Welcome to my 'Killing Fate' project, a story written in a storyboard, describing how a manga made by this would look. I worked once on this, and with the help of other people, their reviews and suggestions, I was able to update it to, as I see, almost it's full potential.
Genres: shonen, humor, mystery, supernatural, action-adventure, dark.
So as I see it, before every chapter, there would be a page or two, telling some backstory or information that would not be displayed in manga, but that would give the reader a better understanding of characters and what is going around outside the scene, so they could get more immersed into the story.
The backstory of chapter 1 is also a bit of synopsis.
Spoiler
There was a small island near Madagascar. It didn't have a big population, maybe 6 or 7 families only lived there.
One day, a small meteorite hit the island, causing an explosion, and killing off everybody on it, except for 3 eight years old boys.
One of them was found by a cruise ship in Arabian Sea. They took him in, and helped him recover. The boy had a sword, but did not want to let other people have it
When the ship reached the coast, it was empty, every single passenger was killed with a sharp weapon, the boy's sword.
The boy travelled to Scandinavia, killing innocent people on his way. People started to call him the 'Tentacle' because he was a mysterious killer, who couldn't be stopped by armies.
In Norway, using his powers, he created his empire, and became a rich king.
The second boy awoke in Mozambique. He also had a sword. Filled with rage that he lost his father, he decide to clear the world of criminals and other evildoers so that noone would be hurt again. But he attracted the police's attention, so he was forced to kill even the good people who were after him. Following such events, he decided that he is above law, and that anyone who goes against him should die too. People called him the second killer, 'Vulcano' because it is said that his anger is unstoppable.
The third boy, our main hero, awoke in Australia. He had a sword with with him, but didn't want to keep it. He left it at the beach where he awoke, however the next morning the same sword appeared near his bed. No matter what he would do, the sword would come back to the boy in the morning.
An Australian family found him crying over his fate. They found out that the boy had lost his memory and had black eyes with red middles. They adopted him and took to their village.
But the children were mean to the boy, they would laugh at his red eyes and his amnesia.
One day, filled with anger, he killed the whole village. Scared of his own abilities, he started living a wild life, killing farm animals for meat. But fate was cruel to him, as he would lose consciousness and wake up in piles of blood. People called him the killing 'Bird', as no one knew where he would strike next. As Bird moved to central Asia while hunting for food, he noticed that words have appeared on his sword: "Killing - Killer's Fate"
Spoiler
1 page, 5 panels (2-2-1)
panel 1 Narration: You think your life is hard? Then just look at me... Picture:A boy's silhouette with a sword is shown standing on a mountain against the sunset in the sea.
Panel 2: Narration: For the past 3 years I've been killing people everywhere I go... Picture: The inside of someone's house, there's blood everywhere, a broken window and a dead grown up man with slash marks and an arm's biceps bitten off.
Panel 3: Narration: Sometimes to survive... Sometimes for My Own Pleasure... picture: the boy's face is shown and his sword held against it. The face has a little cut in it, blood is dripping. The hair is black and short. Eyes are red, while the rest of the eyeball is black (Could be painted grey and black). You can barely see a smile on his lips. The sword has some words written in red color: "Killing- Ki" and you can't see the rest.
panel 4 Narration: This is my fate as a killer... My... Picture: the sword is piercing through a human's. body, blood is spilling everywhere. You can see the Great China wall in the background. Now the whole sign on the sword is shown: "Killing - Killer's Fate"
Panel 5: there is a text on a grey background: "Killing Fate". The "Kill" And "Fa" parts are white, while "Ing" and "te" ar black. There are three black swords stuck in the letter F, and you can see a somekind of a six-armed human with six swords behind Ing part. Only a part of his chest, parts of his legs and arms with swords can be seen, 70% of the body is hidden.
Page two, 5 panels (1-2-2)
panel 1 Narration: Somewhere East. There is a riverside forest shown, and in the background you can see a Volcano. There's also a campfire on the grass, some bones.
