User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 333: Man and Man, Dragon and Dragon, Man and Dragon, Review./@comment-5580383-20130605185931/@comment-5840892-20130606054443

All simple, a six month time skip after part 1 of series 1. At the end a 2 year time-skip, with a cliff-hanger doing nothing short of neccasating the main characters returning for it in as the main characters. (I'm not stupid, that was not the real ending, it's much better, and it creates some major questions, and answers a few as well) Their back-stories are 100% told yes, but they are not devoleped fully emotionally. The main character problem you have is quite simple: In all but 2 instances, he never defeats a villain or finishes the battle by himself. Good plot progression and character growth, but no OPing. Usually some else beats the enemy, or it's a group effort that is barely and I mean barely pulled off. As for powers, I have something I defintely will do, but people probably will say that I'm ripping of Mashima. WHICH I'M NOT. I had settled on powers for a Shonen Series years ago, when I started thinking about writing one. (I started watching Fairy Tail last December,I had most of my story and powers decided in 2008.) But I couldn't really portray the right way on paper, meaning I can't draw them in use the way I've envisioned them, but watching Fairy Tail gave me a good idea of to draw it. If anything Mahisma saved my butt by giving me an idea of how to draw them. It's similar and comparable to how Toriyama influnced Oda, Kishimoto, Mashima and (I think but I'm not sure) Kubo, and potentially every Shonen author sense himself. So when/if I write my series I will without a doubt drop him a line on twitter (as he apparently gets quite a few tweets from fans) thanking him for the great example in imagery I now have to use a refference I have to work from. But if you don't to overpower a character, don't make them be the deciding factor in 90% of the series fights. Then you have fans/people talking about "plot armor", and some talking crap about like they do Fairy Tail. A long series is pointless without a good few emotional catalysts, you need to kill at least 1 main character off permately in a long term series to make it good and not dull. That's why I'm going for two deaths of main characters at the end of the first half/series. It creates a good emotional catalyst, and makes people feel powerful emotions while reading, and it will have a perfectly happy ending, thus ensuring satisfaction. It's possible to devolop a character's past, but not their emotional/philosopical state seperately in the manner I plan doing it after all. Also I plan on deleting everything I type about this after a set time, so no worries.