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Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

She looks good. My only issue is her age might be a bit low, I was thinking more 15-18.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

Honestly, if the characters were Japanese people in an English-speaking country and they weren't fluent, I'd get a bit of Engrish being thrown in, but that's not the case here. This is set in Japan, things are going to either be written in Japanese or in English. The former preferably just in the case of proper nouns. I'm fine with hero names being Japanese, but if it's just going to be English words written as if they're being said with a Japanese accent, it should be written in English.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

There's not really anything to translate. The "Japanese" name there is just how someone from Japan would pronounce the English name because of their accent.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

That looks fine for the most part. There is one thing I feel the need to point out though. Some translation sites, when they see words that don't exist in Japanese, will essentially do what the Japanese would do for those words. Which is to say, they'll spell them out in katakana, an alphabet generally used for loanwords. This is generally accompanied by something written in the English alphabet, which isn't a translation per se, just a phonetic pronunciation of the katakana version of what you wrote. You've more or less written "Runelight Dancer (Runelight Dancer)" for his hero name, just with an accent for the first one.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

Okay, sorry I haven't been active for the past couple of days. I was feeling a bit under the weather. I'm glad to see more interest from people.

@Great Sogeking: Looks good to me, accepted!

@Duthguy: I'm fine with people getting ideas from existing media, but I can't accept a character that's copied more or less entirely from something.

@Zardoric: That sounds reasonable. One last thing before I accept it, Sogeking's profile reminded me of a field I forgot to put in the sheet. I'm going to need a name for his hero form.

Also, I've put up an OOC thread.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

Character list going here...well, when there are characters.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

To most of the world, the Ishinomori Academy is simply a perfectly normal, if exclusive boarding school in the perfectly normal town of Asagata. However, this couldn't be much further from the truth. The Academy's student body is made up entirely of transforming superheroes, and the curriculum reflects this. In addition to standard subjects, students study to improve their effectiveness against the forces of evil. The town itself plays an important role in the Academy's unique goals, having been built in what is quite possibly the single worst location on the planet.

To elaborate, the town is located near a haunted Sengoku era battlefield, with an island of animals mutated into sapient humanoids (who believe their rapid evolution to be a sign of their superiority and right to rule over mankind) by less than ethical experiments by a local laboratory and to top it all off, a series of caves further inland seem to serve as a portal to Hell. Normally, this would be grounds for everyone to pack their bags and leave, not to mention making an awful environment to educate children. However, the Academy serves to keep the townspeople safe while using these assorted threats to aid in training the heroes of tomorrow, teaching them the value of teamwork, as well as how to adapt to a variety of foes.

While many of the Academy's students are recruited after being chosen by a deity, finding artifacts of ancient super-science or otherwise gaining their heroic identity, there are rare instances where people are scouted for particularly impressive acts of courage. These students are gifted devices from the Academy's research teams to allow them to transform. However, just because someone is approached by the Academy's representatives doesn't mean they have to attend, in the end the choice lies with them and their families.

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So, this RP will follow the students of a school for magical girls/boys and tokusatsu-style heroes in the fictional Japanese town of Asagata through a perfectly normal school year where nothing will go wrong, honest. The RP is intended to be light-hearted and comedic for the most part, although there will be serious moments in the plot. That said, it should still have the potential to come back to comedy after those events.

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Character sheets:


Student:
Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Hero Name:
Abilities:
Skills:
Brief Backstory:


Staff:
Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Abilities:
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Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

@Pair of Hearts I don't really have a starting date in mind other than "when there's a decent number of characters", but even if it starts that soon, I'll be happy to accept more characters afterwards.

@Zardoric Is covering the blade in shadows just a general "hits harder" thing? Also, not really an issue, but it's probably worth keeping in mind that him being armed might not be too intimidating, since basically everyone in the academy's likely to be carrying a weapon, even if it's not as visible.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

This is a school for transforming heroes, like magical girls (and boys) and those you'd see in Super Sentai/Power Rangers and Kamen Rider. I'm not saying they'd be petty enough to turn away a hero because they don't transform to fight, rather that given the kind of setting this is, people like that wouldn't exist.

Ishinomori Academy, a School for Magical Girls and Toku Heroes

Honestly, the problem with saying there are similar places throughout the world is...there aren't. Of course, being a tokusatsu/magical girl-inspired setting, there are other places dealing with villains of their own. And those places have heroes of their own. However, as the "single worst location" remark suggested, Asagata has pretty much lucked out in that regard. Maybe being pretty much on top of a portal to Hell has something to do with that.

And as far as the character sheet stuff goes, it's a high school, so ages would be around 15-18 and...I prefer to judge characters' power when I see the sheet. In part because I want to trust people to not go overboard (especially since these characters are mostly going to be new to their powers/gear) and in part because I've had headaches with people trying to use technicalities to get overpowered characters into RPs because I didn't specifically mention those abilities when saying what would be considered overpowered.