Panel 2 The bones are showed from a closer view. It's an Ox's head, an uncooked porkchop and a snake's skeleton with some flesh still on it. Sfx show that the river's flow is heard (don't know what's the sound people use in English to describe it)
Panel 3: A bloody hand with blood dripping from it is shown. Trees in the background. Sfx: deep breathing and river's flow
Panel 4 (Is in the top left corner of Panel 5): A boy's face with blood on it is looking at something sadly. He says: "Oh are you dead already? But you were acting so badass..."
Panel 5: The boy is ducking near a dead man who has an open wound in his stomach. Rhe man's right arm is cut off, laying near him, there's a pistol in it's hand. The boy is licking the dripping blood from his own hand saying: "Well, I guess people do die if they are killed... poor guy."
Page 3, 6 panels .(1-2-2-1)
panel 1 : the boy is leaving the dead body. The body is on the right side and the speech bubble on the left "Rest in piece, meatbag " he says. Only above his waist is shown.
panel 2: The boy has returned to his campfire and started cooking his porkchop. He has his sword tied to him. Another dead body can be seen within the woods
panel 3 (Merged with Panel 2 from the left): A Sniper with a gun is shown hiding in the forest and aiming at someone. Another man is bending near him, you can see a katana tied up to his belt.
panel4 (Merged with panel 5): The sniper says "target locked"
panel 5 : The other one's face is shown as he replies : "Shoot the target within 3... 2..."
panel6 There's a speech bubble dragged from panel 5 saying : "1 " A shot bullet flying through the air from the gun is shown. The gun covers half of the sniper's face
Page 4, 5 panels (2-1-2)
Panel 1 : 3/4 of a strip, merged with panel 2. The boy is shown from the right. You can see the bullet going through the boy's chest.
Panel 2. 1/4 of the strip. Shows the katana wielder shouting "success!"
Panel 3: a strip showing the boy fall down in from the left side behind him.
Panel 4. Shows the katana wielder and the sniper cheering and high fiving, Sniper is shouting: "The 200 Grand are ours!"
Panel 5: Shows a maniac's smile on the boy's face. The eyes are still open.
Page 5; 6 panels (2-2-2)
Panel 1: The view is shown from sniper's lower back. You can see the boy slowly standing up. A revovler with six bullets is tied up to sniper's belt. Two "!" imply that the duo noticed the boy standing up.
Panel 2: a little bigger that Panel 1, merged with panel 4 below it. The sniper pulls out his revolver and the 3 sfx "click(?)" shows that he shot 3 times. Sniper is screaming.
Panel 3: Shows The boy already standing and the shots passing through without any harm, as if the the boy was air. The boy is smiling.
Panel 4: A little larger than Panel 3 , merged with panel 2. Sniper is screaming: "How is that son of a b*tch still alive?!"
Panel 5: The katana wielder runs out of the woods and pulls out his sword, saying: "My turn then!"
Panel 6: The angle is from behind of the boy's right shoulder, showing the katana wielder charging for him.
Page 6, 4 panels (1-2-1)
Panel1: Shows a white slash in the black background
Panel2: You can see the katana wielder slashing through the boy as he was air, without doing any damage, view from the kid's behind. Since the man is pretty close, you can see that the boy is kinda tall, the size of an average adult, but still shorter than his opponent.
Panel 3: Shows the horrified wielder's face as he asks : "How?"
Panel 4: Angle is from infront of the boy, almost from the swordsman's eyes. Shows the boy getting ready to punch "the reader", while saying: "I think it's called... "
Page 7, 3 panels
panel 1: takes 1/3 of the page, a vertical strip on the left side. Shows the boy hitting the swordsman with an uppercut punch and sending him a little bit into the air, while finishing the sentence from last page: "...Intangibility!"
panel 2 : Shows the swordsman's head as he hits the ground. Blood is comming out of his lower lip. Sfx: bump and speed lines to show the fall.
panel 3 : . Shows the boys foot chrushing the katana wielder's nose. a sfx that implies the nose is broke. Swordsman is unconscious.
