I was wondering if anyone had tried (succeded)to acctually write a manga, I am currently in the early stages of writing one with a friend, WE havent got any of the names or title etc. But we do have a vague storyline.
If anyone is interested it's basically about a terminally ill teenage girl who is slowly dying.
So discuss writing ,or trying, to wrie a manga.

I have tried to make a manga once.
Sadly, it didn't go too well. (pretty sad since I never even got done two chapters.)
Just remember, make a screenplay first. It's better since you know how everything is going to start out. I sadly, just drew with the pictures and wrote in the word bubbles later. (huge mistake.) I wish best of luck if you are doing it though. ^_^.

Thanks Takuto
The friend Im writing it with is soo smart
with anime, She said that there should be 5 main
plot points for a good anime
Comedy, Romance, Illness, Death And an ultimate goal,
Which is what we are basing ours on anyway x

That's good. ^_^.
In college when I majored in art, we went to Japan and got to meet with a mangaka. (pretty interesting.) She said one of the key factors of making a manga is relating to your audience. Make sure you can classify which area you want your manga to be under. (ex. Shoujo, Shonen, Yaoi, etc.) Just have fun with it. ^_^. It's best if you can relate the characters to yourself since you know exactly how they feel.

I'm working on for a web comic, I suggest going to the library for some reference books on how to do a manga and look at some that people have done like Peach Fuzz, My cat Loki, and many others as well

I like the drawing part. :lol:
Actually, I've never really tried to write one.. I have bad story ideas, and I need to practice more on drawing before I start anything else. ><;

I have. :). But not for publication, though- I use so many Photoshop brushes, and scanned tones that I couldn't sell it. XD. Besides, I'm not making it for money- just for self gratification. Just to say that I did. And just to get a particular story out of my head. :). Anyway.. it's not very easy. Lineart takes forever to clean up on the computer- and toning isn't much easier. :(. But it is fun, and rewarding. I always love it when I see that I have more people reading my comic. :).

my riend and i started one but my being at college away from her has hindered this process...see we're a team i'm the story line she's the artist but i have visions for the artwork too so its hard cause now we cant work on it in art class anymore or in the fine arts hallway at our old highschool....*Pout*....but i'm sure eventually it'll get finished.

@Takouro Oni - my anime club was thinking of writting a manga for several years. We actually got to planning and a little bit beyond once. But, if you haven't already, draw out rough sketches of each box on notecard size pieces of paper. Basically - the space where character would be, no face on it, a speach bubble if it is a talking sceen, mabye a piece of background stuff. Or if it is landscape, the same. Write in "sounds" too. Then once you are ready draw a nice copy on the size paper you'll use.

It could be helpful since many of the manga's I've read have a few boxes that look almost the exact same... scattered through the entire series of course.

Good luck to you and your friend with writing it!

@[email protected];; I'm a horrible person. Really. I always think up a great idea (but never fully develop it) and then I draw like...maybe the first seven pages.

But then I get distracted by yet another idea. And I go onto that manga, leaving the previous ones unfinished. D:

This is why I have around six mangas I'm currently working on, at the same time. @[email protected];;

You know what I need? I need someone to write the entire story, and I'll just draw it. xD;;; Lulz.

i have a couple ideas that i know i would be able to better express through manga than in a novel, but besides writing up plot and drawing up characters i don't have time....that and i'm kinda bad with drawing guys and since half my characters (of like twenty) is men it's kinda a problem.

my fav. story was about these warring factions (i know i know so original), anyway ... each has a different number of people and each faction has their own distinctions and each person has a specialty depending on that distinction. They are all a kind of pyschic skill. The tittle is "Stiches" because three factions are each lacking a 'sense' respecitvely (one has no sight, no hearing, no voice lol get it? Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil? lol lame yeah b w/e). Anyway each person has something covering the missing sense (thats where pyschic abilities come in)-- you find out later (although its not a spoiler really) is that they aren't alive (thus why they can live with covering their mouths etc.) they are recycled souls stuffed into substitute bodies- hollow bodies (no organs or anything, but they do bleed- it's complicated) anyway each soul is literally being held in by nothing but stichtes- thus the name. that's some of the basics and i have a ton more lol--- oh and most the story focuses on the voice less faction.

