish on different sites than focus on publishing in just one site like wattpad?

I've started writing a LN series and I am actually wondering how I can move multiple plots along at once and also how many minor plots I should try to limit in the story at the same time. Right now I have only focused on the main plot.

Is it normal to lose passion and should I continue writing anyway?

Thank you, this was extremely valuable to me right now. I want to incorporate profound consequences in my light novel, and while some characters have deeply rooted trauma, other characters would be facing an objectively threatening situation instead, and this explanation cleared this up for me.

I should have watched this four years ago when writing became relevant in my life. I should probably reformat what I have of my memoir novel as a memoir light novel, as the source script is very heavy on dialogue and internal monologue, and some contextual details are missing, so the content would be best conveyed in a LN format. Thank you for sharing this!

You will probably hate me, because as an amateur, after my initial idea of writing an isekai that doesn't regurgitate the same braindead tropes from 10 years ago, I started researching genre and anime clichés with the help of ChatGPT, came up with creative ways to reincorporate them as part of the world building. After that I moved on to generating quick bios based on my first two inspired characters for an interesting roster, then I discarded some flaccid ones, improved on the rest, added a few, and eventually ended up with a ragtag group not specifically tailored to fulfill power fantasies in "another world". This way I can play out social dynamics, tug on the psychodrama, and stir internal conflict beside the environmental challenges related to the exploration arc. I wasn't sure about the format, or even the language at first, but I decided to go with my second language (English) for broader adaptability if anyone ever found it worthy. Of course I'm only on a conversational level, so I will probably keep using any and all samples and crutches I can get, because although I've never written a Light Novel, the format seems perfect for what and how I want to convey, and... Yeah, here I am. Thanks for the help! 😊

When creating a webnovel, How to tell the thoughts in the character mind? Should I just write what he thinking exactly or describe it in short sentences? And should I describe the thoughts of all characters if I using a third person pov or just the main character and other particular ones? Thank U for your amazing videos and have a great day.

Do you know that international manga contests held by Japan are just a gimmick? There's no way Japan would make non-Japanese works popular in Japan. Japanese mangakas don't want to be replaced by foreign mangakas. Never listen to weaboos saying non-Japanese are not allowed to make manga-style comics. Every country should realize that Japanese anime industry can contribute around 22 billion US dollars to Japan economy in 2023 (if I'm not mistaken). That's a lot of money. Every country should build and nurture their own comics and anime industry. Or many countries can unite to make their own comics and anime industry. For example: USA can cooperate with European countries or Mexico or Brazil to make one platform to accommodate comics or anime from different countries. Come on, the world needs fresh air. We want to see American comics/anime or Italian comics/anime or Egyptian comics/anime or British comics/anime or Turkish comics/anime or Nigerian comics/anime or Mexican comics/anime or Brazilian comics/anime etc, not just Japanese manga/anime. So, if you non-Japanese want your works to get published by Japanese companies, just give up, because mostly Japanese manga/anime supremacy exists in Japan.

A lot of very interesting ideas well outside the magical girl genre

Why do you normally talk like a robot when you have such an expressive voice?

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨Can you act a bit more human? This video is good, but you seem so monochrome it could bore me to sleep.

Thank you so much, I am making my own light novel titled : Mythic Uprising, and I am struggling a lot to describe the fighting scene, since it's an action based light novel, and needing this tips helped me out A LOT in my writing, I hope I can write better fighting choreographies in the future, but ty for this guide

Thx i am writing a light novel that i hope to become an anime some day, and looking at how much bad anime there is, i think my story has a decent chance

Thank you very much, it will help me a lot ❤❤😮😊

I like this video! I love my crazy girlie's but I wish I knew more about male yanderes

This really helped me plan my manga out, i can't thank you enough,

How do you feel about your channel not doing as well as it did a few years ago? I always get sad whenever my favourite KZbinr who used to get over a hundred thousand views per vid, suddenly is barely able to reach over 1k.

