How do they do it?
The power of imagination!
>>283644356I imagine that Araki works backwards a lot of the time he has a situation he wants to draw and comes up with a power that can fulfill that situation.
>>283644356>see someone else's cool idea>steal it>see another cool idea>steal it>repeat a few times>combine all the ideas into something newAll artists are thieves and liars. A deck of cards has 52 cards, and those 52 cards are known and used everywhere. Originality is just reshuffling a deck of cards into a pattern that has never been seen before.
>>283644604I doubt this. I remember reading somewhere that he has stand ideas that he "stores" for future use
>>283644691>anon who has never gone outside before in their entire life
>>283644691Sure generic abilities exist, but amazing powers like those in csm or jjba still exist
Easy. Just think of some basic concept everyone's aware of (e.g. memories), then imagine if you could directly manipulate it in some other fashion (e.g. sacrifice memories to produce power as if you were burning firewood) and explore the physical, psychological, and in some cases sociological consequences of such a power. In cases like Araki, you instead start with thinking about what you want to fuck up first (e.g. sense of balance, fingers, children's games, friction, etc.) and think about how to weaponize that. Even basic powers can be spiced up, like how Fire Force comes up with dozens of variations on the base concept of fire magic. Coming up with relatively novel ideas is actually pretty fun if you look to mundane phenomena for inspiration instead of media.
>>283644823I see
>>283644506Fucking hell. FPBP.
>>283644356It comes down to being able to "see" with an artist's eyesIt's a skill you can learn, but some people have more potential for it than others You have to look at things and break them down into various elements and concepts, and recognize how they come together to make what they areOnce you have that, it's not a huge leap to then take the connecting points these parts have and then find a way to attach them to something else instead. It's not too different from learning how to build something impressive with legos; you start by becoming acquainted with the bricks themselves and figuring how to use them to get what you want, then you move on to more abstract things and start building new ideas out of the concepts you're familiar with, and then building the idea physically with bricks.
>>283644960You're overthinking it
>>283645028How?
>>283644945When they come up with powers mangakas just think of ways to make them interesting, there's not much to do with breaking things down into concepts and all
>>283645146Maybe that's not how they're thinking about the process, but that's how the process works To make them interesting they take ideas from all over the place and find a way to connect them to the core idea in a way that they like
>>283645146I read a short story called the Emperor's Soul where the power system worked by using stamps to change the essence of a thing stamped with them. In an interview the author talked about what inspired it and it was exactly like that. First he thought about artists putting a stamp on their work as a signature (as is normal for east Asia), then he kinda just let his mind wander and toyed with the concepts until he ended up with the stamp itself being the work of art that makes the piece how it is rather than the working of the piece itself, the making of the stamp being the real art and the painting just being the result of applying the stamp. And then he considered that this idea could be separated from painting entirely and applied to all sorts of crafts, and realized he had just come up a cool power system. He took something and looked at it with artist's eyes, and remade it with a combination of other concepts.
>>283644356Don't bother finding that out; steal ideas from what you like
>>283644356(When they're well written) powers are intrinsically linked with a character's personality/backstory/arc and (should) align narratively with the core message of the story; come up with a solid idea for a character and let its contents define their abilities later, ones that best reflect the aforementioned, provide the biggest hurdle for them to climb, the most satisfying payoff etc, Whitesnake can make memory/souls discs because Pucci wanted to preserve her sister's memory, in Jojo minor characters parallel the main antagonists' own powers so you get Prison Jailbreak and different flavors of gravity/destiny manipulationProtagonists usually get very basic powers because those are the ones with the most potential, with the tradeoff of having to work around their limits/weaknessesIt varies from author to author, but for Jojo check out bladeofthegrass, he breaks down what stands symbolize very well
>>283647177Alr thanksAlso how does bumping work on this board? Why is it on the 9th page
>>283648523?
>>283645452brandon sanderson does have some nice power systems
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>>283648590i thought it's pretty limiting
>>283648590Too bad he's past his peak though His new books aren't good anymore
>>283648590The only good power system he has is feruchemy and it's the least used in its series because he's afraid of its extra capacity for bullshit.
