New Manga Needs Your Help

Sakura Sakamoto

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as some of you may remember i sent out some pms asking if you wanted to be mangarised the idea never took of so i'm trying again but this time i'm asking this question.
i'm doing a manga would you like to design a character for it. it will be a sci-fi fantasy type thing like a mix between between starwars and lotr with a dash of bleach, dbz and some other anime/mangas.
so if anyone is interested in sending me a character design you can pm me and i'll pm you back with the important details.

your character can be anything you like alien,robot,dragon,male,female or whatever.
but nothing silly like a 10 thousand armed robot with 10 hundred heads that 2 thousand feet tall.

p.s there as yet is no definate story it'll be built around the characters i receive.
 
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I want a very shy girl who can fix anything -- possibly a computer genius (like Ed of Cowboy Bebop) but I'm thinking more mechanical -- when the dilithium crystal breaks down, so to speak, she's the one who can jury-rig it... Or just when you try to go to warp, like in the original second Star Wars, and nothing happens, she's the one who crawls around inside the paneling with the screwdriver and fixes it. And then wonders why everyone else thinks it's a big deal that she did....
 
thanks dark star shes sounds a cool apart from being a girl did have a type of apperence in mind.
come on people please help great works of fiction don't write them selves.
 
I want a very shy girl who can fix anything [etc.]
Don't we all?



I'm going to have to go with a warrior-type person. Tall, slim, perfectly androgynous, long dark (almost metallic) blue hair that reaches to mid-back, slightly pale green eyes (i.e. not the dark green people throw around, something more subtle than that).

He (I'm going to call him "he" because it's easier) has an actual gender, but he enjoys breaking down people's perceptions of them, and occasionally dresses as full-on male or female to keep people wondering which he really is - although often he just stays to a neutral style. He's just as convincing either way around (hence the "perfectly androgynous"). He prefers to be referred to as "he"/"she" depending on his dressing mode at the time (either is fine for neutral).

Typical attire (the neutral look) is smart casual, but clothes that are equally easy to move in - he hates being restricted in any way (movement, philosophy, etc.). His outfits are usually based on one colour, using a few shades of one, and can wear green, blue, red and purple outfits (green being his favourite, as it complements his eyes - slightly pale, slightly washed out). He likes the flamboyant long coat thing, but only really wears it when he's not expecting to do any serious moving/fighting, as it would just get in his way.

He has a great sense of humour, but which is only really shown as him appreciating a good joke (his typical reaction is a smile - not a grin - more like admiration for the joke rather than a "lol" moment, and he very rarely actually laughs - a chuckle is only slightly less rare) and in making amusing comments (sometimes at inappropriate times, such as in a fight). He sees humour as more of an art form than a device to make people laugh, and appreciates and tells amusing comments rather like a critic would admire a painting (good or bad). He only infrequently says amusing things himself, but when he does he often gives a slight chuckle at it afterwards.

As fighting styles go, he can be known to dabble in some of the very many very different methods (which include whatever you like, but presumably will at the least be the Force, personal spiritual power, and magic, with possibly also metaforming (shapeshifting)). He mainly bases himself in personal spiritual power, though, and prefers not to get down and dirty with the fisticuffs. He has a number of defensive and offensive techniques (it's not all just ki blasts), including a couple of forms of Repel, arrow- and quarterstaff-based ki manipulations. He also has the Felni Faus Bimin Tterhys (fell-nih ff-OWW-ss bih-min terr-iss), a glaive staff that can form the user's ki into a blade (the more ki, the bigger the blade, but his is regular sized) - ki in general is nowhere near as all-destructive as Dragonball Z might claim, with most generic ki blasts being percussive only instead of destructive or explosive, whereas the Tterhys focuses it and turns it into a dangerous cutting entity.

He's rather keen on his appearance, and can spend some time fixing a bad hair day so his male/neutral/female guise for that day looks perfect. He owns a small range of beauty products, but is far from a make-up queen.

His life's philosophy is to do what you do, and do it as best and as hard as you can. And enjoy yourself, which means no stressing out over something. If trying too hard is making you feel bad, don't try so hard - being happy is more preferable than being perfect.

He may well be a little provocative/flirty with people, particularly new people, but this is very mainly only to prod people into questioning their opinions on gender (because while this world/galaxy is very liberal, it's very much a case of Not Everyone Is Bi, and gender-confusing people is fun to do, at least for this guy).

He blends in quite well with his friends, and although he may be a little quiet, he's far from the lone wolf/the strong silent distant type. He's very reasonable, rarely gets in any sort of mood/huff, and is immensely loyal to his friends (but y'know, don't put him in life-or-death scenarios every week to save someone just to prove it).

His name is An Kalsetti Shoryui, or An or Yui (nickname/by comrades) for short. "An" is his familiar name, purely a cultural thing and it's never recorded in official records; it's also highly impolite to refer to someone by their familiar name if that person hasn't allowed you to do so (and the name you'll always use if you're allowed to - it signifies that deep a bond and using it honours that bond). His regular "first name" is Kalsetti, and Yui is a nickname that some people may use (but certainly not everyone). He's no relation to Kelfen Shoryui, famous ki user dating from a hundred years ago, as he will patiently explain.



Did you get all that?
 
Don't we all?


:good: Well, I don't... I'm a hetero female -- I want Kaiba. Or Howl. Or Loki. Or Dean McCoppin. :evil:

...actually I'll just settle for Dean. Art from your junkyard, and good espresso... And Black hair and a goatee... Yum! ;)

But I'm glad my character makes you happy! :D

Back to business, I don't have anything specific in looks, except I can see her being a casual dresser for the most part -- t-shirt and jeans or some such. Besides, it would be so much fun to dress her up unexpectedly -- she might "clean up right well" as they say.

