Your first manga in 5 minutes: a beginner's guide to Mangaka — Mangaka Blog

Step 1 — Paste your script

Open Mangaka, hit New Project, and paste a screenplay-style script. Don't overthink format — single character names on their own line, dialogue underneath, scene direction in plain prose. The parser handles the rest.

Step 2 — Pick a style

Browse the style gallery and click the one that matches your story's tone. You can change this later for any individual scene.

Step 3 — Generate

Click Generate Chapter. The layout planner picks panel grids first (this takes about 15 seconds), then the renderer draws each panel in batches. You'll watch them appear one row at a time.

Step 4 — Tweak in the editor

Click any panel to edit it. You can:

• Regenerate just that panel with a new prompt
• Drag speech bubbles around
• Swap the panel's style independently from the rest
• Change the layout grid for the whole page

Step 5 — Export

Hit Export and pick PDF, image set, or webtoon strip. The PDF is print-ready at 300dpi. The image set is one PNG per page. The webtoon strip is one tall vertical image, ready for Webtoon or Tapas.

Then what?

Start your second chapter. The pacing gets faster every time — most regulars ship a full chapter in under 10 minutes once they have a style they like.