Manga Help Me!

[Knight]

Me and a friend have finished two episodes of our idea, but i dont know wether to do a flashback for number three, or continue the story.i need ideas! :confused:

[Kei]

[color=darkblue]First of all, welcome to the boards.

Second, try to improve your posting habits a bit. Proper grammar and everything is something we like to see here, so keep that in mind.

Third, seeing as how we have no idea what your story is about, we have no idea as to how to help you with your problem. Try posting your art/concept/story so far, and then try asking.[/color]

[Misaki Mitsu]

[FONT=Palatino Linotype][COLOR=Red] well first off, to be able to get ideas we need the main story base and plot[/COLOR][/FONT]

[Knight]

Oh, ok!

Anyway, it's about a world that can only be accessed by certain people in their sleep. The two main characters are Zade, a young, short, tiger boy who weilds energy. The other is Sarron, a teenager with the ability to manipulate and control metal. The reason they have these magnificent abilities in this world is because they were "born" nearby or in the area where that element is most plentiful.
Zade, with his energy weilding ability, was born during the ten day eclipse. The eclipse was emmiting so much energy that it was more plentiful than the other elements. This makes his abilities very renowned.
The main villan is The Titan, and that's what he is.He has dual abilities, wind and fire, which appears to be extremely potent. Zade and Sarron both are trying frantically to find who the Titan is in the "real world" before the Dream Realm is destroyed completely.


I hoped you all liked it. Please point out some flaws and send better ideas, because me and my friend is stumped.

P.S.

I'm not sure HOW to post art, could you help with that too?

[GTK]

[QUOTE=Knight]P.S.

I'm not sure HOW to post art, could you help with that too?[/QUOTE]

when you post something, you can also post attachments (scroll down a bit... it's in additional options)

[Knight]

Ahh, ok! Thanks. Here is Raunan.

[Kei]

[color=darkblue]Okay, all this one sentence posting that's vaguely on topic has got to stop.

Everyone who has posted in this thread is guilty of it, and Knight, this is your second warning. If the participants in this thread don't start putting a decent amount of effort into their posting, this thread [i]will[/i] be closed and some people will begin to be watched in regards to their posting habits.

Please don't let me have to repeat myself again.[/color]

[Knight]

I need a new idea on a character setting also, we added three more since we began. In addition to Zade and Sarron, we also have a knight, a theif, and a big griffon guy with an ax, which, part of a spoof, Zade will try to attack, despite his size (the griffon is about five times larger), and dosen't get far in the process.
I don't have a good name idea for the additional characters, and i need help with that. Thank you!!!

[sakurasuka]

[COLOR=DarkOrange][SIZE=1][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]Alright, I wouldn't usually post in a thread this... Vague... But I think I may be able to help. Maybe not all that much here because I've not got the details, but I'll put in my two cents, anyway.

Firstly: I'm seeing a lack of female people. In most storylines, there are at least a few kick-butt chicks (Or chicks that get their butt kicked, either way...) How're you gonna have some kinda romance sub-story? Who's gonna be the main guy's love interest? Haven't you noticed most people like some of that stuff. Just keep that in mind. For a name for a girl, I like Sakura, but that's just me, I think... I've got alotta names, if you PM me their personallities I'll give a more fitting name.

Secondly: Work on the details. Tweak 'em, make 'em better, change 'em around and repeat untill you like the result. It took me three years to get the whole outline of my series set-in-stone and I'm still working on it.

If you want some REAL help, though, I'm quite willing and am online daily, PM me more details and specifics and I'd be glad to help with storyline, art, ideas, whatever.

Later, people!

-Sakura

P.S. Please don't reply to my post here. P.M. me if you want to reply. Unless I really like a subject, I don't look twice at the same page. The only time I've ever POSTED twice is in a role-play. I think if you don't get out what you're gonna say the first time, you're not gonna say what you wanna say the second time around either, so that's my policy.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[You Don't Care]

Hmm..

A story about a collective dream world where its inhabitants(visitors/dreamers) have spicific powers according to their birth place(and possibly time plays a factor as well).

Lets get technical! I suggest that you leave the flashback for a later issue. Use it as a plot device to enhance the story. What I mean is think about dreams.

Dreams are(and can be) subconcsious impulses and collections of thoughts enhanced by one's own imagination. The same could be said for memories. Memories can be changed over time and even blotted out or totaly altered. The same goes for dreams.

This is what your flashback sequences could be used for.
You can make flashbacks(of a person who is attuned to the dream world) play a major role by co-relating them to the dreams themselves. A person can change their dreams at will(if they are aware that is a dream). And since dreams and memories are both on the same "theoretical" pattern, you could put(as a twist) that as the dream world is threatened, so are the memories(a.k.a. flashbacks) of everyone else in the conscious world. Their memories, and possibly the way of life, could change by the will of the master(in this case the "bad guy").

This element to the story will bring important events to the real world than just simply looking for "the bad guy." The characters can notice dramatic changes in the behavior of people around them as well as their own memories being altered in conjunction with the destruction of the dream world.

So there you go!

And for name creating, try using puns for the words dream, drowse, and maybe slumber.

[ukoku]

ok,you ARE missing female charactors(unless you are planning on making this a shonen-ai, but you should at least put 1 female charactor-_-)Flashbacks are good sometimes(the more tragic the better in my opinion^_^) but not too many flashbacks, nobody wants to keep living in their own past

as for the griffon guy, you could make zade be badly beaten up at first and have his clothes all torn and tatterred, then he can either oursmart his opponent or do/create some secret fighting move that no one has ever seen before

I don't think this'll be of any help-_- ah well...and don't spend too much time thinking up names like I always do, its bad, maybe you could just pop your friend's name in some random generator and be done with it(it's fast PLUS you get to rub it in your friend's face the next day^_^)

[Knight]

Thanks! Me and my friend is in your debt. thanks to you all, ideas are not a problem. A female character idea was formulated, then it smowballed from there. thanks to name ideas from Sakura, its no longer a problem for names. we need one more thing, unfortunately, which is a way for the Titan to be defeated. a classic anime catyclismic explosion with all the combined character abilities was a first idea. is that too original? Thank You! :)

[Solo Tremaine]

[quote name='Knight']we need one more thing, unfortunately, which is a way for the Titan to be defeated. a classic anime catyclismic explosion with all the combined character abilities was a first idea. is that too original? Thank You! :)[/quote][color=#503f86]Simply combining everyone's attacks seems far too easy an escape route to me- if he's this all-encompassing evil then I'm sure it'd take more than that to get rid of him. And it seems a bit of an anticimax too, to be honest.

But then I haven't really got anything else to suggest. I'd try and think of a way of using the characters' abilities to exploit weaknesses in his defenses and try and get him that way, rather than having an incredibly generic 'huge explosion'. It's not as if he even has to be killed, you know. Think about what the point of your story is and what kind of values you want to put across- that'll determine how you should finish it, and also should be affecting how you write it in the first place.[/color]