I will surpass Oda

Monkey D Theories

Monkey D Theories

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So the current project I'm working on is this One Piece inspired story about a one armed pirate. Is it a fanfic of OP with Kid as the MC? Not really, although that is where I got the whole 1 armed pirate thing from.

I think more than OP, I feel really inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire and berserk. I want to write a story in a fantasy-like setting, but I want the main focus of the story to be on the characters and their journey, rather than getting caught up in the fantasy and the lore like I feel OP kinda tends to do.
I want the pirates in my story to be real pirates, not like in OP, where Luffy is basically just a sailor who calls himself a pirate. I guess in that way its kind of a mafia story.
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The MC, Tal, is the illegitimate son of an infamous pirate and a noble. He was also born without an arm. After getting kicked out of his house at 16, he finds himself in a world that seemingly has no place for him. Because of the situation of his birth, his family wants nothing to do with him and because he is disabled, he gets rejected from most jobs he applies to.
Until eventually, he runs across a charismatic pirate who offers him a place on board his ship.

The story his about how he grows from a simple apprentice, to being the captain of his ship, and ultimately, the lord of the island he was born in.
 
Franosuke

Franosuke

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#42
#42
Monkey D Theories said:
So the current project I'm working on is this One Piece inspired story about a one armed pirate. Is it a fanfic of OP with Kid as the MC? Not really, although that is where I got the whole 1 armed pirate thing from.

I think more than OP, I feel really inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire and berserk. I want to write a story in a fantasy-like setting, but I want the main focus of the story to be on the characters and their journey, rather than getting caught up in the fantasy and the lore like I feel OP kinda tends to do.
I want the pirates in my story to be real pirates, not like in OP, where Luffy is basically just a sailor who calls himself a pirate. I guess in that way its kind of a mafia story.
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The MC, Tal, is the illegitimate son of an infamous pirate and a noble. He was also born without an arm. After getting kicked out of his house at 16, he finds himself in a world that seemingly has no place for him. Because of the situation of his birth, his family wants nothing to do with him and because he is disabled, he gets rejected from most jobs he applies to.
Until eventually, he runs across a charismatic pirate who offers him a place on board his ship.

The story his about how he grows from a simple apprentice, to being the captain of his ship, and ultimately, the lord of the island he was born in.
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The MC sounds like a fusion between Kid and Jon Snow, dope
 
uyuu

uyuu

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#43
Monkey D Theories said:
So the current project I'm working on is this One Piece inspired story about a one armed pirate. Is it a fanfic of OP with Kid as the MC? Not really, although that is where I got the whole 1 armed pirate thing from.

I think more than OP, I feel really inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire and berserk. I want to write a story in a fantasy-like setting, but I want the main focus of the story to be on the characters and their journey, rather than getting caught up in the fantasy and the lore like I feel OP kinda tends to do.
I want the pirates in my story to be real pirates, not like in OP, where Luffy is basically just a sailor who calls himself a pirate. I guess in that way its kind of a mafia story.
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The MC, Tal, is the illegitimate son of an infamous pirate and a noble. He was also born without an arm. After getting kicked out of his house at 16, he finds himself in a world that seemingly has no place for him. Because of the situation of his birth, his family wants nothing to do with him and because he is disabled, he gets rejected from most jobs he applies to.
Until eventually, he runs across a charismatic pirate who offers him a place on board his ship.

The story his about how he grows from a simple apprentice, to being the captain of his ship, and ultimately, the lord of the island he was born in.
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Can you upload the chapter or page of your writing somewhere?
 
Monkey D Theories

Monkey D Theories

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uyuu said:
No i mean maybe just some examples of your writing, even if it's 2-3 pages or stuff
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Honestly, I think I might have a short chapter out in a couple weeks. I'll keep y'all updated.
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update:

I'm still writing/drawing my comic. Its hard tho, because I need to focus on school, which means I can at most create one decent concept art a week. Once I have enough concept arts to where I feel comfortable, I'll probably put out a chapter 1.

I'm not doing a shitty pirate manga anymore tho. One Piece is mid and I don't feel the need to create anything even remotely resembling it anymore. The thing I've been really working on the past few months is this superhero story. I'm really passionate about it, so I hope I get at least decent recognition when I publish.
 
