Forum - View topicOne Shot Comics/Mangas?
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Jwright912
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Hello All.
I'm new here to the forums but i seek answers to a question. What is your opinion of One Shot comics/mangas. I only ask because as a writer with stories laid away. I had thoughts of looking into creating them in one shot form and style to see where things could go from there. Let me know. I'd greatly appreciate it and look forward to your responses. Thanks, |
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Touma
 Posts: 2651 Location: Colorado, USA |
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I believe that a one shot manga is the same as a short story in literature. Those can work very well. some stories do not need to be any longer.
Rumiko Takahashi has written a lot of one shots that I love I have also enjoyed one shot stories from Masami Tsuda (creator of Kare Kano), Mia Ikumi (Tokyo Mew Mew), Arina Tanemura (Full Moon), and many others. I think that a lot of successful mangaka got started by writing one shot stories, sometimes for contests. The story, of course, is the important thing, and the one shot is a viable format for telling a good story. Good luck with yours. |
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Mr Adventure
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I'm somewhat of a fan of one-shot comics in general (hint, they aren't exclusive to Japan). I find them to be good proving grounds for new writers artists, and actually good places for old timers to cut loose with crazy new ideas. If you're just starting out, I'd say its the best move possible is to focus on a one-shot comic of a set length as your first attempt. Leave it open ended for continuation if you want, but make sure its satisfying on its own, in case that's all there will ever be of it.
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zawa113
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I like them. Well I like good ones, they're short, so they're easy to re-read, and they can have all the full on emotional range of a long series if need be. Some things will obviously not work short story form, for example, Basara, then that mangaka can turn right around and make The Eye of the Needle (a short story in Wild.Com, whose first two stories, title story included, I found kinda "meh", but that volume is worth keeping for Eye of the Needle alone). Eye of the Needle plays this game where it pretends it's just a shojo about the world's worst boyfriend, only to actually be a horror thriller in the end. It ends before it gets really sick, but that's left up to the imagination, which is even more horrific in some ways. It's a really awesome piece that I highly recommend.
Hanshin/ Half-God deserves special mention here as it's only like 20 pages long, but it's incredibly powerful. It's the only short story that I've given a perfect ten to. Now, most of the rest of the stories in the A Drunken Dream anthology are good too, but this one is an absolute master work. I am glad that Akira Toriyama's new series will be a one-volume affair as both Cowa! and Sandland are fun little one-volume adventures. For being so well known for DBZ, a series that at least half of which I don't think he even wanted to do, it's a shame his one-volumes seem so oft overlooked as he clearly knows what he's doing, particularly from a comedic standpoint. He could do one volume series forever from here on out and I'd be ok with it. Fumi Yoshinaga must get a mention, I have two BL short story anthologies of hers, Truly Kindly and Don't Say Anymore, Darling. The thing about her work in the first place is that her BL doesn't need sex scenes to be enticing. You can skip right over them and get pretty much the same experience if you're not into BL. A lot of yaoi is one-shot or one-volume affairs, but she always surprises me anyway. There's actually a lot of variety in these volumes, from more normal yaoi expectations to futuristic sex bots and serial killers. I am not a yaoi-fangirl type person in any way, but I am a Fumi Yoshinaga person and all of her works are awesome. She also did All My Darling Daughters for a non-yaoi anthology, but in this case, I prefer her yaoi ones, the woman just knows good story telling. It's like no matter what end I'm expecting, she subverts the ever loving hell out of it to make the most awesome conclusions possible, it makes reading her works a delight for sure (especially because the whole beginning and middle parts are great too). She's damn impressive all around, you can't go wrong with any of her works if you want examples of how to do series of any length on boring sounding topics right. So there are some examples of shorts I really liked. When done well, they can really showcase an author's talents. When done "meh", it rather makes me question them. I have also seen one-shots evolve into series, I'm currently reading Baby & Me, and I could tell the first chapter was a one-shot that became a series. It was a damn good one-shot too. Her other, earlier one-shots scattered throughout volumes are kinda "meh", but she clearly improved too. Her plan for making this a full series was clearly to expand on the cast and explore the hell out of side characters, a strategy which I must say worked as so many characters interact and bounce off each other and we learn more about all of them in process. |
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Mr Adventure
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You know he has a new one premiering this coming week in both Japan and English Weekly Shonen Jump, right? Jaco the Galactic Patrolman. It looks pretty fun, and its only going to run 10 installments. Jump also ran his one-shot story Kintoki earlier in the year, and I thought that was a gas. Guy knows his way around short-form comics[/i] |
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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I haven't read too many one-shots but I have enjoyed the ones I did read quite a bit. In particular, Solanin and Clover (the latter I don't think was really meant to be a one-shot, admittedly, but that's how it's packaged now and it works quite well in that form).
I really need to get around to picking up not simple one of these days, I've been eyeing it for years. |
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fishiiie
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I personally like one-shots since they're easy and short reads... but it's quite hard to cram really good substances into X amount of pages, you know what I mean? I find that's a challenge for most, if not all, one-shots, which is why a lot of them tend to suck.
Try your best though 
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faintsmile1992
 Posts: 295 Location: England |
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Mmm... there aren't many of these licensed or even scanlated. Though interest in Claymore saw some interest in scanlating Angel Densetsu, I still haven't found Undeadman in English and my Japanese is too poor to read the original.
Maybe some arty-farty types could start scanlating obscure one-shots from ages ago, no one else will do it. |
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OldCharlieStoletheHandle
 Posts: 1288 Location: Mastic Beach, NY |
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I like one-shots myself as I generally don't get into long series. Most of Hideshi Hino's works are one-volume manga, some of which are collections of shorter works. Works like Panorama of Hell, Hell Baby and Living Corpse are among the best horror manga around. Unfortunately, pretty much all of Hino's works are out of print.
Jiro Taniguchi has also done some great one-volume works. The Ice Wanderer is a collection of single-chapter manga that is excellent and The Quest for the Missing Girl is very good as well, although the ending was a bit predictable. He also did the artwork for Hotel Harbor View, one of the best examples of "film noir" manga-style. Some of Osamu Tezuka's manga have been released by Vertical as one-volume manga. Ayako and The Book of Human Insects are excellent and Apollo's Song is quite good as well. |
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thebeats42
Posts: 43 Location: Manila, Philippines |
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Half & Half (Seo Kouji)
It's one of the best oneshot manga that I have read. It have the romance and tragedy that passes for drama. |
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