Manga Ring Project A story fer M2A Manga ring

We decided to create a manga at the art/design section; this is the thread. However we haven't decided on a theme or a specific story.
It's preferable that we use a short story for our first shot. What are some ideas, themes, setting etc. that are suitable for a short story?

examples: Feudal japan, High school, etc?

 

aaaaaannnnnnd here we go again because I'm a dummy, and Skuld forgot to mention it. ( although it's quite figure outable. Outable is now a word, so be quiet BakaMattSu.)

Anyway. I've set it in present day Japan so far. Who knows where it will travel later on in the story. here tis'.

The wind blew, ruffling Minato’s light brown hair, and causing him to turn his chin down to his chest to protect his eyes from the breeze. Some shops and restaurants were closing up for the night as he walked past, and people strolled or hurried by him on the way to their separate destinations. He could smell the scents of varied food, and his stomach rumbled. He really hoped his Mother would have some form of food for him when he got home. He was starving.
Suddenly, there was a large gust of wind and some papers flew up into Minato’s face. He dropped his book bag and struggled with them for a minute. After he got them out of his face, he bent down to see what they were.
There were some newspapers, all torn up and dirty. He squinted at them for a minute and tossed them over his shoulder. The next thing he picked up was a yellow ticket. The words “Drunken Dragon’s Flaming Wok” were written on it. He wrinkled his nose.
“I’ve never heard of this restaurant.” He said to himself. “I wonder…” He shrugged and stuffed the ticket in his uniform pocket. Maybe it would come in handy later. He grinned. He could take Satomi out to dinner for free or something. Even better. He got an image of Satomi hanging lovingly off his tuxedo-clad arm as they walked into a ritzy restaurant. He smiled stupidly. And ran into the nearest telephone pole.
He groaned, and then scrambled upright, desperately hoping no one had seen him.
Picking his fallen book bag up from the sidewalk, he took to his heels and beat it home, the same shade of red as his Mother’s favorite apron.
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Minato trudged up the stairs, his stomach full to bursting with the sukiyaki his Mother'd had waiting for him when he’d finally reached home, sweating like a pig from all the running he’d done.
“Bed…” He mumbled.
He tore his uniform off and threw it on the floor. The yellow ticket from earlier fluttered out of his pocket and landed softly on the floor. He picked it up and studied it for a minute. There was something strange about it. He shook his head.
He thought, rolling his eyes at himself, ‘It’s just a ticket Minato, get a hold of yourself.’
Anyway, he had to go to bed now, or he’d probably fall asleep in class again tomorrow. Either that, or Satomi would make fun of him for looking like a zombie. Then she’d smile her cute little smile, and tilt her head just the way he liked…
He tripped over his desk chair and landed flat on his face.
“Mmmfph.” He said into the carpet. He struggled onto his feet and climbed into bed, thankful no one had been here to witness that bout of stupidity. He really needed some form of klutz control. Satomi would disown him. He smiled. Mmmm Satomi. He fell asleep to the shining image of her face. Those brown eyes, her shining black hair, that cute smile…
There was a darkness. Minato blinked in confusion. Where did Satomi go? He heard a set of solitary footsteps getting closer. Suddenly, they stopped. He couldn’t see a blasted thing, what was going on?
He felt a large invisible hand latch onto his shoulder and shove him down to the ground. It held him captive there, and as he watched a giant pair of golden eyes appeared in the darkness before him. A deep voice resounded into the silence.
“Minato (insert last name here), I have come for you.”
Minato shook his head. He tried to get free of the invisible hold on him, but to no avail.
He spoke back to the voice that seemed to belong to the enormous eyes in front of him.
“What do you want from me? What do you mean you’ve come for me? I don’t understand…”
The eyes narrowed, and then seemed to brighten.
“You found the ticket, didn’t you?” The voice demanded. “That means you’re the Chosen One. For the next six months, I own you.”
Minato sputtered at this. Own him? This was the weirdest dream in history.
The voice continued on, sounding like the most reasonable being on earth.
“It’ll only be from say…twelve to six everyday, how about that? That way you can have all the evenings to yourself. I’ll just take over your body then.” The eyes squinted in thought, and then widened again happily. “What do you say?”
The voice seemed to think this was a wonderful idea. Minato, on the other hand, having been held captive against his will and told he was to be owned from twelve to six every day for the next six months, was not happy.
“No! What do I look like, your slave? I won’t let some weird creepy eye guy take over my body for the next six months. You’re nuts. Now let me go or I’ll…” He stopped in mid-sentence. This was a dream. Why was he arguing? He may as well be arguing with himself for goodness’ sake.
‘Forget it,’ he thought, ‘ I’ll just close my eyes, and go back to NORMAL la-la land, and forget this ever happened.’
So he closed his eyes. And he opened them again to the bright sunlight shining in through his window, and the sound of his alarm clock going off.
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Well guys, that’s all I have so far, I don’t really want to go any farther without consent, or criticism, etc. So, tell me what you think.
~k0ge~

 

sorry about that k0gepAn_LuFF3r :dizzy2:
Ahem...*stops the dizzy/embarrassed/baka mod and changes to normal*

I like your style in writing, so interesting! ^_^
So in your version of the story, it's the ticket that causes Minato to be possessed by the demon. Hmm. I think it's better for Minato to go to the Buffet and eat the cursed food which allows the Demon to take over Minato's body. Oh and maybe we can play with the plot so that Minato has to go to the Chinese Restaurant alone without his Girlfriend "Satomi"
Maybe a little pinch of Humour with make the story more interesting.

