Okay here's a premise
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Okay here's a premise
Okay here's a premise
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Our hero is a hotblooded sports boy
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really into, like
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let's say baseball
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Also maybe on the school newspaper
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He's a cool guy
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then one day he gets attacked by a monster and has all his energy/dreams/mojo stolen
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But just as he's blacking out, a glowing figure in pink and gold appears
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and fights off the monster
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And he's fine
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Though he has no idea who this mystery girl is
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He low key becomes obsessed with finding out who she is
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and eventually shanghais his friend in this investigation
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Anyway TL;DR
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This is a romcom fantasy adventure in the same vein as My Adventures with Superman
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but about a hapless boy who is trying to investigate the identity of a magical girl
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She's WAY cooler than him
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our boy gets rescued pretty regularly
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I dunno, I think the concept could be cute
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I was watching Go Princess Precure and there was a bit where the victim of the week was chasing after Flora despite being a civilian and they kind of had a moment
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Obviously it didn't lead anywhere
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but I think a show about some guy trying to find the secret identity of a magical girl because he's got a huge crush on her has merit
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especially if he's shanghaied the girl's civilian identity into his quest to find her, unwittingly
Quinneapolis
miraculous ladybug comes close except that it makes the boy also magic, which ruins the hook
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yeah
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The boy is Lois Lane
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he's reasonably cool but not in the same ballpark as the bad guys
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And survives through his wits, guts, and super powered protector
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I pictured the magic girl as like
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I don't know how to describe her other than a phainein character
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very good at seeming aggressively cute and friendly but there's some kind of damage underneath it all
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She is very concerned about this guy who keeps on getting involved in her battle with the queen of darkness or whatever she's doing
Echo
He's just charging into the battlefield like HEY I THINK YOU'RE REALLY COOL AND I MADE YOU SOME CHOCOLATE BUT LIKE IF YOU DON'T WANT IT NO PRESSURE
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Star Princess Sapphire like “THATS VERY SWEET BUT IM A LITTLE BUSY”
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Or whatever her title is
dragon time
I'm sold! I like it when there's a normal guy who is not on the mahou girls level in terms of cool but does his best
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It’s very important to me that he is of no cosmic or mystic importance whatsoever
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They aren’t destined lovers
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He never awakens to his own power and joins the team
Quinneapolis
he's some guy
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He’s just a guy in a weird situation
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He can have one (1) scene where he saves the day through cleverness
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As a treat
ArtIsArt
What if. Instead of cleverness. It's genre savviness. Because he read everything he could on magical girls.
Quinneapolis
genre savviness is a curse
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We are not doing genre savvyness
dragon time
I think he can save her once but also he can do stuff like help other normal people get away from monsters until she shows up
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Or show up with a blanket and a thermos of coffee for whoever got monstered
Quinneapolis
his main contribution is being her emotional support boy
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And getting himself halfway out of any trouble that he gets himself into
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getting princess carried a lot
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Soliloquizing about how incredible she is
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"Do you think she uses special shampoo or is it just like that"
dragon time
"Is there also a magical hairdresser is that the source of her powers"
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I think, continuing the Superman parallels, he’s not a sports boy he’s a reporter boy
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He’s a reporter boy who also does sports
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He may be a sports boy as well but that’s on the side
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Reporter is just a really good excuse for constantly throwing himself into dangerous situations that he can’t actually handle on his own
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Gotta Get That Scoop
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I’m trying to decide if it’s that or if it’s just straight up “I’m obsessed with this magical girl and need to find out more about her”
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Is he like a reporter for the school paper or does he have like a YouTube channel or something?
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I imagined school paper but like your idea is not without merit
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He Has A Blog
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He’s a cryptid hunter
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Has a blog about it
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And magical girls are cryptic
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Cryptids*
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but then he must choose between leaving the magical girl mystery unsolved and betraying her trust
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That’s the climax of the story.
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Finding out who she is and realizing he has to make a decision
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A fun thing about this would be that you wouldn’t see the actual magical girl transformation sequence until the back half
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Since we’re not seeing the story from her point of view