For a shounen. Just make a overpowered mentor like kakashi,urahara,and gojo. He will instantly become a fan favorite

"The best villains are the ones who are the heroes in their own story." Joker, Bill Cipher, Frieza, Hisoka, Chrollo, Orochimaru, Kamui, Utsuro: am I a joke to you?

Wow....I never listened to my history teacher with this much attention As I listened to you I even made notes Sensei

Midnight cross I’m making my protagonist the love interest to one of my antagonist

My characters are : -The MC who have PTSD and others mental problems, specialized in sabotage, explosive, infiltration and have a power to control fire, go mad and kill everything he consider as danger when he lose control -The best friend of the MC, with a tanky armor and big guns, specialized in protection, I still try to find a good power -The love interest of the MC, specialized in long range shot with a sniper almost as big as her and a bit of healing knowledge, no power but wolfgirl -The good doggo that follow the MC, help him being stable and not going on a rampage every time, a service dog basically -An AI with his own personnality, control the weapon on the spaceship, can use a robotic body, specialized in hack -The antagonist, leader of a pirate faction, old soldier of special force who want to take over what he think is corrupt government, no power but he upgraded himself into a super soldier, trying to involve less civilians as possible -The mentor of the MC's group, supposed to be dead but join the antagonist, is an old squad member of the antagonist when they were in the army together -Others characters, most likely generals of both faction (army and pirate) that will try to outsmart the other in battle -The "pure evil" one such as a general of the army who only want glory no matter the cost and another pirate leader that will betray everyone for his own interest -Some aliens that wan't to destroy humans (but they have a good reason) (it is in a sci-fi world, so the weights is not a big problem with exoskeletons to support the weight and boost physical hability) I don't have all the MC's group created, I need to think how to make certains other characters (they are inspire by my friend so I ask them of they imagine their characters, the MC is inspire by me, I don't have mental problems and all but physical appearence and the manner of thinking are going to be similar to a certain point, I can't make more realistic characters than those who are inspired by real person) (I am sorry for possible english errors, I am french so I possibly made fews of them as I am not totaly bilingual)

I can tell you worked very hard on this video. It's bloody fantastic! Thank you for the inspiration. c:

Thank you for some clarification and info. I have most of these characters and I don't have some of these character types at the moment. I will be adding and merging some of these character types to the ones I have already. Watching this video really helped bring some ideas to mind for future events in my stories.

Thank you for this vid, really helps a lot

YOU ARE SO UNDERRATED AND YOUR ADVICE IS SO GOOD I CANT THANK YOU MORE

Thank you so much that helped me a lot!

Thank you for this information, even though it's a lot of info, I will try to apply as much as I remember when starting my Manga. Thx 😁👌

I always love the knowledge and research you put into these lessons. Thanks for this!

I search and search and tbh after a whole roundabout just seeking information, this channel with all packed. Prayers for you....

that helped a lot. thank you so much

Thank you so much I was wondering what roles each character needed ,this also helped me in figuring out my story ,thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Much thanks for this video

Thank you for all of this GREAT info! Very helpful!

Great video, also something worth noting, one character can share 2 or 3 of these traits. For ex, the deuteragonist can also be a mentor and father figure to the protagonist, and maybe even the antagonist.

Amazing and so helpful ❤️ you’re a genius

Sending love from Nigeria, I don’t write or make manga, I just listen to ur vids whilst I do homework XD

Saitama is overpowered, but even then he’s a basic man who seems to be in his early 30’s and even though he’s greatly overpowered he has goals, wants, and flaws. Thats what makes saitama a good protagonist even if he is so overpowered, he got what he wanted but not what he expected. And thats why Saitama is my favorite character, thank you for coming to my presentatio--

thank you, this was very helpful!

Early! And Thanks for this one!

I’m getting An iPad Pro soon.cant wait to start. My story.your a massive help 😆

Omg thankkkkksssss a lottttt. This video was really helpful. I m happy I came across this video.

I got so spooked at one point in the video. You said something about Vampires and humans, and this is exactly what I'm working on. a story of vampires, humans and other supernatural beeings and cryptids. I was thinking the intire time and imagined my characters, while I was listening to see if the things I have in my story fit, and then you said that. damn that spooked me a bit

I saw many channels on KZfaq and and many videos on how to write a story and some gave a start point. But your video on ways to write a manga type story is best i think. I saw it in night and morning came up with a story just like that. It may not be best on interesting as I never wrote any original story or anything and i don't have a talent to write stories. But still watching that video of your's gave me a story idea that almost looked originally new to me. I should say it was very well made videos.

Thanks for the video

This was a very useful video Midnight

Great job

You are so helpful thank you, your content is golden! ❤

thank u for ur videos❤️

Just watched the hero to villain video, nice chanel, you inspired me to do videos on my language about my proccess of writing and drawing. :D Thank you.

I just want to say that you are amazing. After I watched your videos, I realised how much my story is lacking in so many ways. Although I'm only writing for fun, but I can already see some of the missing pieces to make it more interesting. You deserve at least 500k subs.