Page 8, 4panels.
1 Panel: Shows the sniper holding his revovler with fear, ready to shoot the boy and asking: "Who... who are you?!"
Panel 2: The boy's sad face is shown as he answers: "I'm little Bird, who has broken out of the egg."
Panel 3: merged into panel 4 on it's top right corner. Shows the sniper screaming: "Ghwaaa!!!" as a sign of him being angry, as he shoots three times.
Panel 4: takes 2/3 of the page together with panel 3, Shows Bird standing on swordsman's face, while the bullets pass through him.
Page 9. 4 panels:
Panel 1: shows the sniper falling on his knees frightened, as the gun slips out of his hand. He says: "Oh fu*k me..."
Panel 2: Shows Bird's front face view. The boy is smiling as he answers: "You know... "
Panel 3: a view from the ground how Bird takes out his sword and puts it on the swordsman's face, between the eyes. he finishes his words from the last panel: "You're fu*ked already..."
Panel 4: Profile view. Shows how Bird pushes his sword through.
Panel 10, 4 panels:
panel 1: shows how Bird takes his sword out, doesn't show below his waist. A speech bubble shows that someone is talking: "Birds are meant to be free..."
Panel 2: Shows the sniper's terrified and surprised face, as someone continues talking: "They have beautiful feathers and voices..."
Panel 3 : A black eye with a red pupil is shown, with some white strings of hair falling on it, as someone continues to speak:"Their wings let them to fly high and unrestricted..."
Panel 4: Black words on a white background are shown: "But I can burn them down."
Page 11, 6 panels
panel 1: This panel is seperated to two triangles by a slash. One triangle shows Bird's face, the other - sniper's face as they both notice something in the sky.
Panel 2: A far Side view. A huge amount of birds flying straight down are shown. Not any specific species of birds, but different ones mixed all up together. Sniper is right below them.
Panel 3: Profile view. shows how suddenly all birds have attacked the sniper. There are so many, that not a part of him can be seen. Sfx that implies biting.
Panel 4: All of the birds run off like chicken, leaving a Bloody sniper standing, with his skin torn off.
Panel 5: profile view of sniper falling down dead
Panel 6: Shows someone's foot stepping on sniper's head.
Page 12, 1 panel. Shows a a really muscular boy standing with one foot on sniper's head. Sniper looks dead. The boy is wearing only pants and shoes, nothing on his tops. He is very strong, has a body of a weight lifter. Has white hair, that hasn't been cut in half a year or so. His head is lowered, hair covers his face so it can't be seen. He's holding a sword in his right hand. There are some letters on it, but too small to read.
Page 13, 4 panels
panel 1: Bird's confused face is shown. He asks: "And you're supposed to be?"
Panel 2: The other boy's face is shown, as he lifts his head a little. Now his black eye with the red midle can be sefm. He answers: "I'm the erupting Volcano. But you will know me as your killer"
Panel 3: a strip showing the profile of Bird from the right, as he lifts his sword against his opponent. "Killing - Killer's fate" can be seen written on the sword. Bird says: "Hah. Like that's an original line."
Panel 4: a strip showing the Volcano's profile from the left, as he lifts his sword against his opponent. Words can be seen on his sword: "Killing gets rid of evil ". Volcano says: "Sorry, came to kill, not to play."
Page 14, 5 panels
Panel 1: Bird's face's profile is shown, he's thinking: "Volcano? He's the second killer... His face also reminds me of something, but I can't figure out what!"
Panel 2: Volcano's profile with his face. He's thinking: "Well, he changed less than both of us, huh... He's still a free-spirited child. A child, That I will..."
