Dark manga videos, generated with AI

Black-and-white horror manga: hard ink, nervous linework, screentone shading and eyes open a little too wide. With no colour, the shadow carries the tension.

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Scene generated by Kuak Studio in Dark Manga style — Image generated by Kuak Studio in this style. It is the same one the product’s gallery shows.

What it looks like

Pure black and white, with no colour in between.
Nervous, scratchy linework, deliberately unclean.
Screentone dots for the shadows, like on paper.
Exaggerated expressions: wide eyes and stiff mouths.

What videos it suits

Scary stories and short horror tales.
Unsolved mysteries and true cases told with tension.
Urban legends, which are this drawing’s natural ground.

You write the scene; Studio handles the style

The style is never named in the script. Each line describes what is seen, and this is how one is written:

A woman looks through the peephole of her door into an empty corridor, her face pressed close to the lens.

With this style, Studio suggests the Onyx voice (a serious, authoritative male voice). You can swap it from the editor for any of the six, and use a different one on each line.

What to watch out for

With no colour, two scenes in a row can look like the same one. Change the framing between them — close-up, wide shot, detail — and lean on the music and the cuts: in this style the rhythm comes from the edit, not from the image.

How it is done, step by step

Pick the style before generating

When you create a video, Kuak Studio shows a gallery of 58 video templates: nine formats of its own and the 49 visual styles. You pick one and it applies to every scene in the video.
Write the script, or ask for one

Each line of the script is a scene. That is where you describe what is seen — who is in it, where, and what happens — never the style: the template already handles that.
Studio generates voice, images and captions

The voice is generated line by line and the images scene by scene, all in the same style. The captions come from the voice itself, so they stay in sync.
You finish it in the editor

Change a sentence, regenerate only the scene that does not convince you, move the text, add music and export. The editor runs inside your browser and there is nothing to install.

The style is picked, not written. Kuak Studio applies it to every image in the video; in the script you only describe the scene.
Images come out with no text inside, on purpose: AI draws warped letters in the wrong language. Titles and captions go on editor layers, where they read properly and can be fixed.
Each scene is an image the editor gives camera movement to. It is not frame-by-frame animation, and saying so up front avoids expecting something else.

Frequently asked questions

Can it be done in colour?

This style is black and white by definition. If you want manga in colour, the Anime style gives you that with vivid skies and soft light, and for colour horror there are the Horror and Gothic styles.

Does it cause problems with YouTube or TikTok rules?

The style does not, but the content can: platforms restrict explicit and disturbing material. Because it is drawn rather than photorealistic there is more room, but what you tell is still your responsibility as the publisher.

Which voice fits this style?

Studio suggests Onyx, a serious and authoritative male voice, which carries a scary story without shouting. You change it from the editor, and you can use a different voice on each line.