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Shoujo Manga Techniques: Writing Stories

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I've been looking HIGH and LOW for the right book to explain how the pros CREATE manga. Not draw manga. I've got THAT down. It was creating the right story with all it's interconnected stories that had me at a standstill and the little leaves behind me in the wind making more progress than me.

The book actually flows in a manga format, and you follow the story of Kyoko and Alisa. Kyoko shows little Alisa through illustrated examples of how writing techniques are done for manga. The illustrations are drawn superbly by an actual japanese manga-ka. The book continues all the way to about thumbnail sketching your ideas out.

All the techniques are useful. It's a benefit to read them over and over and try all the "lessons" or "One Point Advice" with smaller ideas to get the hang of it. It's a contagious learning experience!

If you are wanting to learn how to draw manga figures, or how to actually draw pages with tone. This book is not what you're looking for. And the first page establishes this for you. If you are looking to help a wounded one legged story along and nurse it back to running status. THIS is what you need to get back on track!

A good introduction to storytelling, and drawing, for shoujo manga. I appreciated the teach-by-example nature of this book, which is written/drawn as a manga comic.

Although directed at those interested in created shoujo (girls') manga, the graphic and storytelling techniques described can be applied to many other genres.

How-to-do-manga books that I've read have a strong tendency to display a great deal of enthusiasm and relatively little useful content. I don't give five stars lightly, but "Shoujo Manga Techniques" deserves it as a useful, well-written book on manga techniques.

I love to draw manga, it is my dream to become a professional I had many stories in my head which I think would be great to show and tell. However, I had one big major trouble actually writing them to be in comic form. This book however has changed all that it, clear and easy to read and understand fully I'm now on my way to making the next big hit in manga (okay maybe not but I'm getting somewhere). I had many How to Write books with big words a technical terms but none has broke it down so simple as this book has. I recommend it to anyone who wants to write there own manga and just too novice to understand the long winded terms that other How to write novels use.

I bought this book for my girlfriend and she loved it, from the illustrations to the content. I even found it interesting to put my own ideas in order to write my stories.

A gift for my 13 yr old grand-daughter who has read Manga for years. I am hoping to read a story that she has written.

In manga style goes over how to write manga stories or even stories which aren't manga.
It would be just another boring educational book except,
it goes about it with two cute characters in manga style. I loved it.
Just enough humor and clarity to ease you into writing style.
You can read it like a story. I got mine used in good condition.

I was struggling to add that special something to my manga so it would be worthy of publication. This book had the answer. It also provided several methods for writing new stories. I love how the author doesn't emphasize only one method or starting point.It's refreshing. I would definitely recommend this.

I picked this up since it had pretty favorable reviews. Having finished it I can say it was worthwhile to buy. There are a lot of good tips and advice for writing stories regardless of genre. I'm not even sure why it's labeled as "Shojo" outside of being part of a series since the tips are applicable for all genres. It's divided into short easily-digestible chapters that you can try out once you're done and it does a good job building on ideas each chapter. My only caveat is that the translation isn't very good in places and some phrases come off as too generic or repetitive. While reading it I kept feeling like there was probably more subtle aspects to each lesson that didn't make it through translation.

I saw this book and was fascinated by it. I just had one question. Is this book in english. Since I am not japanese I cannot read and understand japanese writing. Please reply soon.

Firstly, it's HARD trying to find a book explaining the basics of creating manga. There are tons of them of how to create characters and how to draw different things involving manga but not any that teaches you how to create. This book is wonderful in teaching you how to gather your ideas, how to set them up, how to organize them and how to keep things consistant. I also like that it's not BORING. I thought this book would have been step one do this, step two do that, etc. But it's in a really neat manga format, told in the story so there are also charts and illustrated examples of what the chapter is about. There are also summary points and tips at the end of the chapters which are really helpful. My only twinge about this is that they don't spend much time on story panels and pages but there's enough to give you a decent idea of how they should go (though I suspect it's in the drawing basic's books). All in all I'm very satisfied with this book. If you want to learn about developing a story and a script then this is definiately the book for you.