Panel 3: Profile view. Shows Volcano charging out for Bird as he finishes his thought: "...KILL!"
Panel 4: A strip. Volcano tries to cut Bird in half, but he avoids it by doing a frontflip over Volcano.
Page 15, 4 panels:
panel 1: a view from the behind of Bird as Volcano and Bird are turning back to each other.
Panel 2: Volcano swings his sword but Bird shapeshifts into a small ball.
Panel 3: Volcano's sword stays in the same place as the ball flies behind him, implying ball's insane speed.
Page 16, 4 panels
panel 1: Bird turns back into human from the ball form behind Volcano, ready to swing his sword. A "!" near Volcano's head implies that he understood what happened.
panel 2: Volcano is able to swing his sword backwards to block Bird's attack without looking. A sfx that shows two swords hitting each other.
Panel3: A really backed up view. Bird jumps back with a long backflip. He is saying: "Why are you..."
Panel 4: Bird is standing, looking at Volcano, finishing his sentence: "...attacking me? You don't look like those people who go after the bounty?
Page 17, 5 panels
Panel 1: A crazy smile is shown on Volcano's face. "You mean you don't know? " he says
Panel2 : Bird is confused. He replies: "Don't know what?"
Panel 3: Volcano laughs: "You fool! Did you forget about us?! Did you think that only you got powers?"
Panel4 : Front view of Volcano holding his sword against 'the reader' is shown. His hair covers his right eye, and the left one is widened like a maniac's. He says: "Well let me enlighten you..."
Panel 5: A strip. Three swords are shown. One is Bird's with the text, second is Volcano's, the text can be seen too. The third one has text too, but it's blurred out. Volcano is the 'narrator' of this page as his words can be seen around the swords: "You are the Third Killer, Bird. You are known to the world as the weakest killer of all, that's why you still have a bounty on you" "The second killer is me, Volcano. I punish people for their evil deeds, that's why everyone is afraid of me" "The first killer is Tentacle, he's held the most powerful one. And only because he used his powers to create an empire!"
Page 18, panels
Panel 1: 1/6 of the page. Volcano's profile, as he continues his speech: "It's the swords, which we received after the meteorite crash, that give us powers! That's why I came to take yours!"
Panel 2: 1/6 of the page. A profile of Confused Bird as he asks: "What meteorite crash... What are you rambling about?"
Panel 3; in a top left corner of panel 4 The Volcano's face is shown as he holds his sword against his eyes. he says: "Explanations are meaningless. Now, God, I call upon you"
Panel 4: Shows a view from a 2 meters[6feet] high, to the right from in front of Volcano (the longest view I’ve ever wrote). Shows half of Volcano’s body and a new man that appeared from nowhere behind him. Volcano is looking back, at the peron, smiling. The person asks: “What is your wish? ” and Volcano replies: "I want my enemies to lose their powers "
Page 19, 5 panels
1 panel: a strip, showing how Volcano and Bird are standing against each other. The man is nowhere to be seen anymore. A speech bubble in the middle: "Your wish is granted"
Panel2: Bird's confused profile. He asks: "What was that all about?"
Panel 3: Volcano's giggling profile, as he answers: "One of my powers is to summon a God so that he would grant my wish for one hour..."
Panel 4: Front view of Volcano half of his face is shaded,"While my other power is..."
panel 5: Volcano is shown getting ready to attack. Wild animals gathering can be seen in the background. Volcano's speech bubble pops out of the panel: "To control all living animals…”
Page 20/21, a panel in 2 pages. Shows a huge amount of animals gathering around Bird from a bird’s view. Volcano finises his sentence: “in a half kilometre's radius!"
Page 22, 1 panel: Bird and Volcano are showed standing, they're separated by a slash "/". Volcano laughs at Bird: "So little Bird, What are you going to do without your wings?!" . Bird is grinning. Angry Animals and birds can be seen in both backgrounds.
