Saturday, June 24, 2017

Variety, Story Rotation, Arc Completion, and Timelines

Are you bored of the current story lineup?

Is it tiring to have had the same three stories every month for the past seven months?

The current story lineup consists of two stories which focus on the teen girls who attend Korekara Academy.  It also has two stories which focus on demons more than humans.  In addition, both of the Korekara stories follow somebody who is bright and pure of heart interacting with peers who are decidedly not cheerful, good people.

In addition, both Yokaishiteru! and Akuma No Imouto are stories "without end".  Similar to a newspaper comic, they've been designed specifically to keep going with more new content for a very long time; there is no specific end in sight for them.

Checkboxes, meanwhile, will be ending when it reaches Chapter 33.  At the current rate of posting, that should take just under three years.  I do not intend to put Checkboxes on hiatus at any point, as to reach this chapter at the time I've projected.

Akuma No Imouto and Yokaishiteru, however, are both approaching a good 'pause point', being the end of their first story arcs.  The point at which I will gather up the chapters and put them into a volume for purchase, as there is a beginning, middle, and end to the arc.  When a season of television ends, its timeslot is used for another show.  Likewise, when I finish an arc, I'd like to fill the slots with something else, to vary the options for new readers.

I have four slots, though one has been empty since January.

 Week 1: Yokaishiteru (Starts in-universe January 2016, goes forward from there.)
Week 2: Checkboxes (In-universe October 2015 till January 2016)
Week 3: Akuma No Imouto (Starts in-universe July 2020, goes forward from there)
Week 4: Empty

Following the completion of Yokaishiteru and Akuma's first arcs, this is what I would like the schedule to look like:
Week 1: Evil Meet Justice (Starts in-universe April 1993, goes forward from there.)
Week 2: Checkboxes
Week 3: Bad Dreams (Starts in-universe March 1994, goes forward from there.)
Week 4: Mahou Shonen Just Say No (Starts in-universe October 2016, goes forward from there.  Alternate Timeline from the rest;.)

And starting in January 2018, I would like the schedule to look like this:
Week 1: Evil Meet Justice
Week 2: Checkboxes
Week 3: Akuma No Imouto
Week 4: Mahou Shonen Just Say No
Posting Outside of Schedule: 24 Doors (In-universe February 2024)

I'm hoping this will give a little more variety to the lineup.
For information on the new titles, click below the readmore!

Evil Meet Justice
Tina Packard has always known that she will be a force for justice.  It isn't a matter of hoping to be, but a certainty, as she's been raised under the watchful eye of the International Intrigue Agency, a group founded shortly after World War II to protect the world from international threats from behind the scenes, to become an agent.  She's learning as she goes that though others may see her as nothing but a tool, a means to an end, she can be better than that.

Bad Dreams
Mandrake Birch has been having nightmares.  He knows that they're nightmares, and nothing more than that, but he's sharing them in an online dream forum, and people are suggesting that they could be something more meaningful than that.  He's loathe to care what they say, until he discovers who's really behind a tragic event at his high school and discovers that having people who'll listen to what he says could be beneficial in the process of getting revenge.

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