u/Customercomplainer

I currently need to be working on choreographing a fight scene, but I have a bit of a problem. I only have one source that looks anything like what my heroes can physically do. If I only take from one source that stops being a love letter and starts being a ripoff. In the first episodes, my main trio only has physical combat abilities, not elemental abilities. My main character fights like Pearl from Steven Universe and uses a weapon like Amethyst from the same show. There are plenty of versions of the weapon, but they're usually more elemental. Similarly, I also have a stealth and senses-based archer character. Inuyasha (barely) is the only show I know of where the archer has dynamic fight scenes despite there being countless archer magical girls (Mint, Sailor Mars, technically Madoka, Opal from Steven Universe again), and while drawing a bow and releasing still looks cool, I do want to show more than that.

Background info my hyperverbal self wants to add despite it having very little to do with my point; I wasn't sure what this counted as, but basically, I'm currently working on creating a magical girl show. One of the main points is that it's a love letter to the genre in the same way that Gamoverse is a love letter to video games, and Black Clover is to Shonen. When creating a design or backstory in addition to my own story, I take inspiration from several sources, including clearly influenced sources that some people "may not count" such as Steven Universe, Winx Club, and Witch. But also Shugo Chara, Tokyo Mew Mew, Madoka Magika (with some convincing), and Sailor Moon. Also, Pretty Cure influences their designs (my costume designer kept favoring different Pretty Cure shows. I don't blame her it's obvious they have a huge budget), but I haven't watched them, and I have trouble getting through any of them. Make no mistake. I have extreme respect, especially from the clips I see, but if this applies, I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't know which scene to look up. Magic is still shown in my show, but currently, it's only used for basically elemental healing, not physical combat. Also, this makes it kinda seem heavily influenced by Steven Universe, but actually, most of my team compares it to Madoka Magika first. Which makes me a bit sad bc I'm specifically trying to capture the opposite. Madoka Magika deconstructed the horror. I'm trying to reconstruct the magic behind it. Madoka Magika does, however, still heavily understand the genre, so it's kinda impossible to ignore. Also, K-pop demon hunters came out after I had just designed heights in the same way and was doubting it would be visually appealing or popular, and it felt like it appeared just to correct me.

TLDR: Are there any shows, ideally magical girl or magical girl adjacent shows featuring a whip weapon, and an archer who moves? Ideally, more than one. I'm asking here specifically bc i want the fight to look like a magical girl fight despite no elements yet and not a shonen fight. And can you tell me the specific fight/episode?

Yo! The first post here, I think.

Does anyone know any finished historical romance manhwa where both leads have equal agency and motivation in the story?

Or at least like in "Villainesses Are Destined to Die," the lead that affects the story less only shows up when making that change?

Even though the genre favors women, both ml and fl seem to have this problem that usually they have a really intersections story and setup, but one of the characters kind has the sexy lamp effect. Especially when one is so dramatically already a fan of the other, like in one I tried recently, the ml would only ever do what the fl wanted and in another the ml would just kinda watch the fl do what she wanted to do for him as a fan girl despite the ml not really caring. Similar problem when the fl is who we follow but is so careful she won't take initiative or is constantly forced into situations that depend on the ml for the whole story (in one case the fl was literally a slave for most of the story and had no authority or legal autonomy). It starts interesting, but I usually drop it when I realize it's a one lead show.

I also love tsunderes because I'm here for a romance that has to build not one that's immediately established, but there still has to be some chemistry there beyond just blushing and saving each other (black haired princess good at balance hated the "romance")

Sorry for the verbal dump. I talk too much, but if you read all of my rambling, recs, please?