Thoughts on a Biblical inspired battle shonen where magical girls are given powers by their Guardian Angels to combat demons and witches. Focusing on themes of sin, redemption, and ones role in both.
That could be really cool if done well! Religious concepts like demons and angels aren't super uncommon in manga, but LITERAL religious stuff IS rare So focusing on the biblical aspect and themes could be really cool and different! Best of luck!
I don’t mean to discourage you, but I don’t know how some people would receive that. I honestly would tread carefully in terms of how you use religion as currently ROR is losing some audience due to how they showed Hinduism.
@@captainrantman3892 Very true! When dealing with stuff like religion it can be tricky. The people who REALLY know their stuff will always be there to critique. Some audiences try to avoid religion in their media as well
@@MonitorComics As someone who is religious, I try to stay away from anything that contains religious material. Chainsaw Man, Record of Ragnarok, Lucifer, God of War, Doom Slayer and so many more I’m glad we both agreed
My greatest dream is to serialize a shonen manga and with Manga Plus Creators I can finally see a way. I spent the last year to write a One Piece like story in which I trew every theme I liked. After a while and reading and analyzing many successful manga, I understood that sometimes less and simpler is really better. So I took away massive chunks of my first story's themes and concepts and I used them to make more and shorter stories. Once I will be skilled enough to draw whole chapters I'm gonna upload them on that site one at a month and hope for the best
I have a shonen im working on thats based on everyone has a spirit familiar and depending on your bond with your familiar it opens the ability to use elemental abilities, but the main character is a ginger with no familiar, cuz you know, they have no souls😂
I now have learned even more successful shonen manga. “The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins”, “Akane-Banashi”, and “Dandadan” are new series to me. Thank you for introducing and explaining the success of these series, MONITOR COMICS!
Your videos are always so interesting, entertaining and educational to watch, I'm currently working on a Shounen Sports manga and I I just finished storyboarding my first ten chapters, you've been one of the main reasons of why I'm doing so good, I'm in 11th grade right now and my manga is a remake of a manga I made in 7th grade, I really enjoyed and learn a lot from your content!!! Keep it up! My goal with this manga is to get published in SaturdayAM
That's really awesome to hear!! Thank you so much for taking the time to write all of that! I'm really glad my videos can help!!! Best of luck with your manga!
I would love for you to make a video on the cyberpunk genre. I want to make a cyberpunk mixed with fantasy which I'm still figuring out how to balance magic and guns so I was wonder if you have any tips on that. Also, this is going to be a war story so I have a problem of where can i post it most sites guidelines say you can't use too much violence, which is a problem for me because I don't see war as innocent and some of the thing i want to put in goes into the really dark territory of war. any advice is appreciated.
Thank you for the video suggestion! I can add it to my list of upcoming video topics! As for your point about website guidelines, I think as long as you check "this is for mature audiences (18+) you SHOULD be fine" I could be wrong, but like you said war stories exist. Some horror manga and seinen manga are also pretty graphic. There should be a way for you to be allowed to tell the story you want to tell!
Thank you so much for your videos, they help a lot for my writing & I'm completely addicted to your channel now hehe I wonder if you can make a video on how to name your manga? This is a thing I am struggling with currently...
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch them, I really appreciate it! I will have a new video released a bit after New Years! I am happy they have been able to help! And thank you for the video suggestion, it is definitely on my list!
This overview was very insightful, it is always fascinating to see how Shonen evolves over time. All the series you reviewed sound like great series to study :>
Thanks a lot for this i always go back into your older videos for referencing and refreshing my knowledge for creating my own manga, what you're doing is working wonders i hope you know! :)
I really appreciate that! Thank you for taking the time to watch my stuff! Sometimes I do wonder if my audience wants to keep seeing similar stuff, or if I should try and switch it up, but I'm glad you have been enjoying! I'm really glad it can help!