So would Luffys crew be dueturagonist or friends and allies? Cuz they have traits from both sections

Thanks so much❤️

THANK U FOR THE ADVICE

Imo, Ally + Conflict is such a good combo for a character. I think of Howard from Randy Cunningham and Jamie from Megas XLR. Characters like this can cause a fair amount of the comedy and even make things harder for the protagonists for selfish reasons.

My comic relief(and deuteragonist since he is some sort of sidekick) is a drunk 15 year-old who drinks just to remind himself that he'll die of drinking and not because of dying in war.

YOU'RE THE BEST

Me making the MC have a Lover which is the Antagonist, To elaborate He is a Hitman, Yet is Humble and doesn't want to kill without a reason

OMG I'm making notes while watching your video and after each introduction to a character I pause to write them down. And after you were talking about the conflict character I made myself example notes and also named Malfoy. After that I continued watching your video and JUST IN THAT MOMENT YOU NAME MALFOY LMAOOOOO WHAT btw I really really love your videos, I wanna write a novel and you're really helping me! Thank you so much! xx

I had not even notice that this video is about 40 min. until i thought, hey wasn´t she recording with natural ligth?. Very useful, thank you.

Very informative, and you got a cute look... Blessed

midnight-sensei.. am learning a lot from you.. keep it up.. :))) sending love from the philippines..

Here’s to writing the next big thing ladies and gents 🥂🍻

Love your videos. Stumbled onto the more than a year ago. We've all been thru things in life, and about 2 years ago, I decided to express myself with storytelling. Even in the times of AI, your content is very refreshing. Keep Up the great work!

My antagonists have their own goal but they have no reason to. Thanks for this vid it gave me a lot to think about

Best comic relief character: Cabbage man from Avatar

I'm new to this channel, and this was extremely helpful. I had a mind block since yesterday and I wasn't sure how to start my story. I'll give you a sub for helping me.

I swear I been watching your videos for the last week even rewatching some of them just trying to get over my writers block and the more I watch the more I feel like i need to add to my light novel... sometimes I wish I had someone to bounce ideas off of... i wrote my story as books before a 6 book series but I lost all that work when my last computer decided to quiet on me. So over time I decided to change it into a light novel because I wanted to add to it more and maybe get considered to maybe get a manga made of it... but honestly the more I think the more I feel like i can't even write a good start to even get my feet off the ground. Sorry I talk to much wonderful content and honestly your videos are helping me reshape the world I had in mind and I hope one day I can actually get my head out of the clouds and back to earth to really start writing one day.

Have you done a video about writing a comedic pervy character (Like Master Roshi in Dragon Ball, Mineta in My Hero Academia and Miroku from InuYasha)? If not, maybe this could be a fun idea for your next video. Also, could I ask you to review one or two characters of a manga I'm working on by messaging you on Facebook? Hope to hear from you soon

what if there's no main antagonist, im thinking of writing story with the genre revolving around action, adventure and fantasy. i got this idea from when i watched "KINO NO TABI", but im not actually copying the plot of his travels, i like the idea of traveling and encountering conflicts along the way telling detailed story of his stay on the city, but im planning to be more in depth on each story, like one piece arcs, in where each travels has a main topic that may or may not be carried over the next part, like will the protagonist visit again or he will completely avoid the place again..

ill make a thing hwere there is a really hard villain to defeat because when you attack them the attack changed to dark and attacks back so its hard to defeat and they have to figure oyur how

*Taking notes*.

could you do a video on how and where to actually draw the manga? that would be helpful☺️

The deutrogonist part I can't follow it because my story will be different if I use the last two tips

Too many flaws are bad One punch man and goku:am I a joke to you?

My main character is a kid so when I have a mabey battle they don't hurt the other person then the other character dies in a way I don't know yet

I have a question. if you've ever game of thrones and how their arcs' with a huge character cast, would that be okay if a manga had that similar turnover ( hopefully not plagiarism ), or would that be confusing to the reader, viewers, and etc.

my protagonist has a crush on the deuteroganist. Yea this video really helped.

My protagonist ia also an antagonist and is trying to recgonize that and become a better person

People don't like overpowered characters? What about Saiki K or the protagonist of The Life of the Immortal King?

I'm writing a novel and in my story the Deuteragonist actually supports the main antagonist instead of the protagonist. He's friends with the protagonist but gets involved with the antagonist because she's helping him achieve his own personal goals.

Hi Midnight X Cross! I am really struggling with making a good redemption arc with one of my characters. If you can make a video on it it will help more than you know!

Hi! I bearly subscribed and I had been having trouble to create the world for the storie of my manga I'm planning to make do you have any recommendations? it's about a half human half bunny girl model and a normal human who is her bodyguard/is the one who schedules her shootings I was planning to make her just maybe a human so the world is kinda like ours but I kinda want the world they live in like a world full of oc's do you have any video of yours or of anyone that can help me decide?

What is Nezuko in the Deamon slayers ? Deuteragonist ?

