Shonen RP Survey

[June Billson]

Hi there! I'm planning on starting a roleplay and would like to base it off a shonen series or at least have heavy shonen influence. Once I've decided on what to focus on, I'll make a write up and draft a few plots and arcs before posting the whole thing. However, before investing my time into it, I'd like to ask what the general public would be in to. I'd wanna know what would people want to work with. The possible choices would be the following:

• A One Piece RP. We can focus on a single crew's adventures around the Grand Line or a special marine operative team who rise up through the ranks, aiming to go to the New World.
• A My Hero Academia RP. I'm open for a story revolving around students in a hero academy, vigilantes of a certain city, or a group of villains (we can talk about their goals later).
• Magical Hero Academy. So imagine something like Harry Potter, but instead of wizardry, you'll be brought to a magical school where you train to become the heroes you here from legends and fairy tales. Think something similar to a magic-based hero academia. Expect dungeon diving, monster hunting, and questing.
• An Isekai RP.
  • Reincarnated into monsters, so a plot similar to Re: Monster or The Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime. To avoid the grind, we'll have time skips in between and focus on story arcs to keep the plot progressing.
  • Reincarnated as your ideal self or just brought to a new world as yourselves. You'll be the proclaimed heroes of that world and are tasked to protect them from the incoming demonic onslaught, or something similar. So a plot similar to Shield Hero.
  • Brought to a fantasy world as an adventurer. So most activities will revolve questing and the like. More semi-sandbox with the occasional plot inserted from time to time.

Anyway, hoping for some feedback. If none, I guess this'll just get buried with the other threads.

[Hammerman]

Isekai RP is useless with a group since the whole point of the genre is to become the most overpowered fucker in the setting.

[Floch]

The way I see it.

My Hero Academia.
Given the recent developments in the manga, and if you haven't read it. I suggest you do since it would help you with your ideas etc.
Plus Ultra to the point that we all know everyone in this guild is a sucker for it. So I rank this first.

Magical Hero Academy. It's cool. So enlighten me.

Isekai. It's nearly impossible to pull it like Hammerman pointed out.

Shounen, you say? Where is Nardo?

[King Cosmos]

A One Piece RP. We can focus on a single crew's adventures around the Grand Line or a special marine operative team who rise up through the ranks, aiming to go to the New World.

@June Billson

This is the one I'd be most interested in. It's a cool world to explore and there's an inherent freedom to the idea of being a pirate in the One Piece world that would interest me. The separate islands make for easily defined story arcs as well.

A My Hero Academia RP. I'm open for a story revolving around students in a hero academy, vigilantes of a certain city, or a group of villains (we can talk about their goals later).

@June Billson

You'd probably get the most interest from something like this, since it's the new big shounen for a lot of people, but I think that interest can be good and bad. I've seen more than a few MHA RPs die really early as a lot of people gain and lose interest quickly; you'll probably get a lot of applicants and 'flash in the pan' interest and then most of them will flake.

I have a character for the setting that I'd love to explore more though, so I'd be one of those people applying.

An Isekai RP.

• Reincarnated into monsters, so a plot similar to Re: Monster or The Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime. To avoid the grind, we'll have time skips in between and focus on story arcs to keep the plot progressing.
• Reincarnated as your ideal self or just brought to a new world as yourselves. You'll be the proclaimed heroes of that world and are tasked to protect them from the incoming demonic onslaught, or something similar. So a plot similar to Shield Hero.
• Brought to a fantasy world as an adventurer. So most activities will revolve questing and the like. More semi-sandbox with the occasional plot inserted from time to time.

@June Billson

It's not impossible; the longest running RP I've ever been in, which is still running in fact, is an isekai RP. But it probably takes more of a guiding hand than you're expecting. Giving people free reign over their levelling up and skill gains won't end well; ideally you'd give people a setting and a system to work with and they could go from there or you could be more involved and control when they level and what they have access to.

Maybe think of it as running a DnD campaign without the dice rolls than anything else; you're the DM/GM and they are the players. You create the world and they explore it.

[June Billson]

The way I see it.

My Hero Academia.
Given the recent developments in the manga, and if you haven't read it. I suggest you do since it would help you with your ideas etc.
Plus Ultra to the point that we all know everyone in this guild is a sucker for it. So I rank this first.

@Indra

Yeah, I'm updated with it. The only thing that makes me veer a bit away from this is the world and character building since I dislike using canon characters. Otherwise, big fan of the series.

Magical Hero Academy. It's cool. So enlighten me.

@Indra

Random teen finds out they've got a magical ability. Random adult tells them there's a school and whisks them away to who knows where.
They train in an academy with other teens and shit. Something like MxO and Blue Exorcist with MHA.

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This is the one I'd be most interested in. It's a cool world to explore and there's an inherent freedom to the idea of being a pirate in the One Piece world that would interest me. The separate islands make for easily defined story arcs as well.

<Snipped quote by June Billson>

You'd probably get the most interest from something like this, since it's the new big shounen for a lot of people, but I think that interest can be good and bad. I've seen more than a few MHA RPs die really early as a lot of people gain and lose interest quickly; you'll probably get a lot of applicants and 'flash in the pan' interest and then most of them will flake.

I have a character for the setting that I'd love to explore more though, so I'd be one of those people applying.

<Snipped quote by June Billson>

It's not impossible; the longest running RP I've ever been in, which is still running in fact, is an isekai RP. But it probably takes more of a guiding hand than you're expecting. Giving people free reign over their levelling up and skill gains won't end well; ideally you'd give people a setting and a system to work with and they could go from there or you could be more involved and control when they level and what they have access to.

Maybe think of it as running a DnD campaign without the dice rolls than anything else; you're the DM/GM and they are the players. You create the world and they explore it.

@King Cosmos

With One Piece Stampede out and the recent chapters, can't deny that I'm a little hyped for OP.

I've been checking the MHA and Isekai RP threads and I get your point. Some have over 20 character sheets but only a handful are active, and based on other RP sites, Isekai RPs tend to not last long unless there's consistency from both the GM and participants.

So far, its gonna be OP versus MHA.

[Floch]

MHA