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Anonymous10/16/25, 01:16No.7759985/mmg/ - Manga Making General
The general thread for Manga / manga-styled comic-making, manga-style illustration and related comic work. That said, everyone is welcome here.
Support each other and talk about your work or the work of others that excites you. Inking, character design, paneling / layout, writing, planning, and other discussions are all welcome.
Post resources, questions, in-progress pages, breakdowns of other works, etc. If a work is not yours, credit the maker (unless it's fucking obvious like a full page of One Piece or something).
Thanks to everyone for making /mmg/ a level-headed and helpful place. Remember, drawing and making comics and manga are difficult endeavors, and we're all in this struggle together.
Previous thread:>>7751494 [/ic/thread/7751494#p7751494]
Some resources:
/asg/, our stylistic sister-thread series for those focused more on illustration >>>/ic/asg [//boards.4chan.org/ic/catalog#s=asg]
Books:
Understanding Comics
https://e-hentai.org/g/2042453/83e7da6ed0/
Making Comics
https://annas-archive.org/md5/d55168f7579c1e23275d1fc9f0a2255d
Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga
https://annas-archive.org/md5/2877da11e2f852d220853e9944e6ea49
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
https://archive.org/details/RobertMcKeeStorypdf/
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
https://kupdf.net/download/even-a-monkey-can-draw-manga_58b9ca16e12e89233badd376_pdf
The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga
https://mega.nz/file/i81imLpI#GcheJ9Jjk3lw1RE9nQWgL4RG4wEBNOcRmgA-iaU6Wpg
Videos:
"Manga Senpai/Tokyo Name Tank", "SMAC! THE SILENT MANGA AUDITION COMMUNITY"
Habanero Scans: https://www.dailymotion.com/HabaneroScans/videos
Manben link can be found on archive.org on different pages separated by season: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1bu9f0y/found_all_of_naoki_urasawas_manben_and_manben_neo/
Urasawa Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkIFOAoFm47XOAlJwTa6Ieg/videos
OP image is from Mebius Gear Chapter 2.
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Anon10/16/25, 01:17No.7759987
Some western / indie publishers of Manga:Saturday AM ( https://www.saturday-am.com/ )
> Digital indie magazine, seems to be on the up-and-up
> Open submissions for long-form series; also distributes series currently being published elsewhere.
> Regularly publishes one-shots, making it a good potential outlet for already-finished work.Oni Press ( https://onipress.com/ )
> Technically indie, but at this point large enough by comic standards to be mentioned in the same breath as other publishers.Antarctic Press ( https://antarctic-press.myshopify.com/ )
> Longtime large-indie publisher of OEL / manga-esque books.
> Seemingly taking submissions at present if https://antarctic-press.myshopify.com/pages/submissions is anything to go on.Yen Press ( https://yenpress.com/ )
> Started out as a small indie publisher of original / Korean material, and has grown reasonably popular since.
> As of 2016, it is also one of the western arms of the Kadokawa Corporation, with Kadokawa owning a 51% stake.
> Editorial inquiries can apparently be sent to [email protected], however, they apparently are not open to new submissions at this time.Viz Media / Viz Originals ( https://www.viz.com/originals )
> *The* western manga publisher.
> Currently in the exploratory stages of setting up an English label.
> Submissions are open and several books have been announced. However, progress on the label seems to be moving very slowly.
> Still might be worth a shot anyway.Shrine Comics ( https://shrinecomics.com/ )
> Small indie manga publisher
> Seemingly attempting to make the transition to physical volumes
> Allows crossposting to other sitesIconic Comics (https://www.iconiccomics.com/)
>A bit like Oni Press and Antarctic Press
>A small publisher with a focus on indie works with manga inspiration
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Anon10/16/25, 04:13No.7760177
For people who aim to be a mangaka in Japan, read this:
https://kmanga.kodansha.com/title/10671/episode/361307
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Anon10/16/25, 04:21No.7760185
Crap, some anon pointed out that one of these links doesnt work. I forgot
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Anon10/16/25, 06:11No.7760239
I give up fuck, manga!
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Anon10/16/25, 06:14No.7760242
I fuck manga
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Anon10/16/25, 06:17No.7760245
Manga fucks
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Anon10/16/25, 06:25No.7760255
fuck
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Anon10/16/25, 10:00No.7760390
I'm not even sure if i managed to convey what's going on in this scene, it got too complicated for me
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Anon10/16/25, 18:10No.7760853
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Anon10/17/25, 16:16No.7762135
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Anon10/17/25, 21:00No.7762414
New chapter is out today! Annoyingly, I fixed a typo, but put the wrong file on all sites... oh well. It's kinda a pain that there's no place I can upload once and it updates all sites I post on.
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Anon10/17/25, 22:04No.7762492
Should your manga be capable of looking good even without relying on screentones?
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Anon10/17/25, 22:36No.7762528
I wonder what everyone's characters would smell like.
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Anon10/18/25, 01:56No.7762809
Good news, VIZ will publish Araki's new how-to book in english next year.
https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Hirohiko-Arakis-New-Manga-Technique/dp/B0F13QJLMX
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Anon10/18/25, 05:39No.7762988
almost there
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Anon10/18/25, 05:39No.7762989
do you think this comic has potential for inking?
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Anon10/18/25, 07:51No.7763065
Ok wise guys, how would YOU make a villain?
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Anon10/18/25, 13:45No.7763311
Is CSP's perspective system unintuitive or am I just stupid? Seems overly difficult to edit/position a couple of vanishing points and have a floor plane for me to draw on
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Anon10/18/25, 17:45No.7763579
any good AI programs to create comics with?
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Anon10/18/25, 19:57No.7763845
I cannot seem to focus on any one project for more than a day or two, so I've been steadily writing 3 different stories with about equal progress on each.
I've decided the first one to actually start drawing, but I have to make sure I funnel random ideas into these other scripts before they start worming their way into the first one and drive it off the rails.
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Anon10/19/25, 01:40No.7764299
with or without gray?
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Anon10/19/25, 02:22No.7764355
well then, lets go with gray!
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Anon10/19/25, 03:10No.7764412
wip
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Anon10/19/25, 03:44No.7764451
Do you guys read manga on smartphone?
I'm in dilemma if I should make my font big enough for better readability.
The dilemma is by increasing font size, I have to increase the speech bubble size too which makes me either have to increase the panel size which snowballs to page amount increasing, or maybe I have to sacrifice some rooms to showcase my artwork.
I'm making a hentai doujin, by the way.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:24No.7764533
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Anon10/19/25, 06:18No.7764562
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Anon10/19/25, 08:34No.7764637
like this old DA commission I did but drawn better and slightly less stupid.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:40No.7764680
Where can I find japs streaming their manga work preferably digital?
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Anon10/19/25, 09:56No.7764693
Why are all the younger (born from the mid 2000s onward) wannabe mangakas emulating Fujimoto and Gege styles so much? It's a recurring think I see with artists under or barely around 20, it's like they only study the work of those two artists and a few more popular currently running mangas like Kagurabachi instead of something more complex like Blade Of The Immortal or Berserk.
To be fair though, millennial westoid "anime" artists also had the same exact fixation but for Trigger/Gainax artists instead, so it might just be a generational thing
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Anon10/19/25, 10:36No.7764713
[/ic/thread/7763138#p7763138]getting no replies on this, when i previously posted my comics on here i got some people to comment