I am a Japanese manga artist. I know Western fans have little influence on the industry so I decided to have fun and try this since I'm in a tough spot thinking up a story.
Let's make a story, anons! If we make a story together I will draw it and take it to an editor with the intention of getting it published. Of course I will still exercise my own creative freedoms over whatever we come up with, but I would love to get some influence from you guys that I could build from or use for my story. As thanks I will occasionally hide dank memes and references into the background in a way that looks natural. I might come back here to ask for references that you would enjoy.
Only rule is that I'm aiming for moe, something similar to stuff like Blend S, Kiniro Mosaic, A Channel or I guess even stuff like Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko. What have you got anons?
Lol what? I'm not trolling, this is a serious post.
Elijah Sanders
animal girls but use a very light touch on their appearance, like 90% human and 10% animal features
Cameron Thomas
Isekai trap
Christian Wood
we don't help nips, we only fap to their drawings
Colton Gutierrez
Wouldn't it be better if I drew a girl and called it a boy?
Joseph Rivera
Please go full homo.
Jaxon Watson
So make them human but give them ears? I can do that, what would you be interested in them doing? Daily life, something fantasy-related, playing games?
Well, what are you interested in fapping to?
So you want an isekai that's ABOUT a trap? That might actually be a good idea.
Tyler Ward
Full homo Boys Love? Or full homo yuri?
Oliver Kelly
A character moves in on a residential/commercial building. Later he/she notices it has some weird things to it. He finds other residents/users who took note of the building oddity.
Lucas Adams
BL is how you make money. Make something you always wanted to but were afraid no-one would buy it, but stick BL in there and it'll sell like hotcakes.
Parker Cruz
Either works!
Isaiah Cook
A boy falls in love with a girl
Brody Price
Good luck with your works, user. My idea is a NEET commits suicide but forgets to delete the porn from his laptop. As a ghost, he scrambles to find a way to clear it before his family notices the shame of his pre-death fap. Maybe he can somehow communicate with a close relative or pet and tries to get them to delete it while keeping the reason a secret.
Adam Reyes
Going with the ideas from above, a boy falls in love with a trap in an isekai style story? The trap is the MC in this scenario.
I would actually be really interested in reading that. It's not very moe though and probably wouldn't sit very well with the publisher who's magazine I want to run this in. Also it basically needs to be about a girl.
Dominic Parker
cute girls playing esports (SFV, Tekken, Puyo, DDR, etc.)
Isaac Lewis
>A boy falls in love with a girl It's a meme copypasta
Jayden Nguyen
Cute futanari doing cute futanari things. Go heavy on symbolism, do not stray into overt hentai territory.
Jack Walker
That's a damn good idea!! I was considering something related to playing in game centers (arcades), but this might be a good way to combine the ideas as I could use esports for outside of the game center.
Jace Fisher
Fuck your moeshit; make Door Punch.
Jonathan Jenkins
So a cute girl story, but I need to draw her with a bulge?
Jose Gomez
my only requested meme is the 3rd strike match of JWong vs Daigo
Wow! A plot idea has been used before? Get out of town!
Bentley Collins
>harem my suggestion was more geared towards SoL
Charles Flores
Oh i know A boy falls in love with a girl. Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl’s phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well. But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day’s confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist in this universe at all. She is the girl’s alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC’s own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush. Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.
Leo Sanchez
It's not moe but I'm still waiting for my manga adaptation of socrates and his introverted follower plato, as they go around ancient athens quetioning people, go to the market, have fun at the gym, and have comfy symposiums.
When, Japan?
Levi Powell
I'm more into music games personally, I might be able to make a story about cute girls playing MaiMai and other games, but I'm actually very good and don't want to piss off the people who are good at those games lol. Those guys are like robots and never miss a beat.
Lincoln Cook
awkwardly bad super powers, their failings can help with the whole moe thing. Stuff like the ability to generate a light breeze, ability to spontaneously generate extra blood(to the point it can get a little creepy, give her a complex about it), or the ability to change the color of her nails. this way you can capitalize on the whole super hero fad.