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Monkey D Theories

Monkey D Theories

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Orojackson Refugee said:
So, have you surpassed Oda yet? @Monkey D Theories :suresure:
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not yet, but I’m doing a lot better than I was when I originally made this post, so I’d like to think I’m closer to that
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I think actually being a mangaka isn’t probably a good job tbh. They seem like they are over exploited by the industry.

Basically needing to bust their ass just to get featured and once that happens, they need to fight just to keep their stories going.

If they can’t do that, then their series gets killed off by the magazine and their work was for nothing.
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Oda is really good at his job. He found the perfect formula for mastering serialization and he is skilled enough to pull it off effectively.

OP has its flaws. But tbh, the flaws in Oda’s writing can largely be attributed to the magazine. I mean how good of a story can you seriously write if you are on a weekly schedule?
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I think the new angle to my dream. One that I think might suit my skills better and would probably be more profitable, is to start a comic company one day.

While I doubt I could rival the giants of DC or Marvel, perhaps I could create a company that could rival image comics. Or some of the less popular Japanese mags like kodansha. Idk.
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Honestly tho I feel like I’ve kinda put career stuff on hold for now. Like I got a decent job as an engineer, but I just don’t feel like focusing too much on career development at the moment.

I’m 24 at the moment. I really want to have a girlfriend and be looking towards getting married by the time I’m 30. And I’d really like for whomever I end up with to be a high quality individual. Someone I’d really be proud to be married to.

So I feel like that’s my next immediate goal. Which is kinda why I really want to work on improving my physical health and meeting more people at the moment. And I think I’ve been decently successful at that.

I think once I accomplish that goal, perhaps then I’ll seriously start thinking about creating the company. That way I could have a way to send my kids to school and retire comfortably lol.
 
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Blax Blah

Blax Blah

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#49
Awesome =],
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Monkey D Theories said:
not yet, but I’m doing a lot better than I was when I originally made this post, so I’d like to think I’m closer to that
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I think actually being a mangaka isn’t probably a good job tbh. They seem like they are over exploited by the industry.

Basically needing to bust their ass just to get featured and once that happens, they need to fight just to keep their stories going.

If they can’t do that, then their series gets killed off by the magazine and their work was for nothing.
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Oda is really good at his job. He found the perfect formula for mastering serialization and he is skilled enough to pull it off effectively.

OP has its flaws. But tbh, the flaws in Oda’s writing can largely be attributed to the magazine. I mean how good of a story can you seriously write if you are on a weekly schedule?
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I think the new angle to my dream. One that I think might suit my skills better and would probably be more profitable, is to start a comic company one day.

While I doubt I could rival the giants of DC or Marvel, perhaps I could create a company that could rival image comics. Or some of the less popular Japanese mags like kodansha. Idk.
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Honestly tho I feel like I’ve kinda put career stuff on hold for now. Like I got a decent job as an engineer, but I just don’t feel like focusing too much on career development at the moment.

I’m 24 at the moment. I really want to have a girlfriend and be looking towards getting married by the time I’m 30. And I’d really like for whomever I end up with to be a high quality individual. Someone I’d really be proud to be married to.

So I feel like that’s my next immediate goal. Which is kinda why I really want to work on improving my physical health and meeting more people at the moment. And I think I’ve been decently successful at that.

I think once I accomplish that goal, perhaps then I’ll seriously start thinking about creating the company. That way I could have a way to send my kids to school and retire comfortably lol.
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If the story is good you will get a lot of support and be able to make it on your own terms,
 
Brush D. Teeth

Brush D. Teeth

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Monkey D Theories said:
not yet, but I’m doing a lot better than I was when I originally made this post, so I’d like to think I’m closer to that
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I think actually being a mangaka isn’t probably a good job tbh. They seem like they are over exploited by the industry.

Basically needing to bust their ass just to get featured and once that happens, they need to fight just to keep their stories going.

If they can’t do that, then their series gets killed off by the magazine and their work was for nothing.
Post automatically merged:

Oda is really good at his job. He found the perfect formula for mastering serialization and he is skilled enough to pull it off effectively.

OP has its flaws. But tbh, the flaws in Oda’s writing can largely be attributed to the magazine. I mean how good of a story can you seriously write if you are on a weekly schedule?
Post automatically merged:

I think the new angle to my dream. One that I think might suit my skills better and would probably be more profitable, is to start a comic company one day.

