If Kubo where to ask you for some advice on his next series (if there's going to be such a thing), what would you say to him?
I would tell him to focus on a story with no main character and no defined good or bad side, just present different perspectives with different interests, not one clearly better than any other. He somehow was doing that with the captains in Bleach, so getting rid of boring Ichigo would have improved the series a lot, at least in the last arc.
Also set some clear goals for each character s the reader can get a sense of progression from the series, in Bleach ichigo always did everything because he wanted to protect his friends or because he was told to, but he never had a personal goal.
The story would be great as a 1920 cthulhuesque / paranormal mystery and horror, I think Kubo would excel at this.
And I don't think this would be needed, but get the fuck away from WSJ and go to a magazine, preferably focused on a more mature public that imposed less restrictions to hs pacing and writing.
Honestly, he needs to stay away from Magazines all together and just release volumes.
Bleach was a much better read when I started waiting one month and then reading what chapters came out, rather then week by week.
Tyler Long
Make Ichiruki canon.
Michael Sanchez
I think a monthly seinen mag publishing 40-50 pages would fit better his style.
Look at how much Araki improved when he moved from weekly to monthly.
Isaac Bennett
He should draw a slice of life series about fashionable teenagers doing everyday stuff. That's the only thing he excels in.
Henry Miller
concentrate on fashion designs. Get a ghost writer. have a plan to wrap things up better in case of cancellation.
What the fuck were you thinking wearing that fishnet shirt?
Jaxon Scott
his comic sections wouldn't be as effective without the heavy atmosphere of imminent death and destruction.
Carter Kelly
Keep in mind that Kubo probably lurks here. What you post here may influence him.
Jordan Watson
You have to consider that Araki probably moved to a monthly seinen magazine because he wanted to write seinen, rather than writing a seinen manga because he was now in a seinen magazine. There's a perceived improvement because he's actually trying with the story now, whereas before he was writing very simple plots.
For me it's been always clear that Kubo wanted to write more mature themes and include a lot more of complexity to his plots and characters.
I really think more freedom and planning time would benefit Kubo's works a lot.
Benjamin Nguyen
>tite kubo's next work >next work
Kevin Smith
Well yes, I agree. You could say the same for most authors, really.
Dylan Evans
Well, if he isn't going to literally draw porn, I suggest he goes full Araki.
Go monthly or bi-weekly.
Write an adult story, he is fantastic at dark moments, in a seinen manga he won't be censored.
Get a good excuse to use crazy fashion design since he clearly loves it.
Levi Cook
yeah working relaxed is always better, but for Kubo I think it's mandatory.
imagine Miura trying to work weekly...
Yeah Kubo really has a lot in common with Araki.
Carson Taylor
Finish Zombie Powder
Blake Rogers
>Off by three Damn It
Justin Torres
let's see if I get the 300
Liam Rodriguez
let's see.
Jacob Hughes
Nope.
Carson Clark
1. hire a real writer 2. shutup
Julian Perry
A tight cast of characters with well defined personalities and abilities. You like people way too much to simply create villians that are unlikeable and have to die. So find a way to have people all vie for something or come to blows but have no one be the villian. Only the adversary or something.
Dump the over the top power battles and focus more on unique abilities and situations. The fullbring arc and some of the abilities of the characters were actually cool.
Do more slice of life stuff and stay away from trying to hard with world building. It's not your forte'.
But if you want some world building and plotting then having an assistant/co-author who can help with that is needed. Will also be able to tell you that certain characters that were thrown away or cheap shotted had potential as characters and end game villians or heroes.
Keep things just nebulous enough to where you can sneak things in there but don't try to make big deep stories or story lines if you haven't seriously thought them through or at least had both an inkling of where you want to go and a bullet proof escape plan to take it out of the story without it feeling like a dropped story idea or cheap.
This and This.
It was painful waiting for a new chapter every week. Having a large well thought out chapter every month is a lot better.
Isaiah Parker
Stop making characters you aren't going to use much more than as background characters, and keeping them around. You're getting people's hopes up and you aren't really fleshing things out any more than their initial introduction. Also on that note, don't have so many characters on the side of the protagonists, it'll ruin your pace or sideline them with implications that they will do things. I would suggest making an adventure story, with the characters constantly moving so you don't keep going back to characters you don't plan on actually developing. Also I suggest switching things around, rather than the antagonists being the ones with the plotting and planning, make it the protagonists plotting and planning things.
Angel Howard
he should apply for bioware, his shit writing would be at home there.
Nathan Harris
Slice of life manga with fashion industry setting.
Like Paradise Kiss.
But more manly.
Thomas Jenkins
Bleach rework but with all the characters being in the fashion industry, with back-alley streetfights, corporate espionage, backstabbing and fashion shows.