Samuel Sanders
so... cute girls playing Taiko no Tatsujin?
Brody Cook
I tried to draw the infamous animatronic pet Furby in the vintage anime style.
Lol but I'm not sure how to turn it into a story, to be honest.
Sounds like it would be better as a cute background character in a certain Jump manga.
Anthony Phillips
>but I'm not sure how to turn it into a story, to be honest just make it 4-koma
Luis Bell
Cute girls and their brand new DJ mixer!
Justin Adams
Yes, but there are several of them in the environment each facing their own problems in a SoL formula with the occasional bouts of drama. Some would desire "normal relationships" (boy/girl), some wanting to be with girls and others believing futanaris belong with their own kind.
I believe the concept of cute pure love futanari stories are woefully underrepresented in the mangasphere and the misconception that they're exclusive to depraved, perverse doujins + h-games should be shattered.
Ryder Fisher
I actually want to make a 4-koma lol, the magazine I'm aiming for is predominantly 4-koma or normal manga that are written with normal panels but the comedy works similarly to a 4-koma.
Right now I'm liking the boy falls in love with a trap idea. Or maybe reverse it and a girl falls in love with a trap (Looks like a boy, but is a girl) so that the trap isn't the main character.
Brandon Butler
Moe SoL romance but in this world, girls breasts grow when aroused, similar to male erections. As a result, it's very difficult for a girl to hide her true feelings. Could just be MC girl, or all the women in the world.
Ryan Turner
I'm not japanese but I'm used to be a manga artist, most of my manga is about moe girl with lot of blood, gore and fanservice also very dark story focus on mystery of each character because i find this is shortest way to get people attention, what i'm trying to say is you need to find a way to make your manga unique first, there already ton of moe exists out there if your work is too generic it'll be quickly forgettable.
Evan Gutierrez
ironic shitposting is just shitposting
Owen Cruz
but its a reverse trap and the boy is gay. And there is actual magic in the universe but it doesn't effect the main plot (which is relationship drama / SoL) and the MCs best female friend is subject to a mixed harem
Yes I know i'm greedy for plot points
Samuel Mitchell
I think I saw something about that on Reddit earlier.
Are you Korean?
Blake Rogers
Do Trigger Nigger
Joshua Campbell
pretty sure it was a post from r/showerthoughts
Noah Scott
>Are you Korean? No, but i'm asian.
Gavin Collins
Alright. So, get this; what you got from our feedback is a SoL with a trap lead who falls in love with a reverse trap. They would first meet at a Namco (Camno) arcade while playing Taiko no Tatsujin or MaiMai to which the trap admires the reverse trap's highscore and wants to be friends. All while not knowing each other's sexes.
Alexander Brown
I know! A boy falls in love with a girl in his class when they are very young and then moves to another town and changes schools, when in high school the are reunited but the girl, who is now the class leader, doesn't remember him. Instead of dweling in the past the boy tries to win her over very agressively, the girl likes the boy but is very shy about it and him being agressive makes her embarrassed so she rejects him, a love triangle starts when a girl from the same class notice the agressive romanticism from the boy and starts pursuing him agressively too the first girl gets jealous about it and starts trying to screw with the second girl by being a two faced bitch but the second girl is aware of her intentions and begins a social warfare by proxy between the two.
Logan Garcia
That's spicy as fuck
Carter Phillips
Should've posted in broken English, maybe then we would've believed you.
Sebastian Powell
Whatever story you might write, make truck-kun the final boss.
Thanks for laying it all out like that. Apparently I need to fit BL in there somewhere to make the BigBuckz.jpg
I think I've got a few ideas right now for how I can work with a story along these lines, thanks for the help guys. I'll draw up some drafts and meet with an editor most likely sometime in January. I'll come back and update you guys on everything like if it's rejected or they like it.
