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AI Manga Generator — pages, covers and characters

Write the panels and the dialogue and get a black-and-white manga page with speech bubbles and sound effects — or a colour volume cover, a manga character, or your own photo redrawn as a manga panel.

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  • GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
  • A black-and-white four-panel manga page of a courier girl racing a bicycle through a rainy city, with the bubbles “Five minutes left.” and “Delivered.” and a SPLASH! sound effect
  • A colour manga cover titled NEON COURIER Volume 1 with a courier girl in a yellow rain jacket riding a bicycle through a neon city at night
  • A black-and-white manga portrait of a swordsman with messy dark hair and a scarred eyebrow looking over his shoulder, with speed lines and ink splatter
  • A beach photo of a woman in a sundress redrawn as a black-and-white manga panel with screentone, same pose and palm trees
  • B&W pages with screentone
  • Text in the bubbles
  • Covers and characters
  • No watermark

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Quick answer

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What is an AI manga generator?

An AI manga generator draws manga from a description: a black-and-white page with panels, screentone, speed lines, speech bubbles and sound effects, a colour volume cover with the title, or a manga character. On Kenerate AI, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst made our four-panel page and cover with the dialogue and title spelled right, and Seedream 5.0 Pro drew a manga swordsman and turned a beach photo into a manga panel.

Key facts

Made for this page
4 (page · cover · character · photo)
Lettering
Bubbles, SFX and title spelled right
Watch out for
Extra background signs
Pages & covers
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Characters & photo to manga
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Free start
Starter credits
Watermark
None

Gallery

A page, a cover, a character

Four results made on Kenerate for this page — nothing redrawn by hand. Open any one to copy the prompt.

Same prompt

Your photo as a manga panel

Our beach photo in, a black-and-white manga panel out. Pose, dress, palm trees and horizon stayed where they were; colour became ink and screentone.

PromptTurn this photo into a black-and-white manga panel: clean ink lines, screentone shading, the same woman in the sundress standing on the beach with the palm trees and the sea, same pose and framing, classic shoujo manga style, no text.

  • Photo: Turn this photo into a black-and-white manga panel: clean ink lines, screentone shading, the same woman in the sundress standing on the beach with the palm trees and the sea, same pose and framing, classic shoujo manga style, no text.PhotoInput
  • Manga panel: Turn this photo into a black-and-white manga panel: clean ink lines, screentone shading, the same woman in the sundress standing on the beach with the palm trees and the sea, same pose and framing, classic shoujo manga style, no text.Manga panelSeedream 5.0 Pro edit

How to

How to use the AI manga generator

Time needed
Steps
4 steps

  1. Step 1

    Write the page

    In /app/image: the style, the panels in order, and the dialogue in quotes. Sign in free for starter credits.

  2. Step 2

    Pick the model

    GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst for pages and covers with text; Seedream 5.0 Pro for characters and photo to manga.

  3. Step 3

    Choose 2:3

    Portrait for a page or a cover; 4:5 for a character.

  4. Step 4

    Check the lettering

    Read every bubble and sign, regenerate if needed, then download without a watermark.

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Chapters

Tips

Prompts that make it look like manga

What worked in our tests.

  • Say “black-and-white manga page, screentone shading, clean ink lines” — or “full-colour manga cover” for a cover.

  • Number the panels and describe each one: wide shot, close-up, action, ending.

  • Put every line of dialogue and every sound effect in quotes: speech bubble: "Five minutes left."

  • Pick a 2:3 portrait shape for a page or cover.

  • Add “no other text” — our page and cover came back with extra shop signs and billboards we didn't ask for.

  • Name the genre look: shonen (speed lines, ink splatter) or shoujo (soft lines, sparkle).

Models

Models for manga

What each model is good at. Open any one straight in the generator.

  • GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst title card — glowing sunburst-coloured 3D lettering on a bold magazine-cover-style layout

    OpenAI

    GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

    Reference images
    Up to 16
    Output
    1K–4K

    Best for

    Made the page and the cover

    Open GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
  • Seedream 5.0 Pro title card — a gallery-worthy photoreal portrait of a fictional adult woman with freckles in golden-hour light

    ByteDance

    Seedream 5.0 Pro

    Reference images
    Up to 10
    Output
    Up to 2K

    Best for

    Swordsman and photo to manga

    Open Seedream 5.0 Pro

  • Google

    Nano Banana 2.1

    Reference images
    Up to 14
    Output
    Up to 4K

    Best for

    Same character across pages

    Open Nano Banana 2.1
  • Qwen Image 3.0 title card — neatly written on a café blackboard menu board in a sunlit café
    Free plan

    Alibaba

    Qwen Image 3.0

    Reference images
    Up to 3
    Output
    1K · 2K

    Best for

    Free plan

    Open Qwen Image 3.0

FAQ

AI Manga Generator questions

How do I make a manga page with AI?

In Kenerate's Image Studio, pick GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and a 2:3 shape, then write the page: “black-and-white manga page, four panels, screentone”, what happens in each panel, and every line of dialogue in quotes. Our courier page came back with all three lines — “Five minutes left.”, “SPLASH!” and “Delivered.” — spelled right.

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Can the AI put text in the speech bubbles?

Yes, with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. It lettered our bubbles, the sound effect and the cover title correctly. It also added text we didn't ask for: shop signs and billboards on the page and cover, a couple with odd wording, plus an extra “SKRRR…” sound effect. Add “no other text” to your prompt and check every sign before you publish.

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Can I turn my photo into manga?

Yes. Upload the photo as a reference, pick Seedream 5.0 Pro and ask for “a black-and-white manga panel, clean ink lines, screentone, same pose and framing”. Our beach photo kept the woman's pose, dress, the palm trees and the horizon. For a cleaner manga face, try the anime filter instead.

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Is the AI manga generator free?

Free to start. A new Kenerate account gets starter credits on sign-up, which also work on Qwen Image 3.0, a free-plan model. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Seedream 5.0 Pro, used on this page, use credits from one-time packs that never expire — no subscription. Downloads carry no watermark.

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Can I keep the same character across manga pages?

Use your first page or a character sheet as a reference image for the next page and describe the character with the same words each time — hair, scar, outfit. Nano Banana 2.1 accepts up to 14 references and is built for consistent characters.

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Can I use the manga commercially?

Yes — Kenerate downloads have no watermark and you can use your generations commercially. Keep your characters original: famous manga characters belong to their publishers.

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What's the difference from the AI comic generator?

Same idea, different look. This page is for manga — black-and-white screentone pages, volume covers and manga characters. For American-style strips, superhero splash pages and webcomics, use the AI comic generator.

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In depth

AI Manga Generator, explained

What works, what to avoid, and how to pick a model.

What makes it look like manga

Manga is mostly black ink on white paper, with screentone — dot patterns — for grey, speed lines for motion and big lettered sound effects. Name those things and the model draws them; leave them out and you get a generic anime illustration.

A manga page is read top to bottom, and right to left within each row. Describe the panels in order with a shot type for each — wide, close-up, action, ending — and the model lays them out with gutters between them.

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We build and run the Kenerate generator. Every example is a real output of the model named under it; models and presets were checked against the app's code.

Sources: Kenerate Image Studio

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