Malibu By Sunset is a 2020 currently in developing, Western-Asian Webcomic
A 15 year old transferred kid named Jay moved from his old town, Rosewood to Eastgate Suburbia. He then befriends with a kid, Dula who's also new to the school. They both try to settle in this new school while facing ostracization
The webcomic addresses Western-Asian issue from an Asian perspective
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Malibu By Sunset provide examples of:
- Black Bead Eyes: The Asian characters intentionally have Black Bead Eyes for aesthetic
- Starting a New Life: Jay's family moving to Eastgate Suburbia from Rosewood
- The Hero: Jay
- The Big Bad: (Not Revealed Yet)
- Book Dumb: Jay and Dula both struggle in school
- True Companions: Jay relationship with Dula
- This also links to Best Friend
- Childhood Friends: Jay Childhood friends from Rosewood
- ArmorPiercingQuestion: Jay arguing with Miss Park
- Abusive Parents: Jay mention several time in the story that he struggle to maintain to his relationship with his parents
- Art Evolution
- Sanity Slippage
- Hallucinations
- Television Geography
- Satire
- Show Within a Show
Theme
- TheEighties: The comic is heavily influenced by the 80's
- TheSeventies: The comic is also heavily influenced by the 70's
- EightiesHair
- SeventiesHair
- Synthwave: Sunglasses Kid is referenced in Chapter 1. Hinted that Jay may listened to Synthwave
- Homage: The comic is a homage to 70's/80's culture