Talk:One-shot (comics)

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The whole section about fanfiction is really kind of confusing. Can someone familiar with this subject try rewriting it? ike9898 21:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I took out the section relating to fanfiction. If someone wants to create a new article under One shot (fanfiction) go ahead--Tuberculosisness 02:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

One-shots in fanfiction
One-shot can also refer to a short anime story, or a short piece of fan fiction, where a fan fiction piece would only last one chapter. Recently, this usage has expanded to refer to any one chapter piece of literature, although one-shot is generally only used in this way for electronic literature.

One-shots in fanfiction are self-contained stories that are meant to be only one chapter long. They're usually divided into one of the following sections:


 * A one-time event, like a climatic battle scene.
 * The beginning or the end of a romantic relationship.
 * A character study, or an introspective look into the psyche of the character.

There is no definite word limit for the length of a one-shot fanfiction. Usually, however, a one-shot is anything longer than 500 words in length. Shorter stories, called ficlets or drabbles, are usually 100-500 words in length. However, these number vary from one archive, community or fanfiction contest to the next.

There is also no definite style for one-shots in fanfiction. Songfics are usually one-shots, but one will find an often more diverse group of writing styles in one-shots. Styles or points of view that don't work in longer, chaptered stories, such as present tense, second person p.o.v. or monologues, are far more frequent in one-shot fanfictions.

American comic book industry?
Is there a need to make this distinction in the first sentence, if the term is used in English with the same definition for the market of any nation?--Bxj (talk) 12:31, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain it's used everywhere, although it seems common in French. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 09:42, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Article review
Hi SCP-0113 Lantern, I have reviewed the article as per your request on WikiProject Comics. I have rated it a start class, though it is close to C-class. If you are looking to improve the article further, here are my recommendations:
 * Focus on on the concept of 'one-shot': Currently the article talks a lot about the general history of comics in a way that is not relevant to 'one-shots'. As examples:
 * "The comic art histories of different countries and regions are following divergent paths. Japanese early comic art or manga took its rise from the 12th century and developed from Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga ("Animal-person Caricatures"), went so far as to ukiyo-e ("floating world") in the 17th century. Western-style humour comics and caricatures had been introduced into Japan in the late 19th century and impacted on the styles of comic art."
 * "The Japanese comic market has many unique manga categories. The categories are listing below: Kodomo is aiming for young children;Shonen is aiming for boys; Shojo is aiming for girls; Seinen is aiming for young adult men; Josei is aiming for young adult women."
 * "Junji Ito... has a unique realistic art style which integrates Japanese psychological terror and visual terror. His horror art is influenced by authors and artists such as H.P. Lovecraft, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Hideshi Hino and Kazuo Umezu. His works have a hint of gallows humor (or black comedy), metaphysical philosophy, existential philosophy, and Cthulhu Mythos, but are less concerned with cliched plots."

Such sections provide information about the history of comics in general, or about certain sub-subjects, but don't provide information on one-shots.


 * General grammar: I have rewritten some sentences to be more clear, but there was some sentences I did not understand.


 * Answering the main questions: The article as it stands answers many of the main questions, but make sure to cover the following clearly:
 * If most original comics were essentially one-shots, what led people to move away from that?
 * How do one-shots differ from continuing comics (other than the obvious)? Do they tend to handle different subject matter, take different risks, or otherwise have more freedom? Or do they tend to cover similar subject matter?
 * Why do people choose to write one-shots instead of continuing stories, and vice versa?
 * Why are the cited authors and works particularly important to the field of one-shots?

Thank you so much for your work on this article; you've dramatically expanded it from what it was before. Now, I suggest focusing material on the core subject and ensuring that a reader can easily find answers to core questions. HenryCrun15 (talk) 03:02, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi HenryCrun15, thank you so much for your kind review and advices. Your recommendations are really helpful for me or the other editors who look forward to improving this article. Thank you for your work again! SCP-0113 Lantern (talk) 15:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

One-shot manga picture
I agree with you that an ukiyo-e image isn't really relevant for this section, but The Book of Human Insects was not a one-shot and was serialized in a magazine. (I'm the author of its article) I'm surprised this manga was chosen, since it's not exactly mainstream (even if Tezuka himself is well-known). A better example might be a one-shot that later turned into a famous series (the article itself has many examples: "Many popular manga series began as one-shots…").

P.S. the cover is used under fair use, so it would need its own fair use rationale for this article.

Opencooper (talk) 21:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)