True this at the last part. I'm so sick and tired of people using sailor moon as a strong hold whenever another magical girl comes out that's obviously very different from the sailor moon series. The ignore the different and focuses on what looks simular.
About the sterotypes, a lot of times it can't really be avoided if you make characters in general. What *can* be avoided however, is what you make your character do and what you make your character act like. What if your character wears the color black because that's their favorite color? What if the character likes the emo fashion /gothic lolita fashion because she or he finds beauty within it? A lot of times the sterotyping comes in based on what the person wears/likes/does. If anyone sees a touch of resemblance to anything that says sterotype, the person automatically goes "MARY SUE!" without understanding the full 410 of the character's background and personality.
While we are on the subject, another that irks me is when people just pick one trait for their characters and then wonder why they get called mary sues, even if they are given a fault, if the character is flat tossed along with the well known sterotypes then it's just boring. But if you flesh out the characters and make them "real", then the character is no longer a sterotype but a character that we run into every day, a character that we live with and interact with in real life.
ANOOOTHER thing that bothers me is when people teach you shit in the how to draw anime books, and say "this is a must" or "draw this and you get this! LOL!". To me it doesn't teach anything, to me that's copying and hindering your creativity process.
Story creating is about creativity and uniqueness, it's free flowing and people who make stories should feel free to make whatever character they want without feeling ridiculed or pressured for it. If you wanna make a character with rainbow hair, make a character with rainbow hair!! Just.... if you do, make the character real, and give her real eye colors, real personalities, real life situations, make the character based off your best friend or something! Don't just make a shiny desu girl with everything rainbows... that gets a little dull and annoying. :]
If you need anymore things added to your journal feel free to borrow any of these, I don't mind. I'm just a random person browsing through looking for writing and character creation types for the fantasy/magical girl genre.
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About the sterotypes, a lot of times it can't really be avoided if you make characters in general. What *can* be avoided however, is what you make your character do and what you make your character act like. What if your character wears the color black because that's their favorite color? What if the character likes the emo fashion /gothic lolita fashion because she or he finds beauty within it? A lot of times the sterotyping comes in based on what the person wears/likes/does. If anyone sees a touch of resemblance to anything that says sterotype, the person automatically goes "MARY SUE!" without understanding the full 410 of the character's background and personality.
While we are on the subject, another that irks me is when people just pick one trait for their characters and then wonder why they get called mary sues, even if they are given a fault, if the character is flat tossed along with the well known sterotypes then it's just boring. But if you flesh out the characters and make them "real", then the character is no longer a sterotype but a character that we run into every day, a character that we live with and interact with in real life.
ANOOOTHER thing that bothers me is when people teach you shit in the how to draw anime books, and say "this is a must" or "draw this and you get this! LOL!". To me it doesn't teach anything, to me that's copying and hindering your creativity process.
Story creating is about creativity and uniqueness, it's free flowing and people who make stories should feel free to make whatever character they want without feeling ridiculed or pressured for it. If you wanna make a character with rainbow hair, make a character with rainbow hair!! Just.... if you do, make the character real, and give her real eye colors, real personalities, real life situations, make the character based off your best friend or something! Don't just make a shiny desu girl with everything rainbows... that gets a little dull and annoying. :]
If you need anymore things added to your journal feel free to borrow any of these, I don't mind. I'm just a random person browsing through looking for writing and character creation types for the fantasy/magical girl genre.
-Eternal-.
Thank you for your input! 
What this journal needs is a little rewrite I think
What this journal needs is a little rewrite I think
Interesting point about the sterotypes. And I feel your distaste for the carbon copying of traits. o.o I think my beef with the [Magical Girl] animes I have watched is that the main character is just that. A flat character given a fault. It especially urks me when the teammates go on to praise this main character as if they were more than just that. Not all of them do this of course. If a character is really as amazing as they're supposed to be, then they won't need teammates to point that out. A dynamic character can speak for itself -- at least I think so. ^^
Yes! Although a lot of people say that "nothing orignal comes out anymore, everything's copied from something, blah blah blah," That might be true, but that's no excuse to just say "f*** it" and toss out a generic story without even trying. The whole "bad guy vs. good guy" will never get old. But without innovation, it will get boring. And yes, enough of the desu girls o.o pleeeease.
Thanks again for reading my journal! ^O^
No problem! And another tip I have is to avoid making your stories sound like "Sailor MOON! OMG!" Avoid planetary anything (zodiacs, planet names, etc etc *cough*Laura Faust*COUGH*) , and avoid designing simular outfits. Just because it's a magical girl doesn't mean that she needs to look like a fricken sailor, yet whenever people out there make "how to do magical girl" tutorials they always say "sailor outfits and long frilly bows!" *COUGH*CHRIS HART*COUGH* (he does this often in his how to magical girl tutorials).
Another tip you can add to this journal is to avoid "sailor moon" sounding villains , give them a motivation and look up research on criminal motivation/ criminal behavior. What causes criminals to do what they do. It needs to be something other than "MWAHAHHHAA I WANNA GET RID OF EVERYTHING BECAUSE I HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT". Sadly a lot of these magical girls fall into this trap. Sailor Moon being the first to do so though I'm kinda glad she was the first; now when I write stories I know what to avoid to make it seem more realistic. xD
Another tip you can add to this journal is to avoid "sailor moon" sounding villains , give them a motivation and look up research on criminal motivation/ criminal behavior. What causes criminals to do what they do. It needs to be something other than "MWAHAHHHAA I WANNA GET RID OF EVERYTHING BECAUSE I HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT". Sadly a lot of these magical girls fall into this trap. Sailor Moon being the first to do so though I'm kinda glad she was the first; now when I write stories I know what to avoid to make it seem more realistic. xD