@@bonkjima578 True! The only flaw with that idea is a lot of viewers don't use the Community Tab or miss community posts The most likes I have ever gotten on a community post is like 150ish and that is not representative of the audience ya know
Types of battle fantasy Shōnen manga I want to see: - A story set in (or inspired by) the Mid-19th century American Wild West that involves cowboys, native Americans and folklore (saw some Wild West inspired fan-art for "One Piece" and thought it would be cool. Of course, I would love to see more Shōnen that aren't set in Japan. I got nothing against the country, I just want to see more of the world represented) - One inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales (kinda like "MÄR" and "The Hunters' Guild: Red Hood", except it doesn't get cut short) - A Sci-fi space adventure set in the far future with robots and aliens (Jump is long overdue for a series like this and "Edens Zero" does fill that niche pretty well for the most part) - A Kimetsu (Demon-slaying) manga where the only way that humans can fight fire is with fire, or rather kill demons is with help from demons (One of my favorite kinds of Battle Shōnen is where the "Equippable Ally" trope plays a major part of the story as it helps play into the "Power of Friendship" trope a lot more naturally in Shōnen like "Shaman King", "Soul Eater", and "Zatch Bell!") - A Magical School Shōnen inspired a lot by JRPGs where students take classes to choose/master their job class (I'm a big JRPG fan, and would love to see more Shōnen that plays out like one, would be interesting if the job classes were reminiscent of "Bravely Default" with an art style like FFIX)
Those are great ideas! I would love to see some of those, especially the Kimetsu one. As a big fan of Shaman King, I totally get what you mean! Thanks for taking the time to share!
@@MonitorComics Thanks for the response! The only Kimetsu manga I can think of that comes to mind is maybe "Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan" and probably "Bone Collection", but it feels more like a protagonist power-up if anything, and the one I want to see has many human characters able to partner with demons/Yokai instead of just 1.
Currently, I'm writing a shonen parody, but after that, I plan to make a dark shonen story. While it may be done a little more, I don't see many dark shonens aside from Promised Neverland, and the rumored chainsaw man.
Sounds cool! Thanks for taking the time to check this video out and leaving a comment! I think "edgier shonen" is a recent thing, For a WHILE, every series tried to be the next Big 3 (One Piece, Bleach, Naruto etc.) In the past few years though, series like The Promised Neverland, Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, Dororo, Hell's Paradise, and now The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins and Dandadan have brought in darker elements There HAVE been darker shonen series in the past like Deadman Wonderland, Death Note, Akame No Kill, Devilman, but they were usually exceptions to everything popular at the same time. Chainsaw Man definitely started a trend and lots of series have been trying to emulate it ever since. I feel like for the next few years, edgier shonen stories will continue to pop up until something else overtakes it
@@MonitorComics I see. I should definitely be researching stuff a lot more as I've stated, I never watched or read a lot of edgy stuff. Well, I wot say "Isekai" as the MC's are almost always edgy in some way. Thanks for that information.
Really cool to see Katsura Sunshine there as your example of a Rakugo performer, I've seen his work on NHK, and while it's kinda hard to find now, it was very entertaining :D
@@MonitorComics Yeah, I've been unlucky to never see any of his shows in person, but what I have seen is fantastic! On NHK he used to do a show about Ukyio-E paintings, using rakugo sketches to describe what was happening in the painting, which I really enjoyed. Sadly NHK are not showing it anymore. They have something of a habit of dropping programs almost at random, and it really sucks that they dispose of them so nonchalantly. I actually learned about Rakugo prior to seeing his work, from, of all things, the Nintendo 3DS game, Ace Attorney 6 (the 4th case in the game takes place in a yose, and the victim being the master of the theatre). It's a weird introduction to Rakugo, but I appreciate it all the same.
@@Tazer_Silverscar OOOOH that's really cool, I had no clue Ace Attorney had a storyline like that in it! Rakugo is definitely interesting, I really want to look into it more!
TRUE! I have faith that it will! It's very popular at the moment! An anime for Undead Unluck was recently announced, so I got my fingers crossed for Dandadan
What do you think about a manga like my hero where everyone has superpower but like dragon ball and the powers can range from fire manipulation to the ability to literally break these laws of physics or the power to create monster(like jjk's curses ) and also the main character can't control/stabilize his powers (his power is energy manipulation and sprit manipulation)
Bro 1 more request tell me what type of manga or anime where Mc has to find something I can't remember example but enchanted is the example I can give you is uncharted
I recently started to write a script for a shonen manga. It's really basic, but it's about two brothers at war with each other both on other planets, it's not really about them, but the soldiers that are fighting. Is that somewhat good?
