for me if you want them to have a relatability write an everyman character.i don't do relatability and more just a character taught to believe a lie.and goes over the whole story to improve that lie.they should be motivated by that lie realising that is wrong and other improve the motivation,change it or add more motivations mixed in.make sure that there is always failure,and pushing through and they dont stand by to wait for others to do things for them

You're criminally underrated

How to make a character relatable: "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone."

I normally take multiple traits from characters I've related to and see how the best mash together, then using elements from my friend group

Really handy, I entered a contest and right now I'm writing a manga about a shut in NEET who gets forced to go outside with a tall energetic "Older Sister" type character. I think having 2 characters with opposite personality's creates conflict in each page to help keep the reader interested.

12:10 "Who doesn't love cute animals?" THIS IS FOUL

I've come back to this video so much I'm more of a writer who doesn't share any of my writing execpt for one friend and sometimes my family

Zuko's development is fantastic.

One thing I tried developing myself. I took the idea of layering characters and created a diagram. The top layer is the surface layer, aka how they seem and act to any regular person, as decribed in this video. But it is also how people view the character generally, such as if they're admirable, hard-working or the opposite if they are hated and discriminated against. This would also include their professional outlook and how they think of business acquaintances and work in general along with their professional outlook. This could be if they are lazy, serious, dedicated, a procrastinator etc. The next layer I did was the friends layer, or how they act in the company of people they enjoy being with. This is the best place I think to add their sense of humour, and their friendship dynamic within a group. Now, there are 2 more layers. The family layer, or how they act in the presence of family or relatives, along with siblings/ love interests, along with how those people think of them. This is the place to put deep flaws that stick out when with family, such as any trauma that can resurface, insecurities and coping mechanisms, eg- pushing people they care about away to keep them safe. The final, deepest layer is the layer of self, or how they think of themselves and the part of themselves that is deeply repressed and that they show nobody. This can include their deepest, darkest impulses, desires, secrets etc, but also their true personality traits, or what truly makes up their heart and mind, and what they define themselves as. Between each layer, you can separate them with a line. This line can be thin or thick depending on if they wear their heart on their sleeve, or if its extremely difficult to get through to them. The characters which get attached easy, for example treat friends and family as the same, would have a very thin line between those layers. The same would go if they make friends extremely easily, but keep family isolated and separate. For the self, as a general rule that should be the thickest line simply because that is what their true face is, which they show nobody except the very few closest ones. Now, bear in mind I am a HUGE amateur when it comes to this stuff, but I found that it is extremely helpful when writing very complicated and complex characters that are vague and ambiguous when it comes to pinpointing their personalities and what that includes. It also definitely helps because it is completely separate from a backstory, so if your character has a very deep backstory that has a huge impact on their personality, I found it can be really helpful. Hope that helps, feel free to give any pointers.

Thanks! I just started my script for my manga last night... Thank you!

🙌✨ This is excellent! I’m always striving to make my characters more relatable. It’s so important! However, it’s definitely something I need to work more on. 😅

This has been one of the most useful story writing videos I've seen

Amazing video! Thanks for all of your references and examples. You are SO underrated!

Dude I just had the best idea for a Manga. 'A secret agent is on a mission too retrieve a top-secret file from a terrorist organization, but during the mission he gets found, tortured and killed. After his funeral he reawakens as a zombie and finds someone to live with. However, both the terrorist organization and the agency want the agent. The terroists want the top-secret file while the agency owns the agent's body and views him as property.' What do you think of the idea?

I love your channel! Still can't find anyone else who makes videos as important as yours!

Early to another helpful video by Monitor. Like I’m being serious, you really make the best tutorials and have the best tips.

yo wtf this channel is a gold mine for me

This video is SO useful. To me It’s perfectly explained

You need more subs bro, you're pure genius

😍 I love your channel! Thank you so very much for existing!! (Just subbed yesterday!)

TYSM, these tips are amazing!

Thank you!!! I understood it with the examples.

Animal side kick puts in the Mina Dog hybrid from fma

I appreciate this video, Monitor! I hope there will be more videos like this soon!

Your video's are great! It inspired me to actually work on my larger project that has a plot. Keep up the good work!

Thank you a lot for making these videos, as someone who enjoys writing comics, and drawing a lot, these videos are extremely helpful to me in creating characters and building the world and story around them, since i have trouble with writing characters without making them either a cliche or a carbon copy of a more popular character, even tho that is not the intention behind it. these videos inspire me to do more research into how to write better characters and how to make them more interesting. again thanks a lot for this, and im very glad i discovered your channel!

"Who don't love cute animals ?" "E-E-DWARRRD..."