Ryder Sullivan
So the theme are the agressive romantic persuit between girl B to the boy and the boy to girl A and the obfuscated warfare between girl A and girl B. The boy doesn't like girl B but she is very pushy and girl A won't accept the boy's feeling because shes cowardly.
Leo Martinez
I am actually interested in killing off a character that way lol.
I didn't ask for you to believe me, I asked for ideas. You can believe me when I come back to update you about what the editor says of the draft.
Aaron Lopez
some people are better at writting english than native speakers
Carter Murphy
I have an idea: daily life of young Assburger in highschool
Kevin Bennett
>I am actually interested in killing off a character that way lol. If you do that it would be funny if the other character grieve his loss very deeply only to find chapters later that he got isekai'd and show up once in a while as comic relief.
Colton Thompson
delete this post friendo
Jaxon Ramirez
You just won this whole thread!!
Jackson Clark
Th-that's brilliant
Anthony Ortiz
The other characters would not be aware that their friend lives in another world, to them, he is just dead. The isekai'd character could be shown in different cliche situations like with a harem of lolis or inventing soy sauce and reacting very negatively like "I want to go home"
Charles Stewart
Asians fear the philosophical warruor
Wyatt Price
>with a harem of lolis >"I want to go home" Sure thing pal
Charles Martin
>implying most MCs aren't colossal faggots who only chase after cow tits
Aiden Edwards
That's the joke. It's for comic relief.
Charles Foster
The main character does something that the love interest misunderstands. Instead of getting worked up about it the MC explains what they meant and the two talk like rational adults.
Lincoln Sanders
>MC is a faggot >Looking for QT trap to fuck >Meets one at a gay bar >They really connect, MC instantly falls in love >Decides to hook up regardless >There go to the trap's place >MC loves the girlish atmosphere of the apartment >Trap comes out of washroom stark naked >MC recoils in disgust >Trap is actually a girl End of chapter 1
The series is about MC and this chick being together, as the MC tried to find ways for the girl to seem more like a trap, and the girl is a total nympho trying to fuck this dude all the time despite is aversion to vagina. Over time, MC slowly becomes less of a faggot as he picks up on the more compassionate and sweet feminine features of the girl's personality.
Literally just thought of this, seems like a plausible trash ecchi concept. Perhaps more so the trash part
Brody Jenkins
It's funny because it's true.
Brody Wood
This or Keit-Ai.
Jose Baker
DOZO
Xavier Miller
make it a harem with lolis, but the MC is a babysitter, the setting is a daycare, and the lolis aren't trying to be sexual, but they're doing that 6 year old "do i look pretty" nonsense they do when they're around 20 year olds
Ayden Torres
(You)
Daniel Garcia
Speaking of which, that philosophers as cute girls LN never did get translated.
Jacob Hill
Make a story about an animal eared girl who drives a truck for living. She somehow ended in this world and tries to find a way back home by running over random schmucks who get isekai'd.
Owen Evans
>ching chong bing bong speak english
Brayden Baker
A truck falls in love with a boy. Unable to confess, she decides to murder him and then run herself off a cliff because if she can't have him no one can. Strangely, just as his blood and brain matter splatters the sidewalk, a weird rift in time and space occurs and his consciousness slips through it, along with the will of the truck. In a strange twist of fate, the boy is put in the body of a would be hero, while the truck is reborn as the princess of the emergent demon lord. The boy only has vague memories, but truck-chan remembers everything and sets out on a campaign to take over the throne and hunt down her precious user to love him forever and ever
Landon Rodriguez
Stop larping nigger A thread died for this
Parker Adams
Tsundere in love with a guy who knows she's tsundere.
He knows all her tricks, he's read all the relevant manga, he knows how they work, so when she's all "i-i-it's not like I like you, o-or anything BAKA" he just like laughs and says "I love you too" and she punches him in the face.
John Cooper
?
Tyler Carter
What's the name of that LN user?