While I doubt I could rival the giants of DC or Marvel, perhaps I could create a company that could rival image comics. Or some of the less popular Japanese mags like kodansha. Idk.
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Honestly tho I feel like I’ve kinda put career stuff on hold for now. Like I got a decent job as an engineer, but I just don’t feel like focusing too much on career development at the moment.

I’m 24 at the moment. I really want to have a girlfriend and be looking towards getting married by the time I’m 30. And I’d really like for whomever I end up with to be a high quality individual. Someone I’d really be proud to be married to.

So I feel like that’s my next immediate goal. Which is kinda why I really want to work on improving my physical health and meeting more people at the moment. And I think I’ve been decently successful at that.

I think once I accomplish that goal, perhaps then I’ll seriously start thinking about creating the company. That way I could have a way to send my kids to school and retire comfortably lol.
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Congrats for landing a degree and a good job so young, that's pretty amazing. You can definitely do it when it comes to starting a family, just don't fall for someone who is trashy or abusive.
 
Bullet

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Let's say i had a couple of concept ideas in head for different stories. How does one go about expanding and sharing them?
I certainly don't think i have the writing abilities to creat the "atmosphere" and the cool dialogue but i think the ideas and the characters aren't too bad.
Should i just say fuck it and share them online with obvious writing problems?
 
Orojackson Refugee

Orojackson Refugee

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Bullet said:
Let's say i had a couple of concept ideas in head for different stories. How does one go about expanding and sharing them?
I certainly don't think i have the writing abilities to creat the "atmosphere" and the cool dialogue but i think the ideas and the characters aren't too bad.
Should i just say fuck it and share them online with obvious writing problems?
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yes you should share it, so we all can share a laugh at you
 
Owl Ki

Owl Ki

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Bullet said:
Let's say i had a couple of concept ideas in head for different stories. How does one go about expanding and sharing them?
I certainly don't think i have the writing abilities to creat the "atmosphere" and the cool dialogue but i think the ideas and the characters aren't too bad.
Should i just say fuck it and share them online with obvious writing problems?
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I saw a book a couple years back called Prophet Song win some Irish literary award and that book had primary school level punctuation and some hilariously bad analogies.

Whatever writing problems you might have, you're probably overthinking them. Most of the general public will either ignore or not notice writing problems as long as they don't interfere with the entertainment value of the work.

You could share your ideas with people you trust first and see if you can get some constructive feedback from them. Even if they're not writing types themselves, they can still give feedback as a consumer.
 
BoaHancocksHusband

BoaHancocksHusband

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Monkey D Theories said:


Listen up weebs, I've had enough

I'm tired of this manga and its awful writing, so I'm going to create my own. I'm going to create a manga much better in quality than One Piece, then I shall become King of the mangaka.

My art and writing are mediocre, and I'm already 21, which I guess means that I am the Eustass "Captain" Kid of my own story. But I'm cool with that. More than anything I aspire to create art for art's sake.

Anyways just thought I'd formally declare my ambitions. I'll edit in some concept art and maybe even a oneshot whenever that gets done.
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I surpassed Oda with Saran-Sama VERSUS manga in 2010. Oda has been shook since he saw the Oro vs Saran Sama ending battle.
 
Bullet

Bullet

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Owl Ki said:
I saw a book a couple years back called Prophet Song win some Irish literary award and that book had primary school level punctuation and some hilariously bad analogies.

Whatever writing problems you might have, you're probably overthinking them. Most of the general public will either ignore or not notice writing problems as long as they don't interfere with the entertainment value of the work.

You could share your ideas with people you trust first and see if you can get some constructive feedback from them. Even if they're not writing types themselves, they can still give feedback as a consumer.
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Thanks for the encouragement.
I've been thinking about different stories for years now. Didn't write much. Just thought about them and changed stuff in my head. Most of them were created simply to not make me jump out of the chemistry class window out of boredom during school and to have my mind be occupied while the teacher rambled.
I only recently decided to write down a synopsis so i don't forget any of it. Just the big events, main characters and what the story is about.
It's gonna take a long time for me to sit down, figure out the details, write the dialogues, come up with the character backstories etc..
None of my characters are named even.
I definitely want to publish something one day so i guess i'll keep working on it and see what happens. I might be lazy and grab a pen once in a century but i'll try to finish atleast the short story i had in mind and see what i can do with it.
Maybe i'll post it on a writing forum or something, if they exist, once i'm further along for some feedback.
 
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