Exactly what i've been looking for

im impressed that this has a thousand views yet no dislikes. good job

This video came in handy it will definitely help in the future. Thank you ☺👍

I needed this

Could you make a video on how to make a Mecha Manga? Love your vids!

Yo great video man. Keep them coming. Could you please do how to Make a Comic/Manga cover next.

The tips, bonus tips, and steps were all scattered around, so it was hard to take notes. But it was a very good video

I unintentionally made my oc relatable, the overused way. 😅 i just really like drawing animals and I wanted animals to be in my series lmao (hes not a useless animal charicter tho he helps woth development and trauma)

relatable characters can really bump the story, prime example is spiderman in marvel comics acc to me, he is was too popular than any marvel character because he is godam relatable as being a lower middle class teenager

A perfect example of a relatable character is shigeo kageyama from mob psycho 100 he is not the type of protagonist who fights like demons or devils I mean he does fight spirits but more than that he fights with himself to change for the better so that he could propose to tsubomi chan and he also has the role of a big brother and he experienced bullying(manga spoilers he also got rejected but he moved on)

This was a great video, im going through an episode of writers block for my characters & this helped. Also, could you do a video on writing an anti villain protagonist? The main character of the story im writing is an anti villian & I haven’t seen many videos on that subject.

Hi Monitorcomics!! Congrates on hitting 5k followers! I have a question: is character development necessary for most or all of the main cast? And also for my main oc for the webtoon I'm working on, i was wondering how I'd properly develop his character arc cause what he's been through in the past, he's develop trust issues and kind of cloesd of from the people he'll meet later on. How should he resolve this?

You can tell that the video is good because it has no dislikes:)

You make the best thumbnails

please make a video on how to create anime power systems. And use tons of examples to explain us

Oh wow, I remember watching Mob Psycho but I couldn't remember a thing about the main character until it was brought up again in this video

I have but a vague idea of my character, more in the end of the story, so I am either going to make him very relatable or someone completly out of normal but still relatanle

Thank you

Watching this video, I’m reminded of the idea of “universality,” where common values, conflicts, and emotions are displayed in literature.

Brother you didn’t have to come for me like that in the intro.

could you do a video on how to come up with a good power system ? that’s what i struggle with most lmao and i found your videos to be quite helpful !!

The story i am currently making unfortunately has only few characters which are kinda comedic and i don't realy know how to write funny characters, but i realy think that i have some very relatable characters. My story is about serious stuff with some shades of fun so it probably shouldn't be a big problem for me.

I've worked on and off on a western comic inspired by assyrian/middle eastern folklore. Sort of like Hellboy meets Arabian Nights This really came in handy since my MC seemed too heroic. Then it hit me... I wrote this character as a homage to Christian Arabs who struggled with assimilating with the growing muslim society. Ergo like you mentioned making his angle focused on feeling like an outsider no matter what he did.

Hey do you think you could take another dive into the idea of the 3 chapter rule? In that video you make reference to the big three - you’ve since mentioned believing that the things that worked at the time those stories were created may not work so much anymore - a sentiment I believe full-heartedly, if you were to look at newer works and reevaluate the 3 chapter rule using them as examples I would really love to see if you’d change your take on that or at least other ways in which approaching the opening of a story may be applicable by the tastes of the 2021 audience :)

What I like to do is giving them real personality types; make the archetype, take away/wash down the stereotypes, sprinkle in some quirks and flaws from their backstory and presto! (simplified)

KOROSENSEI sry I had to…lookin like a whole moon-🌝…WHY AM I LIKE THIS

"What Makes A Great Antagonist?" Ps: Love Your Content 🖤

What if the protagonist starts off as passive and then develops to be more active?

5:28 I found this tip to be the most helpful to me!

I think that instead of breaking out of Character maybe have it be make your character a bit more "mysterious" were he is not 2d nor does he seem 2d and he is 3d but show him doing things that relate to that point and then ahve him break out of character with foreshadowing and it fighting his character although staying in character. I'm wondering if that fits the point and would like to hear others opinions on the idea.

My jaw dropped on the animal part

In regards to the surface layer of a character and their design how do I make a character stand out and look cool but without looking out of place and messy? I have npticed my characters' clothing and hair styles can often look either bland or rediculous (which may just indicate I need to practice my general art skills in said areas) but I was wondering if you had any advice or general tips to create memorable character designs without the character looking totally stupid.

I lost my mind at the FMA "pet." I wheezed.