When you don’t see progress in your journey as a mangaka and creator in general what keeps you going? Also do you believe anyone can be successful and make mangaka/webtoons a full time career if they work hard enough?

You are so articulate and well spoken! I thought this was a video with 1 million as opposed to 1 K views, but never checked because I spent the 22 minutes captivatedly learning! definitely checking out your other stuff! 🙌💕

Is there a specific platform to publish your English manga and light novel like WebNovel and Webtoon?

EXCELLENT and much needed tutorial. This is a great primer for a video game writer. You should consider expanding this topic. Thanks you!!!

How do you write a good intelligent almost infinitely powerful character like gojo or anos? How do you write a realistic religion? How do you write fantasy creatures that aren't just there to make the world more fantastic? How to write a light novel 2024/2025?

I'm writing a horror book with have some fight scenes, but I have a problem to write it. And I saw your video and thinked "Light novel? This will not help writing a horror book, but let's see." and it's help a lot.

Do you think its ohk to stop thinking about drawing and focus on writing in creating a manga even tho you got the talent..but it ain't perfect

What about how to write a throuple couple in a manga or webtoon

MS cross is a puppies line in eyes need asking because I sometimes forget add that as in I just draw eyes as is and I am unsure if that fine in manga and what I mean is the black circle that most anime and manga have sorry

I know this video is kind of old but I want to use number one for my story because I love it so much 😊

How would you write a good action/fight scene? And how would you write and format good dialogue scenes between two or more characters?

How do you handle the character development of multiple characters well? How do you develop characters further after successful character arcs?

What is the worst thing you have experienced technology wise when working with digital creations, and how did you go about overcoming this issue? I’m asking because my computer crashed recently and I sort of lost motivation to restart all that hard work. Is this relatable?

With all the indiscriminate data scraping without consent going around with big tech corpos, and some grifter folks who does not passionately love the process of art creation and is simply focused on producing slop for the sake of profit, how do you keep your motivation and passion alive in this specific era of our times?

How can you make an iconic special ability or item for your manga (like the dragonballs, death note ect.)

What is the process and steps to write the arcs of a shonen manga? (like the whole process if possible cuz im having trouble putting my ideas and arcs together in my story)

I came up with a new story concept for a game. Tell me if you think its a good idea. You play a guy named edward. Prologue. The game opens, showing a sky view over a bussling city. You see cars driving, police pulling people over and motels along the outskirts. And some other cool stuff taken from the story. All spliced in between edward walking from the prison bus, to the prison. He is in a prison wear(orange jumpsuit) The title appears. And fades to Edward as he is eating at fast food restraunt. A guy cones in stumbling with a bleeding arm. He escapes out the back. Edward stands up, he is rushed by police and tackled to the floor. And is arrested for a crime he didnt commit. All the while the perp has escaped. Edward was mistaken for a guy running from the police. And the perp turned out to be a killer, and killed a women just 3 weeks prior. Mission 1. Edward has to get used to the cycle of prison life. Your first 'mission' is just getting used to being in the county jail. Eventually you are transported to prison awaiting trial. Maybe you choose to join a gang etc. Maybe you dont. Part 2. Edward finds himself plastered all over the news. He has no idea how the cops could just let the real perp go. You would be trying to prove your innocence. You go through court system etc. And find out just how corrupt the system is, as someone has been setting you up further. And even the judge has been paid off. You have no idea how this is happening. It is just crazy. So, you adapt and settle in. Part 3 of the story takes you to finding out through your lawyer, that theres something bigger at play here. Someone wants you to stay in there. Or worse. dead. You come to find out there is a price on your head, Put there by the lady who was killed's very much alive 'husband.'. He wants revenge. And will stop at nothing to keep you inside. I stopped writing here. As I just want an idea from you guys, what kinda game wouod this story be good for? Like what style? I mean it has to play good. What you guys think?