Page 23, 4 panels
panel 1: Front view of Bird, doesn't go below his waist. Bird is looking at Volcano confused, as he replies: "I'm actually wondering..."
Panel 2: Shows Bird's face a from the right side (not a profile picture). Bird smiles and finishes his last sentence: "... How are you going to defeat me?"
Panel 3: Shows Volcano with a confused smile. He says: "Are you stupid? You lost your powers, but I still have mine! These animals will tear you apart!"
Panel 4 : Bird raises his sword and points to Volcano. "Yes, I lost my powers" he's says, and in the next bubble: "But my sword did not!"
Page 24, 5 panels
Panel 1: Shows shocked and frightened Volcano's eyes.
Panel2: Volcano throws his hand in the air and shouts: "Kill him!"
Panel 3: Shows from a 'worm's' perspective as animals jump on Bird.
Panel 4: A side view how animals bump to each other, because Bird turned into a ball and charged into Volcano (speed lines show the flying)
Panel 5: Bird turns back to human infront of Volcano and they both swing their swords to each other (swinging shown by speed lines). Bird is saying: "Looks like this..."
Page 25, 4 panels
panel 1: 1/6 of the page Seperated in two by a slash "\". In the left one there is Bird's eye, in the right one - Volcano's. It gives an impression that eyes are looking directly into each other.
Panel 2: 1/6 of the page Shows Bird's and Volcano's swords heading for each other, a moment from hitting.
Panel 3: Bird goes intangible and goes through Volcano, who is surprised that the swords didn't hit.
Panel 4: Bird turn around behind Volcano, swinging his sword. Volcano is still confused about what happened. Bird finishes his sentence: "...Was your last mistake Volcano!"
Page 24, 3 panels
panel 1: Profile view, a strip taking half of the page. Volcano takes a step forward trying to dodge the attack, but his lower back is still slashed. Blood is dripping.
Panel 2: Profile view: Shows Bird's face and body above the waist, just after the slash and the serious look he has. Drops of blood are flying in the air (no speed lines, to make the time look stopped)
Panel 3: Profile view. Shows Volcano falling and his mouth open for a scream. Blood drops are flying. Again, no speed lines to make the time look stopped.
Page 25, 3 panels.
panel 1: 1/3 of the page. Shows Volcano lying on the ground from Bird's view. The wound on his back is long but not wide, blood is coming out. The backbone is cut too. Inside censored by dark color.
Panel 2: Front view as Bird raises his sword saying: "You're just a mountain, not a volcano"
Panel 3: Front view of Volcano's face as his eyes widen in anger.
Page 26,
1 panel: The view is backed up behind Bird and a little to the right, showing how a huge wave of birds cover up Volcano's body and everything around it, including half of Bird's body. Bird is surprised.
Page 27, 4 panels:
Panel 1: birds fly away in the same huge wave, but Volcano's body cannot be seen anymore.
Panel 2 : Shows us right behind Bird, as he's watching the birds flying away. Words are shown on a whote background in the corner: "I will be back Bird!"
Panel 3: Shows front view of Bird's face, as he's still watching the birds. The words on a white background continue: "And I'll be back stronger! ". As an answer to that, Bird says: "Don't hope on me just sitting here and waiting"
Panel 4: This panel is cut into two: one side shows the right half of a serious Bird's face and the other one shows the left half of Volcano's angry face, merging these two halfs into 'one'.
Page 28, 3 panels.
panel 1 : Shows Bird as he's eating something. He's thinking: "Volcano will want revenge and with that wish of his, I will be defeated"
panel 2: Bird is cleaning his sword in the river. His thoughts are shown again: "The only way for me to defeat him, is to find this Tentacle guy. Volcano won't be able to defeat both of us!"
Panel3 : a strip with narration: "You think your life is hard? Well, just look at what I'm going to face..." . A castle with 8 towers is shown somewhere in a snowland.
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