Great video! I just found your channel recently and I love the idea of making my own comic/manga but I don't consume a lot of the medium and try to learn from these videos so this has really helped me out! Currently I'm thinking about two different projects, one about a mythical animal rescue and rehabilitation center, and the other a magical girl/boy based one. Although I'm struggling with the latter as I want it to have some unique spin compared to other manga, comics or anime in the genre but I'm not sure how exactly... Do you think you'll cover about how to write magical girl/boy manga/comic?

THAT ICE CREAM SCENE? WHERE IS IT FROM?

What does it say about me that when I heard the name Haikyuu, my first thought was “oh, the gay one”

Please make a video on hero's journey

i made like 3 to 4 characters who's stories are based off of mine. Thanks

MC: Always follows his animalistic instinct and wants to find out what it means to be himself in the world he lives in Second MC: Very stoic and logical and is always analytical and wants to understand the world through codes and data Female Lead: Very optimistic and outgoing and always wants to spread her light to any and everyone she meets This actually made me think about my characters a bit more

Me vibin: I wonder if he will mention saiki and his character *few minutes later* AYEEEEEEEEE

Thanks for the information I have a question to ask I'm about to Enter college and I'm wondering what type of major to pick to help me with making mangas and comics

Is that possible to publish manga which is drawn in a book instead of edited

I clicked cuz of Deku and Hinata~ but im also kinda interested in dis!

I see Komi, I Click. No think, Only Goddess.

The video was a big help tysm. Also can someone tell me the name of the anime with tamako I can't spell it right

🙂

dude if YT doesn't start recommending your stuff more imma have to report the whole site for withholding information

One thing id recommend is that dont speak too fast. You gotta let people process those details in their mind. Loved your videos

@12:11 HOW DARE YOU!!!!!! ??? lol :P

what if I want to create a very unrelatable character that at the end of the series evolves into a more relatable what are the points there?

haha relatable

One request, how to write a character driven manga

When you meantioned overpowered characters: Me: Saitama, Saitama, Saitama

0:49 AYOOO

I remember when he was at 6 subscribers

0:49 Ima just put this here for no reason

Shikamaru is by far the most relatable character in Naruto.

Of all the scenes he could use why this one 0:46

I saw Deku in the thumbnail and instantly closed the video💀

god clannad hurts my heart

what only 25 views and 3 comments lol

12:11 🥲

Me: Wait i got it! what if- My friend: IF YOU DESCRIBE NARUTO FOR THE 53RD TIME I AM GOING TO STAB YOU. Me: *Me casually taking down my naruto poster*

yeah but overlord, no game no life and SAO are all fantastic. you think these are mediocre or generic I think you miss the point. full metal alchemist was good because it's world was good Edward Elric and his brother were horrible, no really think about other then the situations that happen to Edward Elric what unique personality did he have. insert generic personality. I want you to try something close your eyes and watch full metal alchemist. get past the first episode that explains and info dumps the personality of the two. now describe Edward Elric personality to me. and his brother has the personalty of samwise from lord of the rings "I'm with that guy" I noticed something about the anime you picked lot of Netflix anime on this.

12:11 fucked up bro, really fucked up bro…

0:48 sus as hell

“We all support deku in his journey” No

How in the fuck is Deku relatable?

thanks for the tips but...you spoiled Clannad for me

I have to disagree with Deku. Yes, being vulnerable is a good trait for a character to have, but I don't feel related to Deku because despite the fact he is vulnerable because of his dream to be a hero and believe he can become one even without powers, he doesn't do literally anything to prove that and only writes in his journal and studying heroes that ONLY actually came to fruition once he even got powers. He also only actually decided to train after being promised powers by All-Might. I guarantee you he would have just quit on his own without being promised that. Yes, he did prove to All-Might that he was heroic enough and decided to give him his power, but that still doesn't change the fact that Deku would have still done nothing if All-Might didn't make that choice on his own. Also Deku has a VERY bad knack of seeing only black and white in a character yet it's in the worst possible time when he does see that grey area. Like there have been many heroes that have done things that are actually understandable in why they became a villain, yet Deku tells them they are wrong mostly from the fact that they are villains and "villains equal bad". Yet when it comes time for Deku to actually understand someone who has had a troubled past, it happens once they have literally wiped out an entire city, and has killed MANY of Deku's friends and mentors, and despite that Deku wants to help this person and SAVE them, despite the fact a normal human would be mad as all hell. Like it's noble, yeah, but that isn't relatable. That is the FURTHEST thing from relatability.

Oh yeah, Deku. Very relatable. Everyone can relate to a guy supported by a sugar daddy who gives you the thing you always wanted because it looks cool. He is literally a kid who got an expansive sports car and everyone goes "He deserves it since he had to learn how to drive". MHA is so bad smh

Deku? sorry chief but deku is by far the worse shonen protagonist.

Deku is just an annoying crybaby