Voting has ended, and the victor with 49 of the 141 total votes was the "story about an editor that has to review entries for a manga competition" concept. Now that the voting phase has ended and we have a solid idea to work with, we can proceed with writing the general outline of the one-shot.
>What is this? medibang.com/contest/jumptezuka100th/ Jump Tezuka Manga Contest is a bi-yearly contest in Japan where a bunch of famous mangaka judge submitted one-shots from junior authors. This time, because it's the 100th anniversary, they've opened it up to international submissions. The rules can be found in the link, but they're not complicated: No color, Japanese reading style, no fan works of other series, no posting commercial series, up to 55 pages of a complete finished one-shot and you're allowed 2 submissions per user.
A bunch of anons thought it would be fun to put together a collaborative submission from Zig Forums. So, let's do it! Remember to have fun and to not take this super seriously.
1. Vague outline of what the story is. Let's just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. >2. Characters: need a bit more than "cute girl", by the way. Preferably let's give them a gimmick or distinctive trait so we're not just making something completely generic. 3. Start to refine the beginning, ending and the meat in-between. Basically this is the phase with lots of "hey wait, x doesn't make any sense, what if y instead".
Zig Forumsnons don't care about creating content, they just like to shitpost
Jacob Lewis
A few ideias about how It could begin:
A) Editor starts reading the entries and realizes that one of the stories was written by someone from his/her past, maybe a high school crush or someone that he/her hated.
B) Editor hates all the entries and decides to write and draw one him/herself.
C) Editor loves one of the entries and wants it to win, even breaking the rules by trying to help The amateur.
Nolan Martinez
C) Editor loves one of the entries and wants it to win, even breaking the rules by trying to help The amateur.
Except make the mangaka behind the entry a cute tomboy girl that the editor falls in love with it.
Leo Jenkins
Okay, I guess I'll try get the ball rolling a bit then.
Set-up: >To celebrate the 50th year the magazine has been running, the editor-in-chief green-lit an international one-shot competition to scout international talent >International entries will be translated then screened by an editorial team before being read and scored by the panel of judges, a collection of famous mangaka >MC is put in charge of a team of junior editors (Tomboy, OL-chan and ikeman-kun) >all their regular editorial duties continue as usual, they just have the additional burden of screening the competition entries, so they become overworked Characters: >MC, a senior editor at Wonky Shounen Jack. Our sunglasses-wearing afro MC. He's jaded and tired, but deep-down there's still his love for manga that persists from back when he was young and trying to become a mangaka himself >Tomboy, a junior editor on competition screening team and an editor for a relatively new, promising series >OL-chan, a junior editor on the competition screening team and editor for the two romcom manga currently running in the magazine >ikeman-kun, a junior editor on the competition screening team, an editor in charge of a couple of gag manga, despite his serious demeanor he has quite an eye for good comedy
doesn't jump have problem with older characters as MCs? I think OL-chan would be more appealing as protagonist. And the editor as something of a bit more comedic mentor type character.
Kayden Davis
For a one-shot? I don't think it'll be a problem. Let's just try to make something interesting without trying to appeal perfectly to "jump's taste".
Also sort of thinking along the lines that greentext from user in the first thread...
>Early on in the one-shot MC has a meeting with a young mangaka telling him his story "has heart, but simply is too rough and unpolished" to run in their magazine. >Later on one of the junior editors tells MC that that mangaka was accepted by another magazine and that the first volume of his manga is selling like hot-cakes >MC remembers his past as a hopeful mangaka, and remembers feeling that his passion for his work would show through if only a magazine would take him
Maybe not exactly this but I think establishing a clear character arc for our MC to have important, since there are no real stakes for our characters the best bet would be for there to be some kind of internal conflict and revelation.
>gintama >toriko >undead unluck >mitama Hell even fucking LUFFY is an adult.
Dylan Gutierrez
>since there are no real stakes for our characters the best bet would be for there to be some kind of internal conflict and revelation Agree on this, we should be deliberate in our choice and ordering of the entries that he reviews, since the thrust of the story will probably come from the way that each of them affects him in turn.
Juan Morgan
Ok ok, so how about this: It begins with a flashback, MC being bullied (because of his afro), making fun of him because he is reading a manga. Bully destroys it, they start fighting, his 2 otaku friends are too scared to help. >Tomboyish/cute Girl saves him >She likes to draw and is an otaku (hides it from others) >MC and friends create a club (she quits sports and joins this one) >They graduate, but promise to become succesful mangakas >He doesn't confess to her Flashforward >EDITOOOOOR-SAAAAAAN!!! And that's when happens
Justin King
>It begins with a flashback This isn't the sort of thing you open a story with. I think it works better if inserted somewhere later on, after you get to know the characters already.
Josiah Carter
Hmmm how about something like, a meeting, with the boss explaining to the editors the competition, and MC arriving late because he overslept?
Luke Martinez
Given that this seems to be mainly gag-driven, I personally think it'd be more effective to work out the kinds of entries that get included, before fleshing out the characters around them (i.e. in the ways that they react to each of the entries), and only figuring out how to set up the context at the very end when the direction of the plot is clear. But I'll defer to the rest of Zig Forums on this.
I think something like... Starting with the hool, the manga competition, so something like Then a small explanation/showing of what regular duties are, perhaps including a meeting with mangaka Then show some of the competition stuff to show gags and time passing Then have a revelation or twist, ie "MC-san, did you hear that mangaka is selling very well in the other magazine?" [cue MC reading the first volume of his manga and being sad] Then wrap up the competition with the famous mangaka reviewing the competition winners, complete with something silly winning, and wrapping up our MC's arc with him quitting to make manga like he always wanted or something.
Didn't really analyze that to check if it fits kishotenketsu but I'll post it for others to refer to.
>Starting with the hool *hook Man I really need to proofread my posts more than not at all.
Sebastian Powell
I mean,is he wrong?
Owen Green
I think you can convey a lot by making it a bit meta Start off with another manga,maybe the worst idea proposed here Make the first few pages just that manga,then pan out to show that the editor is reading,making a coment about how the that was the worst entry yet or something like that That way you show that it will be about a character having to read manga for a contest And then you can either make a flashback of the meeting with the boss to tell him what he is going to be doing or just make him be called by the boss that wants to remind him how important this is
Alexander Gonzalez
Like a bait-and-switch? I could see that.
Jose Morales
I think mostly as a way to make the introduction more natural.A flashback seems like a cliche and tells us too much about the character,and this feels a bit random so having the progresion form a manga to the character comenting on it you can show a lot of the character in a few pages,the way he reacts to having to read digital manga or how he reacts to an entry with terrible art but redeming qualities.
Adam Gomez
Anyone remember Imouto Sae Ireba Ii?
Angel Price
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Caleb Robinson
I really like this idea, but maybe make it absolutely clear so people don't open the first page and instantly close it. Probably with a striking cover, or maybe "redlining" it (without colour)? I think we should give each of the characters some memorable non-visual quirk too.
Owen Scott
Not entirely. Hell, even Stone's MC is no longer a highschooler. He's an adult now.
