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7/30/2025, 4:20:11 PM
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One other idea to help you develop your own brainstorming process is to try to reverse engineer other series and make a guess as to how they probably came up with theirs.
It doesn't matter whether it's the right guess or not, it helps you braintstorm your own ideas.
Lets take Naruto for example, and try to guess where it probably spawned from
>story about ninjas
That's the absolute base
>shanty buildings with pipes all around
We know that Kishimoto has a unique sense of design when it comes to architecture, all the pipes and shanty buildings, it may not be our taste but it's his and if we are to put ourselves in his mind, we must pretend it is our taste too. Regardless of what the story is, he probably just wanted to draw that stuff and so we must find a way to fit it into the world.
>Okay so it's in a sort of modern world, hence the pipes... but there's ninjas so it's not just the modern world
>It's a shonen series, it would be pretty moody if it were just realistic ninja's, so lets make them more exciting, maybe they can jump really high and teleport, stuff ninjas in fantasy seem to be able to do
>but how can they do that? maybe they have some kind of magic powers
and so you invent the chakra system that
At some point you'd have to design characters, and Kishimoto's taste for a shonen series probably involved cute kid characters
>okay they're kids, but they're ninjas? are they just kid ninjas on their own? that's a pretty brutal life, well maybe some are (Haku and Gaara are spawned from this). But to make it more lighthearted lets make them student ninjas
And from that you naturally come up with the idea of a teacher ninja (Kakashi), and a schooling system. And from that you naturally come up with the idea of there being other ninja students with their own teachers and maybe they have little teams they stay in to compete with one-another.
One other idea to help you develop your own brainstorming process is to try to reverse engineer other series and make a guess as to how they probably came up with theirs.
It doesn't matter whether it's the right guess or not, it helps you braintstorm your own ideas.
Lets take Naruto for example, and try to guess where it probably spawned from
>story about ninjas
That's the absolute base
>shanty buildings with pipes all around
We know that Kishimoto has a unique sense of design when it comes to architecture, all the pipes and shanty buildings, it may not be our taste but it's his and if we are to put ourselves in his mind, we must pretend it is our taste too. Regardless of what the story is, he probably just wanted to draw that stuff and so we must find a way to fit it into the world.
>Okay so it's in a sort of modern world, hence the pipes... but there's ninjas so it's not just the modern world
>It's a shonen series, it would be pretty moody if it were just realistic ninja's, so lets make them more exciting, maybe they can jump really high and teleport, stuff ninjas in fantasy seem to be able to do
>but how can they do that? maybe they have some kind of magic powers
and so you invent the chakra system that
At some point you'd have to design characters, and Kishimoto's taste for a shonen series probably involved cute kid characters
>okay they're kids, but they're ninjas? are they just kid ninjas on their own? that's a pretty brutal life, well maybe some are (Haku and Gaara are spawned from this). But to make it more lighthearted lets make them student ninjas
And from that you naturally come up with the idea of a teacher ninja (Kakashi), and a schooling system. And from that you naturally come up with the idea of there being other ninja students with their own teachers and maybe they have little teams they stay in to compete with one-another.
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