Naturally, I agree with you. I would've loved to make it so that the MC gets more powerful way slower than he is right now... But I'm also looking at 2+ months of development time for each chapter, not to mention that single arcs (like the butcher's) are getting split into even more that one chapter, taking 4+ months to finish, when I initially would've thought it'd take only 2 or so.
I get that it's tough, lol. Even if you plan well there're always things you're missing or things you're adding that change everything, so don't be too harsh with yourself.
. On that note I look forward to giving her a proper "instant loss" moment once the relationship has progressed that far.
7+ years?
You migh as well just move to Japan, apply to be a mangaka and pitch this game/story to Shonen Jump ( not in that specific order ). Practically most successful mangas run for very long extended period of over 5 years, even decades. Not sure Shone does hentai though, but even without the lewds, the story itself is already great. Shonen already owns Naruto so they should be fine with all the ninja bits in Stray Incubus. The biggest problem is language barrier I think. ( if all is well according to plan ). So, clearly there is a need for time skips so that the Zycris and the gang becomes stronger off-screen, otherwise at current pace Zycris can only reach 2 belts above Purple. Well, actually it doesn't even matter what his belt color is, how much mastery he has over the hidden powers/abilities within him. I think stuffs like creating and maintaining multiple clones without fatigue, floating meditation, and magic focus training among other things, can be done off-screen. These capabiities that were shown by other higher level ninjas ( Stephanie, Anabelle, Hailey, Venus ). Although players will miss out the relationship building and interactions during the training sessions, adding elaborated, full training scenes will further stretch and delay the main story IMO. But yeah, it's a catch 22, the training scenes will be great for some bonding time but at a cost.Well, Torr and Candy will never actually be bg characters. They're important for the plot ofc. Now I'm thinking the whole things is gonna be 2-2.5 seasons long (3 at most). Season 1 is looking like it's gonna be around 12 chapters. So a total of 22 as you calculated isn't far off, maybe it'd be closer to 25-30 tho. Of course, the second I move out, which should be sometime in the next 4-7 months, I have no idea how my daily schedule will look like, so whether I'll get slower or faster is really hard to say rn...7+ years?
On a more serious note, there are at most 2 episode left before Stray Incubus first anniversary, for a total of 10 episodes/chapters for the first year. Taking the maximum development cycles of 2 months and maximum run of 3 years, theoritically there will be a total of 22 episode/chapters
Regarding Torr and Candy, yeah it does not make sense to make them as strong as Zycris or even progress at the same rate. It is better that everyone grow at their own healthy pace IMO and Zycris will just do it faster. It is fine for him because he will join other high ranking ninjas for more dangerous missions. It will not always be the same trio ( Zycris Torr Candy ) for every missions, hence IMO why Torr and Candy arc is very early and quite elaborated because there is possibility that they will be less prominent but not completely background characters in many future missions especially.
Good chance, yes. Not 100% sure, tho, since writing the whole thing isn't finished.
Well, I can't tell you, can I? That's a spoiler XD
Thank you!
Good chance, yes. Not 100% sure, tho, since writing the whole thing isn't finished.
Well, I can't tell you, can I? That's a spoiler XD
Toni would probably be the only mystery I wouldn't mind not being solved by the end of this hahaha
Good enough for me!
