Ai-Generating Manga Is Tough
- It’s been a while, my last post here was July 2025, and most of what I’ve been doing since is a manga generator that I’m …
It’s been a while, my last post here was July 2025, and most of what I’ve been doing since is a manga generator that I’m honestly not sure I can finish.
The idea is you write a short plot, pick a length and some tags, and a pipeline outlines the story, splits it into pages, expands scenes into panels, and generates the art. You get a book you can read in the browser or export as PDF or CBZ. The software side went fine. It’s eight stages, each one writes a file before the next reads it so a job can resume anywhere without paying twice, and the lettering is drawn by my code as SVG instead of by the model, with two bubbles per page and 60 characters per bubble at most.
For years I carried a laptop covered in Golang stickers everywhere I went. The go-top. It was ancient, and it only kept working because I lived in Neovim on NixOS, which asks very little of a machine. It’s finally out of the backpack, and instead of recycling it I’m turning it into a homelab.
This is the first post in what I expect to be a long series, and I should say up front that there’s no finished system here. There’s a first commit, a mostly empty repo, and a list of things I want to learn.