When I was younger, I just knew I was going to be a mangaka. This was the first manga that I wrote, drew, and inked on my own. It made it to a chapter before I slowed my pace, and a few more pages before I could be considered to have stopped work on it.
I promised myself I wouldn't give up on this manga, so I feel a bit bad about never going back to it, but my drawing style is different, I no longer have the patience (in lieu of screen tones, I hand-dotted a lot of area on several pages), and I just don't feel like I'm ever really going to get into the idea again. Still, as a tribute to my younger self, I'll post the idea here.
Title: The Colony of Avlain
Genre: Shounen
Protagonist: Talia, a 16-year-old, slightly air-headed blonde with high ponytails and grey eyes. She has rather efficiently blocked memories of her earlier childhood—she was very much a test tube baby and subjected to all sorts of experiments to make her the ultimate Elemental Restraint-Opener. While she can't open any restraints, she's okay with it. She's been living on her own for a while but is still perky about it.
Other Main Characters: Jikuri, a 14-year-old girl with curly, black hair and green eyes. Her mother died giving birth, and while her father was very supportive, he became rather harsh and almost abusive when Jikuri failed to open her first restraint. She pushed herself extremely hard every time he was away at work (guarding the local representative of the empire controlling the island of Avlain), becoming serious and battle-hungry, until she finally managed to become a Spectral Restraint-Opener. Upon coming home that day, she learned her father had died protecting the governor and has been on her own—learning to open even more restraints—since.
Amora, an 11-year-old girl who is technically Talia's twin/triplet sister. She is rather emotionless and serves the research branch of the governor's complex as a successful Elemental Restraint-Opener.
Caden, a 16-year-old boy with curly, black hair and green eyes. He is a Spectral Restraint-Opener that likes joking around. He serves in the junior league of rebels, where he first meets Talia.
Antagonists: Various people who just like to fight, including the Physical Restraint-Opener Kitana in the introductory chapter.
The governor (whose name I forget, though I know I wrote a lot of information on this down a while ago), a Control Restraint-Opener, and those that serve him, including the twin Form Restraint-Openers whose names I have also forgotten.
The government over Avlain in general, though represented best through the governor.
Setting: The island and colony of Avlain, a place with intermediate technology. In lieu of more advanced weaponry, Restraint-Openers are used. In each person are thirty-six restraints, six of each type. Once the first of a type is opened, only restraints in that category may be opened by that individual. The types are Elemental (Ice, Fire, Wind, Stone, Dark, Light), Spectral (Invisibility, Intangibility, Flight, then greater degrees of the previous three), Physical (Strength, Speed, Endurance, then greater degrees of the previous three), Mental (increasing degrees of intelligence), Control (increasing degrees of control over animals, then humans once into the last three), and Form (increasing degrees of flexibility/shapeshifting).
Plot: Jikuri picks a fight with Kitana, who was mugging a helpless Talia, and wins. The two end up sneaking into the governor's complex, where they are discovered. After much fighting, both girls are captured; in an attempt to force Talia to open a restraint, Jikuri is killed. It doesn't work, but Amora takes the opportunity to free Talia and escape with her, leaving their third triplet Amore behind. They try to recover while staying away from government agents until one night when a spectacular fire engulfs the house of a city governor. A teenager, shouting to onlookers how this is proper justice for the tyrannies of the government, flees the scene. Understanding, Talia and Amora follow him to eventually find the underground (literally) camp of children training to overtake the government (there was something about the empire keeping a tight watch over the adults, but not the children up to eighteen years). There they find Caden—Talia avoids him because he looks a lot like Jikuri. He gets a crush on Talia, but between her avoiding him and her being enrolled in the non-Restraint-Opener training, it's difficult. They get together by the time the big revolt date comes along, when they invade the governor's complex in battle. Talia finally opens her first Elemental Restraint and immediately plows through the other five to take out a lot of the opposition with Light. The rebels win, though with heavy losses, and the country of Avlain is established.
I get a bit nostalgic about this, but I really don't think I'm going to pick it up. I may end up doing something fiction-wise with either the Restraints (inspired from the gates in Naruto, by the way) or the universe, though I don't feel I did enough world-building for it to make sense.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
New Manga Idea #3
I started this a long time ago, before I could draw, and had a friend do the art for me. We've since parted ways, and I feel like I've lost too much of the story to really reclaim it, but it's worth mentioning.
