Manga Your favorite story elements

[Aiyachi]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Garamond]I'm trying to think of a really awesome story for a manga, and I really want it to be awesome. I want it to be something that anyone would be into, so if you could tell me some of your favorite story elements that'd be seriously helpful to me

Thankies[/FONT][/COLOR]

[damatte]

Comedy? I think that's considered an element, *laughs*

[Kenshin DX]

Romance and Insane action. You need a good love interest and intense battling. I think those two express chacters well.

The romance element cant to be to fast but cant be painfully slow like Rurouni Kenshin. I find love triangles ammusing so you might want to try it out.

Combat is also important. It expresses the chacter how they fight in battle shows alot of peronsality. Every chacter fights for a certain reason it also shows the moral values of the chacter.

[myst]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]I don't really know much about story writing, but I think having twists may be helpful[/FONT]

[Chikara Kokoro]

My absolute favorite element of any story/manga/webcomic/movie/song, whatever, has to be creativity.

In the world of webcomics and manga there are so many cliches that it's hard to find something that is truly unique. Even parodies of those cliches are becoming cliche all over again. Finding anything that's different is truly a breath of fresh air.

I adore reading manga (or watching movies, or reading books) that you can tell the creator had a wonderful time creating because it shows right onto the pages. It's a rare occurrence, but when it happens there's nothing quite like it.

Most important for me though is believable characters. Stories where the characters feel real is wonderful. When the creator of a story has a past for each character, and knows how they would react in any situation (and they do so like a real human would) it makes it a million times easier to feel for that character when things happen to them. When you have wonderful characters, you don't even really need a set plot because the story can just be all of the characters interacting.

Good dialogue can be the savior of a bad plot. A little romance doesn't hurt either, just be certain that it doesn't get too mushy/soap opera.