Manga Panel Template Generator
A blank manga page of numbered panel outlines to print and draw on: press Generate until a layout sparks. Nothing is drawn for you, and no AI is involved.
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A blank manga page of numbered panel outlines to print and draw on: press Generate until a layout sparks. Nothing is drawn for you, and no AI is involved.
This manga panel template generator gives you an empty page of panel outlines and nothing else. No art is generated, no AI is involved, no style is imposed - just the frames, numbered in reading order, with the bleed, trim and safe area marked, ready to print and pencil into. Press Generate and a new random panel layout appears instantly; press it again until one sparks. That loop is the whole point of the tool, and it is the reason artists use a generator like this: not to be handed a comic, but to be pushed out of the same three layouts they always draw.
Everything runs in your browser as a blank panel maker and page creator, with no signup, no watermark and no upload. Download the finished template as a 300 DPI print-ready PNG or as a true vector SVG whose panels stay editable in Clip Studio Paint, Illustrator, Affinity Designer or Inkscape.
Every artist falls into a rut: the same six-box grid, the same tall panel on the right. A random manga panel generator breaks it by putting a layout in front of you that you would not have chosen. Some pages you throw away in half a second, and that is fine - the value is in the one out of ten that suggests a shot you had not thought of, or a rhythm that fits the scene better than your habit does.
Panel size is pacing. Small tight panels read fast and feel like a scramble; one big panel makes the reader slow down and look. Because this generator varies both the number of panels per tier and the split ratios - sometimes on the golden ratio - each press gives you a different rhythm to react to, rather than the same grid with the lines moved.
Reading order is structural, not guessed. The page is built as tiers - horizontal bands stacked down the page - and each tier is cut into columns, some of which stack into two. Panels are numbered in exactly that order, so panel 3 really is the third panel a reader reaches, even when the cuts are slanted.
The tier gap is wider than the column gap. In real manga the gutter between rows is noticeably larger than the gutter between panels in the same row. That asymmetry is what tells a reader to finish the row before dropping down, and this template keeps it: one gutter slider drives both, at the correct ratio.
Slanting cuts, not rotating panels. Dynamic tilts the line between two panels and moves both sides of it, so the frames stay perfectly tiled with an exact gutter. Rotating finished panels - the usual shortcut - makes them collide with their neighbours.
Bleed, trim and safe area are all drawn. The outer sheet includes the bleed, the dashed inner rectangle is the trim line where a printer cuts, and the lighter rectangle is the live area you keep important art inside. Turn on Bleed panels and a few frames extend past the trim to the sheet edge for those full-bleed establishing shots.
Manga is drawn much larger than it is printed, which is why manuscript paper and volume size are two different numbers. These are the real ones, and each preset sets the matching margins:
| Sheet | Live area | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| A4 manuscript 210 × 297 mm | 150 × 220 mm | Doujinshi, student paper |
| B4 manuscript 257 × 364 mm | 180 × 270 mm | Professional genkou youshi |
| B5 magazine 182 × 257 mm | 140 × 200 mm | Manga magazines |
| A5 doujinshi 148 × 210 mm | 120 × 170 mm | Self-published doujinshi |
| B6 tankoubon 128 × 182 mm | 104 × 150 mm | The collected volume |
| US Letter 216 × 279 mm | 156 × 211 mm | Home printers outside Japan |
Any of them can be overridden: type your own width, height, margins and bleed in the Page & print block and the layout re-tiles to fit. If your printer is A4 and your page is B4, print the SVG or the PNG across several sheets with the Tiled Printing PDF, or send a single page straight to paper with Print Image.
Almost no panel generator serves vertical scroll comics, so this one has a separate mode for it rather than a stretched page. Switch Format to Webtoon strip and the algorithm changes: beats are laid down the strip at their natural heights, separated by the wide scroll gap that vertical comics use to pace a reveal, and the strip's length is derived from the number of beats - more panels make a longer episode, not thinner panels. Most beats run the full width; some break into two or three side-by-side frames. Widths are in pixels (800 is the usual webtoon canvas), there is no bleed, and the PNG comes out at the exact pixel size shown in the page details card. Switching to this mode also flips the reading direction to left to right, because vertical scroll comics are read that way - one tap puts it back if you want right to left.
Mangaka and comic artists starting a chapter without wanting to design every page from scratch. Doujinshi creators reformatting a finished comic for print. Art and illustration students practising page composition and pacing. Storyboard artists roughing out beats. Teachers printing blank comic templates for a class. Webtoon creators sketching an episode's rhythm before committing. If you would rather cut up a scanned page than draw a blank one, the Image Splitter does that instead, and Black and White Image Converter or Threshold Image Filter will clean pencils into flat ink once you have drawn the page.
No. It draws empty panel frames on a blank page and stops there. Everything inside the panels is yours to draw - the tool is a template maker, not an image generator, and nothing you make is sent anywhere.
Yes, that is what they are for. The PNG is rasterised at 300 DPI from real millimetre geometry and carries a proper resolution tag, so a 210 × 297 mm page prints at exactly A4. Print at 100% scale rather than "fit to page", or the margins shift.
Most professional pages run 4 to 7. Action pages benefit from 6 to 8 for momentum; a quiet or emotional beat usually wants 3 or 4 with room to breathe. The 4-koma gag format is always exactly 4 panels stacked vertically, which you get by dragging Rows vs columns to zero.
Bleed is the extra margin outside the page that gets cut away, so artwork running off the edge leaves no white sliver after trimming. Trim is where the printer actually cuts - the dashed rectangle. The safe or live area is the inner rectangle where panels and important art belong, well clear of the cut.
Japanese manga is read right to left, so the eye starts in the top right corner of a page, moves left across the tier, then drops to the next tier down. The generator numbers every panel in that order by construction. Switch to left to right for a Western comic or a translated release and the numbering flips with it.
Yes - download the SVG. It is real vector geometry, one polygon per panel, so every frame can be selected, nudged, recoloured or deleted in Clip Studio Paint, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape or Figma. The PNG is the choice for raster apps like Procreate, Photoshop, Krita and MediBang, where you draw on a layer above it.
Yes. The whole layout generator works on a phone or a tablet: the page preview sits above the controls, Generate is the first button under it, and the download saves straight to your device. Most tools like this are desktop-only, and that was worth fixing.
The page details card behind the info button shows a layout number for the layout on screen. That number is the seed the whole page was generated from, so it identifies the layout exactly - copy it into your notes and you have a record of which one you drew.
Yes. They are blank frames with no copyrighted content in them, so anything you draw inside is entirely yours - self-published manga, doujinshi, a webcomic, a print run or client work. There is no licence to accept, no watermark and no attribution required.
No. There is nothing to upload, and nothing is sent anywhere: the layout is generated and drawn entirely in your browser, and the download is written on your own device.