A black and white manga panel: sharp ink linework, dotted screentone shading, dramatic cropping and subtle speed lines, with no lettering.
2000s Digicam
After Midnight Flash
Candlelit Velvet
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Late-Night Hotel
Late-Night OVA
Moonlit Voile
Neon After Rain
After-Con Neon
Afterglow Pool
Airbrush Pin-up
Blush Neon
Brass Reflections
City Pop Dusk
Anime Key Visual
Manhwa Action
16-Bit Pixel
Cel Night Frame
Lo-fi Anime EveningManga Screentone
90s Cel Anime
Instant FilmA black and white manga panel: sharp ink linework, dotted screentone shading, dramatic cropping and subtle speed lines, with no lettering.
Each pair is the same sentence on the same model. The left frame has no style; the right one is Manga Screentone. That gap is what the style adds.
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Qwen Image 3.0
Qwen Image 3.0
Anima Turbo
The same fixed test subjects run through every style, so you see what Manga Screentone does rather than what the subject brings.
Manga Screentone turns your subject into a single black-and-white manga panel. Sharp ink linework does the drawing, dotted screentone does the shading, and the frame is cropped dramatically, the way a page cuts in close for the moment that matters. Subtle speed lines add energy even to a still pose, the margins stay clean and white, and — on purpose — there are no speech bubbles or lettering, so the panel is yours to fill.
You write the subject; the style supplies the ink. It is strongest on characters with a clear silhouette: someone reading by a window, a man in a long coat turning to look back, a cat asleep on a sill, a lighthouse on jagged rocks with lines of wind behind it. Hair, fabric and weather all turn into bold graphic shapes.
Use it for comic pitches and storyboards, character introductions, webcomic panels, zine and poster art, and profile headers that should look hand-inked. For full-color anime, use Anime Key Visual or 90s Cel Anime; for soft smudged drawing instead of crisp ink, Charcoal Smoke.
For this composition, we recommend 3:4, with 2:3 as another framing option. Manga Screentone also works on an uploaded image: in image-to-image mode it redraws your photo as a black-and-white manga panel with screentone shading and speed lines, and keeps the composition, pose and clothing unchanged. Photos with a clear subject and good contrast convert best.
Subjects to paste as they are: “a detective in a trench coat looking back over his shoulder in the rain”, “a woman on a rooftop with her scarf blowing in the wind”, “a cat leaping between two balconies”. Motion and weather give the speed lines something to follow.
Finishes: Monochrome and Soft Bloom are switched off here — the panel is already black and white, and bloom would blur the ink. Film Grain works if you want the texture of an old printed page.
Your sentence goes where {subject} sits. Everything around it is the style. Nothing is hidden, and we never filter your prompt.
{subject}, black and white manga panel, sharp ink linework, screentone shading, dramatic panel cropping, subtle speed lines, clean white margins, no letteringWhen you add a reference image, this wording is sent instead, so your composition stays and the look changes.
Redraw the image as a black and white manga panel with sharp ink linework, screentone shading and subtle speed lines, no lettering. {subject}. Keep the composition, pose and clothing unchanged.Scenes from our prompt library that suit this look. Borrow the idea as your subject line; the style adds the rest.
Every model below was tested with this style. The price is per image and shows on the Generate button before you run.
Tuned for this styleReview
Write one plain sentence for your Manga Screentone image: who or what is in it and what is happening. The style brings the light, color and medium, so leave those out.
It is already selected at the top of this page and lands best on Seedream 5.0 Pro, the model it was tuned on. Add a photo if you want your composition kept and only the look changed.
From $0.01 per image, shown on the button before you run. Pick your favorite Manga Screentone frame, then edit it, restyle it or make it move from the result.
Styles are for stills. These effects start from one photo and add a single deliberate move.