Xavier Cook
Yeah, sorta like that.
Jose Diaz
>Stop larping nigger it's not live-action roleplaying if it's in text form though you fucking spastic
Wyatt Powell
"Me, Tsundere and Heidegger"
Joseph Thompson
Thanks for the new thing to read.
Julian Williams
Sounds moe as hell to me bro.
Landon Lopez
This. I've been waiting for someone to adapt platos writing into a visual medium but no one ever does
Lucas Gray
A cliche love story but at the end of chapter one they both die horrifically and the rest of the manga is about their (after)lives tigether. The only thing i ask in return if you use this is that the girls name is Kokoro Chiyo even if its just a nickname.
Isaiah Ross
It's been done. Such as Rossellini's film "Socrates".
Jacob Stewart
idk its like the 23rd century, living in an underground cyber punk-ish village, a girl becomes increasingly curious about the outside world and with help of some friends she runs away and seeks to find answers about what drove humanity to flee to where they are now and about whats above on the surface of the earth, the thing that's stopping her is the fact that there is no known way out and that "the creatures" have been said to roam in some parts of the massive underground labyrinth they are stuck in and ig after a bit of digging for answers they uncover something completely earth shattering and unexpected (this is where you come in and add your twist OP)
maybe add some cool futuristic gadgets, and ancient lost sword like you're the chosen one type shit, cool vehicles idk
i suck ass i know
but thoughts?
Liam Johnson
Terrible, overdone YA plot. Atleast you are aware of it.
Anthony Ramirez
and also i know that's not what you asked for OP, but if any other user takes it for inspiration that could be interesting
Christopher Adams
Always finds a way
Gavin Cruz
are ya into 4-koma and daily life anime user? cus maybe I got something for ya.
William Phillips
>anons >dank memes I’m gonnna be Cap Obvious and say you’re no mangaka, you’re a larping Redditor Post samples of your art
Jeremiah Gomez
I don't know if it will be popular or a smash hit user-sensei but I always loved to see the following idea. a boy who is the poor-kid thief but actually caring stereotype just sets off by himself to became a merchant in the ancient middle east, he meets a lot of people (mostly girls if you are going for moe) and ends up with his own caravan as he explores the exotic middle east, becomes a more successful merchant and creates bonds with the other people of the caravan. feel free to add supernatural elements ( a gene waifu is required) but don't go crazy on it because what I am thinking of is more kinda like a manga with its charm being the great sceneries and the sense of adventure and exploration with detailed a world that you can easily dive into. it may sound a lot of work for just a Moe manga but if there was a manga with such an engaging world and decent characters then I would care 100 times more about which girl the MC will choose and if they continue to be friends than those boring high-school settings
just some notes to the storry: a really cute artstyle will really feet the story (i am imagining the MC like regu from made in abyss) if you are good at drawing sceneries then feel free to go nuts at the scenery panels ( I am talking about sceneries where the caravan crosses a desert with the sun setting and stuff). also the series can run for a really big amount of time so better don't rush it
finally I would like to see the characters wearing clothes like the ones in magi but don't make it an shonen where everyone has superpowers keep it to the basics (exploration etc).
also I think spice and wolf made a good story but instead on focusing on economics you could focus on the different civilizations that live in your world.
Adrian Smith
finally I really love it when there is some historical accuracy like in otoyamegatari. you don't have to study the middle east on a history scholars level but some historical accuracy and background makes the world a lot more engaging
Blake Sanchez
>MC is an otaku NEET loser >he is obsessed with this one battle harem show >he likes this one girl who he dubs as the best girl >and he absolutely despises this one girl who he calls the worst >he shitposts about how much he hates her on 2ch all day >one day he somehow wakes up in this shows universe with a battle academy invite in his hand >it's the first episode >knowing the show inside out, he makes it to the battle academy to enroll >to his horror, everybody in the harem ignores/hates him since they all wants the harem MC's dick >everybody except the worst girl It will be a massive hit for sure.