Title: Countdown (or C0un7d0wn)
Genre: Undecided, likely shounen
Protagonist: Shil, a redheaded 16-year-old with half-green, half-purple eyes. He's rather good-natured and likes playing the hero. He has the ability to see how long everyone has to live in the form of a digital clock-type display over their heads. The clock shows their natural life span unless an impending threat to their life arrives.
Other Main Characters: Frass, a crabby 16-year-old with spiky blue hair. He's a childhood friend of Shil.
Keed, a brunette 17-year-old who keeps his mid-length hair in a ponytail. He's a bit of a jokester and incredibly (magically, I assume) strong. He also lives in a glass house, but I don't remember why.
Tulip, a 16-year-old with bra-length blonde hair. She's feisty but warms up to people easily enough. She can telepathically control a length of cloth that can only be cut by the blade of a death god.
Karin, a wheelchair-bound 17-year-old with black hair in a low ponytail. She's sweet but quiet around strangers. She and Keed eventually fall in love.
Antagonists: I have completely forgotten, or I may have never determined any.
Setting: A modern-day fantastic universe.
Plot: Shil struggles to save the world one person at a time while keeping up with school and friends. Eventually (I don't recall how) he and his friends start mixing with the bad guys and death gods. In this struggle, he finally finds out the origin of his powers (spoiler: his mother is a death god).
I definitely need to develop it more if I plan to go anywhere with it. At this point I don't.
Title: Countdown (or C0un7d0wn)
Genre: Undecided, likely shounen
Protagonist: Shil, a redheaded 16-year-old with half-green, half-purple eyes. He's rather good-natured and likes playing the hero. He has the ability to see how long everyone has to live in the form of a digital clock-type display over their heads. The clock shows their natural life span unless an impending threat to their life arrives.
Other Main Characters: Frass, a crabby 16-year-old with spiky blue hair. He's a childhood friend of Shil.
Keed, a brunette 17-year-old who keeps his mid-length hair in a ponytail. He's a bit of a jokester and incredibly (magically, I assume) strong. He also lives in a glass house, but I don't remember why.
Tulip, a 16-year-old with bra-length blonde hair. She's feisty but warms up to people easily enough. She can telepathically control a length of cloth that can only be cut by the blade of a death god.
Karin, a wheelchair-bound 17-year-old with black hair in a low ponytail. She's sweet but quiet around strangers. She and Keed eventually fall in love.
Antagonists: I have completely forgotten, or I may have never determined any.
Setting: A modern-day fantastic universe.
Plot: Shil struggles to save the world one person at a time while keeping up with school and friends. Eventually (I don't recall how) he and his friends start mixing with the bad guys and death gods. In this struggle, he finally finds out the origin of his powers (spoiler: his mother is a death god).
I definitely need to develop it more if I plan to go anywhere with it. At this point I don't.
Monday, December 17, 2012
New Manga Idea #1
I felt I should put this in a different category than the fiction ideas, since this is a different medium. While Mayflies was close to becoming a manga, these are the ideas I just can't see only in writing. This did not stem from a fan fiction idea, as it was long before I saw Hetalia.
Title: Man in the Blade
Genre: Shounen
Protagonist: Hora, ambiguously aged teenage boy with messy, short-ish black hair and a very large, brawny frame. He's ridiculously lazy when it comes to anything involving education or thinking, but if it's physical activity, he'll usually put some effort into it. One thing peculiar about him is that though most in this universe have a balance between chi (inward energy) and aura (outward energy, used in spells), his energy is entirely chi.
Other Main Characters: Shia, about the same age as Hora, she has long, black hair in a high ponytail and is rather tall and on the thin side. She is very stoic and not that talkative.
Qin, same age as Hora, he has auburn hair and astounding good looks but is fairly short. He's arrogant, though it's not unfounded, and he and Hora clash like nothing else.
Chiba ("Chibs"), same age as Hora, she has dyed pink hair that's rather short, and she's a midget. Sort of the average teenage girl, she can be shallow but is also a tech genius.
