From script to panel

When you paste a script into Mangaka, three things happen in sequence: a scene parser breaks the text into discrete beats, a layout planner chooses panel grids that match the pacing, and a renderer draws each panel in the manga style you selected.

The layout pass

A dramatic confrontation gets large, full-bleed panels. A conversation between two characters gets a tighter 2x2 grid. The planner reads cues like "sudden", "slowly", and "meanwhile" to decide. You can override any layout choice in the editor.

Style-aware rendering

The renderer is conditioned on whichever of the 100+ style presets you picked — shonen action, shojo soft-romance, seinen noir, and so on. Style affects line weight, screen tone, character proportions, and background detail.

Speech bubbles last

Dialogue and SFX are placed only after panels are rendered, so bubble tails point to the right characters and don't cover important art. You can drag them around like any other element.

How long does it take?

A typical 8-page chapter renders in about 5 minutes. Most of that is the panel-rendering pass; layout planning is near-instant.