Steven: Don't Let Chain Fool You, She's Not That Scary. She Used To Do Ballet.

Steven: Don't let chain fool you, she's not that scary. She used to do ballet.

Zapp: No way.

Chain: Which gave me the physical skills I need to strangle you with my feet.

Color page from the special one-shot in Young Jump No.25

No seriously guys, comment on peoples fic.

Writers as desperate for comments. Desperate. 

I’m in a writing group with around 40 people and one of the common reasons people don’t post their work is because “no one ever comments on it, so no one is reading it” which blows because their work is amazing and instead it’s sitting in storage.

Comments lead to posting more fic. Trust me. 

Some Trivia from Kekkai Sensen

Posting on behave of my friend singlemaker, who doesn’t have a Tumblr account. Credits goes to him for finding these, I only did the translation for him.

Added external link to the pictures for better viewing of the details.

Here are some interesting trivia from Kekkai Sensen by the animation team. The story takes place in what used to be New York City, so the animation team actually put in quite a number of real world references in the anime. This is a bit of a long post, so please bear with us.

In Episode 2, when Leo was looking at the pizza delivery route: take note at the two store names highlighted on the map.

http://i.imgur.com/zZytR4X.jpg

Turn the map 90 degrees clockwise.

http://i.imgur.com/3iWuB8t.jpg

And let’s take a look at Houston Street in real life.

http://i.imgur.com/K3mibPn.jpg

Notice the similarities between the street and store names.

Names used in anime　　　Names in reality Elsabeth Street　　　　　　  Elizabeth Street Miggy’s Good Food                Siggy’s Good Food Tamo & George                      Tom & Jerry’s Moss Street                            Mott Street BarBarian                               BarBossa Mulbetty Street                       Mulberry Street Latayette Street                      Lafayette Street

There are many stores between Mulbetty and Latayette that share similarities. If you have time you can try looking them up.

The pizza place that Leo works at is most likely the Domino’s on E. Houston Street. It’s also obvious because when Leo was ringing up the door bell, he stated that he’s from “Dogimo” Pizza.

http://i.imgur.com/QrEkpTR.jpg

As for Leo’s first pizza delivery stop, notice the name Kurowycky on the windows. This is actually the name of a meat store that used to be in East Village. Unfortunately the place is no longer in business. But you can still find the listing page here.

In Episode 5, the scene where Zapp and Leo are chatting at the side of the street.

http://i.imgur.com/f96kDRQ.jpg

It’s actually the street scene from 191 E Houston St. Notice the TALHAMA GROCERY store sign.

http://i.imgur.com/JhQn3rq.jpg

When Libra members are getting ready for the fight, you see the map of where everyone’s stationed. Noticed the pond right underneath the “Predicted Course” bar on the top. You can tell by the shape, that’s the pond from Central Park.

http://i.imgur.com/x3f4I0p.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JAomiSW.png

Though, if you take a look on google map, you’ll see that the city map doesn’t actually match. The street in real life doesn’t veer off like it does in Hellsalem’s Lot. But the references are there.

There are actually a lot more details and references in the anime (and yes, Singalemaker actually compiled them for each episode). If we have time we might do more posts on this.

Writing Tip #2: Good-Guy protagonist

We’re back and definitely not by popular demand. Even if no one wants to hear I’m still making these damn things because they’re just might be one or two people I can help by doing this. So I’m doing it and if you have a problem with that than deal with it.

The topic for this one is going to be personally covering my least favorite Archetype for a protagonist. An Archetype that has become so FUCKIN common you can see it literally everywhere. It drags on my nerves to an unending degree.

This kind of protagonist has these following points normally most if not all that make them who they are:

Goes out of their way to help people

Likes teaching life lessons

Hold’s morals above all else

Refuses to kill

Friends are the best thing since sliced bread

Rarely if ever fails

Dead mentor

I’m pretty sure you all ae getting war-like flashbacks to all of the protagonists like that. Ranging from Superman to most YA protagonist in novels. This kind of character isn’t limited to just books but spans every single form of story-telling. The issue with this kind of protagonist are that they’re is NO REAL PERSON LIKE THAT. It sacrifices relatability for having a morally just protagonist which is an issue in of itself.

My choice for the best iteration would be Klaus Von. Reinherz from Kekkai Sensen(Blood-Blockade Battlefront)

He does the Good Guy Protagonist justice, by not being completely unrelatable. He’s shown to have a wild side being able to actually enjoy fighting, and it also shows us that this good guy nature can be abused. With him sometimes letting it go straight to his head. the pragmatism of being able to say “sometimes you have to kill” and openly showing that he rather dislikes it, but is willing. The most important way they do this is by having HIM not the protagonist, but a mentor to ours. It fits his archetype without making it get in the way of believability.

If I had to pick any story for this type of character it would be in a YA adventure with him as the mentor. It highlights the strong points while diminishing the weak ones. You can have him be the main for many novels, but be absolutely sure to keep flaws in mind to ensure that the characters believable.