"Cahokia," (Blades cannot remember their real names or most events in their lives before) thirty years old, mid-length blonde hair in a low ponytail and on the scrawny side. He is blatantly cheerful and eccentric and was a literature professor in Brittack before he was a Blade.
Antagonists: Arck, leader of the vigilante group closest to a government in the sparsely populated colonial area where Hora and the others live. He's thirty-three, tall and muscular, and uses an axe-like blade.
"The Gentleman," a long-time friend of Arck and his second-in-command. He always dresses nicely and is excessively polite.
Various other semi-governmental agents are also involved.
Setting: A Western America-like colonial area with about no official government. It has some gang issues, so most who live there carry weapons, most of which are Blades. Blades are the combination of a weapon (there are some specific requirements for this) and a human spirit. Each Blade has a specific magical technique available, but general magic can be used for any weapon. There are also mini-worlds inside each Blade in which the Blade (term also refers to the spirit alone) resides, though the Blade can still see the outside world, and a human the Blade doesn't hate can enter the world for some amount of time.
Plot: Amidst his normal troubles in the colonial area, Hora comes upon information showing corruption in the bounty-hunting vigilante group so serious even he has to take action. The group, of course, tries to stop him and his friends, but in the process he obtains information that his little brother (years earlier found drowned in a creek) may still be alive as a Blade. Hora of course has to find the truth about this.
I'm honestly not sure if I'm going to go on with this. It found its beginning when I still wanted to be a mangaka, and since then I've considered trying to make it into a text-only story, but it's just not working for me. Besides, Cahokia's too adorable to not actually appear in all of his scenes.
If you want any more details, ask. This is a very broad summary.
Title: Man in the Blade
Genre: Shounen
Protagonist: Hora, ambiguously aged teenage boy with messy, short-ish black hair and a very large, brawny frame. He's ridiculously lazy when it comes to anything involving education or thinking, but if it's physical activity, he'll usually put some effort into it. One thing peculiar about him is that though most in this universe have a balance between chi (inward energy) and aura (outward energy, used in spells), his energy is entirely chi.
Other Main Characters: Shia, about the same age as Hora, she has long, black hair in a high ponytail and is rather tall and on the thin side. She is very stoic and not that talkative.
Qin, same age as Hora, he has auburn hair and astounding good looks but is fairly short. He's arrogant, though it's not unfounded, and he and Hora clash like nothing else.
Chiba ("Chibs"), same age as Hora, she has dyed pink hair that's rather short, and she's a midget. Sort of the average teenage girl, she can be shallow but is also a tech genius.
"Cahokia," (Blades cannot remember their real names or most events in their lives before) thirty years old, mid-length blonde hair in a low ponytail and on the scrawny side. He is blatantly cheerful and eccentric and was a literature professor in Brittack before he was a Blade.
Antagonists: Arck, leader of the vigilante group closest to a government in the sparsely populated colonial area where Hora and the others live. He's thirty-three, tall and muscular, and uses an axe-like blade.
"The Gentleman," a long-time friend of Arck and his second-in-command. He always dresses nicely and is excessively polite.
Various other semi-governmental agents are also involved.
Setting: A Western America-like colonial area with about no official government. It has some gang issues, so most who live there carry weapons, most of which are Blades. Blades are the combination of a weapon (there are some specific requirements for this) and a human spirit. Each Blade has a specific magical technique available, but general magic can be used for any weapon. There are also mini-worlds inside each Blade in which the Blade (term also refers to the spirit alone) resides, though the Blade can still see the outside world, and a human the Blade doesn't hate can enter the world for some amount of time.
Plot: Amidst his normal troubles in the colonial area, Hora comes upon information showing corruption in the bounty-hunting vigilante group so serious even he has to take action. The group, of course, tries to stop him and his friends, but in the process he obtains information that his little brother (years earlier found drowned in a creek) may still be alive as a Blade. Hora of course has to find the truth about this.
I'm honestly not sure if I'm going to go on with this. It found its beginning when I still wanted to be a mangaka, and since then I've considered trying to make it into a text-only story, but it's just not working for me. Besides, Cahokia's too adorable to not actually appear in all of his scenes.
If you want any more details, ask. This is a very broad summary.
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