I read through the entirety of Hirohiko Araki's MANGA IN THEORY AND PRACTICE and I took notes on the important details...

Nah, all the best manga keep this shit to an absolute minimum. What's a manga that does this stuff a lot and is still even decent? Especially the blundering, that's pure cancer

>Never include these in your story
>Coincidences
This seems like a misunderstanding as to what a coincidence is. Jotaro Kujo running into a student that lives nearby him who has a similar power to him and also is an enemy that is working for the vampire whose existence is currently threatening the life of your mother shortly after your grandfather came to break you out of prison and explain said powers and circumstances to you is the BIGGEST fucking coincidence in the world.

However it's a coincidence that has to happen in order for the main plot to move along. So long as it has to happen I think coincidences are perfectly fine.

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Nice, thank you. But that only makes me want to read it.
This also might be more fitting for the manga thread on /ic/.

Cool.
Now tell me where I can upload my webcomic/-manga?

It's also one that the author sets up as an element of the story, with the whole 'Stand users gravitate towards one another'
It's a throwaway bullshit reason, but it's enough to maintain the illusion and keeps up with the theme of fate

He says he plans characters in-depth before writing the plot, then just wings it with the story on an issue-by-issue basis

I'm fairly certain that Araki's saying "coincidences" mean asspulls, since Japan probably has a different word for it.

Here's in-depth what he meant, these two bits are next to one another

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speak of the fucking devil, I was right

Yeah that wasn't in depth.

What does he mean by Royal Road, I see it in Jap comments a lot

>He says he plans characters in-depth before writing the plot, then just wings it with the story on an issue-by-issue basis
I think that's pretty much the best you can do while also having a very rough outline of the greater goal the heroes have to achieve while having to deliver a chapter every single fucking week.

Thank you very much user. I'll go through the notes carefully and read the actual book when I have more time

Roal Road is like Road Roller but Royal.

>readers want to read success stories

tell that to the masochists who read all of Punpun

Is it on ex?

it's the "way to go"

As he mentions, the royal road = the road to long-term success as an author; though one that you should steer away from at times, if you want to create something truly extraordinary

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tldr Araki literally explains "You need to learn all the rules before you can break them"

The Royal Road (王道) is a Confucian idea that sets up an example of how a ruler should behave to maintain their standing - think Machiavelli, but written by Mencius during the Warring States
It also, funnily enough, means 'gay sex' or 'fag Koreans' in internet Chinese

Is a story of helplessness, is the triumph of the conditions overpowering the drive, Pun Pun sought to be someone else somewhere else, but at the end he succumbs to himself a lacking man, reckless, stupid and overly sentimental that ends up bound to a seemingly normal life that is anything but, some may choose to see Pun Pun as a content man, but he is castrated and shackled not only by a sad reality that is anything but a happy story, also by his past and himself, he may forget memories, but even then his past and feelings will never let go. The dead of Ako as a human being is not the dead end, but the dead of her memory means the end if Pun Pun, his ideals, his dreams and his future, as he only lives as a husk, the success of failure. What is truly terrible is a wishy washy story.

at this point any new reader is pretty much aware what they're getting themselves into when they read punpun. Personally, if someone asked me if I was willing to devote hours of my time reading the life of a miserable asshole being surrounded by miserable people and that's the entire story, I would say no. Punpun makes for an interesting character study but it is in no fucking way a "story" that people should recommend if someone asked to be entertained.