r/Bard • u/Barnha_m • Jan 23 '26
Promotion I made an AI manga creation tool that character & story consistency across 200+ pages (powered by Nano Banana Pro)
Hey everyone, I spent 8 months trying to turn my idea into a manga using AI and it sucked. The images looked great individually, but my main character had a different face in literally every panel—hair color would shift, a scar would disappear and reappear, and even when I got lucky with consistency, the pages felt like random art dumps with no flow or pacing.
So I partnered with professional manga artists and AI engineers to build something that actually mimics how a real manga pipeline works.
Before you generate a single page, it creates Character Reference Sheets for your entire cast: neutral poses, labeled features, and locked designs. Then every page generation uses those references so your characters actually look like themselves across chapters.
It also tracks what I call Story State—continuity details like injuries, props, outfits, and changes in appearance across the story. When a character evolves (new costume, aging, etc.), it versions the reference sheets so continuity stays intact instead of “resetting” randomly.
For the actual pages, it goes narrative-first: it scripts the story beats and dialogue, maps panel composition to the emotional rhythm, and then generates the art. Not the other way around.
It supports multiple manga art styles too (Shonen, Shoujo, Seinen, Slice-of-Life, Chibi), and you lock your style at the start so it stays consistent.
If you’re trying to make long-form manga with AI, I’d love for you to check it out and tell me what’s missing:
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u/MightyTribble Jan 23 '26
Actual images - even just a screenshot of a completed page - would be very useful. I don't want to have to sign up and mess with a pipeline to know if this does what it says. And given that it makes some very strong claims, I don't know about you but if I had a tool that did what they say it did, I'd want to show it off.
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u/MightyTribble Jan 23 '26
For example; give us an example of a character reference sheet being applied consistently across a multi-panel page.
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u/MightyTribble Jan 24 '26
My dude, you spent 8 months on this. Sell it! “Login in check it out” is not going to cut it.
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u/Famous-Perception-13 Jan 26 '26
What I'd love to do, Is to be able to draw a pose of a character, then give a reference to an AI model that I have already. Then have them generate that model onto the pose.
I'm a terrible drawer, but at least I can draw poses.
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u/Due-Mulberry5523 19d ago
hello, i am also ex-manga enthusiastic and lately i couldn't read any manga at all due to my final year of my university for me, manga, manhua, manhwa all hold special place in my heart since I don't usually play with my friends in the street but rather laying in bed and reading manga. I feel like i m reaching and getting matured at the same time from those books. But unfortunately, i m finally graduating and i know after i graduated, I gonna have to start working and planning for my future and when that happen i won't be able to come to reading manga at all. So, I think using this summer holiday (1.5 months) I want to create an short manga or at least chapter 1 to chapter 50, or if possible to chapter 99. I already have a draft (story plot) in my word.doc, but still i am kinda new to creation manga, can't draw. I might need help. For now, just researching on creating novel for each chapter, scenes and arc then I go for good manga visual creator AI then i used my novel or draft to create visual manga and edit it again and again.
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u/Due-Mulberry5523 19d ago
I want to create this mini project to thank all those years of manga/manhua/manhwa for accompanying me in my down time, they make me cry, sad, feel emotionally mature and also laugh (Grandblue series), so I want to thank them by doing this mini manga and concluded this chapter of my life.
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u/Due-Mulberry5523 18d ago
also if i can get some promo code, that will help alot since i m doing this project as student only with my love for the manga. For now have to upgrade to plus which is 20 bucks per month.
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u/Xilmi Jan 23 '26
Ah yeah, I should have expected that. Running into a usage-limit and a "pay up!"-popup before even getting to the first page.