Tbh not really, but what matter most is execution and pacing. A detailed reason why they at each other neck despite being a sibling with little twist here and there and it would be more interesting if you add prepared foreshadowing beforehand.
I have a question, I am thinking of writing my own manga, but I have no idea how to start. I’m working on the art but I have no idea how to upload it on webtoon or manga creators plus. Do I need to draw digitally for those? And do I need a laptop?
My best advice is to just go on the website and read their submission guidelines, it's all written out. I know this because I made a video specifically about MangaPlus Creators and it tells you how to upload on the site Both platforms accept JPG Files and PNG Files, so it doesn't HAVE to be digital, it could be a scan or a photograph Technically your manga does NOT have to be digital, but keep your expectations realistic. The industry standard for comics and manga and webtoons right now is digital art and lettering done digitally Anything that is NOT that is already at a disadvantage compared to everything else. There are MANY artists who DO still draw traditionally. But they usually scan their art to their computers and add lettering on their computers You don't NEED a laptop, all of these tools can work with a phone or a pc Many comic artists can do the job on a IPad. Others use a drawing tablet with their computer or laptop
Damn, sorry to hear! With the Skillshare Free Trial, if you cancel the membership right away after claiming it, you will NOT be charged in the next pay cycle. It is a FREE TRIAL, so it is dumb that the website requires a credit card to be put in to claim the free trial. Whenever people tell me they're going to try and get it, I tell them to cancel right after so they don't need to worry about it later. Even if you cancel straight away, you have access to the courses for the entire month and WON'T be charged
@@highcaliber350 Oh damn, I was unaware that was how it worked, so thanks for letting me know I've always been given a free trial version for it, so I assumed it'd be similar to how other free trials work If that's the case, then I would just say set a reminder in your phone to cancel it before the day it is set to renew
hey Monitor. just asking a question i’m curious about…i’m a boy who only speaks english and is hoping to make a popular shonen manga. since i only speak english does that mean that companies such as shonen jump won’t accept my work?if no does that mean it will never become an anime?please respond if you can.
If your goal is Shonen Jump specifically it might be hard since all of their titles are Japanese. They did recently publish a French artist though which made the news Shonen Jump+, the mobile app might be more realistic since MangaPlus Creators, the webcomic site, is run by Shueisha, the company behind Shonen Jump I have a friend who won one of the Bronze Awards on MangaPlus Creators and his work was published in MangaPlus, the English version of Shonen Jump+ In terms of an anime, that is a much more ambitious question. Right now I don't think anyone outside of Japan has had their manga adapted by a Japanese studio There are some projects that are done independently like Yasuke and Castelvania, and collaboration projects like Carole And Tuesday (A Netflix original with a Japanese studio) I personally tell people if your goal is to have an anime, just go learn animation. You should be making manga because you like making manga. People with this idea of "I need to make a manga to get an anime" have their priorities mixed up, and realistically speaking it's almost impossible to achieve, especially if you are not Japanese and don't live in Japan
@@MonitorComicsi just have another question. if i do win and award on manga plus creators and it is published to manga plus, if i wanted to make it paperback would i go to a publisher in my country?or would i have to learn japanese and go to japan
@@MonitorComicsthe anime part makes sense. i was just asking about it just incase. i’m focusing on manga . just one last question. on one of your videos you stated that we upload our work to manga plus creators by submitting it. does that mean i have to make my work digital?or take a picture in good lighting?
@@Sammy.A55 At the moment there is no ad program like Webtoons or Tapas. There also isn't a program like Webtoons Originals yet either, but a representative told me they're working on both of those for the near future At this point the top creators are eligible for monthly awards, my friend DD Mark for example won two bronze awards which was a few thousand bucks Some traditional publishers have also reached out to popular mangaplus creators and offered them deals
The easiest way to tell is to see what manga magazine a series is published in. One Punch Man for example is published in Weekly Shonen Jump's digital magazine!
@@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 I see what you're saying now. I did some digging and I think One Punch Man is a unique case From what I've read the ENGLISH version of OPM is published by Shonen Jump, but the JAPANESE version is Tonari No Young Jump, which IS seinen. It has series like Kaguya-Sama which is seinen I think technically you are correct and it IS a seinen, but the wording online is weird because in English it's listed as a shonen