I like the Romantic part of your story where he thinks of his girl! Maybe we can shock the audience to reveal the other side of Satomi. She is not as gentle as we can see her in Minato's point of view

 

Hmm it has potential so far... I like.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAA! *rolls on floor*

its a really great story so far k0ge, but this section of the story is utterly ridiculous *giggles* somehow i just cant picture a gold-eyed demon in a dream acting like a salesman of sorts

but where does it go from there? the suspense!! ACK!! :dizzy2:

oh, and skuld - do we all get "mangaka" taglines? ^_^

 

Are you kidding? The very idea of selling ones soul would indicate some form of business negotiation skill.

 

um, your losing me here Neph. i dont see what a body-snatching demon has in common with business negotiation skills...
as far as my knowledge of such things goes, demons tend to take, not bargain.

but im open, as always to suggestions. i just dont see it myself :bleed:

 

Well, theres brute force demons, and there's negotiators. If demons could just yoink souls at will, it wouldnt make a very interesting mythology. Presumably, the bargaining is because its easier to take something given than to take something protected.

 

::thumbs up::

works for me. still, i think perhaps he could sound a bit more of an aggressive businessdemon than he currently does.

 

Well, the negotiating bit was put in there for humor, tbh. I thought it would be funny if we put him in as more of a mischievious demon than an evil one. Or we could have it so that he's trying really hard to be evil, but can't quite pull it off. Um, lesseee......another thing, I think I'll go with Skuld on it that it should be changed that he eats the food to get cursed. I did try to make it funny, maybe you're not seeing it cuz I suck at that aspect or something lol, someone HELP. erm, lessee....well, the thing is, we haven't met Satomi yet right? With Minato, I was thinking of having it that he thinks she's absolutely perfect in every aspect, when he's just blinded by her looks and charm. She's really a loud mouthed, fast talking possessive girlfriend who totally has him whipped. But he's in love, what can I say? And everytime he thinks of her he falls on his face. I was thinking he's not the type of guy who handles anything sexual well either, and he always hurts himself when anything even indirectly involved with it is mentioned. Uhhhh, and the dream ended that way because I want it to be that he thinks it was just some silly dream and it ended that way because it WAS a dream, when in reality the demon took the fact that he closed his eyes and didn't talk, as assent, and so the nightmare begins. ne? hehe.

 

Oi! Quit getting off subject! ^.^;; j/k. Um, so far, that seems great! I'll be back with my draft...I swear! I have a day off tomorrow!

 

lol, great job k0ge, doing great as always. Um, sorry if i 'ven't post a story yet, haven't had time but i'll try to make one as fast as possible!

 

I hope you get those finished as soon as possible !
Writers keep us informed of your progress in your versions of the story, so that we know you guys are still with us !

 

Still alive! ^_^ I'm working on the story, and hopefully I will have a night without interruptions soon. Hopefully tonight.

 

All I can say! GO writers Go! We need a story. :sweat:

 

^_^ Okay this is a dead post. We want to start the project, but we can't unless we have a story since it's the foundation of a manga.
Please help me by answering these questions:

Manga team>Is everyone okay with Blue Crows idea?
Writers>As writers would everyone would like to team up and write episodes or would you prefer that we depend on solo writers?
Who is still interested in writing the story? Anyone would like to stay or withdraw his position? Speak?
Would you like to meet at a certain time at the M2A chat room? is 27th of June 2003 at 7:00 GMT reasonable? If not dicuss here the suitable time. Please cooperate :sweat:

Incase you are wondering about the BLue Crows idea: here

and there were some suggestions:

 

I think that dividing the story into episodes is an excellent idea. I've been having a heck of a time deciding what to put in and not put in in the story. With episodes, and teams, this would be a lot easier.

 

I am still interested in writing.I think the episode idea is great.All the writers could determine how the story is going to progress,and have each of us write a rough draft of the chapter we're assigned.Then,we could compare them and make changes according to previous chapters.

 

These are the ppl who volenteered in writing the story.

Story Writers: k0gepAn_LuFF3r, _Teddz_, User18, Nephilim_X, Meaikoh_Takashi, Blue Crow, Bloodberry, UFOtaku

I've got a response from MT, Koge, and Blue Crow.
That makes 3/8 .

Anyone has more ideas? for the process and for the actual story please post. ^^

[edit] Okay I'll pm the rest of the writer to see if they are still interested. In the mean time, we must decide on the episodes. Who would like to write the first episode? etc..

To make it easier on you writers, if you desire we can make a small plot outline for each episode. What do you think?

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I think that's a good idea. Hm, I need to take my story and make a few improvements. I should have something by next week, I'm a bit busy with graduation activities right now. Keep on truckin guys.