Maruno, for your character's eye color, what about a pale aquamarine perhaps?

Okay, for another character, that might or might not fit in here, I always wanted to invent a D&D female character who'd been a special ops hand-to-hand combat ultra fighter (I-can-kill-you-with-my-little-finger-type) who quit the military, gained weight (think Mama Cass Elliot), and became a peacenik based on her past experience -- only she can still kill you with her little finger if she really has to. I see her as this big fat happy hippie chick in tie-dye dresses and stuff....

She might make a good side character for, oh, when the main characters are "in town" so to speak -- she could run the local shop, or bar, or spaceport....
 
:good: Well, I don't... I'm a hetero female -- I want Kaiba. Or Howl. Or Loki. Or Dean McCoppin. :evil:
Who said anything about a sexual want? She can fix anything, y'know, which is a very useful skill. And shy = cute, which is just desirable regardless of whichever gender(s) you want to sleep with.


Maruno, for your character's eye color, what about a pale aquamarine perhaps?
I'm sure aquamarine is overdone (as in, too many people use the word), and in any case it's a blue. I want green. Like this.
 
hi thanks for the characters i'm not brill at doing this type of thing but i'll try my best at doing the emotions people have stated for there characters. first time doing this type of thing.

if anyone else wants to submit a character it will be worked in to the story. if this gets published everyone who contributed should get a free issue of v1 might be the volume i'll see how things go.
 
Who said anything about a sexual want? She can fix anything, y'know, which is a very useful skill. And shy = cute, which is just desirable regardless of whichever gender(s) you want to sleep with.



I'm sure aquamarine is overdone (as in, too many people use the word), and in any case it's a blue. I want green. Like this.


Well, you have a point there... never thought of that.....

You know, I was thinking of an aquamarine ring I own, but now that you mention it, people do usually mean blue by this, don't they? I just wasn't thinking...

My ring is not so mossy a green as your example, without as much yellow in it (assuming my computer monitor is more or less right...) but is rather a light bluish green. The closest I pulled up with a quick and dirty search was the center stone in the group on the web page at http://www.federicosjewelers.com/education.asp -- however the ones surrounding it are definitely much bluer. I think blue costs more and green less in aquamarines, which is probably why mine is greenish. I know darker costs more, and paler less....

It's still probably too blue for what you wanted though. But at least you can see why I thought of it. I'm only partly crazy, not completely....
 
Yeah, a quick Google of "aquamarine" showed me mostly blue rocks. It doesn't help that it seems to be a variable colour.
 
I want my character to be a teenage boy. His hair is crimson red and very messy, and his eyes should be steel grey. He’s tall, but not too tall, and looks very slender, but is not scrawny. He carries a sword that is similar to a katana and has engraved markings on it. Also, he has fangs and claws.

I want his name to be Rayne. He’s very rude to people he knows and often rushes into things. He never thinks things through and often times he gets hurt, though he never admits it. I think that’s it for now, I’ll tell you more once I think of it.
 
Okay, this is off the wall, but my husband lately has been having dreams with a little Chinese man who pops up out of nowhere, tells him a bad joke or makes a bad pun, and then disappears -- POOF! Only now he's branching out -- we had a bit of a tiff about something the other day and he said the same guy showed up in his dream and told him to apologize and do something to make up with me. And then a couple days later he gave him advice about something else... So now sometimes he gets a joke, sometimes advice.

And I got to thinking this little Chinese dream guy sounds like a character in a manga or an anime -- and then you posted this thread. So maybe you need a little magical, mystical guru type guy who pops out of nowhere and alternates Obi-Wan with Groucho Marx...
 
a mystical chinese guru type person sounds awesome he could be like yoda giving out advice and telling bad jokes.
i might be bad a mystical advice but bad jokes i can do.
 
Okay, this is off the wall, but my husband lately has been having dreams with a little Chinese man who pops up out of nowhere, tells him a bad joke or makes a bad pun, and then disappears -- POOF! Only now he's branching out -- we had a bit of a tiff about something the other day and he said the same guy showed up in his dream and told him to apologize and do something to make up with me. And then a couple days later he gave him advice about something else... So now sometimes he gets a joke, sometimes advice.

And I got to thinking this little Chinese dream guy sounds like a character in a manga or an anime -- and then you posted this thread. So maybe you need a little magical, mystical guru type guy who pops out of nowhere and alternates Obi-Wan with Groucho Marx...
He sounds like Arnold from Happy Days.
 
Okay, this is off the wall, but my husband lately has been having dreams with a little Chinese man who pops up out of nowhere, tells him a bad joke or makes a bad pun, and then disappears -- POOF! Only now he's branching out -- we had a bit of a tiff about something the other day and he said the same guy showed up in his dream and told him to apologize and do something to make up with me. And then a couple days later he gave him advice about something else... So now sometimes he gets a joke, sometimes advice.

And I got to thinking this little Chinese dream guy sounds like a character in a manga or an anime -- and then you posted this thread. So maybe you need a little magical, mystical guru type guy who pops out of nowhere and alternates Obi-Wan with Groucho Marx...
Sounds like Kalsetti wouldn't like him (the bad jokes part, at least - he'd have to see how good is advice is, first).
 
How about character that can change between a human form and a monster form.
The human form could be a 15 year old boy(school kid obviously) from Osaka Japan, who is barely noticed but has a likable personallity. Also he's a very bight student but with no idea as what to do once he leaves school.
His monster form has only just manifested and he's just started to learn to control it.
Monster form could be a lighting quick werewolf which he can change into at any time (all though no at first just on a full moon) with his speed and strength increasing on a full moon.
 
The usual problem of new powers being uncontrolled at first could be a good thing in this charater.
 
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