This April Fools post was indeed my personal sample venture into fanfiction writing. For a [long time now->summer-of-bishoujo-3-project], I’ve been wanting to write my own story, favorably in the style of Japanese anime and bishoujo games. Of course, there are expected challenges in this one. First and foremost, I’m not Japanese, so any culture references are just the usual (unusual) ones already found in existing Japanese anime, manga or games. Secondly, I have to write in English, which means I’m just emulating Japanese similar to the sometimes-wrong translation style in [fansubbing projects->fansubs-serious-business]. Lastly, I don’t consider myself a good writer in the first place.
Despite this though, I still want to have the drive to do it. Whenever I see [other people->hinano-renai-blogger] succeed, I always say to myself that I can do it too. I may not be as good, but at the very least, “get it done darnit”, lol.
In this article I focus specifically on the characters, settings, and plot I envisioned on my own Miya Maruyama story.
Continue reading How to make a good story anime/bishoujo style