Free to use information: Yukihira Soma is a great protagonist with flaws, appearance difference, an accessory detail, great but not too confusing past, a goal and a questioning! (Anime; Food Wars ^16+^)

I'm writing an isekai light novel. But instead of your typical Haram light novel protagonist. He is more of a shonen protagonist. Like shirou emiya. Basically, he a mixture of my nerdy personality. And the savior complex of shirou emiya. Plus he has the depression of shinji ikari. (Although he tries to hide it with a happy go lucky porsona) Anyway... I'm trying to break down the shonen/isekai protagonist. Along with there genre.

"Every character needs flaws" Rimuru: what's that?

Can you make a video on different anime/manga archetypes

Is there any video that could help me write a good Anti-hero mc..?

Any example for Deutragonist that covers the 'creating conflict' part 🤔.

Hi Midnight Thanks so much for this video; really helped to clarify things. I do have a few questions regarding the Protagonist and Deuteragonist. -Is it possible to have multiples of both, for instance? Can I have 2 Protagonists in my story with their own Deuteragonists? -If you've got 2 major characters in the story; how can you tell which one would be the Protagonist and which the Deuteragonist? What is the definining line between them? -Finally in something like One Piece, where your main cast is a group of characters; would they all be Deuteragonists, or one of the other archetypes? Grateful for your thoughts!

My conflict character is an imaginary being in the protagonists mind which is the outcome of his traumatic past is it a problem? please tell and i am watching your content for more than a year now my story was well appreciated by my friend and now i am about to make a manga all thanks to your excellent videos ❤❤❤❤☺☺☺☺

I saw Kurumi Tokisaki, I Like... thanks for the Kurumi Clip, She's an Interesting character That is the Protagonist of her own story

Hi I'm trying at one but the research is heavy since I'm a keep to myself woman trying to write a novel about a teenage boy. I want to write it for the challenge it gives me but I also want it to be good and relatable to teenage boys of this era. Since I'm twenty nine I actually don't know what teenagers of this era are doing the most.😅

Okay I have nearly all aspects, except for Love Interest characters. I do not want my character to fall in love with or be loved by, especially since I can't create a character than can handle my main character, is this something I must have, or is this something that isn't that important.

Can you make a video on how to make a story that someone has the same features as death note? I want to write something similar without copying it and I have no idea where to start

I have my love interest doing some major tasks that the protagonist couldn't do without her, because he screwed things up himself. So, I think if they work together, they can grow together without her appearing to just be a trophy. Of course I'd let the protagonist do the final blow in case of the big bads ;)

Just found your channel and already love listening to your stuff while working on my story, but I would like to stress that enforcing 12 specific character types as being necessary and or an improvement for a story can mislead young writers and even harm the quality of their works no matter if they're western comics or japanese manga. This also applies to many of the tips that are framed as hard rules instead of references. I'm not saying this to be an ass, but the things you talk about here are tropes that fit some stories better than others, not objective improvements. I would like to point your attention towards Overly Sarcastic Productions' "Trope talk" series where they explain various tropes and how they've been used before in various contexts. I don't want your content to be a copy of theirs, but I want to show you how they give their viewers the information to decide themselves how and if they want to incorporate a specific trope into their story.

questions. how do you create a character's birthday? or their past life date? or the date of the main story of the created characters? do you have a video about that?

i was watching this video to get better and ended up geting a whole story idea

me who killed of the parent in the 1st chapter

Protagonist: Azrea Ketohada Antagonist: Draxyne Wratteth Deuteragonist: Elrelial Tayzen Conflict Characters: Wyvria Wratteth, Avualia Wratteth, Infrelia Wratteth, Galviura Wratteth, Ozonia Wratteth Friends and allies: Coria Vaelsei, Harinu Varilva Mentor: Kalusui Styrix Love interest: Asu Torinson Tertiary Characters: Haruzi Vaelsei, Asdra Tayzen, Eltavua Shano, Zelxri Cavril, Eldevei Nuoka Confidant: Veliva Ajetan Comic Relief: Harluvi Fryalk Parent/Sibling Figure: Bolvia Tayzen Authority Figure: Asu Torinson

The best antagonists I can think of that are evil for the sake of being evil are Frieza and the Joker Frieza does have his own goals but the way he went about achieving it was nothing short of pure evil

I recently found out about light novels and I want to start writing one but I unfortunately cannot draw to save my life. I can write really well and a lot tho. Any advice?

i also have a character they arent a villain but its a bully characyer who is mean because she was bullied all the time so she decided to become a bully when actually she is just sad Edit: she's a conflict character but she becomes good in the ed my story is a magical girl story so i might make her become a magical girl

I would like to make a protagonist like akira fudo (devilman crybaby), a deuteragonist like killua (hxh) and of course a tritagonist like nobara (jjk)

I'll say it again, writing goddess. 😂😊

Haha I have a story just as long as one piece and all of this characters is like my characters.

Me making a story with only 6 characters:

What if I made a story of 5 unpredictable protagonist?? It will be a long running comic so everyone will get their time to shine & readers will argue about who is the real protagonist. .

what are your thoughts on fanfiction??

madoka&homura🖤

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My story don't have love interest because I don't like romance in my story. Friendship over love!

Isn't an antagonist not always the villain? Can't they be separate?