@Tsubasa Rose: Ugh! I know what you mean. In my manga that I want to start now for fun. (I have nothing better to do.) Three of my characters are children. (I hate drawing children. They are so annnoying. xD.)

yeah, character design is a pain, especially when you have to do all the different face designs and the different views of a character.

xD;; I actually rather like character design. It's fun.

I can never really draw the exact same person more than once, so I think I'd fail miserably. xD It seems like a lot of work to lay everything out.

@Takuto

yeah i agree kids are kinda hard. the younger they are the more trouble i have lol. it's funny that i kind of stink at drawing kids but when isketch i usually do kids clothes lol

My problem is that I still can't draw very well. lol I love doing character design and I can do heads okay for the most part. I'm still learning, though, and just made a major breakthrough with shoulders. :) I think so many wonderful ideas get lost because people (ME lol) just don't have the time/patience/skill to complete them.

But yeah, I've got stories that I've been working on for years. I hope all of you who are working on your own stuff are enjoying it!

I'm still starting to make one.
I have lots of ideas on how my story will be. But in order to create a manga I have to be good at drawing too.
I bought lots of guide books that teaches you on how to come up with a good and original story for my manga.

my problem is that I can't find any books on how to drw a manga only how to draw manga style, and that's not that much of a problem anymore

I have like these ideas in my head and I really want to make a manga since that's what i want my future job to be mangaka, which is gonna be pretty though since I'm not japanese. But I'm determined of going to japan and become a mangaka ((yes I'm crazy but i don't really care lol))

Craziness is a talent in an artist. ^-^ It makes for very refreshing art, that's for sure.

In any case, I wish I could give you advice, but I'm a fairly crappy drawer, myself. I have one book that might serve as a nice reference; "Anime Manio, how to draw characters for Japanese animation" by Christopher Hart. He has more of these kinds of books, but that particular one does talk about perspective and character placement and such.

Due to my lack of actual -skills- when it comes to drawing, I've always been on the writing end. Not that any of my scripts has actually been made into a comic or manga. My brother-in-law did art school and once asked me to come up with a story for a comic. I came up with the superhero Knickersman and his enemy Dr. Smellypants. Yes, silly, but it was quite amusing. Sadly my brother-in-law and I don't really get along when it comes to our thoughts on Knickersman, so yeah.
A little while ago I started writing the script for a manga called Dying World. It's post-apocaliptic, where a mechanic called Frederik tries to get back the knowledge of the past by figuring out the workings of things like a microwaveoven or a coffee maker. Not that I have anyone to actually -draw- it for me, but it's sort of practice for me, since I want to be a published author.

In any case - let me know if that book helped in anyway, if you can find it. I'd suggest sending you my copy, but it's in Dutch, so that's pretty a much a no-go.

:reads back: Wow... and sorry for the long post. XD

There seems to be many manga books on "how to draw" it. However, there seems to be a huge lack in how to make a manga. You can be the best artist ever, however, if you cannot do paneling then it seems to be a bit wasteless all in general. I would love to make one now, however it seems as though I keep on changing my style. It's not good to read a book when you suddenly start to see gradual improvements by the last chapter compared to the first. xD. (just like the Fruits Basket Mangas.) I still try to do it for fun though. It occupies a lot of time though! :D.

Well, I don't know. I agree with you on Fruits Basket, though - the last volume was made with such skill in comparison to the first one. But I think it's nice to see an artist and his art evolve with the story.

Or at least, that's how I feel.

Yeah i really like to see the characters and the artist improve.

My dream at the moment is going to a japanese artschool the give lessons in manga there and how to meke them attractive and such. And I'm working hard to make that dream come true :]

My boyfriend and some of his friends have tried to start mangas, but that is all the further they have gotten.
They can never seem to get them going or actually put down their ideas onto paper.
I think my boyfriend is a really good artist, but he lacks confidence, even though I have told him he was really good. He is also a really good author.
I am good at coming up with story plots. Maybe one day we will make a manga together.

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bt my friend is writing a comic that i hope will some day be published :]